Paul Wilson is a Chartered Psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is a teaching and learning focussed senior lecturer, specialising in the areas of Individual Differences, Quantitative Methods, Psychometrics and Historical/Conceptual Issues in Psychology. He was the Director of Undergraduate Education from 2021-2024 and is currently the Interim Deputy Head of School for Psychology .

An active member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), he sits on the BPS Undergraduate Education Committee which is responsible for the accreditation of Psychology degree programmes in the UK. From 2019-2023 he was elected to the executive committee of the European Society for Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT), holding the position of Secretary Treasurer. From 2016-2022 he was Honory Sectretary of the Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers of Psychology within the British Psychological Society.

In 2014 Paul was awarded a PhD for a thesis entitled 'On the Relationship Between Intelligence and Inhibitory Control: Individual Differences in Cognitive Chronometry'. He is a qualified psychological test user for Occupational Testing (Ability and Personality) and holds the Level 2 European Test User Certificate.

He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences and the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences.

Paul's research interests are in individual characteristics (personality, intelligence, motivation) and how these factors are related to educational attainment. He is interested in factors related to student engagement, particularly student identity and authentic assessment. He currently leads a project using the TESTA framework (Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment) within the School, as part of a collaboration with other Schools across the University. He has also been involved in projects related to active teaching methodologies, particularly the use of student response systems in large classes. His other scholarly interest lies in quality assurance of higher education, where he has led on two curriculum reviews, in addition to work on national committees such as the QAA Benchmark Statement for Psychology 2023.

School of Psychology

PSY1008 Foundations of Psychology (Perspectives in Individual Differences)

PSY1009 Introduction to Methods in Psychology [Module Co-ordinator] (Conceptual Issues of Methodology, Complex Experimental Designs, Visualising Data, Correlation)

PSY2066 Core Psychology II (Psychology for Employability: Psychometric Testing in Recruitment)

PSY2067 Psychological Methods (ANOVAs, Reliability & Validity, Sampling and Power, Factor Analysis, Linear Regression, Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling)

PSY7093 Methods, Design and Analysis in Psychology (Survey Designs and Questionnaires, Reliability & Validity, Sampling and Power, Factor Analysis, Correlations and Linear Regression)

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biological Science

MED2015 Concepts in People and Populations (Peoples Strand: Cognitive, Physical, Social and Emotional Development, Physical and Sensory Disability, Intelligence, Perception, Memory, Language and Personality)

Supervision:

Personal Tutor - Level one

Thesis Supervisor - Level three

Positions of Responsibility:

Director of Undergradate Education

Previous Undergraduate Teaching:

PSY1002 Introductory Psychology 2 (Inferential Statistics)

PSY1004 Thinking Critically About Popular Psychology (Personality, Intelligence and Learning Styles)

PSY2056 Research Methods and Statistics (Longitudinal Methods)

PSY2065 Core Psychology I (Individual Differences: Psychometrics, Personality, Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence; Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology: Metaphors, Development of Concepts, Abnormality, Concepts of People Versus Population).