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Daniel Earnshaw

Daniel Earnshaw

Kingswinford,West Midlands

Summary

Proactive and adaptable graduate with master's degree in research methods in psychology and keen desire to build career foundation. Seeks out opportunities to learn new information and techniques from research team. Combines focused, problem-solving mindset and enthusiastic passion for psychology to tackle challenging research tasks.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Residential support worker

Safeharbour
Stourbridge, West Midlands
05.2024 - Current
  • Residents of care home are individuals with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilites who are over the age of 18
  • Guaranteed physical and emotional wellbeing of residents, incorporating therapy and social-based activities.
  • Improved resident wellbeing with individualised care plans.
  • Provided emotional support for residents in distress.
  • Assisted residents to achieve daily living skills.
  • Managed medications and oversaw compliance with personal treatment plans.

Part-time warehouse/general assistant

JBS Tiling Contractors Ltd
Dudley, West Midlands
07.2017 - 05.2024

Involved helping to organise and clean the warehouse, making deliveries, labouring on site, cleaning the office, answering telephone, and occasional computer work.

Part-time research assistant

Swansea University
Swansea
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Analysed and organised qualitative and quantitative data sets in Excel, SPSS, and JASP.
  • Created professional online surveys using Qualtrics.
  • Published created surveys on Prolific and managed payment of participants for completing surveys once their responses had been checked to be valid.
  • Communicated effectively and professionally with colleagues and manager in meetings.
  • Conducted comprehensive literature reviews for project groundwork.
  • Streamlined workflow with efficient time-management skills.

Part-time research assistant

Swansea University
Swansea
04.2022 - 07.2022
  • Sorted and organised quantiative data in SPSS and excel.
  • Created a data base of 1001 symbols and icons for the purpose of research into aesthetic preferences of differing age groups.
  • Presented key findings at BPS conference at the University of Sussex.

Car boot sale assistant

Robert’s Farm Shop
Stourbridge, West Midlands
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • Involved allocating cars to parking spaces at a car boot sale as well as litter picking.

Education

Master of Science - Research Methods in Psychology

Swansea University
Swansea
09.2021 - 10.2022

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

Swansea University
Swansea
09.2018 - 06.2021

Skills

  • Designing online surveys for the use of participant research
  • Proficient with data processing software such as SPSS, JASP, and Excel
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative methodologies
  • Management of participant sampling and the facilitating monetary rewards through Prolific
  • Writing reports with attention grabbing abstracts and introductions
  • Researching and formulating comprehensive literature reviews
  • APA referencing and formatting
  • Adaptable
  • Formulating research proposals
  • Writing and submitting ethical consideration forms

Voluntary experience

  • AmaZOOnico, Tena 150108, Ecuador

Involved travelling to Ecuador for 6 weeks to work in the Amazon Rainforest. This organisation rehabilitates illegally trafficked animals. My duties as a volunteer included feeding animals every morning and afternoon as well as cleaning their enclosures. The organisation is funded by tourism and I would give walking tours around the enclosures daily.

03/2023 - 05/2023

  • Mary Steven’s Hospice Outlet, 17 Albion Parade, Kingswinford, DY6 0NP

Involved hanging, sorting, uplifting, tagging, and steaming donated clothes, and occasional till work.

07/04/2018 - 09/05/2018

  • Camps International Group Ltd, Borneo

Involved travelling to Borneo for 2 months and Cambodia for 1 month, travelling to several different locations to do projects such as constructing schools, libraries, volley ball courts, and wells. Also involved digging a way for a water pipeline, making large clay pots to store water, large group efforts to clear beaches of litter, planting trees, wild-life surveying, as well as interacting with local school children.

01/10/2018 - 04/08/2018

  • Acorns Children’s Hospice Ltd, 7 Market St, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 9JS

Involved hanging, sorting, uplifting, tagging, and steaming donated clothes, and occasional till work.

09/22/2017 - 12/23/2017

  • Code Club, Stourbridge Library, Crown Centre, Stourbridge, DY8 1YE

Involved teaching children aged 10-11 basic coding skills on the software ‘Scratch’. 11/23/2015 - 05/06/2016

Daniel Earnshaw