Research Methods

Discover our methods group's passion for statistics education and scientific reform.

Our research is focused on: studying and improving research practice; promoting open science and reproducibility; and studying and improving the experience of learning methodology. We answer questions such as: what do researchers do in practice? How can we encourage them to do it better? What are the barriers to learning statistics? How can we improve statistical literacy? In teaching, our group is unrivalled in our passion and devotion to making learning fun and engaging. Members of the group are regularly nominated and win Sussex education awards, and are nationally and internationally known for their teaching excellence.

Find out more about our faculty's expertise

Andy Field (Group Leader)

Emotional Development, Statistical Methodology, Maths & Statistics Education

Reny Baykova

Open science, Reproducibility, Psychophysics & Experimental Design

Vlad Costin

Quantitative & Qualitative Methods, Statistics, Social Psychology

Danielle Evans

Psychological Methodology, Design & Analysis, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology

Maria Fernandes-Jesus

Qualitative Methods, Participatory Methodologies, Social and Applied Psychology

Lazaros Gonidis

Henry Hogh

Dominique Makowski

Sense of Reality, Emotions and Consciousness, Computational Neuropsychology

Jennifer Mankin

Research Methods, Flipped Learning, Statistics Anxiety

Martina Sladekova

Jenny Terry

Statistics Education, Psychological Measurement, Psychological Research Reform