Dr William Brown

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

As a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Killam Scholar, I completed my PhD at Dalhousie University in Canada.

In 2003 I received a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship to study genomic imprinting in the USA. In 2006 I founded the Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University teaching evolutionary biology and research methods.

In 2009 I moved to Queen Mary University of London and University of East London to teach research methods and behavioural biology.

I have been at the 亚色视频 since 2011 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology in 2015.



  • PhD Psychology (2003) 鈥 Dalhousie University
  • MSc Psychology (1998) 鈥 Dalhousie University

  • Foundations to Psychology
  • Research Methods and Statistics

  • 3D scanning morphology
  • Exercise-associated DNA methylation change
  • Epigenetic adaptive responses to antagonistic pleiotropy as humans age
  • Fluctuating asymmetry, health and human performance
  • Genomic imprinting and evolution
  • Cooperation and conflict
  • Culture

  • Co-investigator 鈥淭he effects of breaking up prolonged periods of sitting on glucose control, gut hormones, feelings of hunger and epigenetic regulation鈥 (亚色视频 Research Investment Programme Awarded 2013; Value = 拢20,000)
  • Principal investigator 鈥淭he Health Epigenetics Ageing and Learning (HEAL) research programme鈥 (亚色视频 Rising Stars Grant Awarded 2012; Value = 拢9,900)
  • Co-investigator 鈥淭he experimental study of cultural transmission鈥 funded by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (Awarded 2010; EOARD reference FA8655-10-1-3037; Value = $53,840 to University of St Andrews; 拢6,800 to 亚色视频 in 2012)

  • Palasinski M, Brown W, Shortland N, Riggs D, Chen M, Bowman-Grieve L. (2021). Masculinity, Injury and Death 鈥 Exploring Anti-Knife-carrying Messages. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 163-182
  • Brown, W. M., Hazraty, S., & Palasinski, M. (2019). Examining the dark tetrad and its links to cyberbullying. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22(8), 552-557.
  • Brown, W. M., & Usacka, A. (2019). The face of early cognitive decline? Shape and asymmetry predict choice reaction time independent of age, diet or exercise. Symmetry, 11(11), 1364.
  • Brown, W., & Foxley-Webb, E. (2019). Novel epigenetic, quantitative, and qualitative insights on the socialness of autism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E84. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18002285
  • Palasinski, M., Brown, W., Shortland, N., Riggs, D., Chen, M., & Bowman-Grieve, L. (2019). Masculinity, Injury and Death鈥揈xploring Anti-Knife-carrying Messages. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Book Chapter

  • Genomic Imprinting Is Critical for Understanding the Development and Adaptive Design of Psychological Mechanisms in Humans and Other Animals. In Workman, L., Reader, W., & Barkow, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on human behavior. Cambridge University Press.

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