
Dr Dorothy Tse, FHEA, FRSA
Neuroscientist
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
2022 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
2019 Fellow UK Higher Education Academy-Fellow
2006-2011 PhD in Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh
2005 MSc by research in Neuroscience (Distinction), University of Edinburgh
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