BSc (University of Edinburgh)
PhD (Australian National University)

Following a BSc in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Carroll completed his PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was then a research fellow, lecturer and senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. In 1990, he left to become Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University, returning in 1995 to Birmingham to become Professor of Applied Psychology in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He was Head of the School from 1998 to 2008.

Professor Carroll contributes widely to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Professor Carroll has supervised over twenty PhD students to successful completion. In the last eight years, three of them have been awarded the University’s Ratcliffe Prize as best postgraduate in Science.

• Health Psychology
• Cardiovascular Psychophysiology
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Exercise Psychology
• Behavioural Medicine

His major research interest are in Behavioural Medicine , Cardiovascular Psychophysiology, and Psychneuroimmunolgy. He has authored or edited five books, including Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour and Disease and has published some 300 journal articles and book chapters. From 2000-6, Professor Carroll was the Editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology and also serves on the editorial board of Psychophysiology. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Society of Behavioural Medicine (U.S.A.).

Carroll, D., Lovallo, W.R. and Phillips, A.C. (2009) Are large physiological reactions to acute psychological stress always bad for health. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 725 - 743.

Carroll, D., Phillips, A.C. and Balanos, G.N. (2009). Metabolically exaggerated cardiac reactions to acute psychological stress revisited. Psychophysiology, 46, 270 - 275.

Carroll, D., Phillips, A.C., Thomas, G.N., Gale, C.R., Deary, I., Batty, G.D. (2009). Generalised anxiety disorder is associated with metabolic syndrome in the Vietnam Experience Study. Biological Psychiatry. 66, 91-93.

Carroll, D., Phillips, A.C., Gale., C.R., and Batty, G.D. (2010). Generalised anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, their co-morbidity and hypertension in middle-aged men. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72, 16 – 19.

Balanos, G.M., Phillips, A.C., Frenneaux, M.P., McIntyre, D., Lykidis, C., Harry S. Griffin, H.S., and Carroll, D. (2010). Metabolically exaggerated cardiac reactions to acute psychological stress: the effects of resting blood pressure status and possible underlying mechanisms. Biological Psychology, 85, 104-111.

Gale, C., R., Kivimaki, M., Lawlor, D.A., Carroll, D., Phillips, A.C., and Batty, G.D. (2010). Fasting glucose, diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and depression: the Vietnam Experience study. Biological Psychiatry, 67, 189-192

Gallagher, S., Phillips, A.C., Drayson, M.T. and Carroll, D. (2009). Parental caregivers of children with developmental disabilities mount a poor antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 23, 338 – 346.

Gallagher, S., Phillips, A.C., Drayson, M.T. and Carroll, D. (2009). Caregiving for children with developmental disabilities is associated with a poor antibody response to influenza vaccination. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 341-344.

Gallagher, S., Phillips, A.C., and Carroll, D (2010). Parental stress is associated with sleep quality in parents caring for children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 35, 727 – 737.

Heaney, J.L.J., Phillips, A.C., and Carroll, D. (2010). Ageing, depression, anxiety, social support and the diurnal rhythm and awakening response of salivary cortisol. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 78, 201-208.

Khanfer, R, Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D. and Lord, J.M (2010). Altered human neutrophil function in response to acute psychological stress. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72, 636 - 640.

Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D., Gale, C.R, Lord, J.M, Arlt, W., Batty, G.D. (2010). Cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate, their ratio, and the metabolic syndrome: Evidence of associations in the Vietnam Experience Study. European Journal of Endocrinology, 162, 919 – 923.

Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D., Gale, C.R., Lord, J.M., Arlt, W., Batty, G.D. (2010). Cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, their ratio and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Vietnam Experience Study. European Journal of Endocrinology, 163, 285 – 292.

Phillips, A.C., Der, G., and Carroll, D. (2010). Self-reported health, self-reported fitness and all-cause mortality: Prospective cohort study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 337-346.

Phillips, A.C., Der, G., Hunt, K., and Carroll, D. (2009). Haemodynamic reactions to acute stress and smoking status in a large community sample. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73, 273-278.

Phillips, A.C., Gallagher, S., and Carroll, D. (2009) Social support, social intimacy, and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 38 – 45.

Phillips, A.C., Gallagher, G., Hunt, K., Der, G., and Carroll, D. (2009). Symptoms of depression in non-routine caregivers: The role of caregiver strain and burden. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48, 335 - 346.

Phillips, A.C., Hunt, K., Der, G., & Carroll., D. (2010). Blunted cardiac reactions to acute psychological stress predict symptoms of depression five years later: Evidence from a large community study. Psychophysiology, 48, 142-148.

Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D., Burns, V.E., and Drayson, M. (2009). Cardiovascular activity and the antibody response to vaccination. Journal of Psychosomatic Research,77, 37 - 43.

Phillips, A.C., Der, G., and Carroll, D. (2009). Self-reported health and cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress in a large community sample: Cross-sectional and prospective associations. Psychophysiology, 46, 1020 - 1027.

Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D., Thomas, G.N., Gale, C., Deary, I., and Batty, G.D. (2010). The influence of multiple indices of socio-economic disadvantage across the adult life course and the metabolic syndrome: The Vietnam Experience study. Metabolism, 59, 1164 - 1171.

Phillips, A.C, Carroll, D, Gale, C.R., Drayson, M., Thomas, G.N., Batty, G.D. (2010). Lymphocyte sub-population cell counts are associated with the metabolic syndrome and its components in the Vietnam Experience Study. Atherosclerosis, 213, 294 – 298.

Phillips, A.C., Batty, G.D., Weiss, A, Deary, I, Gale, C.R., Thomas, G.N, Carroll, D. (2010). Neuroticism, cognitive ability, and the metabolic syndrome: The Vietnam Experience Study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 69, 193 - 201.

Phillips, A.C., Batty, G.D., Veldhuijen van Zanten, J.J.C.S., Mortensen, L.H., Deary, I.J., Calvin, C.M., Carroll, D. (2011). Cognitive ability in early adulthood is associated with systemic inflammation in middle age: The Vietnam Experience Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 25, 298-301.

Thomas, G.N., Phillips, A.C., Carroll, D., Catharine R. Gale, C.R., G. David Batty, G.D. (2010). The metabolic syndrome adds utility to the prediction of mortality over its components: the Vietnam Experience Study. Atherosclerosis, 210, 256- 261.