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UK Armed Forces Research

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Professor Vince Connelly

Oxford, United Kingdom

Professor Vince Connelly is Professor of Psychology at the Oxford Brookes University Defence and Security Centre and Director of Teaching and Learning for the Psychology programmes. His areas of research expertise include Reserve Forces, Military Families, and Veterans. Vince was a founder member of the UK Future Reserves Research Programme in 2014 and has contributed to, and led, numerous projects examining the Reserve Forces experience including understanding recruitment and retention issues, the need for family support, improving productivity and how to design and deploy Reserve Forces for warfighting.  Vince has also published many research studies in the field of educational psychology examining the development of literacy skills.

Affiliation

  • Defence and Security Centre and Director of Learning and Teaching for Psychology, Oxford Brookes University; Royal United Services Institute (RUSI); UK Reserve Forces External Scrutiny Team