Hewson, Claire

Claire Hewson is Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. She has a long-standing interestin using the Internet to carry out primary research, and has collected data using a range of IMR methods including surveys, psychometrics and experiments, to investigate issues in: commonsense understanding, particularly folk psychology; online assessment methods in an educational context; the validity of IMRmethods. She was commissioned to lead a working party to produce the recent British PsychologicalSociety (BPS) guidelines on ethics in Internet-mediated research (2013), has delivered a number o...