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Dr Sam Roberts

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health

Email: S.G.Roberts1@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 6210

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Networks and Wellbeing lab

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My research aims to understand how people's social relationships influence their wellbeing. I use this information to design and test interventions to improve wellbeing in individuals and communities. I am director of the Networks and Wellbeing lab.

In terms of educational background, I studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford before going on to complete an MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Liverpool. For my PhD I moved to the University of Sussex, where I examined social referencing and visual perspective taking in Barbary macaques and chimpanzees. My postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford focused on the structure and dynamics of social networks in humans. I conducted an 18-month longitudinal study investigating how students’ social networks change during the transition from school to University, using a combination of questionnaire and mobile phone bills to track communication and changes in social relationships over time.

Degrees

2004, University of Sussex, UK, PhD: Hiding behaviour and social sensitivity in non-human primates
1999, University of Liverpool, UK, MSc in Evolutionary Psychology
1997, University of Oxford, UK, B.A. in Human Sciences

Certifications

Higher Education Academy, Fellow

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