Leadership team
Head of Department
Professor Mark Wilson
Mark is a Professor of Performance Psychology, with an interest in why performance breaks down under pressure.
Email: Mark.Wilson@exeter.ac.uk | Mark's profile
Deputy Head of Department
Professor Helen Dodd
Helen is a Professor of Child Psychology with expertise in child mental health, and a particular interest in the development of childhood anxiety disorders.
Email: H.Dodd@exeter.ac.uk
Co-Director of Education and Student Experience
Professor Richard Winsley
Richard specialises in overtraining / overreaching in children and adults; children’s cardiovascular function and exercise; clinical exercise physiology and exercise prescription; and learning styles in children and adults.
Email: r.j.winsley@exeter.ac.uk
Co-Director of Education and Student Experience
Professor GJ Melendez-Torres
GJ leads the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG) and School for Public Health Environments Research at Exeter (SPHERE), and is Deputy Director of the Exeter NIHR Policy Research Programme Evidence Reviews Facility.
Co-Director of Education and Student Experience
Professor Ben Wheeler
Ben is a health geographer with wide-ranging research interests in environment-health interconnections.
Email: B.W.Wheeler@exeter.ac.uk | Ben's profile
Co-Director of Research and Impact
Professor William Gaze
William is a Professor of Microbiology at The European Centre for Environment and Human Health, and leads a large research group focusing on the environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Email: W.H.Gaze@exeter.ac.uk
Co-Director of Research and Impact
Professor Sam Vine
Sam's research aims to understand the psychology of human performance and learning, using technology such as eye tracking, psychophysiological measurement and virtual reality.
Email: S.J.Vine@exeter.ac.uk
Co-Director of Research and Impact
Professor Vashti Berry
Vashti is an Associate Professor in Prevention Science, working in the prevention and early intervention of children's psychosocial health difficulties. She is Director of the Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe).
Email: V.Berry@exeter.ac.uk | Vashti's profile
Co-Director of Global Engagement
Dr Tim Taylor
Tim’s research addresses the valuation of environmental and health impacts and the use of valuation in policy-making including cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness. He also has worked on models of ecological public health.
Co-Director of Global Engagement
Dominic Farris
To investigate muscular function in human movement, Dominic's work incorporates ultrasound imaging, motion analysis, electromyography and computer simulation techniques to experimentally and theoretically study muscle mechanics during locomotion.
Email: D.Farris@exeter.ac.uk | Dominic's profile
Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research
Dr Conny Guell
Conny's research addresses key planetary health priorities to create healthy, sustainable and socially just environments in both Global South and Global North settings, with a focus on food systems for better nutrition and healthy infrastructure to support physically active lives.
Email: C.Guell@exeter.ac.uk | Connie's profile
