About
Jayne is a Lecturer and the Early Career Researcher Concordat Champion in the School of Psychology, University of Southampton. Their research vision includes ‘bridging the gap’ between basic and translational science, with clinical impact. Specifically within the role of intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety and affect more broadly. To research these areas, they use a variety of psychophysiological methods (i.e. skin conductance, eye-tracking etc) with the intention to conduct these measures alongside clinical intervention studies. Jayne is currently teaching on the Behavioural Neuroscience and Research Methods undergraduate modules, as well as supervising five DClinPsy and two MSc students. Jayne is accepting applications from prospective PhD and DClinPsy students in the following, or related areas: anxiety-related traits, attentional biases to uncertainty and threat, safety learning, interoception, and novel interventions for anxiety.
Jayne's research has been featured online in the following articles:
The Guardian Fear of the unknown: are you more sensitive to uncertainty than others? (2024)
BBC Worklife Why we're so terrified of the unknown (2021)
The Conversation Learning to cope with uncertainty during COVID-19 (2020)