Dr Amy R. Bland
Dr Amy R. Bland BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
2012: PhD Cognitive Neuroscience (ESRC 1+3), University of Leeds
2008: MSc Psychology (ESRC 1+3), University of Leeds
2007: BSc Psychology, University of Leeds
Expert reviewer
Grant Reviewer:
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
Journal Reviewer:
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Psychological Medicine
- Journal of Personality and Individual Differences
- Clinical Medicine
Visiting and honorary positions
2019 - 2020 - Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
2017 - 2019 - Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching
- Preparing for your Dissertation (PFYD)
- BSc Dissertation Project supervision
Postgraduate teaching
- Biological Mechanisms and Neuropsychological Health
- MSc Dissertation Project supervision
Research outputs
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Chapters in books
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2024) 'Open Access: The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition.' Coping with Covid. Routledge, pp. 51-60.
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Journal articles
Bland, A.R., Barraclough, M., Trender, W.R., Mehta, M.A., Hellyer, P.J., Hampshire, A., Penner, I.K., Elliott, R., Harenwall, S. (2024) 'Profiles of objective and subjective cognitive function in Post-COVID Syndrome, COVID-19 recovered, and COVID-19 naïve individuals.' Scientific Reports, 14(1)
Barrington, L.J., Bland, A., Keenan, J. (2024) 'Alcohol-related harm and the armed forces community: developing a culturally competent, compassionate approach to care.' Mental Health Practice,
Mushtaq, F., Welke, D., Gallagher, A., Pavlov, Y.G., Kouara, L., Bosch-Bayard, J., van den Bosch, J.J.F., Arvaneh, M., Bland, A.R., Chaumon, M., Borck, C., He, X., Luck, S.J., Machizawa, M.G., Pernet, C., Puce, A., Segalowitz, S.J., Rogers, C., Awais, M., Babiloni, C., Bailey, N.W., Baillet, S., Bendall, R.C.A., Brady, D., Bringas-Vega, M.L., Busch, N.A., Calzada-Reyes, A., Chatard, A., Clayson, P.E., Cohen, M.X., Cole, J., Constant, M., Corneyllie, A., Coyle, D., Cruse, D., Delis, I., Delorme, A., Fair, D., Falk, T.H., Gamer, M., Ganis, G., Gloy, K., Gregory, S., Hassall, C.D., Hiley, K.E., Ivry, R.B., Jerbi, K., Jenkins, M., Kaiser, J., Keil, A., Knight, R.T., Kochen, S., Kotchoubey, B., Krigolson, O.E., Langer, N., Liesefeld, H.R., Lippé, S., London, R.E., MacNamara, A., Makeig, S., Marinovic, W., Martínez-Montes, E., Marzuki, A.A., Mathew, R.K., Michel, C., Millán, J.D.R., Mon-Williams, M., Morales-Chacón, L., Naar, R., Nilsonne, G., Niso, G., Nyhus, E., Oostenveld, R., Paul, K., Paulus, W., Pfabigan, D.M., Pourtois, G., Rampp, S., Rausch, M., Robbins, K., Rossini, P.M., Ruzzoli, M., Schmidt, B., Senderecka, M., Srinivasan, N., Stegmann, Y., Thompson, P.M., Valdes-Sosa, M., van der Molen, M.J.W., Veniero, D., Verona, E., Voytek, B., Yao, D., Evans, A.C., Valdes-Sosa, P. (2024) 'One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research.' Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8) pp. 1437-1443.
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R., Sahakian, B.J. (2024) 'Do people recover from the impact of COVID-19 social isolation? Social connectivity and negative affective bias.' Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-3.
