He is Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is head of their Anomalistic psychology Research Unit, which he founded in 2000. He has authored or co-authored over 80 articles and chapters dealing with a wide variety of subjects in psychology, He appears regularly in the media as a skeptical commentator on such phenomena as recovered memory, telepathy, faith healing, past life regression, ghosts, alien abductions and out-of-body experiences.