Melissa

My Passion & How I Inspire

My Experience

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Psychology and Applied Psychology courses (2017-current). Experience includes teaching up to 50 students, mentoring, marking oral and written assignments. (Undergraduate level)

Psychology lab assistant (2014-2016). Experience includes running studies for Undergraduate and Masters students, pilot testing studies, programming studies, data entry, data analysis using SPSS, working with MediaLab and SONA, data back-up, literature review, article searches and contributing research to ongoing studies. (Undergraduate level)

Research assistant to Social Psychologist Contributed research to a meta-analysis about imagined interactions and vicarious intergroup contact (2015-2016)

Psychology programme tutor while attending my undergraduate University. Experience includes all psychology related courses: social psychology, statistics for psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychopathology, research methods, experimental design and analysis, SPSS and dissertation writing. (2014-2016)

Canadian University applications

CV writing

Public speaking and research dissemination

Ethics and funding applications

Scientific poster creation

Study skills and effective note taking

Exam review preparation/notes

I am passionate about psychology and enjoy sharing my knowledge with others. I have an extensive background in social psychology and experimental quantitative methods. I have advanced knowledge in SPSS.

Subjects That I Teach

  • Psychology
  • Psychology - Undergraduate
  • Statistics
  • Statistics - Undergraduate

My Qualifications

Senior school: Sacred Heart High School, finished with an A average and honour roll (as this was a Canadian secondary school the A level structure did not exist).

Undergraduate University: Laurentian University. Psychology BA (hons) cum laude (equivalent to 1st class)

Vice Chancellors Scholarship recipient for MPhil/PhD at University of Greenwich (2017)

Awarded a research funding grant through the University of Greenwich (2017)

Won 1st prize for poster presentation of PhD research at University of Greenwichs Faculty of Education and Health Post Graduate Research Conference (2017)

Selected to present Undergraduate thesis research at International Society of Political Psychologys annual conference in Warsaw, Poland (2016)