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Helena Paterson

My CV

  • Education:

    I attended the university of Glasgow, before that, too many schools to list as my parent liked to move about.

  • Qualifications:

    Scottish Highers and Advanced Highers; First Degree was Master of Arts in Psychology; and postgraduate was a PhD in Psychology

  • Work History:

    in my profession as a Teacher, I have worked at the University of Glasgow in the School of Psychology and in Open Studies I have also worked as an associate lecturer at the Open University

  • Current Job:

    Lecturer at the University of Glasgow

    • About Me:

      I am a lecturer, mum and advocate of open science. My area of research is on stereotypes and stigma, in particular for how this relates to children

    • The most exciting thing that's happened this year in my research area:

      In the last year all around the world peopel have become really interested inthe behaviours or other people. Psychologists have a lot that they can say about that.

    • My latest work:

      My latest work is about the perception og gender stereotypes in children’s TV.  We ask children what TV programmes they watch and then see if we can understand what stereotypes are present in those programmes.