Dr Sandie Cleland

Dr Sandie Cleland
Dr Sandie Cleland
Dr Sandie Cleland

MA, PhD, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
a.cleland@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272280
Office Address

Room T5, School of Psychology, William Guild Building, King's College, Old Aberdeen. AB24 3FX

 

School/Department
School of Psychology

Biography

I joined the School of Psychology in 2006 as a Lecturer and have been a Senior Lecturer since 2013. I received my MA (1998) from the University of Glasgow and my PhD (2002) from the University of Edinburgh (supervised by Professor Martin Pickering and Professor Holly Branigan). Following my PhD, I held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York (2003-2006, working with Professor Gareth Gaskell and Dr Philip Quinlan) before coming to the University of Aberdeen. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My research interests include psycholinguistics and numerical cognition. I am interested in the factors affecting sentence production as well as the relationship between attention and language. Current ongoing projects include investigating the production of idiomatic language (in collaboration with Dr Emily Nordmann) and bilingual language processing (with Jennifer Mattschey). I am also interested in numerical cognition, especially the relationship between number and space (in collaboration with Dr Rebecca Bull). Previous PhD students include Dr Emily Nordmann, Dr Bernadet Jager and Dr Tom Mitchell. Key collaborators include Dr Emily Nordmann (University of Aberdeen), Dr Rebecca Bull (National Institute of Education, Singapore), and Dr Alissa Melinger (University of Dundee).

Research

Research Overview

  • Factors influencing language production
  • The relationship between language and attention
  • Numerical cognition

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Psychology.


Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Psychology

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

Research Specialisms

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology
  • Psychology of Communication

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Level 2: Language & Cognition (in PS2017)
  • Level 4: Advanced Topics in Language (PS4043)
  • MRes: Making Funding Applications
  • Small group teaching and project supervision at Levels 3 & 4