Dr Lynne Spackman PhD, MSc, PgCert,
Senior Lecturer
Summary
My role:
1. Lecturer and Academic Tutor: I teach on, lead and develop modules on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I provide academic tuition and pastoral support to students.
2. International Mobility Coordinator: I liaise with international universities to facilitate the exchange of students and staff. I develop contacts and exchange opportunities with other universities outside the UK. I provide practical and pastoral support for incoming international students and outgoing SHU students within the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics.
3. Level 5 Year tutor on the MSc Psychology/Sociology Joint Honors degree: I work with administration staff and the course leader in providing a positive student experience for this level 5 cohort. I oversee the everyday academic management of this group of students and provide higher level practical and pastoral support.
About
As Lecturer and Academic Tutor I teach on, lead and develop modules on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I deliver modules on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses primarily in Cognitive Neuroscience but also in project management and ethics. I provide academic tuition and pastoral support to students.
As International Mobility Coordinator I liaise with international universities to facilitate the exchange of students and staff. I develop contacts and exchange opportunities with other universities outside the UK. I provide practical and pastoral support for incoming international students and outgoing SHU students within the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics.I am a Level 5 Year tutor on the MSc Psychology/Sociology Joint Honors degree. I work with administration staff and the course leader in providing a positive student experience for this level 5 cohort. I oversee the everyday academic management of this group of students and provide higher level practical and pastoral support.
I did my undergraduate degree in Psychology and Chemistry at the University of Alberta, Canada before moving to the United Kingdom where I completed a MSc and a PhD in Neuroscience from University College London. I am a registered Clinical Physiologist and spent ten years working and doing research in various NHS trusts, including Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. During this time I had a variety of management and training roles within NHS neurophysiology departments. In 2008 I moved into full-time academia and started working at Sheffield Hallam University where I primarily teach areas involving cognition and neuroscience.
I am a Member of the Association of Neurophysiological Scientists and of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiologists.
Teaching
Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Research
Current projects include:
1. A collaborative study with York and Cambridge Universities on word consolidation and sleep.
2. Audio/Visual crossmodal effects on affective perception.
3. Electrophysiological markers of the effects of audio/visual stimuli on well being in natural and urban environments.
Publications
Journal articles
Selvan, A., Cole, L., Spackman, L., & Wright, C. (2017). Hierarchical Cluster Analysis to Aid Diagnostic Image DataVisualization of MS and Other Medical Imaging Modalities. .
Spackman, L.A., Towell, A., & Boyd, S.G. (2010). Somatosensory discrimination: an intracranial event-related potential study of children with refractory epilepsy. Brain research, 1310, 68-76. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.072
Spackman, L.A., Boyd, S.G., & Towell, A. (2007). Effects of stimulus frequency and duration on somatosensory discrimination responses. Experimental brain research, 177 (1), 21-30. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0650-0
Spackman, L., Boyd, S., & Towell, T. (2006). Identification and characterization of somatosensory off responses. Brain research, 1114 (1), 53-62. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.135
Chapple, J.P., Hardcastle, A.J., Grayson, C., Spackman, L.A., Willison, K.R., & Cheetham, M.E. (2000). Mutations in the N-terminus of the X-linked retinitis pigmentosa protein RP2 interfere with the normal targeting of the protein to the plasma membrane. Human molecular genetics, 9 (13), 1919-1926. http://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/9.13.1919
Other activities
Active member of the Brain, Behaviour and Cognitions Group and of the Communication project team working on the Athena Swan award.