Sarah Ashcroft-Jones

Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

About Me

Sarah Ashcroft-Jones is a researcher of the psychological and behavioural sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research interests include decision making, categorisation, and cognitive biases. Her current work focuses on understanding the individual and structural factors that influence financial and health behaviours. She leads the Junior Researcher Programme, which develops opportunities for early career researchers in the psychological and behavioural sciences. She likes to ask questions.

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Interests

Decision making
Decision confidence
Behavioural interventions
Open science

Education

PhD in Experimental Psychology
Oxford University
MSc in Psychological Research
Oxford University
MA in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
Cambridge University

My Research

I like to ask questions.

I am a research scientist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. My work focuses on understanding the individual and structural factors that influence financial and health behaviours. Alongside my research, I act as an educator and a research consultant. I also volunteer my time as the Executive Director of the JRP.

My current active research projects range from the computational modelling of confidence in decision-making to testing real-time interventions on vaccine uptake and financial behaviours. I am an advocate of Open Science practices.

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