I
completed my PhD, which examined the social, emotional, and cognitive
correlates of psychotic-like experiences, at Durham University in 2013. Since
then, I have held research posts at Durham University, the University of York,
and Newcastle University, primarily working on projects related to auditory and
visual hallucinations. Prior to joining Northumbria University in 2018, I held
lecturing positions at Leeds Trinity University and the University of
Sunderland.
- Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
- A cross-national study examining imaginary companions and face pareidolia in British and Chinese adults, Davis, P., Fernyhough, C., Yang, L., Xi, Y., Xing, C., Smailes, D. 23 Jan 2026, In: PLoS One
- Associations between aberrant salience and hoarding severity in a community sample, Rivers, H., Collins, C., Neave, N., Smailes, D. 18 Feb 2026, In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
- Associations between sleep health, cognitive control, and hallucinations, Punton, G., Smailes, D., McCarty, K., Ellis, J., Moseley, P. 1 Dec 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science
- Examining the availability/findability of stimuli employed in social media and body image research, Smailes, D., Aleksandra, A., Coakley, M., Mair, S., Ventress, J. 22 May 2025, In: PLoS One
- The Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Control Mechanisms Associated With Hallucinatory Experiences, Punton, G., Ellis, J., Jensen, E., Malby, C., Sharif, F., Smailes, D., Turnbull, M., Moseley, P. 9 Dec 2025, In: Journal of Sleep Research
- Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Study Preregistration in the Undergraduate Dissertation, Pownall, M., Pennington, C., Norris, E., Juanchich, M., Smailes, D., Russell, S., Gooch, D., Rhys Evans, T., Persson, S., Mak, M., Tzavella, L., Monk, R., Gough, T., Benwell, C., Elsherif, M., Farran, E., Gallagher-Mitchell, T., Kendrick, L., Bahnmueller, J., Nordmann, E., Zaneva, M., Gilligan-Lee, K., Bazhydai, M., Jones, A., Sedgmond, J., Holzleitner, I., Reynolds, J., Moss, J., Farrelly, D., Parker, A., Clark, K. 2023, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
- Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology, Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Moffatt, J., Lee, R., Foxwell, J., Hayes, J., Smailes, D., Fernyhough, C. 1 Jun 2023, In: Psychological Medicine
- Associations between face pareidolia-proneness, anxiety, depression and visual hallucination-like experiences in a non-clinical population., Rivers, H., Smailes, D. 6 Dec 2022, The Early Career Hallucinations Research Group: Fourth Annual Meeting, 2022
- Associations Between Hoarding Behaviours and Symptoms of Psychosis: The Role of Aberrant Salience, Rivers, H., Smailes, D., Neave, N. 7 Apr 2022, Northumbria University's Department of Psychology Postgraduate Research Conference
- Measurement practices in hallucinations research, Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Hazell, C., Wright, A., Moseley, P. 4 May 2022, In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
- Mariia Goncharova Start Date: 17/06/2025 End Date: 12/03/2026
- Hollie Rivers An investigation into the relationship between hoarding behaviours and psychosis symptoms, and the role of aberrant salience. Start Date: 01/10/2021
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