Dr Jonathan Emerson is a Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in the School of Health & Life Sciences. He completed his PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology) at Teesside University studying: The impact of depression and psychosis on motor simulation.  

Jonathan has taught on a range of modules at Teesside University across all levels. He is currently teaching Designing Research Projects, Practical Statistics and Quantitative Data Analysis Methods across a wide range of postgraduate clinical programmes. 

• Motor control and learning
• Neurorehabilitation in stroke and children with dyspraxia (developmental coordination disorder)
• Statistical modelling in applied research

Primary research interest in schizophrenia, psychosis and the interaction between perception and action. Broader research interests range across mental health, digital technology & development, motion tracking and neurophysiology.

Jonathan supervises a number of undergraduate and postgraduate research projects and welcomes any expressions of interest from prospective students, or collaboration on research projects.  

Current Doctoral Supervision:

• Andrew Richardson: Tackling Sedentary Lifestyles in the Tees Valley: A Combined Government and Local Authoritative Approach.
• Dan Lin: Combining motor simulation states for post-stroke rehabilitation.

Jonathan consults and provides training on research design, development and analysis. Additionally, he delivers training on the use of R programming for research and statistics covering:

• Data manipulation
• Data visualisation
• Multivariate data screening
• Statistical analysis