Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext: 2186
Email: R.Snelgar@wmin.ac.uk

Research Interests

Environmental psychology, particularly: 

psychological aspects of pro-environmental behaviours (from recycling to activism);

values, beliefs and attitudes that underlie concern for the environment.

Students' anxiety towards statistics.

Teaching

Research methods and statistics in psychology, and environmental psychology, for undergraduates and MSc students.

Background Information

Rosemary graduated from Keele, and later returned to the Department of Communication and Neuroscience for a PhD, supervised by Professor David Foster and Dr James Heron of North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. She continued that research, on colour vision and vision in patients with multiple sclerosis in a postdoctoral appointment. She then joined a team at Aston University investigating perception of road signals for the Department of Transport. Subsequently she worked with June Calvert and John Harris in the Perceptual Systems Research Centre at Bristol, on vision in schizophrenia and Parkinson's Disease.

At Westminster, Rosemary changed research direction to the topics listed above. Rosemary is co-author, with former colleagues Nicky Brace and Richard Kemp, of the book SPSS for Psychologists now into its third edition.

Publications

Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Snelgar, R., and Furnham, A. (2011) Personality, individual difference, and demographic antecedents of household waste management behaviours. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31, 21-26.

Soorkia, R., Snelgar, R. and Swami, V. (2011) Factors influencing attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help among South Asian students in Britain. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 14, 613-623.

Snelgar, R. and Maguire, M. (2010). Assessing for success: An evidence-based approach that promotes learning in diverse, non-specialist student groups. In: Bidgood, P., Hunt, N. & Jolliffe, F. (Eds) Assessment Methods in Statistical Education: An International Perspective. Chichester, UK: Wiley. Chapter 3.

Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Snelgar, R., and Furnham, A. (2010) Egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns: A path analytic investigation of their determinants. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, 139–145

Brace, N., Kemp, R. and Snelgar, R. (2009). SPSS for Psychologists, 4th edition. London: Palgrave.Palgrave's web page for the book

Snelgar, R.S. (2006). Egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns: Measurement and structure. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 26, 87-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.06.003

Conference presentations

Snelgar, R., Cartwright, T., & Porter, A. (2011). Inducing students to use markers’ feedback: improvement in academic performance. 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, July.

Snelgar, R. and Maguire, M. Assessing for success: An evidence based approach that promotes learning in diverse, non-specialist student groups. Paper presented at Association of Statistics Lecturers in Universities (ASLU) Conference, 2009.

Snelgar, R., Cartwright, T. and Porter, A. Students who do and students who do not reflect on feedback: is there a difference in performance on subsequent coursework? SSHL Learning & Teaching Forum, 2009

Snelgar, R., Cartwright, T. and Porter, A. Students' use of feedback in learning how to write psychology research reports. 8th Annual Westminster Learning & Teaching Symposium, 2009.

Snelgar, R. and Porter, A. Introducing sustainability issues into teaching and learning: a research project for level 4 psychology students (or, Engaging students in research methods and the University’s green agenda). 8th Annual Westminster Learning & Teaching Symposium, 2009.

Snelgar, R., & Lewis, S. (2008) Encouraging 'green' behaviour in the workplace: is there a role for the business psychologist? Association of Business Psychologists Annual Conference. Invited presentation, May 2008

Porter. A., Snelgar, R.S., & Cartwright, T. (2006) Teaching statistics and research methods to heterogeneous groups: the Westminster experience. 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Brazil.

Snelgar, R., Porter, A. & Cartwright, T. (2005) Statistics Anxiety Management. The first International Conference on Enhancing Teaching and Learning though Assessment, Polytechnic of Hong Kong.

Snelgar, R (2003) Does self-identity for pro-environmental behaviours explain value-type factor structure? BPS Annual Conference, Bournemouth.

Dewart, H. and Snelgar, R. (2002) Psychology Teaching at the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. International Conference on Psychology Education, St Petersburgh.

Snelgar, R. (2002) Self-identity and value types: implications for pro-environmental behaviours. BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Huddersfield.

Dewart, H., Hixenbaugh, P., Reed, C., Pearson, C., Porter, A., and Snelgar, R. (2002) An investigation of the relationship between undergraduate students' expectations of studying psychology and learning and thinking styles. PLAT 2002 Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference, York.

Brace, N., Kemp, R. and Snelgar, R. (2002). SPSS for Psychologists: A Guide to Data Analysis using SPSS for Windows, Chinese Traditional Language Edition. Wu-Nan Book Inc.

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