Dr Nigel Holt

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
BSc (Hons, Reading); PhD (York); CPsychol

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Responsibilities

Employability coordinator
BPS professional accreditation project leader
Year 3 tutor

Teaching Areas

Nigel's teaching includes the employability focussed modules - Personal development Planning (PS11710) in year 1 and Psychology in Practice PS20620 in Year 3. He is also responsible for and co-teaches the Cognitive Psychology modules (PS20420, and PS34220) to years 2 and 3.

Research

Nigel's main research topics are in the relationship between sound and different aspects of cognition including memory, attention and performance. He has many other research interests including most recently, the perception of time and the psychology of cycling and transport.

Biography

Nigel Holt joined the psychology department from Bath Spa University as a senior lecturer in psychology in September, 2012. Nigel was awarded his PhD from University of York after which he worked in industry for a short spell before returning to academia as a research fellow in auditory psychology at University of Reading.

Staff Publications

Walker, I., Holt, N. & Brosnan, M. (in prep). Socio-cognitive processing on the road:
Transport mode, signals and individual differences.

Holt, N. & Walker, I. (in prep.). PsychoSense: 10 Questions to Help you Understand Everyday Life [working title]. Constable Robinson

Walker, I., Carley, M. & Holt, N. (in revision). On the utility of success rates for evaluating the quality of research funding applications: Making decisions in the context of low baseline success

Silber, K. (IN PREPARATION), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Schizophrenia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Davey, G (IN PREPARATION, Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Palgrave Macmillan

Irons, C (IN PREPARATION), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Depression: Palgrave MAcmillan

Holt N.J., Bremner A. , Sutherland E., Vliek M. Passer M. & Smith R. ,(2012). ‘Psychology: The science of Mind and Behaviour 2e’ McGraw Hill

Fairholm, I. (2012), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Issues and Debates in Psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Kloep, M and Hendry L. (2012), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Adolescence and Adulthood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Franklin, L. (2012) Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Psychology of Gender. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Buchanan, H. (2012) Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Anxiety Disorders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Holt N. (2012) Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Anomalistic Psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Beaman, C.P. and Holt N (2012) Noise in the workplace in Comfort in the workplace, Pierette, M. Ed L’Harmattan: Paris

Kennedy, J., Adetifa, O., Carley, M., Holt, N. & Walker, I., (2012), Aeroacoustic sources of motorcycle helmet noise, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 3 Pp1164-1172

Walker, I.. Holt, N. Kennedy & J., Carley, Spectral filtering characteristics of a Motorcycle Helmet, Acoustical Society of America Conference, Seattle, United States of America, May 2011

Holt, N. Kennedy, J., Carley, M.,, Walker, I., Motorcycle Helmets and the Frequency Dependence of Temporary Hearing Threshold Shift, Acoustical Society of America Conference, Seattle, United States of America, May 2011

Kennedy, J., Carley, M., Holt, N., Walker, I., The Sources and Effects of Noise Exposure in
Motorcycling, Acoustical Society of America Conference, Seattle, United States of America, May 2011

Kennedy, J., Carley, M., Holt, N &, Walker, I., The effects of windscreen flow on noise in motorcycle helmets, Acoustical Society of America Conference, Seattle, United States of America, May2011

Kennedy, J., Carley, M., Holt, N., Walker, I., The experimental measurement of motorcycle noise, Acoustical Society of America Conference, Seattle, United States of America, May 2011

Holt, N (2011) Know your enemy: Psychology teaching and the art of war. International Teaching of psychology Conference, Vancouver 2011

Green, S. (2011), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Hypnosis: Palgrave
Macmillan

Giles, D. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds. Psychology of the Media. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan

Lund, N. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Intelligence and Learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Moss, A.C. and Dyer, K.R. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds of Addictive Behaviour. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Rodham, K. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Health Psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Scott, A. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Forensic Psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Todd, D., Thatcher, J. and Rahman, R. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Sport Psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Walker, I. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds Research Methods and Statistics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Willerton, J. (2010), Holt, N. and Lewis, R. Eds The Psychology of Relationships. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Holt, N.J. and Lewis R (December 2010) ‘A2 psychology: The Study Guide’ Crown House Publications

Passer M. ,Smith R. , Holt N.J., Bremner A. , Sutherland E. and Vliek M. (2009). ‘Psychology: The science of Mind and Behaviour’ McGraw Hill – London

Holt, N.J. and Walker I (2009) ‘Research with People: Theory, Plans and Practicals’ Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

Holt, N.J. and Lewis R (July 2009) ‘A2 psychology: The Student’s Textbook’ Crown House Publications

Woods, B., Holt, N., Lewis, R., and Carrington V. (2009) Psychology for GCSE: Understanding
Psychology, Hodder, London.

Holt, N.J. and Lewis, R. (2008) ‘AS psychology: The Student’s Textbook’ Crown House Publications

Holt, N.J and Lewis R (2008) ‘AS psychology: The Study Guide’ Crown House Publications

Holt, N.J. Walker I, and Crawley J. (2008) Using podcasts to enhance learning and teaching. PLAT 2008

Beaman C.P. and Holt N.J. (2007) Reverberant Auditory Environments: The effects of Multiple Echoes on Distraction by 'Irrelevant' Speech. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 20, Pp1-14

Holt N.J., Walker, I. and Crawley J. (2007) Podcasting in higher education: Evaluation pointers for the use of electronic media as supplementary learning. International Conference of Virtual Learning, Romania.

Walker, I., Brosnan, M., and Holt N. (2006) The Problem with People: Faces, figures and vulnerable road users. RoSPA 71st Road Safety Congress, 27 Feb-1March 2006

Holt, N.J. and Watkins, A.J.(2001) Perception of Reverberant Speech, Experiments in Virtual Auditory Conditions British Journal of Audiology, Vol 35.2, 141

Holt N.J. and Watkins A.J. (2001) Speech Discrimination in Room Reverberation British Journal of Audiology, Vol 36, 126

Watkins A. J. and Holt N.J. (2000) Effects of a Complex Reflection on Vowel Identification Acustica - Acta Acustica Vol 86, 532-542

Holt N.J. (1996)Lateralization of nonspeech audio-visual stimulus combinations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 99, Issue 4, pp. 2597-2603