Overview
I am a Graduate Teaching Assistant and final-year PhD student at the University of Chester. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society.
My research interests lie in the fields of social and cognitive psychology, with a particular focus on moral decision-making and the use of experimental methods. I am also a keen advocate of Open Science and a co-creator of the UKRN-supported Open Research Calendar. In terms of teaching, I have 6+ years’ experience in Higher Education, where I teach a range of core and elective modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have a good track record of student success and satisfaction and maintain active participation in the sharing and development of pedagogical best practice.
Experiences
My teaching experience spans a range of core and elective modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, primarily, I conduct Research Methods lab classes. I have a track record of student success and satisfaction (Click to view student feedback.), I’m proud to have been nominated for a teaching award in the student-led ‘1839 Awards’ for five consecutive years. Additionally, I maintain active participation in the sharing and development of pedagogical best practice such as participating in staff away days and attending the annual University learning and teaching conferences.
- Member - School of Psychology Ethics Committee (2021 - Present)
- Chair - School of Psychology Postgraduate Research Student Support Group (2021 - 2024)
- PGR Representative, University-wide PGR Student Body - Research & Innovation Office Committee (2018 - 2021)
- PGR Representative, Faculty of Social Science - Postgraduate Sub-Committee (2018 - 2019)
- Communications Officer - Data Science Society (2018 - 2021)
- Member - Postgraduate Research Symposium Organising Committee (2018 - 2019)
Training role for Bangor University student services department. Running recruitment sessions, training sessions and facilitating focus groups. Adapting training sessions to suit the individual needs of the students.
Student Mentor to classes of up to 20 HE students. Responsibilities: facilitating peer feedback on oral presentations in academic style, providing critical evaluations for presentations, basic administration. This role also included providing individual support to students with Personal Learning Support Plans in the form of 1-1 meetings to discuss causes of anxiety and formulate coping mechanisms.
Scholarly Activity
Publications, Conferences and Presentations
(PR = Preregistered, RR = Registered Report, OA = Open Access, OM = Open Materials, OD = Open Data and Analysis Code)
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2024). Cutting Edge Research in Psychology Conducted in Chester. (Invited Speaker). BPS North West Branch event held at University of Chester, UK (April 19, 2024). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/E2K4W (OA)
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2023). Power and the side-effect effect. (Speed Talk - Oral presentation). University of Chester PGR Symposium 2023 (June 20, 2023). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QV2ZD (OA)
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2022). Exploring the components that influence the side-effect effect (AKA the Knobe effect). (Poster presentation - Online) Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Meeting 2022, Keele University (Presented online) (March 30, 2022). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3ND27 (OA)
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2022). Exploring the side-effect effect. (Poster presentation). University of Chester PGR Symposium 2022 (June 30 - July 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/tvf96 (OA)
Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., ... Kennedy, B. J., ... & Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 (RR, OM, OD)
Stewart, S. L. K., Kennedy, B. J., & Haigh, M. (2021). Valence of agents and recipients moderates the side-effect effect: two within-subjects, multi-item conceptual replications. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(2), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1971234 (OM, OD)
Kennedy, B. J. (2021, March 5). UKRN Initiatives, The Open Research Calendar (Invited Speaker), UKRN Annual Meeting 2021 https://www.ukrn.org/initiatives
Gould van Praag, C.D., Kennedy, B. J. , Lautarescu, A., & Plomp, E. (2021, February 17). Poster Presentation of the Open Research Calendar, Open Science Conference 2021 (Online). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4256613 (OA)
Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Lead Editor of Issue 117 (December 2020), PsyPAG Quarterly Journal (ISSN: 1746-6016). Link to Issue (OA)
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2020). Open Science practices in psychological research (Invited Speaker), Research Webinar - School of Psychology, University of Chester (November 25, 2020). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/N9UJG (OA)
Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Open Access Publishing (Invited Speaker), BPS/UKRN Webinar: The Truth About Open Research (November 13, 2020). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5WKHJ (OA)
Gould van Praag, C.D., Kennedy, B. J. , Lautarescu, A., & Plomp, E. (2020, October 20). Open Research Calendar. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4109949 (OA, OM, OD)
Slack, H., Lloyd, A., Urquhart, J., & Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Editorial Article: Highlighting the racial inequality present within academia: PsyPAG’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Issue 116 (September 2020), PsyPAG Quarterly Journal (ISSN: 1746-6016). Link to Issue (OA)
Lloyd, A., Kennedy, B. J., Slack, H., & Urquhart, J. (2020). Editorial Article: Postgraduate study during Covid-19, Issue 115 (June 2020), PsyPAG Quarterly Journal (ISSN: 1746-6016). Link to Issue (OA)
Kennedy, B. J. (2019). The Side-Effect Effect. (Oral presentation - Online). Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Chester (June 2, 2020).
Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Lead Editor of Issue 114 (March 2020), PsyPAG Quarterly Journal (ISSN: 1746-6016). Link to Issue (OA)
Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Data wrangling and general tips in R. (Invited Speaker). University of Chester CORA, Staff R users group, Chester UK (January 22, 2020). https://osf.io/j8npx (OA, OM)
Rumsey, S., Lunny, C., & Kennedy, B. J. (2020). Open Access: A primer from UKRN. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/94rsp (OA)
Ashcroft, S., & Kennedy, B. J. (2019). How to write a lab report. The secret recipe for success. UK: Amazon. ISBN:9781093510195
Kennedy, B. J. (2019). The RISC Project; Researching Intentions in Social Contexts. (Oral presentation). Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Chester (June 25, 2019).
Kennedy, B. J. (2019). Open Science & Utilising Open Data. (Invited Speaker). Chester Data Insights, Chester UK (May 28, 2019).
Stewart, S. L. K., & Kennedy, B. J. (2019). Becoming an Open Scientist: Lessons from the Replication Crisis. (Co-presented workshop). University of Chester annual Research Festival (April 8, 2019) - https://www.chester.ac.uk/research/festival
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2019). Knobe (2003) Replication study. (Oral presentation). University of Chester PGR Symposium 2019 (February 21, 2019).
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., Lafferty, M., & Stewart, S. L. K. (2018). Understanding current social opinions of job roles and sectors of work – A pilot study. (Poster presentation) PsyPag 2018 Conference, University of Huddersfield (July 25, 2018). https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6860342.v1 (OA)
Kennedy, B. J. (2018). Intention is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the parameters of intentionality judgements utilising the side-effect effect. (Oral presentation). Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Chester (February 2018)
Kennedy, B. J., Karlsson, E., Mullins, P., & Carey, D. P. (2017). Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) of the arcuate fasciculus and frontal aslant tract in atypical language dominance. (Oral presentation). Annual Postgraduate Conference, Bangor (September 2017)
Kennedy, B. J., Karlsson, E., & Carey, D. P. (2017). Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) of the arcuate fasciculus and frontal aslant tract in atypical language dominance. (Oral presentation). British Psychological Society (BPS) Welsh Branch - Annual Student Conference (April 2017)
Conferences / Workshop Attended (not presented):
Invited Chair of Session - Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society PGR Symposium, University of Chester (19th April 2024)
Gould van Praag, C.D., Kennedy, B. J., Lautarescu, A., & Plomp, E. (2020). Open Research Calendar Poster. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4256614 (OA)
Virtually attended: Remote SIPS (Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science) conference (22nd-24th June 2020)
Virtually attended: ReproducibiliTea Virtual Meeting: How can ECRs influence research culture and integrity? (29th May 2020)
"Beware: Results May Vary - Openness as a Way of Enhancing Research Quality", University of Manchester (28th February 2020)
Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science 2020 - Winter School @ Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor (5th-10th January 2020)
“Future-proofing your research: Moving Towards Open & Reproducible Research” Workshop, Lancaster University Library (4th June 2019)
Chairing Sessions - PGR Symposium, University of Chester (21st-22nd February 2019)
Open Science Workshop @ University College Cork, Ireland (31st Oct - 2nd November 2018)
Projects
Awards & Funding
“Future-proofing your research – Moving towards open and reproducible research practices” Workshop, Lancaster University. 4th June 2019
R Training, University of Manchester. Feb-Mar 2018
Highest dissertation grade
Awarded for developing a kitchen check administration application for iOS and Android. The app was then sold to Bangor University Halls of Residence for use from September 2017 with the Residential Warden team.
