Dr Simon Cassidy
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Associate Professor/Reader
Biography
Dr Simon Cassidy is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Psychology and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Part of the team to introduce postgraduate taught provision in psychology at Salford, Simon continues to lead the MSc Applied Psychology (Therapies) and has received the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
Simon is the author of the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30) and, with colleagues at Salford and partner institutions, runs research projects and workshops focussed on gaining a greater understanding of resilience and applying this in educational contexts.
With an established track record of research in psychology and education, with topics including academic resilience, academic threat appraisal, wellbeing and mental health, self-efficacy and self-regulated learning, and higher education, Simon provides reviews and consultancy for national and international journals and funding bodies.
Areas of Research
Psychological Resilience, Psychology & Education, Threat Appraisal, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Psychological Construct Measurement
Areas of Supervision
Psychology and Education
Psychological Resilience
MSc Applied Psychology
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Educational Psychology
Qualifications
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PhD Psychology and Education
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MPhil Cognitive Neuropsychology
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BSc (Hons) Psychology
Publications
- The Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30) : a new multidimensional construct measure
- A Large-Scale Multicentre Study of Academic Resilience and Wellbeing in Pharmacy Education.
- Exploring the relationship between psychological flexibility and self-report and task-based measures of cognitive flexibility
- Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style : a triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures
- Resilience building in students : the role of academic self-efficacy