Dr Stephanie Baines
Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor – Quality Assurance/Senior Lecturer (Education) in Psychology

Research area(s)

Baines, S., Barbosa Boucas, S. & Otermans, P. O. (Accepted). Using a survey and discussion forums on students’ satisfaction and experience to inform the development of a new VLE: A data-driven approach to technology use in learning and teaching. International Journal of Technology in Education.

Baines, S., Hensels, I. S., & Talmi, D. (2022). An EEG study on the effect of being overweight on anticipatory and consummatory reward in response to pleasant taste stimuli. Physiology & Behavior. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2022.113819 

Baines, S., Hensels, I. S., & Talmi, D. (2020). The use of ‘artificial saliva’ as a gustatory stimulus. Physiology & Behavior. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113254

Baines, S. (2017). Controlling food seeking in the presence of food cues. Commentary on van Steenbergen, Watson, Wiers, Hommel & de Wit, "Dissociable corticostriatal circuits underlie goal-directed versus cue-elicited habitual food seeking after satiation: Evidence from a multimodal study".European Journal of Neuroscience. Available online: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/ejn.13617

              * Invited commentary

Marks, J., & Baines, S. (2017). Optimistic belief updating despite inclusion of positive events. Learning and Motivation, 58, 88-101. Available online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0023969017300784

Marks, J., & Baines, S. (2017). Optimistic Belief Updating for Positive Life Events. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2864053 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2864053

Hensels, I. S., & Baines, S. (2016). Changing ‘gut feelings’ about food: An evaluative conditioning effect on implicit food associations, but not on explicit food choice. Learning and Motivation, 55: 31-44. Available online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002396901630025X

Baines, S., Ruz, M., Rao, A., & Nobre, A. C. (2011). Modulation of neural activity with trial-by-trial fluctuations in reward expectation and spatial attention. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2489-2497.

Available online: http://ezproxy.ouls.ox.ac.uk:2070/science/article/pii/S0028393211002296

Research Interests

My current research focuses on students' experiences in Higher Education.My research is primarily focused on how we can use an informed approach to optimise teaching and learning.  I am particularly interested in authentic assessment, AI in education, and what drives student motivation and engagement.

I have a background in cognitive neuroscience. In particular, my research focused on the way the brain uses incoming stimulus information and prior expectations to influence information processing at multiple stages, from early perception, through to action and updating our memory. I am interested in the way we use this information to guide our cognition and behaviour, especially in relation to nutrition.