Wakefield Morys-carter
Science Officer at Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWakefield Morys-carter is a Science Officer and Senior Psychology Demonstrator based in Oxford with over eight years of documented professional experience and a continuous academic engagement since studying at Cambridge, Poitiers and Oxford. He combines psychology research and teaching with practical software support, formalising long-standing volunteer work on the PsychoPy project into a role at Open Science Tools where he contributes to debugging and documentation for a widely used experiment platform. At Oxford Brookes he has supported experimental design, analysis and digital learning platforms while also maintaining departmental web resources and developing resource-based learning. Outside academia he runs a sole-trader collectibles business, has commercial director experience in games, and ran community-focused events like a monthly Euro-style board games café. His profile reflects a rare mix of experimental psychology expertise, full-stack troubleshooting skills for research software, and community-building through teaching and open-source support. An enthusiast for original comic art and licensed memorabilia, he brings curiosity and practical creativity to both research and outreach.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Psychologie, N/A, Psychologie at Université de PoitiersN/A, Psychology, N/A, Psychology at University of OxfordMA, Natural Sciences, MA, Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge
English, French
Github Skills (9)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
python10
documentation10
psychopy10
controls9
experimental-design8
neuroscience5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 15 PRs, 1 issue in 14 days
Contributions summary:Wakefield primarily contributed to documentation and debugging efforts within the PsychoPy project, a software for running psychology and neuroscience experiments. They addressed issues related to online experiment functionality, including troubleshooting online studies, handling online resources, and fixing syntax and semantic errors. Furthermore, the user made code changes to improve component behavior and corrected errors in various modules related to the button and polygon components.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
wakecarter/psychopy
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Contributions:3 PRs, 221 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 1 month
neurosciencepythonneuroscience-experimentspsychologycomputational-neuroscience
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