Dr Justine Drakeford

Senior Lecturer

Health, Education, Policing and Sciences

I graduated from Keele University with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Biology, before completing my PhD. My PhD (Titled: Episodic memory, recognition memory and conscious recollection in schizophrenia: an investigation across modalities) was supervised by Professor Femi Oyebode (University of Birmingham) and Dr Nicola Edelstyn (University of Keele) and awarded by the University of Birmingham in 2006. I then went on to do post-doctoral research with Dr Nicola Edelstyn at the University of Keele where I was involved in a number of research projects including: (i) A study investigating psychological processes in visually hallucinating and non-visually hallucinating patients with Parkinson’s disease; and (ii) A controlled investigation of recognition memory, conscious recollection, familiarity-aware memory and executive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease (in collaboration with Professor Andrew Mayes, University of Manchester). After this, I worked as an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (Crewe campus), and then became a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. I joined Staffordshire University as a senior lecturer in January 2012.

Professional memberships and activities

Chartered Psychologist
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the British Neuropsychological Society

Academic qualifications

PhD in Psychiatry (University of Birmingham)

Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Development (Higher) (University of Huddersfield)

BSc (Dual Hons) Biology and Psychology (University of Keele)

Research interests

My research interests are in the areas of cognitive neuropsychiatry and cognitive neuropsychology. Ongoing research focuses on the neuropsychological investigations of episodic memory abnormalities in schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and Parkinson’s disease; and visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Foundations of Psychology
Perspectives in Psychology
Understanding the Social World
Cognitive and Biological Determinants of Behaviour (Module Leader)
Behavioural Medicine (Module Leader)
Neuropsychological Disorders
Final year project supervision

Postgraduate

Core Issues in Health Psychology

Publications

Publications:

Edelstyn, N. M. J., John, C. M., Shepherd, T. A., Drakeford, J. L., Clark-Carter, D., Ellis, S. J. & Mayes, A. R. (in press). Evidence of an amnesia-like cued-recall memory impairment in nondementing idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Cortex

Edelstyn, N. M. J., Drakeford, J. L., & Ellis, S. J. (2014). Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease: a hierarchy of impairments involving perception, source monitoring and reasoning. Austin Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, 1, 1-8.

Drakeford, J. L., Edelstyn, N. M. J., Oyebode F., Srivastava S., Calthorpe W. R., & Mukherjee, T. (2010). Recollection deficiencies in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 175, 205-210.

Jenkinson, P.M., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Drakeford, J.L., & Ellis, S.J. (2009). Reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Consciousness and Cognition, 18 (2), 458-470.

Drakeford, J. L., Edelstyn, N. M. J., Oyebode, F., Srivastava, S., Calthorpe, W. R., & Mukherjee, T. (2006). Auditory recognition memory, conscious recollection and executive function in patients with schizophrenia. Psychopathology, 39, 199-208.

Edelstyn, N. M. J, Drakeford J. L., and Oyebode, F. (2006). A review of recognition memory and conscious recollection deficiencies in schizophrenia: Implications for understanding deviant cognitive processes that underlie specific delusions. Quarterly Journal of Mental Health, 1 (1), 33-41.

Edelstyn, N. M. J., Drakeford, J. L., Oyebode, F., & Findlay, C. D. (2003). Asymptomatic biological parents of a patient with schizophrenia show impairments in recognition memory. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 15, 296-303.

Edelstyn, N. M. J., Drakeford, J. L., Oyebode, F., & Findlay, C. D. (2003). An investigation of conscious recollection, false recognition and delusional misidentification in patients with schizophrenia. Psychopathology, 36, 312-319.

Conference presentations/published abstracts:

Jenkinson, P.M., Nicola M. J. Edelstyn, N.M.J., Drakeford, J.L., Roffe, C., & Ellis, S.J. (2010). The role of reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Behavioural Neurology, 23 (4), 241-243

Drakeford J.L., Edelstyn, N. M. J., Oyebode F., & Ellis S. (2009). Do abnormalities in visual perception underpin visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease? Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual General Meeting (2nd-5th June, 2009).

Edelstyn, N. M. J., Drakeford, J. L., Mortby, M., & Ellis, S. J. (2007). Visual object processing, reality monitoring, reasoning and visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease. Psychobiology Annual Scientific Meeting (2nd – 5th September 2007).

Drakeford, J. L., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Oyebode, F., Srivastava, S & Mukherjee, T. (2007). Recognition memory for neutral faces in depression. The British Neuropsychiatry Association Annual Meeting 2007. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 78:782.

Drakeford, J. L., Edelstyn, N. M, J., Srivastava, S., Oyebode, F., Calthorpe, W. R., & Mukherjee, T. (2006). Auditory recognition memory, conscious recollection and executive function in patients with schizophrenia. South-West Divisional Meeting of Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Drakeford, J. L., Edelstyn, N. M. J., Oyebode, F., Srivastava, S., & Mukherjee, T. (2003). Contextual recollection and olfactory recognition memory in schizophrenia. Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual General Meeting (30th June-3rd July 2003).

Drakeford J. L., Edelstyn, N. M. J., Srivastava, S., & Oyebode, F. (2002). Auditory recognition memory in schizophrenia using the remember/know paradigm. The British Neuropsychiatry Association Annual Meeting 2002. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 72(6): 825.

j.drakeford@staffs.ac.uk