Laura Jenkins, PhD

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Laura Jenkins, PhD is a university teacher in psychology within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. Her teaching is focused on several areas of psychology at both undergraduate and foundation levels. Laura is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Laura regularly speaks at various international conferences.

She completed her PhD at Northumbria University, where she taught the core areas of psychology within the Department and gained an interest in developing her own pedagogical methods.

In 2017, Laura designed a Psychological and Behavioural Sciences course for Oxford Royale Academy, for students aged 19–25 years, and each summer the course aims to teach several areas of psychology to the students enrolled. Laura continues her connections with Oxford Royale Academy by offering advice on how to design and structure course material and independent learning tasks for students.

Laura has worked in many universities within the UK, including Oxford Brookes University where she worked as a psychology demonstrator. In this role, Laura focussed on teaching research methods and statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

For her PhD project, Laura investigated the functional working memory architecture of visual change detection tasks, in particular how qualitative measures of visual working memory (assessing small array changes) can develop and subsequently link to intelligence. In the long term and alongside dissertation students, Laura hopes to research how these measures can develop over the lifespan.

Laura’s other research interests lie within areas of personality and emotion recognition, and also how people can detect angry faces. Laura has publications within these areas and aims to continue with this line of research in the future with her students. She sits on the editorial board of Psychreg Journal of Psychology.

You can connect with Laura on Twitter @LauraJks2015, ResearchGate, and LinkedIn.

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Articles

2023

You Can Transform Lectures and Meetings with Vevox. Here’s My Experience as an Educator (07 March 2023)
Tips for Managing Educational Stress (12 January 2023)

2022

Is There Such a Thing as a Bad Supervisor? (12 October 2022)
6 Top Tips for When Considering Whether to Study a Psychology Degree (25 August 2022)
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence Across the Lifespan (13 August 2022)
The Importance of Assessed Worksheets in Undergraduate Psychology (23 June 2022)
Do the Dark Triad Personality Traits Link to Academic Misconduct in Students? (29 April 2022)
What Can Impact Posttraumatic Growth? (24 March 2022)
The Dark Side of Personality (03 February 2022)
Knowing How to Write a Psychology Lab Report Is an Important Skill – Here’s How You Can Develop It (11 January 2022)

2021

My 10 Years of Teaching Has Been a Decade of Discovering Interactive Teaching Tools (11 November 2021)
Out With the Old, In with the New Academic Year (21 September 2021)
Retrieval Practice Can Beef Up Student Learning. Here Are 6 Ways to Do It (19 August 2021)
We Can Use Colour to Enhance Our Cognitions (22 June 2021)
Is Our Personality Adaptable to Change? (12 June 2021)
Can Personality Define Our Resilience? (05 May 2021)
Has COVID-19 Helped to Develop a Culture of Academic Burnout? (07 March 2021)
How Can We Build Academic Resilience? (25 January 2021)
Is the Lecture Theatre a Thing of the Past? (13 January 2021)

2020

Remembering Our Past: What Are the Factors That Can Affect Autobiographical Memory? (17 November 2020)
Can Personality Predict Pandemic Behaviour? (16 September 2020)
Do We Have to Move Away from Emergency Remote Teaching? (26 June 2020)
Is There an Increase in Loneliness Among University Students? (16 June 2020)
How Lockdown May Inhibit Our Emotion Recognition and Social Cues (26 April 2020)
Remote Teaching Is Our New Lecture Theatre (31 March 2020)
The Benefits of Recording Lectures Can Outweigh the Criticisms – Why Lecturers Should Use Lecture Capture (24 February 2020)
Does Empathy Link to Emotion Recognition? (15 February 2020)

2019

Is Statistics Anxiety a Real Thing? (03 October 2019)
How Personality Shape Our Health and Well-being (20 August 2019)
Here’s What Universities Need to Do to Help Their Students (10 May 2019)
A Decision to Leave Academia? (22 March 2019)
How to Effectively Teach in Higher Education (06 January 2019)
How Do We Change as We Age? (05 February 2019)

2018

How to Navigate the Murky Waters Academic Job Search (14 September 2018)
Memory in the Real World: How Reliable is Eyewitness Testimony? (27 February 2018)
How Did You Not See That? The Case of Change Blindness (24 April 2018)
What Happens When There Is a Diagnosis of Dementia in the Family? (06 February 2018)
Is Visual Memory Really That Visual? (30 January 2018)