Dr Rory T. Devine Ph.D., C.Psychol., AFBPsS.

Dr Rory T. Devine

School of Psychology
Associate Professor

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3340
Email
r.t.devine@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Psychology
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Rory T. Devine is a developmental psychologist with expertise in children’s social and cognitive development, longitudinal research methods and psychometrics. His research focuses on individual differences in ‘higher-order’ cognitive skills from infancy to adulthood. His work seeks to understand: (1) why children differ from one another in their ability to reason about others’ minds (or ‘theory of mind’) and to control their own thoughts and actions (or ‘executive function’); and (2) what consequences variation in these domains has for social, behavioural and academic adjustment.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) (University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland)
  • MPhil (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  • PhD (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Teaching

  • Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Devine is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
Cognitive Development, Social Development, Theory of Mind, Executive Function, Psychopathology, School Readiness, Parenting and Families, Peer Relationships, Longitudinal Methods, Individual Differences. Dr Devine's research uses advanced quantitative methods including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modelling, multi-level modelling and path analysis. He does not supervise projects using qualitative methods. Please email Dr Devine before making an application to discuss potential projects.

Research

Dr Rory T. Devine is a developmental psychologist with expertise in children鈥檚 social and cognitive development, longitudinal research methods and psychometrics. His research focuses on individual differences in social and cognitive skills from infancy to adulthood. His work seeks to understand: (1) why children differ from one another in their ability to reason about others鈥� minds (or 鈥榯heory of mind鈥�) and to control their own thoughts and actions (or 鈥榚xecutive function鈥�); and (2) what consequences variation in these domains has for social, behavioural and academic adjustment and well-being. Dr Devine is also interested in how children's social experiences at home (e.g., with parents, carers and siblings) and at school (e.g., with teachers and peers) impact on children's social and cognitive development.聽

Other activities

Dr Devine is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is also a member of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Devine, RT, Gray, L, Edwards, M, Jess, M, Dempsey, C, Heng, J, Mehrotra, M, D'Souza, H, Fink, E & Hughes, CH 2025, '', Developmental Psychology.

Chen, LL, Heng, J, Xu, C, Ellefson, MR, Edwards, M, D'Souza, H, Fink, E, Jess, M, Gray, L, Dempsey, C, Mehrotra, M, Wong, SC, Wu, C, Huang, B, Zheng, J, Wu, Z, Devine, RT & Hughes, C 2025, '', Child Development.

van der Kleij, SW, Devine, R, Shapiro, LR, Ricketts, J & Apperly, I 2025, '', Developmental Psychology.

Devine, R, Byrne, I & Kovatchev, V 2025, '', JCPP Advances.

Apperly, IA, Lee, R, van der Kleij, SW & Devine, RT 2024, '', JCPP Advances, vol. 4, no. 2, e12219.

Devine, R, Grumley Traynor, I, Ronchi, L & Lecce, S 2024, '', Child Development.

Todorov, JJ, Kohls, G, Pauli, R, Rogers, J, Bernhard, A, Ackermann, K, Raschle, NM, Dugre, JR, Fernandez鈥怰ivas, A, Gonzalez鈥怲orres, MA, Hervas, A, Smaragdi, A, Gonzalez, K, Vetr贸, 脕, Dikeos, D, Popma, A, Stadler, C, Konrad, K, Freitag, CM, Fairchild, G, Devine, RT & De Brito, SA 2024, '', JCPP Advances.

Yeung, K, Apperly, I & Devine, RT 2024, '', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 157, 105481.

Pomareda, C, Devine, RT & Apperly, IA 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 6, e0305270.

IMAGINE-ID Consortium 2024, '', Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, vol. 19, no. 1, 70.

Lecce, S, Ronchi, L & Devine, RT 2024, '', Developmental Psychology.

Hughes, C, Devine, RT, White, N & Fink, E 2024, '', Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1280-1296.

Conference contribution

Wang, Y, Dsouza, R, Lee, R, Apperly, I, Devine, RT, van der Kleij, S & Lee, M 2025, . in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 79鈥�89, The Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 3/05/25.

Review article

Marlow, K, Agar, G, Jones, C, Devine, RT & Richards, C 2024, '', Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Todorov, J, Devine, RT & De Brito, S 2023, '', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 146, 105049.