Personal Statement
Prof Paul Christiansen is a Professor of applied statistics. He works across a range of fields in psychology (drug/alcohol use, appetite, forensic, and clinical psychology) as well as medical research. He is particularly interested in accurate measurement (psychometrics). He is the author of two statistics textbooks "Key Topics in Quantitative Research" and "A Practical Guide to Data Analysis Using R and IBM SPSS Statistics".

Research Overview
I have researched in a range of fields including

-Addiction (cognitive bias and impulsivity, cannabis use, psychedelics)
-Appetite (weight loss trials, impacts of poverty on food, the influence of advertisement)
- Food security (impact of labels on food decisions)
-Forensic Psychology (Analysis of police interviews with terrorists and sex offenders, prioritizing arrests of sex offenders)
-Clinical psychology (Developing scales assessing mental distress in marginalized groups, impacts of adverse life events on well-being)
-Bowel disease(s)