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Dr Gemma Reynolds is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University, affiliated with the Faculty of Science and Technology. She joined the university in 2014 after a post-doctoral position at Kingston University, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016. Her research focuses on neurodiversity, childhood emotional development, and interventions targeting anxiety and stress in educational settings. She supervises multiple PhD students and co-leads modules in Social/Developmental Psychology and Psychology in Education.
Dr Reynolds' teaching portfolio includes courses such as 'Psychological Science from Individuals to Society' and 'Changing the World with Psychology.' She has pioneered research on expressive writing interventions and canine-assisted therapies for student mental health, as well as studying fear acquisition mechanisms in children through vicarious learning. Her work explores neurodiversity masking behaviors in females and the benefits of forest schools for primary-aged children.
Her external activities include editorial board membership for Learning and Motivation, and serving as an external examiner for the University of Hertfordshire and Derby. Key research outputs include studies on canine-assisted interventions' efficacy, fear learning in children, and subtypes of psychosis in dementia.
Dr Reynolds has supervised six doctoral students to completion and currently oversees four active PhD projects. She has secured grants for projects addressing mental health in higher education, and her work has been published in journals like Emotion, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
