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Pepa3a@bangor.ac.uk

• Other: MRes Sport Psychology
  2018
• BSc: Sport Health and Exercise Sciences
  2016
• PhD: Sport Psychology
  2018–2022

Teaching and supervision: In recent years, I have taught research methods and statistics modules to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. In previous years, I have co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students toward the successful completion of their research projects. I continue to supervise students throughout their research endeavors today. 

My research interest centre on personality, emotion dysregulation, and risk-taking in relation to health. Throughout my Ph.D., I have explored the agentic emotion regulation benefits of engaging in high-risk sports, such as mountaineering, and the regulatory role our sporting activities play in buffering against social insecurity. I am currently involved in several collaborative projects with organisations such as Healthwise Wales and the Natural Environment Research Council. I am also a lecturer in advanced research methods and statistics, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students the principles and methodologies underlying qualitative and quantitative research.  

2023

• Published
  Willegers, M., Woodman, T. & Tilley, F., Apr 2023, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 204, 112061.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• BU-IIA training and networking conference ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É

  19 Oct 2022

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant)

• BU-IIA project meeting with Healthwise Wales

  13 Oct 2022

  Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

• Public Health Wales Behavioral Science Unit Presentation

  12 Oct 2022

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant)

• In this project we will increase understanding of variability in human behaviour during the various phases of Wales’ COVID-19 response and post COVID recovery. We will also shed light on how individual differences influence psychological well-being over time, as the Welsh population continues to adapt to new ways of life in this post-COVID recovery phase. The project will allow us to provide recommendations to the Welsh Government with a view to optimizing their messaging to maximise positive behavioural outcomes (e.g., prosocial behaviours, rule adherence) and minimise costs to health and well-being (e.g., problems associated with high stress) in the population.

  Funding awarded through the ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £47,535

  4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

  Activity: Other (Contributor)

• 01/10/2023 – 31/10/2024 (Finished)

The psychological benefits of engaging in high-risk sporting activities were evident to me from a young age. However, it was not until I attended ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É that I aspired to understand the underlying processes that derive such benefits. When I am not at my desk, I can be found paragliding, downhill mountain biking, and riding motocross.