Professor Jackie Andrade

Job title: Professor in Psychology, School of Psychology (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Address: B232, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Postal address: B232, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 584807
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 584808
Email: jackie.andrade@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Professor of Psychology

Qualifications & background
BA(hons) Psychology, University of Cambridge 1984-87
PhD in Psychology (spatial memory), University of Manchester, 1987-90
Research pharmacologist, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Harlow, 1990-91
Scientist, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1991-95
Lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, 1995-2007
Professor, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, 2007-

Professional membership
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Experimental Psychology Society
European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Teaching interests
PSY380 option on Consciousness
PSY250 skills option on Communicating Psychology to the Public
PSY157 Psychology of Everyday Experience

Staff serving as external examiners
External examiner 2005-2008, Honours Psychology programme, University of Surrey

Research interests

Motivation

This line of research seeks to explain the processes underpinning human motivation, particularly in situations with competing goals, for example wanting a cigarette to satisfy craving now but wanting to quit and be healthier in the future. Elaborated Intrusion Theory (Kavanagh, Andrade & May, 2005, Psychol Review) gives a key role to intrusive thoughts and mental images in conscious desires. Images simulate the sensory and emotional qualities of the desired experience, acting as a motivational bridge to support achievement of the goal and giving weight to concrete, familiar and easy to imagine goals (smoking, eating, being warm) over more abstract, long-term goals (getting fit, reducing climate change). With colleagues in Plymouth (Prof Jon May, Dr Sabine Pahl, Dr Mat White) and Prof David Kavanagh (Queensland University of Technology), we are focusing on two applications of Elaborated Intrusion theory: developing new treatments for addiction to target drug craving, and exploring ways to encourage healthy and sustainable behaviours.

Implicit cognition

This research aims to test whether frontal brain damage leads to deficits in implicit cognition and, if it does, to find out whether this deficit contributes to dysexecutive symptoms and social behaviour problems. It combines neuropsychology and brain imaging with theories and tests drawn from cognitive and social psychology. I collaborate with Lynne Barker at Sheffield Hallam University and Louise Phillips at Aberdeen University.

Working memory and imagery

The theoretical strand of this research aims to define better the functional relationship between visual short-term memory and imagery. The applied strand explores the role of visual imagery and working memory in anxiety disorders and craving.

Grants & contracts

University of Plymouth – White, M. P., Pahl, S., Andrade, J. & May, J., £130,000. Dental anxiety, nature exposure and virtual reality. 2010-2013.

Peninsula Dental School – Moles, D., Andrade, J. & White, M., £52,000. The psychological cycle of dental anxiety. 2011-2014 (PhD studentship).

MRC addiction research cluster – C. Drummond et al. Experimental and clinical research on treatment of alcohol misuse and dependence (ECTAD) (2009-2010)

HEA Psychology Network – J. Andrade et al, £5905: Making revision seminars more effective (09/08 – 08/10)
Australian NHMRC – D Kavanagh et al (Associate Investigator), AUS$665,250 (approx £266k): Randomised controlled trial of a new intervention for alcohol craving (01/07 – 12/09).
ESRC – J. Andrade & J. May, £42,494: Effects of thought acceptance, diversion and suppression on food craving (1.11.05 – 31.02.07)
ESRC – J May, J Andrade & H Batey, £48,654: Intrusive thoughts and mindfulness in deliberate self harm (01/07 – 12.09).
ESRC –J Andrade, J May & L-M Berry, £47,505, Coping with intrusive thoughts using mindfulness training (10/05 – 9/08).
ESRC – J May, J Andrade & J Blackburn, £60,340, Cognitive aspects of craving in eating disorders (10/05 – 9/09).
University of Sheffield Postgraduate Training Development grant – J. Andrade & A. Sahal £10,200: Practical Training in Public Communication of Science (9/04 – 6/06)
Wellcome Trust – J. Andrade, £108,901: Awareness during paediatric surgery under general anaesthesia: Impact on children’s memory and post-operative behaviour (7/02 – 7/05).
PPP Healthcare Trust – J. Andrade, S. McHale & L. Barker, £53,832: Implicit process deficits and the dysexecutive syndrome following frontal brain injury in adolescence and young adulthood (5/01–5/04)
ESRC – J. Andrade, £39,998: Sensitivity of visual imagery to irrelevant visual stimulation (6/02 – 6/03).
University of Sheffield Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences – J. May, M. Jones, J. Andrade, R. Rowe, £12,206: Psychological Enquiry Based Learning (PEBBLE) (2/06 onwards)