Professor Jon Catling BSc, PGCE, PhD

Jon Catling

School of Psychology
Professor
Deputy Director of UG Studies
Student Enhancement & Outreach

Contact details

Email
j.c.catling@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Psychology
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Jon Catling is a Professor of Psychology and Education, and is an expert in research design and analysis.  His research interests cover three main areas:  Language acquisition, especially the impact of the ‘Age of Acquisition’ of language; Mental and physical health in young people; and the relationship between cognitive and physical functioning, mental health and immune function in older adults.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Birmingham)
  • PGCE (Cambridge)
  • PGDip CBT (Birmingham)
  • BSc Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (Birmingham)

Biography

Dr Jon Catling completed a PhD at the University 麻豆精选 investigating the ‘age of acquisition’ effect within a range of perceptual, semantic and phonological tasks. He then went on to a Lectureship at the University of Worcester for 6 years, before returning as a Lecturer to the School of Psychology at the University 麻豆精选 in September 2011. He became a Senior Lecturer within the School in 2013.

Teaching

Dr Jon Catling teaches Research Methods at Undergraduate level

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Jon Catling currently supervises a PhD student who is assessing the impact of mobile ‘Brain training’  Apps on the cognitive, physical and immune functioning of older people. 

He also supervises a PhD that is assessing the Psychological factors predicting academic achievement at International Branch Campuses. 

He is always interested to hear from any prospective PhD students who have ideas for a research project within his fields of research.

Research

Dr Jon Catling is an expert in research design and analysis. 

His research interests cover three main areas:  

1. Language acquisition, especially the impact of the ‘Age of Acquisition’ of language.

2. Mental and physical health in young people.

3. The relationship between cognitive and physical functioning, mental health and the immune system in older adults.

Other activities

  • Principal Fellow of the HEA

  • Member of the Undergraduate Education Committee of the British Psychological Society

  •  Manuscript reviewer for the journals Visual Cognition, the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, Computers in human behavior and Psychology Teaching Review.

  • Grant reviewer for the ESRC and Higher Education Academy

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dewar, E & Catling, J 2024, '', Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 74-85.

Matera, C, Papp, ZK, Paradisi, M, Pieri, C, Catling, J & Nerini, A 2024, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 15, 1502661.

Juozelskyte, G & Catling, J 2024, '', Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, vol. 12, no. 1, 2305723.

Elsherif, MM & Catling, JC 2024, '', Scientific Studies of Reading, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 685-712.

Elsherif, MM, Preece, E & Catling, JC 2023, '', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 812鈥�847.

Elsherif, MM & Catling, JC 2023, '', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 132, 104449.

Asquith, E, Bould, K, Catling, JC, Day, EJ & Holt, A 2023, '', BMC Gastroenterology, vol. 23, no. 1, 306.

AbuQamar, M, Eltayyan, D, Kuznetsova, I, Dhesi, S, Catling, J, Al-Dadah, R, Mahmoud, SM & Abuhaiba, M 2023, '', International Journal of Social Psychiatry, pp. 1-9.

Catling, J & Sutton, E 2023, '', Journal of Health and Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 219-229.

Catling, J 2023, '', Journal of Health and Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 295-307.

Sutton, E, Catling, J, Segaert, K & Veldhuijzen Van Zanten, J 2022, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 823089.

Catling, J, Bayley, A, Begum, Z, Wardzinski, C & Wood, A 2022, '', BMC psychology, vol. 10, no. 1, 118.

Catling, J, Michail, M, Lakhani , N & Devine, RT 2022, '', Journal of Mental Health, Training, Education and Practice, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 562-571.

Doyle, I & Catling, J 2022, '', The Journal of Psychology, vol. 156, no. 3, pp. 224-240.

Comment/debate

Elsherif, MM, Catling, JC & Frisson, S 2022, '', Memory and Cognition.