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
Coordinator
Course Viewer
- PS21620 - Psychology of Humour
- PSS0000 - Placement Year
- PSS0100 - Placement Year
- PSS0300 - Work Placement
- SC33100 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- SC34120 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS22100 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- SC34100 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PGM1010 - Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis (for social scientists)
- PS11300 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PSS0200 - Work Placement
- BR37020 - Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS33200 - Counselling Research Project
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- SC11300 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- SC11320 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- PGM4510 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1710)
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PSM0220 - Behaviour Change at the Tails of the Bell Curve: At-Risk, Challenging, Hard-to-Reach, and Diverse Po
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- PGM4420 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1120)
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PSM0420 - Research with People
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- SC20720 - Seicoleg Iechyd
Lecturer
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS34100 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS33100 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
Tutor
Blackboard Dept Admin
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS21620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PSM0220 - Behaviour Change at the Tails of the Bell Curve: At-Risk, Challenging, Hard-to-Reach, and Diverse Po
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PSM0420 - Research with People
Attendance Dept Admin
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS21620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PSM0220 - Behaviour Change at the Tails of the Bell Curve: At-Risk, Challenging, Hard-to-Reach, and Diverse Po
- PSM0420 - Research with People
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
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