Dr Gareth Hall
BSc (Hons, UWIC); PhD (Glamorgan University); CPsychol; FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Contact Details
- Email: gbh@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9437-5329
- Office: 1.24, Penbryn Building 5
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621783
- Personal Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gareth_Hall
- Twitter: @Hall5456
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=qeNCh04AAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
A founding member of the Psychology department established in 2007, Gareth is a social psychologist with a specific background in social identity theory in applied contexts. He is a Chartered Member of the BPS, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and won a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Award from Aberystwyth University in 2011.
Currently, Gareth is Director of Learning and Teaching, but has served formally in the roles of Examination’s Officer (2007-2014; 2016), as a committee member of the department’s Learning and Teaching committee (2008-2013; 2016-present), as Senior Tutor (2014), and briefly as acting Director of Admissions and Recruitment (2009 and 2011). Gareth has also served as a member of University Senate and its staffing and professional development sub-committee (2013 - 2015). Externally, Gareth has served as a committee member of the Welsh Branch of the BPS (2013-2015), organising the first Psychology student conference at Aberystwyth (2014). He also serves as a member of the Undergraduate Education Committee (2015 - present) for the BPS, which is responsible for the accreditation of undergraduate, conversion and integrated Masters programmes in Psychology across the UK.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Course Viewer
- SC34120 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- SC11320 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS21220 - Applied Forensic Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PGM4510 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1710)
- PGM4510 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1710)
- PGM4510 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1710)
Lecturer
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- SC33240 - Prosiect Ymchwil Cwnsella
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS20310 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
Moderator
Tutor
Coordinator
Research
I am a Social Psychologist (originally in Social Identity perspectives of the social self) who is passionate about applying psychology to help understand and enhance social life in applied contexts. This work typically orients around sporting contexts and their transformative possibilities and limitations (sport for development, intergroup behaviour and fandom, and well-being in belonging to physical culture communities. My PhD in Social Psychology challenged dominant experimental paradigms of group processes by testing lab-based theories in the real world. Using real world social groups and creative methodologies, I was able to produce novel experimental field research, which partially supported traditional laboratory studies, but also showed that social interaction was far more complicated and contradictory for any one psychological theory or experimental method to capture in a laboratory.I have since developed a career based on creative methodologies, extensive knowledge of identity issues and transdisciplinary collaborations to facilitate greater understanding of 'real world' social issues. In the process, I have developed a broad research experience with scholars in Politics, Sports Science, Human Geography, Sociology, and other sub-fields of Psychology, as well as stakeholders, such as Premiership Rugby (England), Welsh Rugby Union, and Sport-for-Development charities in Brazil, communicating our work in several international publications.
These collaborations reflect my ambitions and interest in developing creative and collaborative transdisciplinary research communities and methodologies, including non-academic stakeholders, to facilitate social change and enhance social life. This has fuelled my interest to innovate my methods in Social Psychology, such as through digital technologies to learn about people's social self away from laboratories.
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Monday 09:30-11:00
- Thursday 14:00-15:30