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
Blackboard Dept Admin
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS20420 - The Psychology of Language
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS20620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PS33340 - Forensic Psychology Dissertation
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS35120 - Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- PS32620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS30620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS10220 - Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Course Viewer
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS20420 - The Psychology of Language
- PS30620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- SC21310 - Dulliau Ymchwil Meintiol
- PGM4510 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1710)
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS20620 - Psychology in Practice
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PS35120 - Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
- SC34120 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- SC20720 - Seicoleg Iechyd
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS33340 - Forensic Psychology Dissertation
- PGM1010 - Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis (for social scientists)
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- PGM4420 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1120)
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PS32620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- SC11320 - Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
- SC33240 - Prosiect Ymchwil Cwnsella
- PS10220 - Introduction to Forensic Psychology
- SC20620 - Seicoleg mewn gweithred
Lecturer
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- SC33240 - Prosiect Ymchwil Cwnsella
- SC33140 - Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl
Tutor
Attendance Dept Admin
- PS21220 - Forensic Psychology
- PS21310 - Quantitative Research Methods
- PS21720 - Issues in Clinical Psychology
- PS31820 - Child Language: Development and Assessment
- PS32620 - Psychology of Humour
- PS34220 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS31920 - The Psychology of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
- PS32320 - Sex and relationships in psychotherapeutic practice
- PSM0120 - Implementation Science
- PSM0320 - The Psychology of Behaviour Change
- PSM0520 - Transdisciplinary Dialogue
- PS11420 - Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour
- PS20220 - Social Psychology
- PS21820 - Cognitive Psychology
- PS30820 - Drugs and Behaviour
- PS11220 - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
- PS11520 - Applications of Psychology
- PS20620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS31720 - 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood
- PS33240 - Counselling Research Project
- PS33340 - Forensic Psychology Dissertation
- PS35120 - Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
- PSM0660 - Psychology PGT Dissertation (Behaviour Change)
- PS30620 - Psychology in Practice
- PS31520 - Psychology Critical Review
- PS32120 - Behavioural Neuroscience
- PSS0260 - Work Placement
- PS11320 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- PS11610 - Designing Psychological Research Projects
- PS20420 - The Psychology of Language
- PS11710 - Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour
- PS11820 - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- PS12120 - Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1
- PS20720 - Health Psychology
- PS21410 - Qualitative Research Methods
- PS33140 - Psychology Research Project for Single Honours
- PS34120 - Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours
- PS34320 - Developmental Psychology
- PS21020 - Evolutionary Psychology
- PS22120 - Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory
- PSS0360 - Work Placement
- PS10220 - Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Moderator
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