Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications and Career History

2009	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2009	PhD, Developmental Psychology, Cardiff University: “Social Influence and Social learning in Young Children and Infants”
2006	MSc Social Science Research Methods, Cardiff University – Distinction
2005	Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, Cardiff University – Distinction
2003	BA History and Politics, University of Sheffield – 1st Class

 

Funding and Awards

2009	Max Planck Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
2005 - 2009	Economic and Social Research Council Studentship
2007 - 2008	Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship
2008	PhD Prize for Early Promise, Cardiff University
2007	EPS Grindley Grant
2001	Howard Warrender Memorial Prize, University of Sheffield

 

Selected Media Coverage

All in the mind, by C. Fine and S. Lahan, The New Statesman, November 29th, 2010. Enfants sociaux, La Recherche, January, 2010.

Evidence that priming affiliation increases helping behaviour in infants as young as 18 months, Science Daily, September 3^rd, 2009. 

Feeling left out, by Beverly J. Roder and Mabel L. Sgan, Infants to Adolescents: Research Update, April 2009.

How to increase altruism in toddlers, BPS Research Digest, November 5^th, 2009.

In infants as young as 18 months, priming affiliation increases helping behaviour, Medical News Today, 4^th September, 2009.

Poppetjes helpen peuters, by Ellen de Bruin, NRC Handelsblad, November 3^rd, 2009.

Sozial von Anfang an?  Interview with Stephanie Becker, Baby und Familie, November, 2009.

Visual cues make children more helpful, by Tom Jacobs, in Miller-McCune: Turning Research into Solutions, August 16^th, 2009.

 

Teaching and Responsibilities

2011	Co-teaching for the lecture series Origins of Human Cognition, Language, and Languages. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2011 -	Co-organiser of the Social Cognition Research Seminar Series, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2008 - 2009	Postgraduate representative on the School of Psychology Research Committee, Cardiff University
2008 - 2009	Tutor for the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, Cardiff  University
2006 - 2007	Statistics tutor for level two psychology students, Cardiff University
2005 - 2006	Tutor for level one psychology students, Cardiff University

 

Reviewing

British Journal of Educational Psychology
British Journal of Psychology
Child Development
Cognitive Development
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Review
Developmental Science
European Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Cognition and Development
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Psychological Science
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Review Editor for Frontiers in Developmental Psychology

 

Public Awareness of Science

2007, 2009	Participation in National Science and Engineering Week
2009	Participation in National Family Week