About
Dr. Rachel Harrad is a Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University, part of the School of Psychology within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. She specializes in teaching first-year undergraduate students, focusing on academic and professional skills development, research methods, and statistics. She leads a module on Cyberpsychology, exploring modern digital behavior and its psychological impacts. Current research includes investigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student wellbeing and conceptual challenges in academic integrity in higher education.
Her research expertise spans Cyberpsychology, with notable contributions to understanding online behavior, burnout in healthcare workers, and the psychological implications of digital engagement during crises. She supervises Master’s and third-year student projects, often involving topics like problematic internet use and predictive factors for online engagement patterns.
Dr. Harrad’s publications include analyses of nursing burnout, pandemic-era student stress, and the role of demographic factors in academic misconduct. Though no scientific awards are listed, her work contributes to advancing educational and healthcare psychology through empirical studies.
She is available for postgraduate supervision and teaches modules such as Postgraduate Academic Skills Development, Professional Development in Research Methods, and Independent Research Projects. Her work emphasizes ethical considerations in research design and reproducibility best practices.
