Staff Profile

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Academic lead for Employability and Enterprise 

Exchange coordinator

International Tutor

Tutor for Men

Degree Programme Director for BSc Psychology (Joint Honours)

Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Studies in Academic Practice (CASAP), Newcastle University (2012)

PhD Psychology, “Existential Orientation: Atheism, Theism and Individual Differences”, Newcastle University (2009) 

BSc (Hons) in Psychology, Newcastle University (2003)

Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), International House London (1998)

Previous Positions

I have taught psychology at the Open University, Newcastle College and Gateshead College. I have taught English as a Foreign Language in Schools across the UK, India and Siberia. 

Membership

Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society

Chair of the BPS Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology ( DART-P)

Committee Member of the BPS Undergraduate Education Committee

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society (Lit&Phil) 

Member of the Association of Psychological Science

Member of the Society for Teaching of Psychology

Awards

Vice-Chancellor's Education Excellence Award 2018

Peer-mentor Coordinator of the Year 2018

Undergraduate Teaching:

PSY2008 Psychological Enquiry 2: Principles of Psychology (Module leader)

PSY3026 Psychology of Religion (Module leader)

PSY3097 Empirical Project (Supervisor)

PSY3029 Psychological Enquiry 3: Psychological Literacy and Professional Skills

Research Interests

I have been an educator for over twenty years and have a strong commitment to the scholarship of learning and teaching. I am particularly interested in developing all aspects of psychological literacy through reflective practice and experiential learning. My research interests lie in psychological approaches to understanding religions, spirituality, and mythology. More generally, I am interested in how people make sense of their world and draw meaning through their interaction with their environment, both the natural world and digital, social, and cultural environments. I teach a specialist module in the Psychology of Religion- one of the longest-running modules within psychology in the UK.

• Articles

  • Rosenkranz P, Cotterell A, Fielden A, Hope C, James T, Moffat-Knox B. Not Exactly Dragon's Den: Enterprise Challenges can Enhance Psychological Literacy. Psychology Learning and Teaching 2024, 23(2), 281-297.
  • Holliman AJ, Rosenkranz P, Jones T. How to make a ‘promising’ start to your dissertation: Development of a process mapping approach. Psychology Teaching Review 2020, 26(1), 64-70.
  • Michael R, Rosenkranz P. “I shouldn’t have to prove myself “: The experiences of Black women at Russell Group Universities. Psychology of Women and Equalities Review 2020, 3, 33-35.
  • Charlton BG, Rosenkranz P. Evolution of Empathizing and Systemizing: Empathizing as an aspect of social intelligence, systemizing as an evolutionarily later consequence of economic specialization. The Winnower 2016.
  • Rosenkranz P, Fielden A, Tzemou E. Teaching psychological research methods through a pragmatic and programmatic approach. Psychology Teaching Review 2014, 20(2), 28-35.
  • Rosenkranz P, Charlton BG. Individual Differences in Existential Orientation: Empathizing and Systemizing Explain the Sex Difference in Religious Orientation and Science Acceptance. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 2013, 35(1), 119-146.
  • Rosenkranz P. Integrating Peer Mentoring into the Psychology Curriculum: from an extended induction to an academic skills course. Psychology Learning and Teaching 2012, 11(2), 201-208.

• Book Chapters

  • Rosenkranz P, Fielden A. Promoting dialogue through interactive coversheets with large classes (Case study). In: Winstone, N; Carless, D, ed. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education: A learning-focused approach. London: Routledge, 2019.
  • Rosenkranz P, Dunn A, Fielden A, James T, Warin C. Enterprise challenges in psychology: Developing psychological literacy though entrepreneurial learning. In: Taylor, J. and Hulme, J.A, ed. International Psychological Literacy Compendium. 2019, pp.21-24.
  • Rosenkranz P. Developing psychological enquiry through peer-mentoring. In: Taylor, J; Hulme, JA, ed. Psychological Literacy: A Compendium of Practice. 2015, pp.49-51.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Rosenkranz P. Cultivating Psychology for Personal and Professional Development. In: Association of Teachers in Psychology (ATP). 2021, Brighton, UK.
  • Rosenkranz P. Teaching psychological approaches to religion and spirituality: Implications for psychological literacy. In: European Society for Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT). 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Graham S, Penet JC, Rosenkranz P. Developing Intercultural Competence at Newcastle University – An Action Research Project. In: RAISE. 2019, Newcastle, UK.
  • Rosenkranz P, Fielden A. Cultivating psychological literacy for professional development. In: European Society for Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT). 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Rosenkranz P, Fielden A, Dunn A, James T, Warin C. Enterprise challenges in psychology: Enhancing psychological literacy through entrepreneurial learning. (Invited Symposium). In: EUROPLAT. 2017, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Rosenkranz P, Fielden A, Tzemou E. Teaching psychological research methods through a pragmatic and programmatic approach. In: 5th Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology. 2015, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Fielden A, Tzemou E, Rosenkranz P. Integrating Qualitative Research Methods into a Positivist Psychology Programme. In: International Convention of Psychological Science. 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Association for Psychological Sceince.
  • Morley C, Alias SHB, Marram B, Freeston MH, Rosenkranz P. Different Ways of Being Christian: A Clustering Approach to the Investigation of Religiosity. In: International Convention of Psychological Science. 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• Review

  • Rosenkranz P. Intercultural Competence for College and University Students. A Guide for Employability and Social Change by C. Lantz-Deaton & I. Golubeva [Book review]. Psychology Teaching Review 2022, 28(1), 61-62.