TSE

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Senior lectureship and Principal Investigator, Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University, UK (May 2021- present)

Senior postdoctoral fellow and lab manager, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Professor Richard Morris’s group, University of Edinburgh, UK (2017-2021)

Teaching assistant, Edinburgh Merchiston Castle School, UK (2016-2017)

From 2012-2016, I had 3 career breaks to look after my young children.

Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Professor Richard Morris’s group, University of Edinburgh, UK (2011-2014)

Research assistant, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Professor Richard Morris’s group, University of Edinburgh, UK (2004-2005)

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

GRANTS & AWARDS

2022 ‘An early preclinical Alzheimer’s disease detection system: Using a schema memory paradigm in middle aged and elderly people’ funded by Edge Hill University RIF (£15,000).

2022 ‘Healthy ageing with an active mind’ funded by Edge Hill University ISRA (£13,000). Co-creation with University of Third Age. https://ageingbetter.wixsite.com/ageing-better-with-a

2022 ‘Healthy Brain, Healthy life’ funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK (Inspire Fund- £13,000). Collaboration with Bournemouth University. https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/projects/healthy-brain-healthy-life

2021  Best Research Supervision prize at University of Edinburgh (College of MVM)

2020 Principal’s Teaching Award Small Grant, University of Edinburgh

2020 Erasmus+ funding, Go Abroad for staff funding

2018  FENS-IBRO/PERC Travel Grant 11th Forum of European Neuroscience  

2006-2010 University of Edinburgh Research Scholarship

2006-2010 University of Edinburgh (College of MVM) Scholarship

2010 FENS Young Travel Fund to Molecular & Cellular Cognition lecture

2010 FENS & EBBS travel grant to 7th Forum of European Neuroscience     

2008 FENS & BRAIN travel grant to 6th Forum of European Neuroscience