I work in a small psychology research lab in a university. I am one (the senior) of only two programmers. I work here because I am passionate about the problems

I work in a small psychology research lab in a university. I am one (the senior) of only two programmers. I work here because I am passionate about the problems I get to work on, as well as the freedoms afforded to me. Since I am in this situation, code reviews and pair programming are of limited value to me, although we do them so I can help my junior colleague.