Dr. Jill Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. She studied her first degree in Psychology at the University of Sunderland and completed an MSc in Forensic Psychology at the University of Kent. She completed her PhD at the University of Portsmouth supervised by Dr. Clare Wilson. Her PhD work examines how subjective experiences of time perspective and representations of time influence emotions and behaviour.

Jill has extensive experience teaching and researching attitude and behaviour change, positive psychology, subjective well-being, and how different constructs of selfhood can enrich the human experience. Jill is the module leader for ‘Positive Psychology: Happiness and Wellbeing' and ‘The Psychology of Everyday Self'.