Hassina Carder

Teaching interests
I enjoy teaching very much and have worked on many different modules at the University of Plymouth. I hold a Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) for a PgCert in teaching . I have also completed the General Teaching Associates course at the University of Plymouth.  

Research interests
I have a long-standing interest in human memory and executive function, broadly defined, and particiularly its application to health and wellbeing.  My PhD explored planning and problem solving in younger and older adults. I have become interested in the applied aspects of these topics and my research interests have diversified through my expereince as a research fellow and lecturer. I have carried out research into the cognitive and social development of children and I am currently exploring the benefits of dance on children with special needs.  I have also looked at the cognitive aspects of cooking, explored food memory and its relationship to eating, and I am interested broadly in eating and food related behaviours.

 

UoP Research group membership

Grants & contracts

Name(s) /Title / Date / Funding Body / Amount

Desparately seeking solutions: Alternative move choice and depression
H.P. Carder
In preparation for submission to ESRC

Repetition priming in single and mixed task contexts

I. Dennis & T.J. Perfect (Named researcher: H.P. Carder)

£100K (ESRC, RES-000-22-1191) Nov 2006 – Jan 2008

Alternative Move Choice and Processing Demands in Executive Tasks

H.P. Carder, S.J. Handley & T.J. Perfect

£43,087 (ESRC, RES-000-22-0607) Aug 2004 – Nov 2005

PhD scholarship (ESRC, Ref: R42200034072) Oct 2000-Jan 2004

Executive Task Performance: Specification and Relationship to Working Memory

H.P. Carder, S.J. Handley & T.J. Perfect

£2452 (ESRC overseas training award) 2003

fMRI brain imaging training

H.P. Carder

Creative practice & artistic projects

In 2000 I won the University of Plymouth Theoretical Prize for my third year dissertation which involved the design of a cooking task.

Abstract

The Roast Matrix: Linear and Concurrent Sequences in Working Memory

This project involved the development of a pen and paper task, which simulated the cooking of a roast dinner in concrete and abstract forms. The task was then performed alone and under two dual task conditions (concurrent articulation and random number generation). Analyses suggested the central executive and to a lesser extent the phonological loop are involved in performance. There were no performance differences due to the nature of the content (abstract/concrete). There was no strategic trade-off between primary and secondary tasks as both tasks suffered performance decline, which is necessary for the dual task logic to apply. The results suggest that working memory is involved in the management of linear and concurrent sequences in some everyday tasks.

I have worked in the past in creative roles as a travel writer and line drawing artist, and have I worked on the opening teams of new book titles, new restaurants and new businesses.

I have recently carried out a creative writing event and competition for UOP staff. See http://staff.plymouth.ac.uk/wellbeing/creativewriting/ for further information.

Publications

Carder, H.P. (in preparation). An Evaluation of Professional Skills Classes for Psychology Undergraduates. Psychology Learning and Teaching

Carder, H.P., Handley, S.J., & Perfect, T.J. (in preparation). Alternative Moves in the Tower of London Task; controlled or automatic processing?

Dennis, I; Carder, H; Perfect, TJ. (2010). Sizing up the associative account of repetition priming. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 74 (1): 35-49.

Carder, H.P., Handley, S.J., & Perfect, T.J. (2008). The Water Jug Task: Counterintuitive and Alternative move choice in the Water Jug Task. Brain and Cognition. 66,11-20.

Benenson, J.F., Carder, H.P. & Gieb, S. (2007). The Development of Boys’ Preferential Pleasure in Physical Aggression. Aggressive Behavior,  154-166.

Benenson, J.F., Markovits, H., Muller, I., Challen, A., & Carder, H.P. (2007). Explaining Sex Differences in Infants' Preferences for Groups.  Infant Behavior and Development.587-595.

Carder, H.P., Dennis, I. & Perfect, T.J.  (2007). Exploring Repetition Priming and the Response Congruence effect  Http://www.psy.plymouth.ac.uk/research/Repetition/

Carder, H.P., Handley, S.J. & Perfect, T.J. (2004). Deconstructing the Tower of London: Alternative moves and conflict resolution as predictors of task performance. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 57a(8), 1459-1483.

Other academic activities

· Theoretical Prize for Psychology (2000). Awarded by The University of Plymouth for the best theoretical research undergraduate dissertation of the year: The Roast Matrix: Linear and Concurrent Sequences in Everyday Memory.

· Ad-hoc reviewer for Brain & Cognition, Neuropsychologia, QJEP, Thinking and Reasoning, Memory and Cognition and the ESRC small grant scheme.

· Past projects I have managed or run day-to-day have been credited “good” (ESRC, RES-000-22-0607) and “outstanding” (ESRC Ref: RES:000-2201191) at their End of Award Evaluation.

Additional information

Following a career as a project manager for various publishing companies, I returned to university as a mature student when I was just about to hit 30.

I am a delighted new mother to baby Jasmine and wife of Andrew Gilbert