Outside of work, I am a very keen family historian. It fascinates me how people lived everyday lives in past millennia and how their...

How people behave in one situation often tells us how they will act in others. A shy introvert in one place, for example, isn't likely to...

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...

I have suggested for sometime that the primary goal of getting as many young people as possible into higher education would not solve...

In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...

Young people are often expected to attend university to improve their future economic status. In the UK, only 13 per cent of jobs...

Ever since positing a review of the research behind the Cathy Newman vs Jordan Peterson debate, I have noticed an increasing slew of...

If one reads the research on social mobility you cannot help but come to rather gloomy conclusions. Adding to this research that shows...

In lectures on child development I explore how parenting style is not a fixed quality within the parent. Research demonstrates that...

In lectures I often examine research that suggests that social economic positions influences child development dramatically. A new study...

The effects of poverty on human psychology is an under-researched area. However, new insights from brain scanning and cognitive testing...

I have always been interested in the idea of social mobility. Recovery from substance abuse and mental health entails the reconstruction...

A great deal of my recent work in addiction and mental health has been focused on understanding and addressing divergent patterns of drug...