Qualifications
PhD Psychology, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ (2020 - Present)
Research Assistant, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ (2019 - 2020)
BSc (Hons) Psychology, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ (2015 - 2019)
Professional membership
Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Postgraduate Member, 2021 - Present
Society for Mathematical Psychology Postgraduate Member, 2022 - Present
Teaching
Teaching interests
My main teaching interests involve research methods and statistics, topics in cognitive psychology, and R programming.
Current Teaching
PSYC753: Data Fluency: Processing, Visualising and Analysing Data for Reproducible Research
Current Teaching
PSYC753: Data Fluency: Processing, Visualising and Analysing Data for Reproducible Research
Research
Research interests
I research human memory and cognition using behavioural experiments and mathematical modelling. My PhD investigates the links between explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) memory. I’m also interested in how mathematical models represent variability in memory - why we remember some things better than others - and the use of formal models and machine learning in cognitive science more generally.
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Spanton, R. W. (2021).Measuring trustworthiness or automating physiognomy? Considerations
for responsible machine learning in science. Talk presented (online) at Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
Spanton, R. W. (2022).Measuring trustworthiness or automating physiognomy? Considerations
for responsible machine learning in science. Talk presented (in person) at Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
for responsible machine learning in science. Talk presented (online) at Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
Spanton, R. W. (2022).Measuring trustworthiness or automating physiognomy? Considerations
for responsible machine learning in science. Talk presented (in person) at Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
Conferences organised
13th Annual School of Psychology Conference, June 2021, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, UK.
Other academic activities
Alongside my research, I’m the lead organiser of Plymouth . Here, I lead discussions about open science, rigorous methods, and fair and inclusive research culture.
Links
Personal website: www.roryspanton.com