Name Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | Books The learning brain | |
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Born 11 August 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-08-11 ) Fields Adolescent brain developmentSocial cognitionCognitive controlDecision-making Thesis Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (2000) Doctoral students Delia FuhrmannAnne-Lise GoddingsHauke HillebrandtEmma KilfordKate MillsLaura Wolf Similar People | ||
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Sarah jayne blakemore the mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL
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- Sarah jayne blakemore the mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
- Professor sarah jayne blakemore in conversation with professor tanya byron full interview
- Education
- Research and career
- Awards and honours
- Personal life
- References
Professor sarah jayne blakemore in conversation with professor tanya byron full interview
Education
Blakemore was educated at Oxford High School and St John’s College, Oxford where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Experimental psychology in 1996. She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith.
Research and career
After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2004-2007) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2007-2013) at UCL. She is actively involved in increasing the public awareness of science, frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools and acted as scientific consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind in 2003. Blakemore has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education and has co-authored a book with Uta Frith on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education. She co-directs the Wellcome Trust four Year PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL and serves as editor-in-Chief of the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
As of 2017 Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence. She is a member of Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and the Royal Society Vision Committee for Maths and Science Education 5-19.
Awards and honours
Blakemore has been awarded a number of prizes including the British Psychological Society Doctoral Award 2001, the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal for outstanding early career research 2006, the Lecturer Award 2011 by the Swedish Neuropsychology Society and the Young Mind & Brain Prize from the University of Turin 2013.
Blakemore was awarded the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013 and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2015. Blakemore held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2013. In March 2015 Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.
Personal life
Blakemore is the daughter of Sir Colin Blakemore and Andrée Blakemore (née Washbourne).