Dr Chris Fullwood is a chartered cyberpsychologist who began his academic career in 2001 after completing a PhD focusing on the impacts of videoconferencing on communication dynamics and person perceptions. His principal research interests broadly focus on understanding how we manage the impressions of others within various online spaces, as well the ramifications of more unconstrained self-presentation, for example on the impressions that others form of us as well as on our own self-perceptions. More recently, he has collaborated on projects focusing on digital inclusion and the empowerment of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Chris was one of the four founding members of the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Cyberpsychology section and co-authored the BPS Internet Mediated Research guidelines in 2020. He works as a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University where he co-leads the Psychology of New and Emerging Technology (PsyNET) research lab.
Dr Dawn Branley-Bell is an Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology, a chartered psychologist and Past Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Cyberpsychology Section. She directs the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab (PaCT Lab) at Northumbria University – one of few university-based dedicated cyberpsychology research and training facilities in the UK – and leads the Research into Health Technologies for Eating Distress (RHED) research group. She specialises in digital health and wellbeing, including remote healthcare support and the impacts of social media. As a former fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, she worked with data from the Library’s Twitter archive to investigate online communication around self-harm and eating disorders. Her wider research includes explainable AI and cybersecurity, and she is co-investigator on the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Lisa J. Orchard has over 15 years of experience in the field of cyberpsychology. Throughout her career, she has published extensively on the topic of social media engagement, focusing on both predictors of using digital technologies, and consequences of use. Her research also overlaps with health psychology, exploring the role of breastfeeding content within social media and its implications. She has taught cyberpsychology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has held positions as Secretary and Co-Chair within the British Psychological Society's Cyberpsychology Committee. Although Lisa continues to publish within the academic field, she now works in industry as a UX researcher, applying cyberpsychology to understand user experiences within an online retail environment.
Dr Maria Limniou is a Senior Lecturer in Cyberpsychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. With over two decades of experience in the field, her research sits at the intersection of psychology and technology, within the broader domain of Cyberlearning, Deviant Behaviour, Environments and Communication. Her work mainly explores two key areas: Technology-Enhanced Learning, focusing on how digital tools, such as virtual simulations, multimedia, virtual reality, and communication platforms, can shape learning processes in Higher Education; and Technology-Facilitated Digital Behaviour, exploring how people interact with digital environments and how the psychological effects of those interactions. Technology-facilitated digital behaviour encompasses research in areas such as cybercrime, digital well-being, remote work, and digital marketing. Dr Limniou has published extensively, collaborates with (inter)national partners and supervises PhD students across these themes, contributing to the advancement of cyberlearning and human-technology interaction.
Dr Vasilena Stefanova is a Lecturer in Psychology and co-lead of the Psychology of New and Emerging Technology (PsyNET) research lab at Birmingham City University. Vasilena is a Chartered Psychologist with expertise in social identity, social interaction and intergroup relations. Passionate about interdisciplinary work, Vasilena’s research frequently integrates insights from organizational psychology, cyberpsychology, and the study of individual differences to examine social behaviour. Her work explores social dynamics in two key areas: organisational contexts, with a specific focus on stereotyping and prejudice in the workplace, and the digital world where she investigates attitudes toward AI, online social identity and self-presentation, and social interactions within internet-based groups.
