Briony

I have been a university lecturer since 1996 and enjoy passing on my knowledge and enthusiasm for psychology to my students. I specialise in teaching statistics and research methods. I co-authored a text book on statistics and SPSS for students: "A Crash Course in SPSS". I especially focus on helping degree-level students with quantitative dissertation research and write-up. I have supervised well over 150 students' final year projects and many PhD students. I have published my research in international journals (over 50 articles) and presented my research at many conferences. My teaching covers social and cognitive psychology, especially judgment and decision making.

Tutoring Experience

I have over 25 years experience teaching psychology in Further Education Colleges and Universities. I am happy doing one-on-one tuition or lectures with over 300 students. My students would tell you that I am helpful and approachable and make the material I'm teaching easy to understand. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2016, reflecting my work in curriculum design and in-depth teaching knowledge.

I can help you with:

Guidance on essay and report writing.
Preparing for exams.
Creating PowerPoints presentations.
Advice on data collection and statistical analysis for quantitative methodology (SPSS/Excel/JASP).
Dissertation / PhD thesis design and methodology and analysis.
Proofreading academic assessments.
Proofreading of manuscripts for publication in journals.
Formatting (APA style).
Working with long Documents in Word.
PhD Viva preparation.

Tutoring Approach

I am flexible in my approach to tutoring, getting to know my student's strengths and weaknesses and then tailoring the teaching and methods to suit the student. I try to develop the student's attitude to feedback so that they see it as constructive and don't let it dishearten them. I have had overwhelmingly positive feedback from students over many years, and have been nominated for many teaching awards. I don't have many reviews on this site as I value student confidentiality and anonymity. I am flexible in how often and when we have meetings. Mostly we can do online meetings, unless you live nearby.