Ryan Jenkins

Ryan Jenkins BSc, MSc

Postgraduate Research Student, PGR Teaching Assistant

Key details

Ryan Jenkins

Postgraduate Research Student, PGR Teaching Assistant

Ryan Jenkins is a PhD student at the University of Greenwich, London. His research primarily explores human face and voice recognition abilities. His current PhD is exploring whether super-face-recognisers (individuals that possess an exceptional and natural ability to identify faces) are also able to identify voices to the same capacity. He is also exploring whether individuals can generally possess super-voice-recognition abilities.

Psychology

Awards
  • Faculty of Education and Health PGR Conference Poster Winner 2018
  • Research and Enterprise Awards and Celebrations Day 2018 – Highly commended poster.
  • Research and Enterprise Awards and Celebrations Day 2019 – Highly commended poster
  • Winner of the 3MT practice at the Faculty of Human Sciences 3 Minute Thesis competition.

Recognition

Media article on super-voice-recognisers in New Scientist.

Research / Scholarly interests

Ryan's current research interests include human voice and face recognition abilities (the topic of my PhD). Specifically, he is interested in whether individuals what possess natural and exceptional face recognition abilities (termedsuper-face-recognisers) can also possess similar abilities in the recognition of voices. Ryan is particularly interested in finding whether such individuals who possess outstanding voice processing skills exist. Super-face-recognisers have already been successfully deployed in several successful applied settings (e.g., Police, security etc.), and similar forensic cases can use the abilities of these super-voice-recognisers.

Key funded projects

  • 2018 – University of Greenwich PGR Competitive funding for participant recruitment (£150)
  • 2018 – University of Greenwich PGR Competitive funding for conferences (£500)
  • 2019 – University of Greenwich PGR Competitive funding for participant recruitment (£150)
  • 2020 – University of Greenwich PGR Competitive funding for participant recruitment (£300)
  • 2020 – British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Postgraduate Rapid Project Grant (£300)