💬Hello! I’m Stephanie Towch, a PhD student in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is funding my research in work addiction, health and wellbeing. I’m a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS) and the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Before academia, I worked in investment banking across finance technology, project management and commodities operations. I’m a big fan of quantitative research, psychometrics and machine learning. Here are some of the projects I’ve worked on over the years.
With no formal training, I taught myself R in my 40s to complete a structural equation modelling (SEM) project for my MSc Psychology thesis. Here’s how I did it—and why it’s never too late to start coding.
I never planned to do a PhD. But curiosity, short courses, and a growing interest in psychology turned into two MScs—and eventually, doctoral research in behavioural addiction.
In this blog, I discuss our new study investigating the relationship between work addiction and burnout