
Ashleigh Van Zyl studied her BSc and MRes at York St John
University and commenced her PhD in October, 2023
with the aim of examining South African Identity
in the context of collective memory and future thinking.
Co-supervised by Jennifer Shevchenko (prev., Boland)
Email: a.vanzyl@yorksj.ac.uk
Lewis McQueen started his PhD as an NHS
Clinical Research Fellow in 2021, looking into
Dementia Carers. He completes his PhD alongside
his clinical work with people with dementia.
Co-supervised by Divine Charura
Email: lewis.mcqueen@yorksj.ac.uk
Jessica Duffy started her Psychology MRes
in September 2018 and examined types of
future simulations and temporal discounting She
then started a PhD in 2022 looking at Anxiety and
Prospection.
Her main supervisor is Jennifer Shevchenko, and I co-supervise with
Divine Charura
Email: jess.duffy@yorksj.ac.uk
Peter Tubbs started his Doctorate in
Counselling Psychology in 2018 and completed
in 2021.
His research project centred on
the link between OCD symptomology and
spontaneous thoughts (Cole & Tubbs, 2021).
Email: peter.tubbs@yorksj.ac.uk
Frances Atkin started her Psychology MRes in
September 2018 and is examining the social aspects
of episodic future thinking.
Email: frances.atkin@yorksj.ac.uk
