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Staff details

 

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Phil Gee

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology
  • Address: B210, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 584823
  • Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 233157
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233362
  • Email: P.Gee@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Deputy Programme Coordinator in the School of Psychology

Chair, Science Student Disability Group

 

Qualifications & background

I started my research career in the Microbiology Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station. I made the switch to Psychology in 1986 and gained both my BSc and PhD at the University of Plymouth. My first postdoctoral position was in the Consumer Sciences Department of the Institute of Food Research at Reading. I returned to Plymouth as a Lecturer in 1995.

 


Teaching interests
Stage 1 Research Methods and Statistics
Stage 1 Learning
Stage 4 Animal Behaviour

 


Research interests

Behaviour analysis, using mobile phones for behavioural research and therapy, temporal discrimination, animal behaviour and behavioural enrichment in captive animals.

 

Other research

Recent conferences:

Harding, S. A., Gee, P. & Bryson, P. J. Personality factors as predictors of decompression illness. Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 26th - 29th May, 2004.

Bradford, J., Gee, P. & Lea, S.E.G. Temporal discounting in adolescents with emotional and behavioural difficulties and undergraduate students: A novel computer task. Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, 31st Annual Conference. Chicago, 22-24th May 2008.

Other recent publications:

Bradford, J., Thomas, A., Gee, P. & Caldwell, C. (2004). An enriching method to investigate colour discrimination in foraging behaviour of small primates. Zoo Federation Research Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 3.

 


Publications

Harding, S. & Gee, P. (2008)  Personality as a predisposing factor for DCI: A pilot study. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, 38 (3), 134-139.
Gee, P. (2007) Mobile Telephones and Behavioural Research. European Journal of Behaviour Analysis. 8, 193-201.
Gee, P. Coventry, K.R. & Birkenhead, D. (2005). Mood state and gambling: Using mobile telephones to track emotions. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 53-66.

 

Reports & invited lectures

Teaching fish to tell the time. Invited public lecture, Jersey Maritime Museum, St Hellier, September 2003.


Fish behaviour. Invited lecture, Plymouth and District Aquarists' Society, Plymouth, May 2004