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Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate working jointly between the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and the Administrative Data Research Centre – Scotland. My background is primarily in experimental psychology, focussing on the effects of ageing on abilities such as working memory and executive functions. This includes a year spent working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Kyoto University, Japan. In my current role, however, I am involved in linking administrative data to existing psychological databases in order to create large-scale resources for answering important population-wide questions.

Research Interests

Investigating how childhood cognitive abilities and circumstances can help to predict social and health outcomes in later life, such as employment and disability.

Understanding the cognitive changes resulting from healthy adult ageing, particularly regarding intelligence and executive functions.

Investigating differences in the way in which adults approach complex tasks, and the strategies they use to complete them.

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Goal maintenance: examining capacity, competition, and duration, and their relation to intelligence and processing speed

Award Date: 30 Jun 2015

Master in Science, Investigation the differential cognitive ageing of dorsolateral, medial, and orbital prefrontal cortices. , University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 1 Nov 2010

Master of Arts, The effects of visual feedback in a bimanual tapping task , University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 23 Aug 2009

Research Themes and Networks

  • Edinburgh Mental Health Network

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