DR Jenny Terry

BIOGRAPHY

Jenny Terry (she/her) is a Lecturer in Psychological Research Methods & Statistics within the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK.

Jenny's research & scholarship revolves around her pedagogical interests in statistics education (particularly anxiety and neurodiversity) and her enthusiasm for improving research methods in psychology (especially psychometrics).  Her 2024 PhD examined the overlap of statistics anxiety and mathematics anxiety scales using a variety of psychometric and other quantitative methods, including the international, multi-lab SMARVUS project. 

Jenny began teaching research methods and statistics at the undergraduate level in 2017-18 and teaching R in 2018-19. She now convenes the MRes in Psychological Methods course, as well as the first year undergraduate research methods and statistics modules at Sussex, and contributes to other research methods, statistics, and psychology of learning teaching.

Jenny is also the Founder and Director of the RoSE (Researchers in Statistics Education) Network and runs the RoSE budS lab, focussed upon providing research training to student researchers through statistics education research at Sussex.