Professor Philip Terry
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Non-faculty academics
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
- Email:
- philip.terry@kingston.ac.uk
About
I conducted my PhD in physiological psychology at UCL and then worked as a researcher at UCL on a project funded by the Medical Research Council. I then moved to the US National Institute on Drug Abuse for 5 years before returning to the UK as a Lecturer (subsequently Reader) at the University of Birmingham.
I have published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to edited works and textbooks, made over 100 conference presentations, organized and chaired several international symposia, and served as PI on grants from the ESRC, ARUK, ERAB, the Department of Transport and others.
I have also served as a member of the ESRC peer-review college and a panel member of Belgian FNRS. I am currently an Assistant Editor of the journal "Addiction" and an Associate Editor of the journal "Substance Use and Misuse". I served as Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2017-18) and as Head of Research and Head of the Graduate Research School (2018-21).
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, University College London, 1987
- BSc in Psychology, University College London, 1982
Domains
Courses taught
My research over the last 30 years has centred on the behavioural pharmacology of abused drugs, from characterising drug action at the receptor level to the social psychology of problematic drug use.
Much of my recent externally-funded research concerns people's understanding of how alcohol affects behaviour and health. I have particular interests in the role of learning processes in alcohol's effects and how conditioning processes contribute to the aetiology of alcohol abuse and other kinds of problematic drug use.
I am also interested in the psychopharmacology of appetite and how monoamines and peptides (particularly oxytocin) modulate eating behaviour. More broadly, I am in interested in functional drug use as a way of managing daily challenges. In my previous life, I published extensively on the neuropharmacology of cocaine.
Specialisms
- Psychopharmacology
- Biological Psychology
- Quantitative Research Methods
I was Associate Dean for Research in the old Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and then Head of Research and Head of the Graduate Research School at the University (R&I Directorate)