Research Overview
I am a psychologist, interested in behaviour and the effect of past experiences on current and future behaviour. This can be captured by the idea of learning, but I apply this broadly. For example, people’s past experiences in spaces affect how they interact in those spaces. Similarly, experience (or lack of it) with specific foods impacts the likelihood of children eating that food in the future. Much of my work can be understood from quite traditional associative learning theory. However, my more recent work is focused on the student experience, understanding the importance of people’s own accounts of their experiences. My work uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches.