Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Denmark

• Mentoring junior and aspiring UX researchers in career development and interview skills.
• Winner of Global Mentoring Award 2021.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

• Founded a networking group for academics in UX research, with over 10k members and growing. I lead a team of UX researchers working on product development research. As well as facilitating networking and mentorship between members, I also personally mentor career academics looking to transition from to UX research.

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr · Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

• Built an e-commerce business from the ground up, incorporating UX research at all stages.
• Doubled our conversion rate, using customer journey mapping, competitor analysis, user interviews, card sorting, click testing and benchmarking to create a user-centered experience.
• Managed an intern and team of volunteers in social media, marketing, sales and UX.

Oct 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Teaching Assistant - Research Methods: Statistics 1 for Bachelors in Psychology
• Guest Lecturer - Auditory Perception for Masters in Cognitive Semiotics
• Lecturer - Research Methods and Statistics for Experimental Musicology

Dec 2015 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• In my PhD research, I specialised in how humans learn movement and sound. I investigated how the brain integrates the movements you make with the sounds they produce, and how different types of auditory feedback can enhance motor learning. Using cognitive theories of auditory-motor learning, I developed a series of EdTech products to improve learning in music education.
• I built an AR "smart guitar" that teachers you how to play, by sensing your hand position and providing augmented auditory feedback to help the user understand how to correct their positioning.
• I designed a piano app interface that teaches users what to play without the need to learn to musical notation, by focusing on finger movements.
• I designed and conducted a series of end-to-end experimental research projects to optimise auditory-motor learning using interactive technology, resulting in insights that increased learning by up to 300% from baseline.
• Methods used:
• Literature review
• Experimentation
• A/B testing
• Surveys
• Psychometrics
• Quantitative data analysis, applied statistics, R

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015 · 3 mos

• Conceptualised, researched, and co-wrote the article "Dissociating prediction failure: Considerations from music perception", which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Read it here: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/11/3103

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Glasgow Area

• Collaborated cross-functionally with stakeholders within audiology and medicine at the Institute of Hearing Research to investigate the psychometric properties of the Glasgow Benefit Inventory using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in R.

Sep 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• I develop a psychometric test battery for absolute pitch in collaboration with my research team. We tested the battery on 100+ participants, collecting quantitative and qualitative data on behaviour and subjective experience. I supervised 6 student interns to collect further behavioural and psychometric data for the project. I analysed and statistically modelled the data in R, including cluster analysis and regression.

Sep 2004 – Sep 2013 · 9 yrs · Greater Glasgow Area

• My professional experience in education was the catalyst for my subsequent research in cognitive psychology, particularly in learning and memory. I taught classical guitar in private practice, music services and schools for almost 10 years, working with over 200 students including for examinations and university auditions. I was also an officer for the European Guitar Teachers Association.