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Eugene J Dawydiak is a Lecturer within the Psychology and Neuroscience Education Hub at the University of Glasgow. His research background lies in psycholinguistics, with current interests focusing on the relationship between individual differences and phenomena such as disgust sensitivity and social attitudes, particularly stigma and trypophobia, which is characterized by an aversion to clusters of holes or spots. He is actively investigating the role of overgeneralized disease avoidance as it relates to pathogen disgust sensitivity and the stigmatising attitudes surrounding mental health conditions. His work also examines mental health-related symptoms in non-clinical samples, including issues related to trypophobia. Dawydiak supervises undergraduate and postgraduate level dissertation projects, typically aligning with his current research interests. His teaching approach integrates quantitative methodologies and online self-report measures. He encourages a lab group setting to foster a supportive community among researchers. Potential research projects include exploring the predictors of trypophobia severity, the psychological predictors of Covid-19 anxiety, and how student perceptions of feedback relate to their emotional responses and perceived usefulness of the feedback.