University of Otago
Psychology of Religion - RELS237/337
Lecturer and Course Coordinator
2025 - Present. An introduction to the psychology of religion, with emphasis on what research in contemporary cognitive and evolutionary psychology says about human religious belief and behaviour. Can religious belief and behaviour be explained by sc...
Religion and Human Behaviour - RELS238/338
Lecturer and Course Coordinator
2025 - Present. An overview of the study of religions as cultural phenomena, with an emphasis on scientific explanations for what religions have in common and for the differences between them. Religious rituals and supernatural concepts are found in ...
Introduction to the Scientific Study of Religion - RELS110
Lecturer and Course Coordinator
2025 - Present. An introduction to scientific methods and their application to the study of religion, focusing on scientific explanations for religious belief and behaviour. Have you ever wondered why many people are religious while others are not? O...
University of Canterbury
Intermediate Research Methods and Statistics (PSYC344)
Lecturer and Course Coordinator
2022 - 2023. This year, I have been contracted to teach and coordinate the course. As a coordinator, I: am fully responsible for the course administration and respond to the Head of School. manage and design the simultaneous on-campus and online co...
Intermediate Research Methods and Statistics (PSYC344)
Lecturer (Teaching only)
It is a 30 credit advanced course of research methods that address a mix of topics related to research metholody and statisics needed for psycholgy. Lecture topics: Factor analysis Formal modelling of processes Mediation and moderation Introductio...
Cognitive Psychology (PSYC340/416)
Guest (2020-2021)
It is a 15 credit seminar style course of approximately 20 - 40 students that can be credited as an undergraduate or a postgraduate course. Lecture topic: Brain Fingerprinting - replication and countermeasures. Student feedback overall rating: 4.5/5...
Guest (2020 - 2021)
Lecture: Lie detection - physiological and neuroscience measures. Student feedback rating: 4.5/5
Introductory Research Methods and Statistics (PSYC206)
Guest (2020 - 2021)
Lecture: Factorial designs Student feedback rating: 4.1/5
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English is my third language. Although I did learn it back home, I have never been to an English medium institution. Remembering my first days at university, I oftent struggled to understand what my professors were saying. If it wasn’t for their suppor...