Dr Jennifer Shevchenko

Teaching

I module lead and teach on:

• PSY5012: Brain and Behaviour
• PSY6032: Mind, Mood and Tomorrow

Alongside my teaching, I supervise students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research

My research interests include, but not limited to, the relationship between prospective cognition and psychological wellbeing/distress, and investigating ways to improve prospective cognition.

I also lead the FORECAST (Future Oriented Research on Emotion, Cognition And Spontaneous Thoughts) Research group.

Publications

Dr Jennifer Shevchenko (née Boland)

Shevchenko, J., Ji, J. L., Cole, S. N., Renner, F., & Hallford, D. J. (2025). Investigating the Effect of Mental Imagery Future Based Episodic Simulation on Subsequent Behavioural Engagement in Depressed, Dysphoric and Non-Depressed Individuals. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000232

Duffy, J., Cole, S. N., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2025). Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2025.2487442

Duffy, J., Salt, G., Cole, S. N., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2025) Anxiety and Future-Self Clarity: Can Future Thinking Influence Self-Esteem. Psychological Reports, https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941251315091 .

Duffy, J., Cole, S. N., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2024). Anxiety, Self-Satisfaction and Self-Defining Events: Exploring the Inter-Related Dimensions of the Self. Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2390148

Duffy, J., Cole, S. N., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2024). Depression and looming cognitive style: Examining the mediating effect of perceived control. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 15. 100698.

Shevchenko, J., Arnold, M., & Clayton McClure, J. H. (2024). No evidence of association between autism spectrum quotient and spontaneous mental time travel in a general adult sample performing an online vigilance task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1), e4147.

Anderson, R. A., Clayton McClure, H. J, Boland, J., Howe, D., Riggs, K. J, & Dewhurst, S. A. (2023). The effect of dysphoria on positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(1).

Abendstern, M., Wilberforce, M., Hughes, J., Arandelovic, A., Batool, S., Boland, J., Pitts, R., & Challis, D. (2021). The social worker in community mental health teams: Findings from a national survey. Journal of Social Work, 0(0).

Wilberforce, M. R., Abendstern, M., Batool, S., Boland, J., Challis, D., Christian, J., ... & Pitts, R. (2019). What do service users want from mental health social work?: A best-worst scaling analysis. British Journal of Social Work, 0, 1-21.

Boland, J., Abendstern, M., Wilberforce, M., Pitts, R., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2019). Exploring the added value of mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey. Journal of Social Work, 0(0), 1-23.

Boland, J., Riggs, K., J., & Anderson, R. J. (2018). A brighter future: The effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, dysphoric & depressed individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 100, 7-16.

Dewhurst, S. A., Anderson, R. J., Grace, L., & Boland, J. (2017).  Survival processing versus self-reference: A memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding. Journal of Memory and Language, 94, 291–304.

Anderson, R.J., Boland, J., & Garner, S.R. (2016). Overgeneral past and future thinking in dysphoria: The role of emotional cues and cueing methodology. Memory, 24, 708-719.