Skip to content
Paul Morrill

About / Biography

Dr Paul Morrill — Professional Services, Department of Psychology.

Academic background, research journey and the terms on which the research here is pursued.

Academic background

Training, roles and methods.

Research map
Current interest
Cognitive offloading, generative AI, executive functioning
Discipline
Vision science · Psychology
Enduring focus
Low-level vision, contrast, amblyopia
Doctorate
Vision Science (Optometry), 2003
Postdoctoral
EPSRC-supported — visual texture and contour perception
Practice
Research methods, statistics, lab technology

Compiled from public records · checked 21 August 2026

Current role and context

Professional Services in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bradford, supporting research methods teaching and the technical side of student research. The University profile states that research output is not part of this role.

Academic background

An honours degree in Psychology (GBC accredited) followed by a PhD in Vision Science (Optometry) at the University of Bradford, awarded in 2003. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Research journey

Research on visual texture and contour perception at the University of Bradford’s Department of Optometry was supported by EPSRC grant GR/N26296/01. After postdoctoral work came lecturing in biological and cognitive psychology at Trinity & All Saints College, University of Leeds, and a Senior Lecturer post at Leeds Metropolitan University until 2008.

Methods and perspective

Vision science, particularly low-level vision and visual perception, approached through psychophysical methods, statistics, and the design and programming of experiments.

Current contribution

Assists undergraduate and postgraduate labs in introductory, further and advanced research methods, cognitive psychology and biological psychology; supports final-year undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation students with statistics and experiment creation; and provides technical support for psychology-specific software and hardware, including technical and programming support on recent refereed journal articles.

Supported activities

  • Research methods teaching support

  • Dissertation support

  • Statistics and experiment creation

  • Psychology-specific software and hardware

Research journey

A dated record of milestones and recognition.

  1. 2019Nomination

    Nominated for Best Student Support

    Student Leadership Awards, University of Bradford / NUS. Recorded as a nomination.

  2. 2003Research milestone

    PhD in Vision Science (Optometry)

    Awarded by the University of Bradford.

  3. 1999Award

    Best Oral Presentation

    Applied Vision Association and Colour Group Conference, City University, London.

  4. CurrentProfessional recognition

    Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

    Professional association membership; no date is stated on the public profile.

Independent researcher statement

How this work is positioned.

Research is pursued independently. It sits outside the duties of the current Professional Services role at the University of Bradford, which does not include research output, and nothing on this site is published on behalf of the University.

Working independently sets the terms of the work: questions are chosen on interest rather than on grant fit, output appears when it is ready rather than to a reporting cycle, and status is described plainly — an interest is called an interest, and a manuscript under submission is not called a publication.

The record here is deliberately conservative. Every claim is traceable to a public source or is marked as supplied directly, and nothing is listed as accepted or forthcoming unless it is.

This is an independent personal research website. It is not an official University of Bradford website and does not represent the University.

Sources

What this page is based on.

Content compiled from public records and checked 21 August 2026.