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Prof Ruth Ogden

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health

Email: R.S.Ogden@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 6342

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Ruth Ogden is Professor of the Psychology of Time. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Manchester in 2008 and started working as a Lecturer in Psychology at LJMU in 2009. Ruth's research focuses on how humans perceive the passage of time. She is particularly interested in how our actions, experiences and emotions influence our experience of the speed of time.

Ruth is currently PI on TIMED, a 1.7million Euro EU CHANSE funded project, to explore experiences of time and temporality in Europe's digital age. This multinational interdisciplinary project, based in Czechia, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, uses mixed methodological approaches including semi structured interviews, real-time behaviour analysis, online questionnaires and psychophysiological analysis, to establish how increasing digital technology use is affecting individual and societal experiences of time.

Ruth is currently Co-I on After the end: lived experiences and aftermaths of diseases, disasters, and drugs in global health. This £6.5m Wellcome Trust Discovery Award led by Patricia Kingori at University of Oxford will investigate lived experiences of time and endings in global health crises. The project will ask questions such as; when is a global outbreak or crisis ‘over’ and how do such declarations of ‘the end’ shape our use of resources, our ethics and our ongoing care? What effect do these declarations have on counter-narratives and who decides what happens afterwards, what will be forgotten and what endure? Together, the team will identify the moral and ethical duties of global healthcare to prioritise and put in place broader ideas of temporal legitimacy.

Ruth is also partnered with the European Space Agency and the Argentinian Antarctic Institute to explore how extreme isolation and confinement affect our experience of time. This research will be used to develop mission schedules which promote a faster passage of time.

Ruth's previous research has been funded by UKRI, The Nuffield Foundation, BA Leverhulme, Bial and the Experimental Psychology Society. Her recent work on temporal distortions during the pandemic was included in the World Economic Forum.

Ruth's work is regularly featured in the media. She has discussed temporal experience on BBC Radio, Netflix Explained, Fox News, CNN, RTE, ABC Australia, NPR and CBS. Interviews with Ruth have also featured in Wired, New Yorker, Daily Mail, The World, LA Times and Fortune.

Degrees

2008, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, PhD
2005, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, BSc Hons First Class Psychology

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