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Dr Ellie Willard

Senior Lecturer

Dr Willard's research interests centre around educational, developmental and cognitive psychology. Eleanor is also currently the course manager for the onsite and distance learning masters conversion course.

At Leeds Beckett Eleanor has, amongst other topics, taught developmental and cognitive psychology to post graduate level and introductory psychology to undergraduate speech and language students. Currently, Dr Willard teaches on both the undergraduate and masters courses (onsite and online) within psychology. Modules include educational psychology and delivery on developmental and cognitive psychology. She is involved in delivering sessions on Psychology to many groups outside of the university with the aim of widening participation in Higher Education. She also delivered the Learning Together course with undergraduates, prison students and prison staff at HMP Full Sutton.

Current Teaching

Dr Willard teaches on both the undergraduate and masters courses (onsite and online) within psychology. Modules include educational psychology and delivery on developmental and cognitive psychology. She is involved in delivering sessions on Psychology to many groups outside of the university with the aim of widening participation in Higher Education. This includes Learning Together teaching at HMP Full Sutton.

Research Interests

Eleanor's PhD research was entitled ‘Perspectives of Dyscalculia: Findings from Secondary Aged Children’. The work looked at students who struggle with processing numerical information and examined the psychological effects this has on them. She is keen to raise awareness of learning difficulties in mathematics in the research community and beyond.

Her research following her PhD has extended to the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic technique, widening participation and delivery of successful online learning. She also has research interests in mathematics anxiety and self-efficacy.

0113 81 25583
E.Willard@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Queen Square House, G31, City Campus

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ask Me About

Autism
Education
Mental health
Psychology
Wellbeing
Writing

Selected Outputs

Zammit M; Willard EF (2019) The application of psychological theory to enrich the experience of online learners on a developmental psychology module?. Psychology Teaching Review

https://shop.bps.org.uk/publications/psychology-teaching-review-vol-25-no-1-2019.html
Willard EF (2019) Boosting Prospects: Remote Work Experience with Post 16 Students Transitioning to Psychology at University. Psychology Teaching Review, 25 (1),

https://www.bps.org.uk/
Willard EF (2016) Using Q methodology to investigate perspectives of secondary school children presenting with number processing difficulties. Debate British Psychological Society Publication, 160

http://shop.bps.org.uk/publications/publication-by-series/decp-debate/decp-debate-160-september-2016.html