Cash prize @ BPS Welsh Branch Annual Student Conference
Technical Skills & Proficiency
R, RStudio
SPSS
Jamovi
Microsoft 365 Applications
Qualtrics, Jisc Online Surveys
FormR, Tripetto
Prolific.co
Visual Studio Code
Jasp
Git & GitHub
SuperLab
HTML, CSS, JS
Training
| Training | Year | Organisation |
| Strategies for Research Leadership | 2023 | Epigeum (OuP) |
| Ethical Research Course | ||
| Digital Accessibility | University of Chester | |
| Cyber Security | ||
| Getting Started with your Systematic Review | ||
| Safeguarding (Prevent) | ||
| Suicide Awareness | 2022 | Zero Suicide Alliance |
| Mental Health First Aid | 2021 | MHFA England |
| Race Equality, Microaggressions and Bias | University of Chester | |
| Dignity and Respect (workshop) | 2019 | |
| Preparing for your PhD upgrade (workshop) | 2018 | Student Futures, UoC |
| Getting published (workshop) | School of Psychology, UoC | |
| Introduction to R (3-day workshop, Dr A Stewart) | University of Manchester | |
| AQSS Academic Integrity | University of Chester | |
| Exam Invigilator | ||
| Teaching and Learning Essentials for New Teachers (TALENT) Course (for fulfilment of AFHEA) | ||
| Giving Effective Feedback | ||
| Prevent in Higher Education | ||
| Data Protection (last renewed 2023) | ||
| Anti-Bribery (last renewed 2023) | ||
| Equality and Diversity (last renewed 2023) | ||
| Preventing Unconscious Biases (workshop) | ||
| Fire Safety and Emergency Warden Training (last renewed 2023) | ||
| AQSS Academic Integrity Briefing | 2017 | |
| Fire prevention training (last renewed 2023) | 2016 | Royal Air Force Air Cadet Organisation – Volunteer Gliding Squadron |
| Responsible for information Security | ||
| Prevent training (last renewed 2023) | ||
| Climatic Injuries (last renewed 2023) | ||
| Health, Safety and Environmental Protection | ||
| Safeguarding Awareness (last renewed 2023) | ||
| LGBTQ+ Sensitivity & Awareness Training | 2015 | Bangor University |
| Basic First Aid & EpiPen Training (2015 & 2016) | ||
| Specific student support training – for students with anxiety | ||
| Fire marshalling (2015 & 2016) | ||
| Working with students in crisis (2015 & 2016) | ||
| Health & Safety in the Workplace | 2012 | Bevris Ltd |
| Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) training |
Open Science Framework Preregistrations
For more information and to view the entire projects, visit my OSF profile: https://osf.io/ekmyr/
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., & Stewart, S. (2023). Study 4 - Investigating the influence of the agent's environment on the Side-Effect Effect; The RISC Project. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7D5UP
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., & Stewart, S. (2020). Study 3 - Investigating the influence of the agent's sex on the Side-Effect Effect; The RISC Project. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CHA3P
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., & Stewart, S. (2020). Study 2 - Investigating the influence of the agent's perceived power on the Side-Effect Effect; The RISC Project. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9J6W4
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., & Stewart, S. (2019). “Did they mean to?” – A study of Intentions, praise and blame; Study 1. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZAT74
Kennedy, B. J., Scudds, A., & Stewart, S. (2018). “What did you do that for?” – A study of intentions. - Knobe (2003) Replication Study. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/357CE