Wakefield L Morys-Carter

Wakefield L Morys-Carter is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University. He specializes in teaching research methods, statistics, and software applications in psychology, with a focus on cognitive bias, prejudice, and educational innovation.

• Teaches modules: U24111 (Psychological Research), U24109 (Contemporary Issues), U24137 (Advanced Statistics), U24120 (Questionnaire Design), U24199 (Project Supervision).

Research Interests: Cognitive psychology (rumination, prospective memory), educational psychology (statistics anxiety, learning analytics), and experimental design. His work explores how confidence in data analysis correlates with student performance and develops resources to enhance statistical learning.

Publications highlight statistics education (2015, 2019), object-substitution masking (2013), and cross-cultural optimism bias (2013). Recent projects include open-access learning tools like VESPR and PsychoPy workshops.

Awards & Collaborations:

• 2014 Oxford Brookes Team Teaching Fellowship.
• 2016-2017 ATSiP conference presentations on learning analytics and PsychoPy.

Expertise: SPSS, PsychoPy, MATLAB, Qualtrics, and Moodle. He also administers academic resources and supports student research design.