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Helena Paterson
Helena is a lecturer in the School of Psychology with a responsibility for teaching Research Methods and Social Psychology. He PhD was in the School of Psychology at the University of Glasgow, after which she worked as a Post-Doc for Dr. Frank Pollick on an ESRC funded project before starting a British Academy Fellowship. She has worked in a variety of teaching settings and as a consultant in methodology and data analysis for health-related research projects before returning to the School of Psychology as a lecturer. Her main interest is in dynamic person perception and this includes attribution such as first impressions, emotion perception and measuring attitudes. Additionally, her pedagogical research is related to learning and teaching with technology. Twitter: @PatersonHelena
Phil McAleer
Phil completed his BSc in Psychology (2002) and his PhD (2006) at the University of Glasgow. He then worked on several postdocs investigating intent perception and perceived personality in voices. Since 2012, he’s been a Lecturer at Glasgow, and mainly lectured in Statistics and Research Methods with a strong interest in promoting reproducible practices. (For some teaching material on the PsyTeachR webpages, see: psyteachr.github.io/) His research interests cover how people teach, understand, and make use of statistics, mainly in a Higher Education setting, and working to eradicate negative attitudes to statistics, how personality, identity and emotion are portrayed through our voices and the influence this has on those we interact with (such as how lecturers and students talk about statistics). Twitter: @McAleerP
Organised by the RIOT Science Club @riotscienceclub riotscienceclub.com
Helena Paterson
Helena is a lecturer in the School of Psychology with a responsibility for teaching Research Methods and Social Psychology. He PhD was in the School of Psychology at the University of Glasgow, after which she worked as a Post-Doc for Dr. Frank Pollick on an ESRC funded project before starting a British Academy Fellowship. She has worked in a variety of teaching settings and as a consultant in methodology and data analysis for health-related research projects before returning to the School of Psychology as a lecturer. Her main interest is in dynamic person perception and this includes attribution such as first impressions, emotion perception and measuring attitudes. Additionally, her pedagogical research is related to learning and teaching with technology. Twitter: @PatersonHelena
Phil McAleer
Phil completed his BSc in Psychology (2002) and his PhD (2006) at the University of Glasgow. He then worked on several postdocs investigating intent perception and perceived personality in voices. Since 2012, he’s been a Lecturer at Glasgow, and mainly lectured in Statistics and Research Methods with a strong interest in promoting reproducible practices. (For some teaching material on the PsyTeachR webpages, see: psyteachr.github.io/) His research interests cover how people teach, understand, and make use of statistics, mainly in a Higher Education setting, and working to eradicate negative attitudes to statistics, how personality, identity and emotion are portrayed through our voices and the influence this has on those we interact with (such as how lecturers and students talk about statistics). Twitter: @McAleerP
