Courtney Goodridge
- Position: Lecturer in Psychology (T&R)
- Areas of expertise: Perception; Action; Cognition; Neuroscience; Experimental Psychology; Human Factors; Automated Vehicles; Visual Motor Control; Research Methods; Statistics
- Email: C.M.Goodridge@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 1.37 School of Psychology
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar
Profile
I joined the School of Psychology in 2026 as a Lecturer in Psychology. Prior to that, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute for Transport Studies where I lead the User Monitoring and HMIs work package within the European Union’s flagship project on automated vehicles, Hi-Drive.
I received my PhD in Experimental Psychology in 2022 from the University of Leeds. My PhD research focused on understanding how human drivers process visual information in order to inform the timing and magnitude of manual steering responses, and steering responses when taking over from silent vehicle automation failures. I received my MSc in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham, and my BSc in Psychology from Sheffield Hallam University.
Research interests
I am an Experimental Psychologist who is interested in using ocular, neuroimaging, and behavioural techniques to understand human cognition and performance. My research focuses on measuring, modelling, and understanding fluctuations in human cognitive state and the impact this has on behaviour in complex human-machine systems, including manual and automated vehicles.
Qualifications
- PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Leeds
- MSc in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Birmingham
- BSc in Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University