I am Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I hold a BSc Psychology (Hons), an MSc Research Methods in Psychology and a PhD Psychology from Swansea University. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

My primary research interests are in the field of social influences and outcomes on mental health and wellbeing. This includes topics covering the measurement of personality characteristics related to disorders such as schizophrenia, OCD, depression, social isolation and anxiety, and how the interplay between these factors can lead to and maintain poor wellbeing and negative life experiences. I am also interested in methodological and statistical issues in these areas, such as how to measure concepts like loneliness, and how these issues contribute to the understanding of science and barriers to research and community participation. 

Supervision of research students

I welcome enquiries about research supervision; my areas of supervision are: the effects of non-clinical personality traits on behaviour and social functioning, the relationship between social connectedness and wellbeing, and applied research methods such as how psychological constructs are measured.  

• Randell, J., Gray, D., Cleveland, M., & Manning, R. (2024). A dominance analysis on the relationship between schizotypy and loneliness type.  Schizophrenia Research, 274, 280-287. 

   

• Gray, D., Randell, J., Manning, R., & Cleveland, M. (2023). Helping in times of crisis: Examining the social identity and wellbeing impacts of volunteering during COVID‐19.  Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 

   

• Ramage, J. K., Friend, E., Randell, J., King, B., Fernandez Ortega, P., McNamara, M. G., & EORTC Quality of Life Group. (2022). Development of a quality of life questionnaire for patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (the PANNET module).  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 34(4), e13097. 

• Ross, K., Pye, R.E. and Randell, J. (2016) Reading touch screen storybooks with mothers negatively affects 7-year-old readers’ comprehension but enriches emotional engagement. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
• Reed, P., & Randell, J. (2014) Altered time-perception performance in individuals with high schizotypy levels. Psychiatry Research, 220(1) 211-216.
• Randell, J., Goyal, M., & Reed, P. (2012). Effect of high or low imagery words on auditory hallucinatory content in individuals scoring high in schizotypy. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 3 (4), 650 – 60.
• Randell, J., Searle, R., & Reed, P. (2012). Influence of schizotypy on responding and contingency awareness as maintained by free-operant schedules of reinforcement, Learning and Individual Differences, 22 (3), 425 – 28.
• Saunders, J., Randell., J, & Reed, P. (2011). Recall of false memories in individuals scoring high in schizotypy: Memory distortions are scale specific, Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43 (2), 711 – 15.
• Randell, J., Goyal, M., & Reed, P. (2011). Effect of a context of concrete and abstract words on hallucinatory content in individuals scoring high in schizotypy. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42 (2), 149 – 53.
• Randell, J., May, C., Jones, C., & Reed, P. (2011). Response pattern differences between high and low schizotypy scorers on temporal based schedules of reinforcement, Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (5), 735 – 41.
• Randell, J., Ranjith-Kumar, A.C., Gupta, P., & Reed, P. (2009). The effects of schizotypy on responding maintained by free-operant schedules of reinforcement. Personality and Individual Differences, 47 (7), 783 – 88.

Conferences

• Randell J, Goyal, M., & Reed, P. (2008). The effect of imagery and concreteness on hallucinatory reports in high schizotypy scorers. Fourth Conference of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis. Madrid, Spain.
• Randell J, Goyal, M., & Reed, P. (2006). The effect of imagery and concreteness on hallucinatory reports in high schizotypy scorers. Proceedings British Psychological Society Student Conference 2006 (Welsh Branch). Swansea, UK.
• Randell J, & Reed, P. (2006). The study of hallucinatory content: Reprising the “Verbal Summator”. Third Conference of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis. Milan, Italy.
• Randell. J, & Reed, P (2005). Poster Presentation. The effect of schizotypy and listening to music whilst studying on performance in a reading comprehension task Second Conference of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis. Gdansk, Poland.