Dr Nick Barraclough

Nick Barraclough is a co-investigator on the ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ project as well as being a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of York. His is investigating how audience members respond to different performances. This will include: testing how emotional reactions during performances relate to audience member reports of their experience, testing how the ability to empathise socially affects engagement with performances, testing how co-textuality affects audience emotional experience of and engagement with performances and exploring if emotional contagion can be studied in large groups of audience members. This research will include conducting experiments, using machine learning algorithms to process facial expression information, and administering questionnaires and psychological tests, he will be co-supervisor of a PhD student project (Richard Oakes).

Nick graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in Neuroscience and later received his PhD from the University of Nottingham.