Dr Andrew Surtees BSc., PhD, ClinPsyD.

Dr Andrew Surtees

School of Psychology
Associate Professor in Psychology

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4934
Email
a.surtees@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Psychology
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Andrew Surtees is an expert in social cognition, autism and mental health.  He combines cutting-edge research on social understanding in typical and atypical populations with practice as a Clinical Psychologist.

Qualifications

BSc. (Hons.), PhD., ClinPsyD

Biography

Dr Andrew Surtees completed his PhD at the University 麻豆精选 on the cognitive processes implicated in social and spatial perspective-taking.  He was awarded a Research Fellowship by Marie Curie Actions for the European Commission and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, which he undertook at Université catholique de Louvain.  During this time, he extended his work on the cognitive and neural processes involved in perspective-taking, employing EEG and fMRI.  Further to this, he completed training as a Clinical Psychologist.  He combines being a lecturer at Birmingham, with working as a Clinical Psychologist for Birmingham Children’s Hospital; in this role, he specializes in assessing autism in children and young adults with comorbid mental health problems.

Teaching

Dr. Surtees mainly teaches on the department’s Clinical Psychology programmes, specialising in Developmental Disorders and Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr. Surtees regularly supervises postgraduate students. If you are interested in undertaking a PhD with him, please contact him via email.

Research

Research Interests: 

Social Cognition, Theory of Mind, Autism, Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Researcher Identifier numbers: 

  • ORCID:
  • Scopus Author ID: 54390042300
  • Google Scholar: Andrew Surtees

Current website: 

Other activities

Dr Surtees is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professional Council.  He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and the International Pediatric Sleep Association.

Publications

Highlight publications

Parsons, L, Howes, AE, Jones, C & Surtees, A 2023, '', Sleep Medicine Reviews, vol. 68, 101719.

Surtees, A & Andrew, T 2021, '', Behavioural and Brain Sciences, vol. 44, e172.

Mingins, JE, Tarver, J, Waite, J, Surtees, AD & Jones, CA 2020, '', Autism: the international journal of research and practice.

Howes, AE, Burns, ME & Surtees, ADR 2021, '', Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 449-460.

Deliens, G, Bukowski, H, Slama, H, Surtees, A, Cleeremans, A, Samson, D & Peigneux, P 2018, '', Journal of Sleep Research, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 175-183.

Recent publications

Article

Khudiakova, V, Levy, X, Sowden-Carvalho, S & Surtees, ADR 2025, '', Autism in Adulthood.

Schurz, M, Tholen, M, Kronbichler, M, Perner, J & Surtees, A 2025, '', Social Neuroscience.

Bhattacharya, P, Matthews, R, Field, R, Heath, H, Woodcock, K & Surtees, A 2025, '', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Tivey, P, Blatchford, L, Kaspar, P, Powell, A & Surtees, A 2025, '', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Surtees, A, Briscoe, H & Todd, A 2024, '', Current Directions in Psychological Science, pp. 1-8.

Bastan, E, Beck, SR & Surtees, ADR 2024, '', Autism.

Bastan, E, Beck, SR & Surtees, ADR 2024, '', Neurodiversity, vol. 2, 27546330241308542, pp. 1鈥�15.

O鈥橲ullivan, R, Bissell, S, Agar, G, Spiller, J, Surtees, A, Heald, M, Clarkson, E, Khan, A, Oliver, C, Bagshaw, AP & Richards, C 2024, '', Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, vol. 16, no. 1, 18.

Bastan, E, McGuinness, R, Beck, S & Surtees, A 2024, '', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Laverty, C, Surtees, A, Sutherland, D & Richards, C 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 7, e076057.

Altaweel, N, Upthegrove, R, Surtees, A, Durdurak, B & Marwaha, S 2023, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 14, 1176355.

Comment/debate

Samuel, S, Erle, TM, Kirsch, LP, Surtees, A, Apperly, I, Bukowski, H, Auvray, M, Catmur, C, Kessler, K & Quesque, F 2024, '', Cognition, vol. 247, 105787.

Review article

Khudiakova, V, Russell, E, Sowden-Carvalho, S & Surtees, ADR 2024, '', Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, vol. 118, 102492.

Briscoe, H, Vickers-Graver, B, medha, C, Jones, C & Surtees, A 2024, '', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 367, pp. 530-544.

Bird, S, Moid, L, Jones, C & Surtees, A 2024, '', Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, vol. 117, 102428.