Staff

• Student Recruitment and market opportunities (Home, EU and International)
• Collaborative partnership agreements (Home, EU and International)
• Staff experience, development and satisfaction
• Promoting the work of the faculty
• Postgraduate Research Students

Member of committee

• Chair of Faculty Staff Development Committee
• Chair Faculty Recruitment and Marketing Group
• Chair of Boards of Study
• Chair of Assessment Boards

 Qualifications:

• PhD Psychology, University of Cardiff
• BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology, University of Cardiff

Professional registrations:

• Associate fellow British Psychological Society
• Chartered Psychologist
• Chartered Scientist

• Associate Dean, University of Wolverhampton
• Senior Lecturer then Principal Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton
• Lecturer, Aston University
• Researcher, University of Bristol

• Experimental Cognitive Psychology
• Human Memory
• Applications of Cognitive Psychology

Postgraduate Research:

• 4 PhD supervisions completed
• Currently member of two supervisory teams at UoW
• Available for PhD supervision in research areas indicated above

Awards of excellence

• Award for best graduate student presentation, Australian Experimental Psychology Society Conference, 1995
• Hywell Murrell prize for Highest Degree marks in year 1991.

External Examining

• External examiner Graduate Diploma in Psychology, Aston University
• External Examiner Psychology undergraduate portfolio, University of Winchester
• External advisor to validations including: University of Westminister; Aston University and St. Mary's University College.

External reviewer, editor

• Review for Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, EPSRC

External (committee) membership of professional organisations

• Member BPS Graduate Qualifications Accreditation Committee

Chapter, Books and Articles

• Beaman, C.P Bridges, A.M and Scott, S.K.(2007). From dichotic listening to the irrelevant sound effect:A behavioural and neuroimaging anlaysis of the processing of unattended speech. Cortex; 43, 124-134
• Bridges, A.M. & Jones, D.M. (1995) The contributions of phonology and perceptual regularity to changing state information. Australian Journal of Psychology. 21(supplement) 4
• Bridges, A.M. & Jones, D.M (1996) Word-dose in the disruption of serial recall by irrelevant speech:Phonological confusions or changing state?The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49a, 919-939
• Hadlington, L.J. Bridges, A.M. and Beaman C.P(2006)A Left-Ear Disadvantage for the presentation of irrelevant sound: Manipulations of Task Requirements and Changing State. Brain and Cognition. 61(2), 159-171
• Hadlington, L.J Bridges, A.M, and Darby, R.J (2004) The role of spatial location in the processing of irrelevant sound. Brain and Cognition. 55(3), 545-557

• Bridges, A.M (1994) Evidence from the irrelevant speech effect for a procedural view of memory. Proceedings of the British Psychology Society. 3(1), 23.
• Bridges, A.M.(1997) The equivalence of tones and speech within the disruptive effects of irrelevant sound and serial recall. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 6(1,12).
• Bridges, A.M. and Hadlington, L.J.(2003) Effects of presenting irrelevant sound to the right and left channels. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 12(2),100.
• Bridges, A.M. & Jones, D.M.(1994) A word-dose effect of irrelevant speech. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 3(1), 31
• Bridges, A.M & May, S (1997), The role of order encoding in the free recall of words. Proceedings of the Britich Psychological Society, 6(1), 37.
• Hadlington, L.J, Bridges, A.M, & Beaman, C.P. (2006) A left-ear disadvantage for the -processing of irrelevant sound: Effects of manipulating changing state information. Preseted at BPS Cognitive conference, July 2006

• 2004 Bid to UoW Research Institution in Advanced Technology in collaboration with Prof Andy Sloane, School of Computing: 'Interface evaluation for ubiquitous computing in the home.' Awarded.
• 2001 'Investigations of hemispheric differences in the effects of irrelevant sound on short-term memory.' Studentship bid to Wolverhampton research support unit. Funds requested: £7500 per annum for three years. Awarded; Start date September 2001.
• 1998 'A Probed recall measure of human information processing.' Submitted to EPCRC. Total funds requested: £47,000. Awarded. End of grant overall grading: tending to outstanding
• 1993 Successful application to ESRC for PhD studentship funding (10/93-10/95)