Mr Stephen Jeffs
Biography
My passion for all things brain and behaviour developed during adolescence with an A level Psychology project on synaesthesia, under the inspiring guidance of Dr Rachel Baron at Exeter College. From there I travelled north to Leeds for a BSc in Psychology, where my project on alcohol-induced impulsivity was supervised by Dr Amanda Harrison. I then moved to Nottingham for an MSc in Applied Neuropsychology, working on goal-directed smoking with Dr Lee Hogarth. I’m now back on the south coast at Sussex, doing a PhD in how emotion regulates Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer under Prof Theodora Duka.
Role
Former PhD researcher, now honorary researcher, within the Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience laboratory
Qualifications
PhD Psychology; Sussex University 2009-2014
Associate of the Higher Education Academy
MSc Applied Neuropsychology; Nottingham University 2007-2008
BSc Psychology; Leeds University 2003-2006
Activities
I encourage cross-discipline collaboration. I co-ordinated the first Psychology Postgrad Summer Series, a programme a seminars led by PhD students from across the School of Psychology, with the aim of sharing information throughout the School that would otherwise be confined to individual lab groups.
When not trying to find out why people do stuff, I help them eat healthy stuff. I co-founded Scoop, a food co-operative based at Sussex that distributes various nuts, grains and pulses on a not-for-profit basis.
We help you to reduce the amount of plastic packaging in the food chain by selling goods by weight, so you can refill your containers, rather than buying pre-packed quantities. It also means that you only buy what you need, so nothing goes to waste at all. It all comes from a local distributor as well, so your carbon footprint's that little bit smaller too.