meet the communications Team

Amelia is a psychology PhD student at the University of Sussex supervised by Dr Jenny Terry & Professor Andy Field. Her research interests focus primarily on psychometrics and statistics education, with particular interest in the statistical aptitude and understanding of working psychology researchers. She is also a strong proponent of open science practices within psychology research. Her most recent research examines the extent to which specific residual plot characteristics (ratio, point density, degree of heteroscedasticity) affect how accurately psychology researchers can identify heteroscedasticity solely through residual plot interpretation (https://osf.io/yvr5n/).

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Sophia is an incoming PhD student at Aston University, where her research will focus on alternative protein consumption. She previously worked as a Lecturer in Psychology at Arden University, where she also served as Deputy Module Lead for a Quantitative Research Methods module. She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Health Psychology. 

Sophia has also supported the development of student-led research projects, from ethics applications through to data analysis. Sophia is particularly passionate about applying psychological science to real-world contexts, bridging the gap between research, teaching, and wellbeing.

Beyond academia, Sophia runs a small educational business where she creates resources that make psychology accessible for A-Level Psychology students. She has also supported vulnerable individuals through roles in end-of-life care and youth-focused charity work. These experiences have deepened her empathy, communication skills, and commitment to socially impactful practice.

When she isn’t researching, teaching, or creating study materials, Sophia enjoys immersing herself in new craft projects, travelling, and spending time with family and friends.

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Lucy Njoki Njuki is a clinical data professional with a biostatistics background and 7 years’ experience working across clinical, epidemiological, and health services research. She specialises in preparing, cleaning, and validating large EHR and observational datasets; creating data dictionaries and metadata; and building scripted, auditable R workflows to produce analysis-ready datasets. Lucy has supported multidisciplinary teams at the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester and assists in delivering training in R and reproducible data practices through Applied Epi.

She is an active member of the global R community and currently co-organises R-Ladies Remote. Lucy is completing a part-time MSc in Statistics & Data Science (Biostatistics) at Hasselt University and is passionate about applying statistics to health research, strengthening data quality, and improving equity and outcomes in clinical and population health studies.

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Samyabrata Roy is a Statistics student currently pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Calcutta, alongside a bachelor’s degree in Data Science and Applications from IIT Madras. Prior to returning to full-time academics, he worked as an Associate Software Developer at IDEAS-TIH, ISI Kolkata, where he worked on statistical modelling problems, particularly in agricultural forecasting under projects funded by the MoA&FW, GOI.

Madeleine Ingham is a final year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, working with Professor Heather Flowe, Dr Melissa Colloff and Dr Rabiya Majeed Ariss. Her research focuses on memory reporting for sexual violence at the investigation stages of the reporting pathway. 

Her research applies statistical modelling to investigate how people remember and report information in forensic contexts, with the aims to better understand how vulnerable witnesses can be supported to give their best memory evidence. She has a keen interest in statistical literacy, and is keen to be involved in making statistical methods and concepts more accessible to students from a range of academic disciplines.