Pepa3a@bangor.ac.uk

  • Other: MRes Sport Psychology
    2018
  • BSc: Sport Health and Exercise Sciences
    2016
  • PhD: Sport Psychology
    2018–2022

Teaching and supervision: In recent years, I have taught research methods and statistics modules to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. In previous years, I have co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students toward the successful completion of their research projects. I continue to supervise students throughout their research endeavors today. 

My research interest centre on personality, emotion dysregulation, and risk-taking in relation to health. Throughout my Ph.D., I have explored the agentic emotion regulation benefits of engaging in high-risk sports, such as mountaineering, and the regulatory role our sporting activities play in buffering against social insecurity. I am currently involved in several collaborative projects with organisations such as Healthwise Wales and the Natural Environment Research Council. I am also a lecturer in advanced research methods and statistics, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students the principles and methodologies underlying qualitative and quantitative research.  

2023

2022

  • BUIIA Training and Networking conference

    BU-IIA training and networking conference Bangor University

    19 Oct 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant)
  • Healthwise Wales research meeting

    BU-IIA project meeting with Healthwise Wales

    13 Oct 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
  • Who, What, Why not:applying BeSci to population health

    Public Health Wales Behavioral Science Unit Presentation

    12 Oct 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant)
  • BU-IIA Funded Project: Agency and Communion in Wales: A Framework to Understand Behaviour, Health and Well-Being During the Wales COVID-19 Response and Recovery

    In this project we will increase understanding of variability in human behaviour during the various phases of Wales’ COVID-19 response and post COVID recovery. We will also shed light on how individual differences influence psychological well-being over time, as the Welsh population continues to adapt to new ways of life in this post-COVID recovery phase. The project will allow us to provide recommendations to the Welsh Government with a view to optimizing their messaging to maximise positive behavioural outcomes (e.g., prosocial behaviours, rule adherence) and minimise costs to health and well-being (e.g., problems associated with high stress) in the population.

    Funding awarded through the Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £47,535

    4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

The psychological benefits of engaging in high-risk sporting activities were evident to me from a young age. However, it was not until I attended Bangor University that I aspired to understand the underlying processes that derive such benefits. When I am not at my desk, I can be found paragliding, downhill mountain biking, and riding motocross.