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  • David Saunders is the Head of Psychology and Sociology and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Northampton. His research interests include lucid dreaming, the function of dreams, motor-learning, mental-imagery, consciousness, cognitive neuropsychology, and the neuropsychology of anomalous experiences. He is a member of the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies (EECS) Special Interest Group within the Centre for Psychological and Sociological Sciences (CPSS) . He sits on the Survival Research Committee of the Society for Psychical Research, and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

  • Module leadership for:

    • PSYM102 – Research Skills

    Lecturing/Assessment responsibilities (in addition to the above modules):

    • PSY3007 – Parapsychology and Anomalous Experiences
    • PSY3027 – The Psychology of Spirituality, Religion and Wellbeing
    • PSY3054 – Neuroscience of Mind
    • PSYM080 – Cognitive and Biological Psychology and Neuroscience
    • PSYM103 – Values, Assessment and Engagement (Work Based Learning)

  • Brown, J. S. L., James, K., Lisk, S., Shearer, J., Byford, S., Stallard, P., Deighton, J., Saunders. D., Yarrum, J., Fonagy. P., Weaver. T., Sclare, I., Day. C., Evans, C., & Carter, B. (Manuscript submitted for publication). Can an accessible self-referral CBT programme in schools for 16–18-year-olds help reduce the increasing prevalence of young people with mental health problems? Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a cluster randomised controlled trial in Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial (BESST).

    James, K., Lisk, S., Spiers, A., Payne-Cook, C., Farishta, Z., Farrelly, M., Sheikh, A., Slusarczyk, M., Byford, S., Day, C., Deighton, J., Evans, C., Fonagy, P., Saunders, D., Sclare, I., Shearer, J., Stallard, P., Weaver, T., Yarrum, J., Carter, B., & Brown, J. (Manuscript submitted for publication). Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial (BESST trial), a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial of self-referral psychological workshop programme for 16–18-year-olds: study design and baseline characteristics.

    Cooper, C. E., Saunders, D. T., & Hitchman, G. A. M. (2020). Reconsidering sensory Isolation in Flotation tanks as a method of promoting Psi-conducive Imagery. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 84, 1, 1-27

    Krippner, S., Saunders., D. T., Morgan, A., & Quann, A. (2019).  Remote viewing of concealed target pictures under light and dark conditions. Explore, 15(1) 27-37.

    Saunders, D. T., Clegg, H., Roe, C. A. & Smith, G. (2017). Exploring the Role of Need for Cognition, Field Independence and Locus of Control on the Incidence of Lucid Dreams during a 12 week induction study. Dreaming, 27(1) 68-86.

    Saunders, D. T., Roe, C. A., Smith, G., & Clegg, H. (2016). A quality-effects meta-analysis of lucid dreaming incidence. Consciousness & Cognition, 43, 197-215.

  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view David Saunders’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.

  • Cooper, C. E. & Saunders, D., (2021). Obituary: Lawrence LeShan, 1920-2020. The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 85, 2, p. 124-128

    Saunders, D. T. (2019). Lucid Dreaming Correlates. In K., Valli, R., Hoss, & R. Gongloff (Eds.) Dreams: Biology, Psychology and Culture, 1. ABC-CLIO

    Morris, P., Fritz, C., Smith, G., Cherchar, A., Crockett, R., Roe, C. A., Collings, R., Hill, K., Saunders, D., Anderson, M., & Atkinson, L. (2015). In defence of inferential statistics. The Psychologist, 28, 5, 338-339.

    Roe, C. A., Bruton, D., Connelly, C., Saunders, D. T. & Evenden, R. (2015). Building links between communities: Establishment of a research laboratory for scientific study at the Arthur Findley College. Proceedings of the Joint 39th SPR international annual conference & 58th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, University of Greenwich. 

    Saunders, D. T., Evenden, R. & Cooper, C. E. (2015). Establishing the CSAPP archive and case collections from the Eileen J. Garrett Library. Proceedings of the 39th SPR international annual conference & 58th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, University of Greenwich. 

    Saunders, D. T. (2015). Lucid Dreams. In M. Cardin (Ed.) Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO

    Saunders, D. T. (2015). The Paranormal. In M. Cardin (Ed.) Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO

    Saunders, D. T. (2015). Precognition. In M. Cardin (Ed.) Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO

    Saunders, D. (2015). The Ganzfeld Experiment. In M. Cardin (Ed.) Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO