Dr Steven McNair
- Lecturer (Psychology & Neuroscience Education Hub)
email:
Steven.McNair@glasgow.ac.uk
R427, 62 Hillhead Street, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G12 8QB
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-0557Research interests
Scholarship interests:
- Mapping and embedding employability in the higher education curriculum
- Supporting psychology students' employability development
- Lived experiences of inclusivity of LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse students in higher education
- Generative AI use in supporting employability
- Peer-assisted learning
Dissertation supervision:
I supervise qualitative projects within occupational and educational psychology topics. I prefer to supervise projects which explore lived experiences in the following topics within either a workplace or higher education context:
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Identity Management (e.g. Identity regarding Gender, Sexual, Social, Disability)
- Employability, career readiness, career development, and transitions into/within/out of the workplace
Previous research experience:
My PhD research combined developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and nueroimaging, in using Electroencephalography to understand how the brain processes sounds and audiovisual information. Projects I have worked on included:
- Pre-stimulus oscillatory neural correlates of sound pitch and intensity in healthy ageing
- Oscillatory and ERP correlates of audiovisual speech perception in healthy ageing
- Perception of facial expressions of emotion in healthy ageing
Publications
2019
McNair, Steven W. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-0557, Kayser, Stephanie J. and Kayser, Christoph
(2019)
Consistent pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception across the lifespan.
NeuroImage, 186,
pp. 22-32.
(doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.085)
(PMID:30391564)
(PMCID:PMC6347568)
2016
Kayser, Stephanie J., McNair, Steven W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-0557 and Kayser, Christoph
(2016)
Pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception arising from sensory representations and decision processes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(17),
pp. 4842-4847.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1524087113)
(PMID:27071110)
(PMCID:PMC4855557)
Articles
McNair, Steven W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-0557, Kayser, Stephanie J. and Kayser, Christoph
(2019)
Consistent pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception across the lifespan.
NeuroImage, 186,
pp. 22-32.
(doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.085)
(PMID:30391564)
(PMCID:PMC6347568)
Kayser, Stephanie J., McNair, Steven W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-0557 and Kayser, Christoph
(2016)
Pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception arising from sensory representations and decision processes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(17),
pp. 4842-4847.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1524087113)
(PMID:27071110)
(PMCID:PMC4855557)
Teaching
Lectures:
- Psychology 1B (Social Psychology topic)
- Social Psychology L3/4/Msc/ODL (Leadership and Cyberpsychology topics)
- Current Issues in Psychology L3/MSC/ODL (LGBTQ+ psychology topic)
Labs:
- L3/4 Qualitative project
- MSc Research Methods 2
Other teaching/admin roles:
- Honours and MSc dissertation project supervision
- Adviser of Studies
Professional activities & recognition
Professional & learned societies
- Fellow (FHEA), Advance HE (HE Academy)
- Member, British Educational Research Association
- Chartered Member (CPsychol), British Psychological Society
- Committee Member, British Psychological Society, Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology
- Committee Member, British Psychological Society, Qualitative Methods in Psychology
