Education
PhD Psychology 2018- School of Psychology, University of Glasgow. Supervisor: Professor Emily Cross.
MSc (with Distinction) 2018 School of Psychology, University of Glasgow. Supervisor: Professor Frank Pollick
BSc (1st Class) 2017 School of Psychology, University of Glasgow. Project: The Influence of Experience on Behavioural Responses to Dance. Supervisor: Professor
Frank Pollick
Professional Employment
Sept - Dec 2017 Associate Lecturer. Department of Psychology, University of the West of Scotland.
Publications
R.A. Smith & F.E. Pollick (Book (Title TBC), Routledge Publications, in Press)
"The Role of Dance Experience, Visual Processing Strategies, and Quantitative Movement Features in Recognition of Emotion from Whole-Body Movements."
E.S. Cross & R.A. Smith (Book (Title TBC), Routledge Publications, in Press)
"The Embodied Neuroaesthetics of Watching Dance."
R.A. Smith & E.S. Cross (in Preparation)
"The McNorm Library: Creating and Validating a New Library of Expressive Whole-Body Dance Movements."
Awards and Honours
2019 British Psychological Society funding to attend the European Congress of Psychology in Moscow.
2018 ESRC funding for the PhD project “Developing a Framework for Emotion Expression via Motion in Humanlike Artificial Agents” – awarded under the ‘UK Research and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence’ remit.
2018 Grant Awarded to attend the Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference in Glasgow.
2016 Merit List for Academic Excellence, University of Glasgow.
2013 Elected Head Girl of St. Columba’s High School.
2012 Proxime Accessit Award for Academic Excellence, St. Columba’s High School.
Conference Presentations
2019 Dance Like an Observer is Watching: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual Attention and Affect Recognition from Complex Whole-Body Movements. The International Conference on Dance Data, Cognition and Multimodal Communication. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon.
September 2019 (Accepted).
2019 Creating a Framework for Whole-Body Emotional Expression to Improve the Social Communication Abilities of Artificial Agents. 16th European Congress of Psychology. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow. July 2019 (Accepted).
2018 Characterising Emotionality in Movement. The 4th Annual Virtual Social Interaction Workshop (VSI). Goldsmith’s University, London. December 2018.
2018 A study to explore expertise effects on emotion recognition, and to identify the embodied centre of emotional expression from dance. Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE). University of Glasgow, Scotland. April 2018.
2017 Novice/Expert Differences in Behavioural Responses to Watching Dance. British Psychological Society Scottish Branch Undergraduate Conference 2017. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. March 2017.
Teaching Experience
Sept – Dec 2017 Associate Lecturer for ‘Introduction to Psychology’ course at the University of the West of Scotland. Responsibilities include; delivering lectures, leading in-class activities and discussions,
and marking the end of semester reports.
2016 – present Psychology and statistics tutoring for several undergraduate psychology students. Responsibilities
include; devising learning activities, providing statistics help, and creating handbooks for lab
report writing.
2013 – 2014 Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) tutor for undergraduate students at the University of Glasgow.
Responsibilities included; providing statistics help and guiding younger students through
coursework and homework activities.