Staff Profile
Dr Jennifer Shevchenko
Senior Lecturer
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I am a senior lecturer in psychology with expertise in cognitive psychology, specifically prospective cognition and prospective thinking biases.
Qualifications
- PhD - The effect of positive episodic simulation on future event predictions in non-depressed, dysphoric, and depressed individuals. University of Hull, 2018
- MSc, Clinical Applications of Psychology. University of Hull, 2014
- BSc (Hons), Psychology. University of Hull, 2012
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – j.shevchenko@yorksj.ac.uk
- Research - View my work in RaY
- Postgraduate Research Supervisor
Further information
Teaching
I teach on the following modules:
- PSY4004M: Experimental Research Methods and Statistics
- PSY5006: Investigating Cognition
- PSY5007: Advanced Research Methods
- 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.
Publications
Dr Jennifer Shevchenko (née Boland)
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.
