[1] Watt continued working at the Koestler Parapsychology unit as a research fellow until 2006, when she was appointed as senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Edinburgh.

[8] With neuroscientist Dean Mobbs, in 2011, Watt published a paper on the near-death experience in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

The experience of meeting dead people can be brought on by a number of conditions, such as dopamine malfunction or a macular degeneration such as Charles Bonnet syndrome.

The paper also cites a survey where it was found that approximately half of people reporting a near-death experience were not in danger of dying.

"[11][12] In 2011, Watt was part of a group, along with Richard Wiseman, that published research into the connection between eye movements and telling lies.

Watt said, "A large percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements are a sign of lying, and this idea is even taught in organisational training courses.