Susanna Martin

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Susanna is the Experimental Officer for the Psychology Department. 

This role primarily involves managing the equipment and labs for Psychology. This includes but isn’t limited to (!) health and safety, training, purchasing, and record keeping. Within these aspects she designs and implement policies, liaise with other departments such as DDAT, Estates and Finance, manage resources, including equipment maintenance and data archives. She provides training in specialised equipment and support for all aspects of health and safety, Susanna helps staff and students with participant recruitment and manage a number of systems to support this. She is a member of DRKEC, DLTQC, Psychology UGPGT Ethics, EDIC, Health & Safety,  and Green Committees. She is frequently involved in outreach projects and runs the open labs during open day events.

You should contact her with queries relating to equipment, lab bookings, psychology related technical support and Recruitment & Engagement.

Susanna obtained her BSc in Psychology from Lancaster University and studied for her PhD with the CREATE Lab. Her previous post doc roles have included: community knowledge, knowledge management, energy literacy and evaluating the doctoral provision.

Research interests

• Formal and informal learning
• Knowledge, expertise and understanding
• Mobile and hand held learning
• The role of context and experience for learning