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Staff Profile

  • Dr Cooper’s teaching centres around topics of parapsychology, thanatology (death & loss), sexual behaviour, positive psychology and qualitative methods. He is primarily involved in research degree supervision and research projects, typically with emphasis on parapsychology and thanatology.

    • ​​PSY3007: Parapsychology & Anomalous Experiences (MC)
    • PSY3024: Understanding the Social World
    • PSY2007: The Psychology of Wellbeing
    • Murphy-Morgan, C., & Cooper, C. E. (2024). Parapsychology and cyberpsychology. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 24(1), 17-37.
    • Cooper, C. E. (2023). Exceptional experiences in the funeral industry. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 87(953), 224-237.
    • Krippner, S., Cooper, C.E. & Speer, S. (2023). Sexuality and the arts: Implications for existential psychologists. In M. Racho & B. Robbins (Eds.) Eros and Psyche: Existential Perspectives on Sexuality (pp.90-114). University Professors Press.
    • Woollacott, M., Roe, C.A., Cooper, C.E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2022). Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations. Explore: Journal of Science and Healing, 18 (4), 423-431.
    • Murphy-Morgan, C., Cooper, C.E. & Smith, L-A. (2021). Assessing public perspectives of parapsychology through YouTube commentaries. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 22 (2), 153-177.
    • Cooper, C.E. (2021) Ecological approaches to scopaesthesia. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 21 (2), 164-182.
    • Kalelioglu, T., Penberthy, J.K., Pehlivanova, M., Roe, C.A, Cooper, C.E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2021). Factors moderating the impact of after-death communications on beliefs and spirituality. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 83: https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211029160
    • Elsaesser, E., Roe, C.A., Cooper, C.E., & Lorimer, D. (2021). The phenomenology and impact of hallucinations concerning the deceased. BJPsych Open, 7 (5), e148.
    • Evrard, R., Dollander, M., Elsaesser, E., Cooper, C.E., Lorimer, D., & Roe, C.A. (2021). Expériences exceptionnelles nécrophaniques et deuil paradoxal: études de la phénoménologie et des répercussions des vécus effrayants de contact avec les défunts. Evolution psychiatrique, 86 (4), 799-824.
    • Roe, C.A., Cooper C.E., Hickinbotham, L., Hodrien, A., Kirkwood, L., & Martin, H. (2020). Performance at a precognitive remote viewing task, with and without ganzfeld stimulation: Three experiments. Journal of Parapsychology, 84, 38-65.
  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Callum Cooper’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.