Dr. Callum Cooper is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods, and education from the University of Northampton, Sheffield Hallam University, and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has a long-time association with the University of Northampton, and is based there as a senior lecturer in psychology, delivering classes and conducting research on death and bereavement, positive psychology, human sexual behaviour, parapsychology, and research methods.

Callum’s main research has focused on bereavement and recovery, interlinked with applied positive psychology. This has involved numerous extensive interviews with the bereaved to further understand the process of loss and coping, and sense of presence experiences and related phenomena within that context. He has also been noted for his work on altered states of consciousness, having spent a lot of time in the past few years working with floatation tanks and sensory deprivation. Throughout his time in research, he has traveled the world promoting science and the scientific method, as well as encouraging a skeptical approach to claims of exceptional human experiences.