Dr Oliver Clark

Dr Oliver James Clark PhD, MRes, BSc

Lecturer

My profile

Biography

About Me

I joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2015 as Technical Officer and completed my PhD in health-related behaviour change using videogame avatars in 2019 with Dr Jenny Cole.  I have been lecturing since 2020 and specialise in psychometrics and assessment, statistics, cognitive psychology, and meta-science.

I have also conducted projects on rare variants of Alzheimer’s Disease, visual attention, picture naming in aphasia, and work-related stress

Interests and expertise

My research interests include the cognitive psychology of decision making, victim blaming in sexual assault cases, and I am also very interested in meta-science.

My skills include:

  • Statistics
    • Bayesian
    • Frequentist
    • Causal Modelling
  • Programming
    • R
    • Python
    • C#
  • Research Design
    • Unity
    • PsychoPy
    • Qualtrics

Get in touch

0161 247 2452
3.04 Brooks Building

Teaching

I contribute towards the following modules:

  • Undergraduate
    • Quantitative Methods in Psychology (Level 4)
    • Cognitive Psychology (Level 5)
    • Critical and Social Psychology (Level 5)
    • Difference and Diversity (Level 5)
  • Postgraduate
    • Research Methods and Principals
    • Unit Lead for Psychological Measurement (MSc Forensic Route)
    • Unit Lead for Dissertation (MSc Forensic Route)

I have supervised projects on the following topics:

  • Body Image and Social Media
  • Rape, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance and Victim Blaming
  • Personality and Rape Myth Acceptance
  • Eyewitness Testimony

Research outputs