Patrick A. Bolger
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I currently work as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, where I have taught various modules, including the following (sorted by student level):

Teaching

Undergraduate

First year

  • Developing Academic Skills in Psychology
  • Introduction to Developmental Psychology (module leader)
  • Research Methods & Stats

Second year

  • Research Methods & Stats
  • Social & Developmental Psychology
  • Individual Differences

Third year

  • Psychology of the Family (module leader)
  • Projects (supervisor)

Postgraduate

Master’s

  • The Child in Context
  • Developmental Profiles of Language and Learning

Research

I am part of the Language, Literacy, and Psycholinguistics Research Group

My research interests are as follows:

  • psycholinguistics (bilingualism, skilled reading)
  • diversity, equity, and inclusion in the unrelated areas of open-source software development and the teaching of statistics
  • the incorporation of large language models into educational contexts, especially writing and statistics

Service

I am the first-year tutor on the course team.