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Professor Paul Bishop is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of York, Faculty of Sciences. He serves as Director of Teaching & Learning, Deputy Head of Department - Teaching, Faculty Learning and Teaching Leader for the Faculty of Sciences, and has acted as Acting Co-Head of Department, Psychology. He represents the Faculty of Sciences on the University Teaching Committee and is a member of the Education Committee until July 2026. Contactable at 01904 322915, Bishop leads teaching innovation initiatives, including the Graduate Voices project in the Department of Psychology, which aims to inform and develop the teaching and learning experience for students. He also contributes to student success projects funded by the university and has been involved in reviews such as formative feedback in multicultural classrooms.

Prior to his role at York, Paul Bishop was a lecturer, known as Dr Paul Bishop, in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, where he taught courses including Advanced Psychology A: Concepts and Theory, Developmental Psychology, and Social Psychology. There, he participated in learning and teaching enhancement programmes, such as assessing and improving numeracy skills in psychology students and the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Programme project on enhancing numeracy in Level 1 Psychology students with Dr David Sutherland. His publications reflect expertise in pedagogical practices within psychology. Key works include 'Turn up, tune in, don’t drop out: the relationship between lecture attendance, use of lecture recordings, and achievement at different levels of study' (2019, Higher Education), co-authored with Emily Nordmann, Amy Irwin, and Darren Comber; 'SUMS: A Flexible Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Statistics' (2009); 'Enhancing self efficacy in experimental design and statistics using e-learning technologies: an interactive approach' (2008); and 'Electronic resources to enhance learning and retention'. These publications have received 94 citations and 2,447 reads on ResearchGate. Bishop delivers lectures on attention within perception and cognition modules at York.