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Kieran O'Shea serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, where he joined as a Teaching Associate in 2022. He holds key responsibilities as the 1st Year Tutorial Leader for undergraduate Psychology and Deputy Course Leader for the online MSc with a Specialisation in Psychology program, while actively contributing to academic governance through the HASS Board of Study and HASS Online Committee.
His research program integrates cognitive and evolutionary psychology, originating from doctoral work on memory processes in conversational referring expressions and post-doctoral research on kin recognition via facial/vocal cues. Current investigations examine pragmatic inference disruptions in language comprehension and hormonal influences on mating preferences, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to understanding human social cognition through experimental methodologies.
Analysis of his publication record reveals consistent exploration of real-time cognitive processing in social contexts, with recent work demonstrating how perspective conflict impedes language comprehension (2025) and challenging assumptions about ovulatory-phase mating preferences (2022). These studies exemplify his methodological rigor in connecting immediate cognitive mechanisms with evolutionary adaptation frameworks.
Dr. O'Shea's teaching portfolio spans foundational to advanced levels, including Psychology 1A/1B tutorials, Cognition and Neuropsychology (C8201), Social and Health Psychology (C8202), Social Psychology (C8307), and dissertation supervision across undergraduate and MSc programs. His curriculum leadership for online psychology education demonstrates commitment to innovative pedagogical delivery within the HASS faculty structure.
Through committee service and cross-cutting research collaborations, he contributes to institutional development while maintaining active engagement with core psychological disciplines including social cognition, evolutionary mechanisms, and language processing, with ongoing work exploring communication dynamics and adaptive social behaviors.
