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Chris Roe holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation and is a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research.

Chris served as the Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher, Trinity College Cambridge (2015-2021), Chair of the British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section (2015-2018), President of the Parapsychological Association (2015-2017), and as President of the SPR (2018-2021).

He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Parapsychology and is on the editorial board for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. He has published over 140 journal papers and book chapters and given over 250 talks and conference presentations.

He received the Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2014, and Outstanding Mentor Award in 2022, and the 2020 University of Northampton Diamond Research Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision.

In 2024 he won the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for a co-authored essay that evaluated theories of nonlocal consciousness. See also https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/chris-roe

  • PSY3007: Parapsychology and the Psychology of Anomalous Experiences
  • PSY3027: Psychology of Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing
  • PSYM081: Applied and Critical Social Psychology
  • PhD supervision & Graduate School workshops

Chris’s research interests are around understanding the nature of anomalous experiences and includes research on the phenomenology of paranormal experience, particularly as it affects wellbeing, as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors. Recent research has been concerned with the relationship between altered states of consciousness and psychic experience, and phenomena associated with survival of bodily death, including near-death experiences, terminal lucidity episodes, after-death communications, and mediumship.

  • Daw, M., Roe, C.A., & Cooper, C. (2023). How fasting and vegetarianism is perceived to support psi among adepts. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 55(1), 111-133.
  • Daw, M., & Roe, C. (2024). Theories of non-local consciousness: A review and framework for building rigour. Essay submitted for the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. https://noetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theories-of-Non-local-Consciousness-A-Review-and-Framework-for-Building-Rigour.pdf
  • Daw, M., Roe, C.A., & Cooper, C. (2023). Two surveys to explore associations between dietary practices and spontaneous anomalous experiences, and fasting and vegetarianism. Journal of Parapsychology, 87(2), 128-150.
  • Penberthy, J., St Germain-Sehr, N., Grams, G., Burns, M., Lorimer, D., Cooper, C., Roe, C, Morrison, S., & Elsaesser, E. (2023). Description and impact of encounters with deceased partners or spouses. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. Online ahead of print doi: 10.1177/00302228231207900
  • Roe, C.A. (in press). Terminal lucidity in adults: A new case collection. In M. Nahm, M. Woollacott & N. Tassell-Matamua (Eds.), On the banks of River Styx. New perspectives on terminal lucidity and other near-death phenomena. Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences
  • Roe, C.A. (in press). Sceptical of survival: An appraisal of the counter-advocate position. In L. Ruickbie & R. McLuhan (Eds.) Is there life after death? Arguments, theories, evidence.
  • Roe, C.A. (2024). Mediumship and survival. In D. Groome & R. Roberts (Eds.). Parapsychology: The science of unusual experience, 3rd ed. Routledge. (pp. 19-34).
  • Roe, C.A. (2024). The near-death experience. In D. Groome (Ed.). Parapsychology: The science of unusual experience, 3rd ed. Routledge. (pp. 69-86).
  • Roe, C.A., & Lewis-Earl, A. (2024). Glimpses of death: Analysis of letters submitted in response to a BBC documentary on near-death experiences. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 88(1), 1-17.
  • Roehrs, P., Fenwick, P., Greyson, B., Kellehear, A., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., Roe, C.A., Tassell-Matamua, N., & Woollacott, M., (2024). Terminal lucidity in a pediatric oncology clinic. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 212(1), 57-60. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001711
  • Taylor, S., French, C., & Roe, C. (2024). Will the debate about the existence of psi ever be settled? A Discussion between Prof. Chris Roe and Prof. Chris French. The Psychologist, Dec, 60-64. https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/will-debate-about-psi-ever-be-settled