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5 POTLIGHT Social and Behavioral Sciences Richard Remedios, PhD Full-Time Faculty, Department of Psychology Dr. Richard Remedios was born in London, UK, moved to India, then back to Liverpool (UK) and then to Milton Keynes (UK). After high school, he began a career in banking but decided to leave the industry in 1994 because he wanted to study philosophy and psychology. Richard completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Psychology at the stunningly beautiful campus at Stirling University in Scotland. After graduating, Richard became known as an expert research methodologist and was asked to be part of several research teams, firstly in the Education department at Stirling University and then Durham University in England, a world top 100 university (currently 74th). Richard moved to Leesburg, Virginia in 2013 where he did consultancy work for an education evaluation company (ICF international) before taking up his post at NCU. Dr. Remedios is also a motivational theorist who has examined the effects that motivational messages made by teachers and parents have on students' academic performance. His work has received considerable press coverage worldwide and he has given radio and TV interviews about his work in the U.S. His work can be found at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=hj7gUuQAAAAJ. Richard values international collaboration and has worked with researchers extensively in South-East Asia, specifically Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as in Europe and the U.S. His favorite study is the one he did in St. Petersburg in Russia. You can hear more about that research in his NCU webinar on "Synthesizing Literature" at https://commons.ncu.edu/group/33456/pages/dissertation-webinars. Richard's children are all NCU babies - all of them have been born while he has been with NCU. He loves the flexibility that working at NCU allows and thinks SSBS is the most collegial place he has worked. Richard loves golf, playing poker and is sadly a board game geek. Luckily, his wife is a very good poker player and loves board games, the more complicated the better. Unfortunately, she hates golf. Richard currently looks after several Argosy students, twenty dissertation students, is an AR and an SME, teaches Psy7103 Research Methods, Psy7104 Statistics I, CMP9701 Prospectus course, co-chairs the SSBS Research Committee and is currently re-writing the curriculum for PSY7104. Richard enjoys working the students at NCU and is passionate about doctoral study. FACULTYSP