Tudor, L., Harenwall, S., Henderson, R., Bland, A.R. (2023) 'Post-covid-19 syndrome: Self-compassion and psychological flexibility moderate the relationship between physical symptom load and psychosocial impact.' Acta Psychologica, 241
Heywood-Everett, S., Henderson, R., Webb, C., Bland, A.R. (2023) 'Psychosocial factors impacting community-based pressure ulcer prevention: a systematic review.' International Journal of Nursing Studies, 146pp. 104561-104561.
de Nooij, L., Adams, M.J., Hawkins, E.L., Romaniuk, L., Munafò, M.R., Penton-Voak, I.S., Elliott, R., Bland, A.R., Waiter, G.D., Sandu, A.L., Habota, T., Steele, J.D., Murray, A.D., Campbell, A., Porteous, D.J., McIntosh, A.M., Whalley, H.C., Generation Scotland, (2023) 'Associations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample.' Psychological Medicine, 53(12) pp. 5518-5527.
Barrington, L.J., Bland, A.R., Keenan, J. (2023) 'Courage, camaraderie and compassion: a qualitative exploration into UK military veterans' experiences of self-compassion within the context of alcohol use disorders and recovery.' BMJ Military Health,
Harenwall, S., Heywood-Everett, S., Henderson, R., Smith, J., McEnery, R., Bland, A.R. (2022) 'The interactive effects of post-traumatic stress symptoms and breathlessness on fatigue severity in post-COVID-19 syndrome.' Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(20) pp. 6214-6214.
Cavieres F., Á., Limarí B., P., Zambrano G., N., Maldonado O., R., Elliott, R., Bland, A. (2022) 'Validación de una versión en español abreviada de la batería EMOTICOM (VEA-EMOTICOM) (Validation of a Spanish short version of the EMOTICOM battery (VEA-EMTICOM)).' Revista Chilena de Neuro-Psiquiatría, 60(3) pp. 251-261.
Harenwall, S., Heywood-Everett, S., Henderson, R., Godsell, S., Jordan, S., Moore, A., Philpot, U., Shepherd, K., Smith, J., Bland, A.R. (2021) 'Post-Covid-19 Syndrome: Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life Following Psychology-Led Interdisciplinary Virtual Rehabilitation..' Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 12
Fegan, R., Bland, A. (2021) 'Social Media Use and Vulnerable Narcissism: The Differential Roles of Oversensitivity and Egocentricity.' International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17)
Bland, A.R., Zahn, R., Elliott, R., Taylor, J.R., Hill, J. (2021) 'Patrolling the boundaries of social domains: neural activations to violations of expectations for romantic and work relationships.' Social Neuroscience, 16(5) pp. 513-521.
Cavieres, A., Maldonado, R., Bland, A., Elliott, R. (2021) 'Relationship Between Gender and Performance on Emotion Perception Tasks in a Latino Population.' International Journal of Psychological Research, 14(1)
Pavlov, Y.G., Adamian, N., Appelhoff, S., Arvaneh, M., Benwell, C.S.Y., Beste, C., Bland, A.R., Bradford, D.E., Bublatzky, F., Busch, N.A., Clayson, P.E., Cruse, D., Czeszumski, A., Dreber, A., Dumas, G., Ehinger, B., Giorgio, G., He, X., Hinojosa, J.A., Huber-Huber, C., Inzlicht, M., Jack, B.N., Johannesson, M., Jones, R., Kalenkovich, E., Kaltwasser, L., Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., Keil, A., König, P., Kouara, L., Kulke, L., Ladouceur, C.D., Langer, N., Liesefeld, H.R., Luque, D., MacNamara, A., Mudrik, L., Muthuraman, M., Neal, L.B., Nilsonne, G., Niso, G., Ocklenburg, S., Oostenveld, R., Pernet, C.R., Pourtois, G., Ruzzoli, M., Sass, S.M., Schaefer, A., Senderecka, M., Snyder, J.S., Tamnes, C.K., Tognoli, E., van Vugt, M.K., Verona, E., Vloeberghs, R., Welke, D., Wessel, J.R., Zakharov, I., Mushtaq, F. (2021) '#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the Replicability of Influential EEG Experiments.' Cortex, 144pp. 213-229.
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2021) 'The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition.' Cognition and Emotion, 36(1) pp. 49-58.
