Dr Jennifer Coe is a Lecturer in Psychology and Deputy Course Leader of the Undergraduate Psychology degree routes within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Suffolk. Her research interests predominantly lie in human attraction, sexual orientation, sex typicality and theories of biological and evolutionary psychology in relation to attraction patterns. She is also interested in research projects exploring topics such as health and wellbeing, education, gender, and sexuality (roles, love, sex, relationships, health, systems, power relations, discrimination), understanding atypical behaviours, social identities, influence of tasks and developmental pathways on neurological responses. She also has experience of programming in Inquisit, Qualtrics and E-Prime as well as engaged in using EEG and Eye tracking.
Externally, she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a registered member of the British Psychology Society and of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Jennifer has been involved in several quantitative and qualitative research projects and has recently published a case study on Action Research in the Higher Education Academy Action Research Practice Guide. She was also involved in the COURAGE project (headed by University of East Anglia) as the sole project member from the University of Suffolk. This project was aiming to improve postgraduate research student culture, community, and well-being. She has also completed a number of book reviews for SAGE Publications.
Dr Rachel Grenfell-Essam is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Suffolk. Her research interests include immediate memory tasks and improving the efficacy of dementia screening tests. Externally, she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered member of the British Psychology Society, and a member the Experimental Psychology Society.
Rachel is also the British Psychological Society liaison for the University of Suffolk and is responsible for the ongoing monitoring and accreditation of the Psychology degree routes. Rachel has produced REF eligible research outputs for both REF 2014 and REF 2021. She has published a number of journal articles in high impact, international, peer-reviewed journals (such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Memory and Language, Memory, and Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology). She has also acted as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals (such as American Journal of Psychology, Cognitive Processing, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition).