Teaching Staff

Time management is necessary in a modern society. Work or school demands often leave no room for pursuing individual goals or satisfying basic psychological needs, and that’s why people turn to free time or leisure activities. My research focuses on the relationship between motivation for activities (mainly those that are freely chosen) and well-being. Specifically, I am interested in whether different types of activities are related to different outcomes regarding satisfaction, affect, psychological needs, and meaning.

Furthermore, I am interested in the relationship between momentary and global measures of affect and satisfaction.

I am currently a medical analyst/statistician specialising in systematic reviews, risk-of-bias assessment and quantitative evidence synthesis of medical research. Prior to this, I completed my PhD exploring bias, replication and evidence synthesis in animal cognition research. Across my PhD I used a mixture of methods. This included, i) making theoretical arguments about bias and replication, ii) leading systematic reviews and meta-research projects investigating how scientists make claims and assessing the literature-wide evidence supporting these claims, and iii) surveying scientists themselves about what they think about scientific practice.