Lecturer, University of Nottingham

Sept 2011-present

I research the interaction vision, age and attention and am involved in various multidisciplinary projects.

I lead the Ageing Theme group. I also teach Biological Psychology and Research methods. I supervise PhD students [link] and post-graduate and undergraduate projects. I am also the local secretary of the British Science Association. Winner of the British Psychological Society Cognitive section prize 2012. Invited to speak at World Event Young Artist: The unselfish Artist. Organiser: Age and Brain 2012 Workshop.

RCUK Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Oct 2007-Aug2011

I developed a research team to study how ageing changes how we attend and ignore the visual world.

I lectured on Level 2 Cognitive Psychology and the Cognitive Neuroscience fMRI methods course. I coordinated the Brain Imaging Methods Group. I organised a week long visit of a local sixth form college to the school where students took part in research and learnt about University Psychology.

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

May 2003-Sept 2006 Supervisor: Professor Glyn Humphreys

FMRI, behavioural and psychophysical studies of interaction of attention and perception (e.g. visual search, texture segmentation) in normal and post-stroke participants

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill Vision Research

Jan 2001-May 2003 Supervisor: Professor Robert Hess

Spatial vision and motion perception in normal and amblyopic participants

Research Assistant, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham.

October 2000 – Jan 2001 Supervisor: Professor Andrew Derrington

Psychophysics of motion and attention

PhD student in the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham.

October 1997-October 2000, Supervisor: Professor Andrew Derrington

Human motion processing mechanisms and pathways

Assistant Scientific Officer, Human Factors Group, Defence Research Agency

September 1995-September 1996

Virtual reality cockpit displays, orientation perception