Dr William Brown
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
As a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Killam Scholar, I completed my PhD at Dalhousie University in Canada.
In 2003 I received a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship to study genomic imprinting in the USA. In 2006 I founded the Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University teaching evolutionary biology and research methods.
In 2009 I moved to Queen Mary University of London and University of East London to teach research methods and behavioural biology.
I have been at the University of Bedfordshire since 2011 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology in 2015.
Social Psychology Network profile
- PhD Psychology (2003) – Dalhousie University
- MSc Psychology (1998) – Dalhousie University
- Foundations to Psychology
- Research Methods and Statistics
- 3D scanning morphology
- Exercise-associated DNA methylation change
- Epigenetic adaptive responses to antagonistic pleiotropy as humans age
- Fluctuating asymmetry, health and human performance
- Genomic imprinting and evolution
- Cooperation and conflict
- Culture
- Co-investigator “The effects of breaking up prolonged periods of sitting on glucose control, gut hormones, feelings of hunger and epigenetic regulation” (University of Bedfordshire Research Investment Programme Awarded 2013; Value = £20,000)
- Principal investigator “The Health Epigenetics Ageing and Learning (HEAL) research programme” (University of Bedfordshire Rising Stars Grant Awarded 2012; Value = £9,900)
- Co-investigator “The experimental study of cultural transmission” funded by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (Awarded 2010; EOARD reference FA8655-10-1-3037; Value = $53,840 to University of St Andrews; £6,800 to University of Bedfordshire in 2012)
- Palasinski M, Brown W, Shortland N, Riggs D, Chen M, Bowman-Grieve L. (2021). Masculinity, Injury and Death – Exploring Anti-Knife-carrying Messages. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 163-182
- Brown, W. M., Hazraty, S., & Palasinski, M. (2019). Examining the dark tetrad and its links to cyberbullying. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22(8), 552-557.
- Brown, W. M., & Usacka, A. (2019). The face of early cognitive decline? Shape and asymmetry predict choice reaction time independent of age, diet or exercise. Symmetry, 11(11), 1364.
- Brown, W., & Foxley-Webb, E. (2019). Novel epigenetic, quantitative, and qualitative insights on the socialness of autism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E84. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18002285
- Palasinski, M., Brown, W., Shortland, N., Riggs, D., Chen, M., & Bowman-Grieve, L. (2019). Masculinity, Injury and Death–Exploring Anti-Knife-carrying Messages. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Book Chapter
- Genomic Imprinting Is Critical for Understanding the Development and Adaptive Design of Psychological Mechanisms in Humans and Other Animals. In Workman, L., Reader, W., & Barkow, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on human behavior. Cambridge University Press.
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