My academic career began in a completely different field: physics! I have a Masters in nuclear astrophysics (2007) and a PhD in nuclear structure (2011) from the University of Surrey. For several reasons, I changed fields to pursue what had become my intellectual passion: the psychology of religion. I began work at Queen's University Belfast where I obtained a Masters in Cognition and Culture (2012). After a couple of years away from study, I found my way to the University of Otago, where I completed a PhD in experimental social psychology in 2019. Shortly afterwards, I took up a part time role as a research adviser and statistical consultant within Otago's Centre for Science Communication.
Experience
2019–present
Research adviser and statistical consultant, University of Otago
Education
2019
University of Otago, PhD, Experimental Social Psychology
2012
Queen's University Belfast, MA, Cognition and Culture
2011
University of Surrey, PhD, Nuclear Structure
2007
University of Surrey, MPhys, Nuclear Astrophysics
Publications
2019
The Mickey Mouse problem: Distinguishing religious and fictional counterintuitive agents, PLOS ONE
2012
Hindered decays from a non-yrast four-quasiparticle isomer in 164Er, Physical Review C
2011
Discovery of a nonyrast Kπ = 8+ isomer in 162Dy, and the influence of competing K-mixing mechanisms on its highly forbidden decay, Physical Review C
2011
Discovery of isomers in dysprosium, holmium, and erbium isotopes with N = 94 to 97, Physical Review C