October 2012 – Present
The University of Southampton, Teaching Assistant, Research Methods and Data Analysis I
Involves: Attending all the workshops and assisting the students with any problems they are having with the module.
October 2012 – Present
The University of Southampton, PRG Rep, Psychology
Involves: Attending meetings and representing the postgraduates in Psychology.
October 2011 – September 2012
The University of Southampton, Research Assistant to Dr. Denis Drieghe
Involved: Working on a follow-on project examining word skipping and the increased skipping of monosyllabic words. This involves the creation of stimuli and the running and analysis of the experiment.
June 2011 – September 2011
The University of Southampton, Research Assistant to Prof. Simon Liversedge
Involved: Creating eye tracking experiments with Experiment Builder and the running of numerous experiments including eye tracking and computer based tasks.
June 2010 – October 2010
The University of Southampton, Research Assistant to Dr. Denis Drieghe
Involved: Literature review, stimuli creation, programming of eye tracking experiments in Experiment Builder. I then ran the experiments and assisted with analysis. Finally, I was involved with preparing a manuscript for submission to a high-impact peer-reviewed journal which has been accepted for publication.
23 – 27 August 2009
The European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), The University of Southampton, Volunteer
Involved: I worked as a steward throughout the conference. I assisting in setting up posters displays and also served as technical support during the presentations.
February 2009 – March 2009
The University of Southampton, Research Assistant to Prof. Nick Donnelly and Prof. Simon Liversedge
Involved: Data entry and coding for an experiment conducted using a perambulatory (head mounted) eye tracker. This involved many hours of precise and detailed coding of data.
September 2008 – April 2010
The University of Southampton, Hartley Library, Reception Support
Involved: Customer service. I met the needs of new students, current students, staff and members of the general public. The position involved a great deal of organisation and general knowledge to help with the quantity and variety of enquiries at the front desk.
July 2007
YourSchoolUniform.com, Web Developer, Peterborough
http://www.yourschooluniform.com/
Involved: Commuting to Peterborough to train and instruct new website maintenance staff. I passed on my knowledge from my previous employment at iSolve to the resident website developer.
April 2007 – July 2007
iSolve, Internet Solutions, Web Developer, Bournemouth
Involved: Co-ordinated information and work flow between a web development company and a commercial website client. I maintained contact between clients via phone and e-mail, updated and maintained websites and I was involved in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). I also had to ensure all clients were happy with the website and any changes were made instantaneously. I provided good organisational skills, effective planning and the ability to react to changing demands. This position required the ability to make long term business relationships with clients and anticipate their needs and provide them with solutions. It involved extensive work with Microsoft Office, Actinic and Adobe Photoshop.
October 2006 – July 2007
Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leader, Bournemouth University, Computing Course
Involved: Motivating and encouraging the students during weekly PAL sessions. It required the ability to react quickly to questions and to help students when needed and appropriate. I had to create a lesson plan and follow it through for each lesson; the topics each week were decided by the students within these classes.
Previous employment information on request (consists of supermarket and local shop work and ad hoc web design and development).
My name is Gem and I am a Web Science PhD student exploring Reading on the Web.
