Robin Barrett
Community Learning Centre Coordinator
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Barrett is a learning and memory specialist with a decade of experience applying cognitive science to real-world education and training contexts. Currently coordinating a Community Learning Centre, Robin blends rigorous experimental research—using VR and StarCraft II replays to study skill acquisition—with practical instructional design at post-secondary institutions. They have rebuilt onboarding and teaching resources for instructors at SFU and led outreach that translated complex cognitive principles into classroom-ready strategies for thousands of students. Comfortable with data (Matlab, R, SQL) and statistical methods, Robin bridges hands-on participant work and professional writing for conferences and teaching resources. Their interdisciplinary curiosity spans philosophy, biology, anthropology, physics, and management, which informs creative, evidence-based solutions to learning design challenges. Colleagues know them for turning rigorous research into immediately usable tools that accelerate instructor readiness and learner outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Associate of Arts - Psychology, Associate’s Degree, Associate of Arts - Psychology at Langara CollegeMaster of Arts - MA, PSYCHOLOGY, Master of Arts - MA, PSYCHOLOGY at Simon Fraser University
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (3)
spatial4
python1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rcabarrett/IAT445
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
SFU-Cognitive-Science-Lab/StarTransfer
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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