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Internal Memberships

• Chair of the Psychology Ethics Committee
• School REF Output Group
• School Research Committee
• University Ethics Advisory Group
• University Promotion Committee

Current Research

• Self
• Cultural brain
• Healthy ageing
• Social interactions in VR
• Behaviour change

We welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in these research areas.

Funding and Grants

• 2025-2026. Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship: 'Tracing the neural representation of dynamic selves'.
• 2020-2024. PI. The Leverhulme Trust. 'The ubiquitous self: Testing the enhanced binding account'. 
• 2017-2020. PI. ARUK. 'Self-representation as a probe for mild Alzheimer’s dementia'.

Funded doctoral projects in our lab:

• Neural plasticity and self-reference in the ageing brain
• Computational and neural mechanisms of trust updating in children
• Investigating the role of sense of agency in episodic memory formation and retrieval
• Self-relevance supporting multisensory integration in the ageing brain
• Future self and temporal discounting in behaviour change
• AI-based approach to predicting changes in self-perception and the relationship to cognitive decline
• Together and apart: How cognitive and affective self-processing shape real-world outcomes

       Supported by BBSRC EastBio, the Leverhulme Trust, CSC, and ESRC SGSSS.

Teaching Responsibilities

• Level 4: The Social Self
• Level 1, Level 4, MSc, MRes: Ethics
• Level 3: tutorials on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Methodology B