Phil Mcaleer
Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Mcaleer is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the University of Glasgow with a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience focused on intention perception from human motion. With over a decade of lecturing experience and eight years in higher-ed roles, he specializes in teaching statistics and research methods while championing reproducible practices. His research bridges pedagogy and social perception: improving how statistics are taught and understood, and studying how personality, identity and emotion are conveyed through voice. He has a track record of applied postdoctoral work on intent perception in ASD and by CCTV operators, and on voice-based personality perception. Phil is committed to making feedback and feedforward more efficient for students and staff, and shares pedagogical resources via the PsyTeachR project. Based in Glasgow, he combines rigorous experimental research with practical improvements to teaching practice.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology and Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (26)
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data-analysis9
data-visualization9
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phonetics8
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textbook8
probability8
glossary7
psychology7
probabilistic-programming5
data-science4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PsyTeachR/ug2-practical
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Materials for the University of Glasgow School of Psychology Year 2 Research Methods and Statistics Practical Course
Contributions:3 releases, 87 PRs, 589 pushes in 2 years 6 months
statisticsuniversity-of-glasgowdata-scienceresearch-methodspsychology
PsyTeachR/handyworkbook
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
A workbook created to help people follow research methods and statistics through worked examples and self-tests.
Contributions:3 releases, 90 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 4 months
statisticsresearch-methodsfollowworkbookhelp-people
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