Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore speaking at the Latitude Festival in 2015
Born (1974-08-11) 11 August 1974 (age 49) [1]
Cambridge, [1] England
Education Oxford High School, England
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Institutions University of Cambridge
University College London
Thesis Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions  (2000)
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FRS FBA FMedSci FRSB CPsychol (born 11 August 1974) [1] is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge [6] and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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Education

Blakemore was born in Cambridge and educated at Oxford High School, England and the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student at St John's College, Oxford. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in experimental psychology in 1996. [1] [2] She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 [4] for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert [5] [12] [13] [14] and Chris Frith. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

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. [2] 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. [2] Blakemore has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education and co-wrote a book with Uta Frith [20] on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education. [21] 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. [2]

Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence. [3] [6] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] She serves on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and vision committee for mathematics education and science education. [7]

Awards and honours

Blakemore has been awarded 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 in 2013.[ citation needed ]

Blakemore was awarded the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013 [27] and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2015. [28] Blakemore held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2013. [2] In March 2015 Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific . [29]

In July 2018 Blakemore was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). [30] The British Psychological Society awarded Blakemore the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in August 2018 which provides a lifetime membership to the Society. [31] Blakemore was the winner of the 2018 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. [32] She won Suffrage Science award in 2011. [33] She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2022. [34] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024. [35]

Personal life

Blakemore is the daughter of Colin Blakemore [29] and Andrée Blakemore (née Washbourne). [1] She has two sons. [36]

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