Roger C Sambrook

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS)

Hi - welcome to my homepage here at UCCS. I have worked here as an interdisciplinary researcher since August 2004. Before that I was at the University of Nevada, Reno as a visiting professor for one year. Before then I was at Florida Atlantic University for six years where I did my Ph.D in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences and taught mostly psychology classes. I'm a bit of a mutt - academically speaking, but I'm told its better to call yourself "multidisciplinary" - it has more syllables at least.
My time here is split between my research and teaching activities in the Department of Psychology and the Homeland Security Center I also coach the UCCS fencing club, which gets me out of the lab. Because life is too short to not be busy, I've also taught psychology courses in the criminal justice program at Remington College.and in the Psychology Department at Metro State College Denver. I've also done some technology teaching & course development in geography programs.

.

Research Interests

My research interests include the psychology of terrorism, cyber-psychology (people and computers) and Incident Management (emergencies and such). I've also looked at the fractal and scaling properties of human spatial behavior. I really enjoy collaborating with other people - its so much more fun to be able to kick ideas around with people who are on your wavelength. I'm fortunate to be able to work with folks all over the country - its great. Click here for more information.

My current lines of research are :

• - Root causes of terrorism
  
  
• - The psychology & technology of emergency operations management
  
  - User behavior in online environments and Massively Multiplayer Online Computer Games (In collaboration with Michelle Companion in the Department of Sociology)
  
• - How people create and perceive randomness
  

Courses Taught

I really enjoy teaching - in fact its what kept me going through grad school and keeps me going today. Small classes can be fun - but I also really like teaching large (nay... HUGE) class sections, especially in intro courses. I guess this is the latent performer in me trying to get out ! I guess my moment in the sun was getting a near-perfect score on my Psychology class evaluations the last semester I taught at FAU. Here's a list of things I've taught or am teaching at the moment:

- Biological Bases of Behavior (taught at Florida Atlantic University and this fall - at UCCS)
- Forensic Psychology (taught at Remington College and Metro State College Denver) 
- Research Methods (taught at FAU and UCCS)
- General Psychology (taught at Florida Atlantic University ) and now at UCCS
- Organizational Psychology (taught at Remington College )
- Personality psychology (taught at UCCS)
- Social Psychology (taught at Remington College)
- Psychology of terrorism (taught at UCCS)

Because of my research interests, I've also picked up some skills from the GeoSpatial Technology world which I've taught on occasion.
- Geography of Terrorism (UCCS)
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (UCCS)
- Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (Taught at the University of Nevada, Reno)
- Advanced Geographic Information Systems (UCCS)
- World Regional Geography (Taught at Florida Atlantic University and University of Nevada, Reno)

I've also trained as a fencing coach at the US Olympic Center.
- Fencing (taught at UCCS)
- Medieval Martial Arts (taught at UCCS)

Other Activities

I fence a couple of times a week at Pike's Peak Fencing League, on weekends I go swordfight in the park at our local Melee club I read sci-fi, fantasy, 19^th century fiction as well as various non-fiction books. I try and keep up with current affairs (BBC news and the Economist are favourites). I occasionally play the piano, mess around doing computer games, go to the movies and try to maintain a somewhat normal social life. I sleep too when I get the chance.