Profile
Ben Kenward
My CV
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Education:
Oxford University
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Qualifications:
Degrees in biology and animal psychology
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Work History:
Oxford University and Uppsala University in Sweden
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Current Job:
Lecturer
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About Me:
Psychology researcher and teacher, gamer, parent, fiddle player.
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I spend half my spare time playing the fiddle in pubs and the other half playing computer games with my kids or watching trashy TV with my wife. I eat more sweets than my kids, which they don’t think is fair. I’m claiming I’m allowed a lot because I also run so many miles (which is true) but they aren’t convinced.
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I’ve studied all kinds of things, from animal behaviour to the human sense of right and wrong. At the moment I’m trying to find out why even children often think people who do bad things should be punished. It’s an important question because punishment probably creates as many problems as it solves, but people seem to be pretty in favour of it.
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My Typical Day:
The only thing I do pretty much every day is send and receive far too many emails!
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Other common things are teaching students about experiments, getting experiments ready, writing about experiments, and reading about other people’s experiments. If I’m really lucky I might actually do an experiment but it’s mainly my students who get to do that at the moment!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Spend it on going to schools to help the kids do cool psychology experiments.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Lucky. Optimistic. Curious.
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Not often, but when I was I made sure it was worth it (like sneaking out to buy sweets when I wasn’t supposed to!)
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Post War Glamour Girls. The next big thing in rock – you heard it here first.
What's your favourite food?
Something with cheese, garlic, or seafood, or how about all three at once?
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Be the best guitar player ever (can’t play at all yet). Live forever (or at least until I’d seen enough). Visit another planet that has aliens.
Tell us a joke.
Why can’t you hear a psychologist go to the toilet? Because the “P” is silent.
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