Dr Wendy Ross is a part of the team that has been awarded British Academy Leverhulme Small Research Grant to explore learning and failure.
Date: 1 October 2024
Dr Wendy Ross, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Social Sciences and Professions and Thomas Ormerod, Professor in Psychology at Sussex University received funding from the British Academt Leverhulme Small Research Grant scheme this month to expand their research into the importance of failure in learning and analogical transfer. The money will be used to support the design of an online interface to assess whether the experience of failure is necessary for learning to take place and to collect preliminary data on how to best present those failures. Dr Ross and Professor Ormerod hope ultimately to use the findings to create interventions that support students with making the most of their moments of failure.
