Alex Jones Ph.D

About Me

What I do

I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University.

Historically, I’ve broadly researched face perception from various angles. Over the years I’ve explored topics like:

Over the last few years, my interests have shifted to improving scientific and statistical practice in psychology. I am particularly interested in Bayesian inference and its potential to model complex psychological processes, as well as how data science/machine learning methods can give new insights in psychology. Some recent examples include:

Have a look at my publications for more information!

I am also a expert user of the Python programming language, having used it extensively for almost a decade, and teach a short course on using it for data science and statistical inference. The notes for this (which are expanded periodically) can be found here.

Where I’ve been

  Education  
Bangor University BSc Psychology 2007-2010
Bangor University PhD Psychology (supervised by Professor Robert Ward) 2010-2014
  Experience  
Bangor University Research Officer in the SOBA Lab 2013-2014
Gettysburg College Postdoctoral Researcher in the Perception Lab 2014-2015
Swansea University Lecturer -> Senior Lecturer 2016 - Present