Dr Joanne Dickson BEd, BTh, BA (Hons), PhD
Senior Lecturer and Research Director ZZ (DO NOT USE) was Psychological Sciences
- Work email J.Dickson@liverpool.ac.uk
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Research
Research Interest 1
Motivation and goal regulation processes are fundamental to human experience and underpin many psychological therapies. My main research interests are in the area of personal goal motivation, affect and future-directed thinking processes and how these psychological processes underpin adult and adolescent mental health (e.g., anxiety, depression, well-being, addiction). My studies have examined a range of explicit and implicit goal processes and goal-related cognitions such as expectancies, plans, motives, attributions, rumination and ambivalence in mental health.
Another research interest is the study of autobiographical memories and personal future events / goals in relation to depression, dysphoria, anxiety, defensiveness and well-being.
I have extensive experience in supervising postgraduate research, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. I am interested in supervising PhD research, particularly in the area of goal-motivation and/or autobiographical memories in adolescent or adult mental health (e.g., anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders, health and well-being).
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Motivational ambivalence and alcohol abuse
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
March 2010 - June 2013
Resilience in the carers of people with dementia: a pilot study of the role of carers' sense of meaning in their care
MERSEY CARE NHS TRUST (UK)
April 2009 - July 2013
Depressed adults' causal explanations and expectancies for personal approach and avoidance goals.
MERSEY CARE NHS TRUST (UK)
June 2006 - October 2008