Ed Keogh is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and Deputy Director of the Bath Centre for Pain Research, at the University of Bath. Ed gained his PhD in 1997 from Goldsmiths College, London, where he explored the effects of anxiety on attention. Following a lectureship post in London, he moved to the University of Bath in 2003. He was promoted to Reader in 2011, and then to Professor in 2017.

Over the past 25 years Ed’s primary research interests have centered on the psychology of pain, with two core themes. The first builds on his earlier research, exploring the role that attention has in the perception and experience of pain. Here he focuses on the interruptive effects of pain on cognition, including how pain biases attention. The second interest is on sex and gender differences in pain, with a focus on cognitive-behavioral, contextual, and interpersonal factors.

Ed explores pain across a range of different settings, mostly drawing on methods from experimental psychology. He has over 100 publications and presents his work nationally and internationally. Ed is currently the psychology lead on the European Pain Federation EFIC Education Committee. He is also the lead investigator on a major new UK-based research consortium, funded through the UKRI-Versus Arthritis Advanced Pain Discovery Platform, which seeks to better understand the psychosocial mechanisms of pain.