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2020) 'COVID-19 induced social isolation; implications for understanding social cognition in mental health.' Psychological Medicine, 52(15) pp. 3748-3749.
Bland, A.R., Schei, T., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Zahn, R., Seara-Cardoso, A., Viding, E., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2020) 'Agency and intentionality-dependent experiences of moral emotions.' Personality and Individual Differences, 164pp. 110125-110125.
Bland, A.R., Ersche, K.D. (2020) 'Deficits in recognizing female facial expressions related to social network in cocaine-addicted men.' Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 216pp. 108247-108247.
Dam, V.H., Thystrup, C.K., Jensen, P.S., Bland, A.R., Mortensen, E.L., Elliott, R., Sahakian, B.J., Knudsen, G.M., Frokjaer, V.G., Stenbæk, D.S. (2019) 'Psychometric Properties and Validation of the EMOTICOM Test Battery in a Healthy Danish Population.' Frontiers in Psychology, 10
Wilkinson, B., Trick, L., Knight, A., Valton, V., Goodhand, J., Kennedy, N.A., Heerasing, N., Ahmad, T., Bland, A., Elliott, R., Roiser, J.P., Dickens, C. (2019) 'Factors associated with depression in people with inflammatory bowel disease: The relationship between active disease and biases in neurocognitive processing.' Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 31(8)
Morgan, C., Bland, A.R., Maker, C., Dunnage, J., Bruce, I.N. (2018) 'Individuals living with lupus: findings from the LUPUS UK Members Survey 2014.' Lupus, 27(4) pp. 681-687.
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Schei, T., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2017) 'Cooperative Behavior in the Ultimatum Game and Prisoner’s Dilemma Depends on Players’ Contributions.' Frontiers in Psychology, 8
Bland, A.R., Roiser, J.P., Mehta, M.A., Schei, T., Boland, H., Campbell-Meiklejohn, D.K., Emsley, R.A., Munafo, M.R., Penton-Voak, I.S., Seara-Cardoso, A., Viding, E., Voon, V., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Elliott, R. (2016) 'EMOTICOM: A Neuropsychological Test Battery to Evaluate Emotion, Motivation, Impulsivity, and Social Cognition.' Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10
Mushtaq, F., Hill, L.J.B., Bland, A.R., Craddock, M., Boyle, N.B. (2015) 'Commentary: Neural correlates of expected risks and returns in risky choice across development.' Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9
Smith, D.V., Utevsky, A.V., Bland, A.R., Clement, N., Clithero, J.A., Harsch, A.E.W., McKell Carter, R., Huettel, S.A. (2014) 'Characterizing individual differences in functional connectivity using dual-regression and seed-based approaches.' NeuroImage, 95pp. 1-12.
Duffin, E., Bland, A.R., Schaefer, A., de Kamps, M. (2014) 'Differential effects of reward and punishment in decision making under uncertainty: a computational study.' Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8
Mushtaq, F., Stoet, G., Bland, A.R., Schaefer, A. (2013) 'Relative Changes from Prior Reward Contingencies Can Constrain Brain Correlates of Outcome Monitoring.' PLoS ONE, 8(6) pp. e66350-e66350.
Bland, A.R., Schaefer, A. (2012) 'Different Varieties of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making.' Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6
Mushtaq, F., Bland, A.R., Schaefer, A. (2011) 'Uncertainty and Cognitive Control.' Frontiers in Psychology, 2
Bland, A.R., Schaefer, A. (2011) 'Electrophysiological correlates of decision making under varying levels of uncertainty.' Brain Research, 1417pp. 55-66.
Bland, A.R., Mushtaq, F., Smith, D.V. (2011) 'Exploiting trial-to-trial variability in multimodal experiments.' Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5
Career history
November 2011 - March 2016
Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester
March 2016 - December 2017
(2 x Maternity Leave) Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester
December 2017 - March 2020
Career break
March 2020 - present
School of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University