Meet The Techs

Sam Royle.

Sam is our lead technician, having joined the department in 2015. His primary interests are in cognitive neuroscience and addiction.

Sam has won multiple awards for his work, including high commendations from the Papin Prizes in 2017 (outreach) and 2019 (newcomer), as well as joint awards from the BPS and ATSiP (the association of technical staff in psychology) for his teaching support (2018) and research support (2019).

You can read more about Sam in an interview here.

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Paige Metcalfe.

Paige joined the team in October 2019 as a Psychology Technician. Their primary interest is state estimation. Methods they have special interest in include, neurostimulation, electroencephalography, and virtual reality.

Previously Paige has worked in a variety of different roles supporting research, simulation, and teaching in higher education.

Paige has won the joint BPS (British Psychological Society) and ATSiP (Association of Technical Staff in Psychology) award for technical support in psychological teaching (2021) and the award for technical support in psychological research (2023). You can read Paige’s interview ‘here‘. Paige has won the Keith Nicholson Memorial Prize at the ATSiP 2022 for their work on developing blink classification algorithms.

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