Professor Jon Catling BSc, PGCE, PhD

• PhD (Birmingham)
• PGCE (Cambridge)
• PGDip CBT (Birmingham)
• BSc Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (Birmingham)

Dr Jon Catling completed a PhD at the University of Birmingham investigating the ‘age of acquisition’ effect within a range of perceptual, semantic and phonological tasks. He then went on to a Lectureship at the University of Worcester for 6 years, before returning as a Lecturer to the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham in September 2011. He became a Senior Lecturer within the School in 2013.

Dr Jon Catling teaches Research Methods at Undergraduate level

Dr Jon Catling currently supervises a PhD student who is assessing the impact of mobile ‘Brain training’  Apps on the cognitive, physical and immune functioning of older people. 

He also supervises a PhD that is assessing the Psychological factors predicting academic achievement at International Branch Campuses. 

He is always interested to hear from any prospective PhD students who have ideas for a research project within his fields of research.

Dr Jon Catling is an expert in research design and analysis. 

His research interests cover three main areas:  

1. Language acquisition, especially the impact of the ‘Age of Acquisition’ of language.

2. Mental and physical health in young people.

3. The relationship between cognitive and physical functioning, mental health and the immune system in older adults.

• Principal Fellow of the HEA

• Member of the Undergraduate Education Committee of the British Psychological Society

•  Manuscript reviewer for the journals Visual Cognition, the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, Computers in human behavior and Psychology Teaching Review.

• Grant reviewer for the ESRC and Higher Education Academy