Brief biography:
Professor Blakemore has been awarded several national and international prizes for her research. She is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Association of Psychological Science and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor Blakemore teaches a final year Natural Sciences paper on Adolescence in Lent term. Professor Blakemore's publications can be found on Google Scholar. BBC The Life Scientific interview.
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Education
Sarah Jayne 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. She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith
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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. 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 Blakemore has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education and co-wrote a book with Uta Frith on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education. She co-directs the four Year PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL and serves as of the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence. She serves on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and vision committee for mathematics education and science education.
