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- Associate Professor (Teaching)
- IOE - Psychology & Human Development
- UCL Institute of Education
I am Director of the Motor Executive Cognitive Interaction (MECI) Lab and Programme Lead for the ESRC-accredited MSc in Developmental and Educational Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Human Development.
I Chair the Faculty Education Forum for UCL Institute of Education.
In addition, I am a member of the Management Committee for the Centre for Educational Neuroscience (CEN).
I am also a Chartered Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.


My research focus is on working memory/executive function as it relates to academic outcomes such as reading and mathematics. I am also interested in the relationships between executive functions and dyslexia in children and adults.
Current PhD Students:
- Louise Livingstone (Developmental relationships between motor control and executive function in early years environments)
- Yasin Arslan (How neuroscientific understanding of learning can influence SEN teachers’ decisions)
- Olivia Yuan (Children’s executive function in early STEM education: An educational robotics intervention in primary School)
- Qiuyu Du (Relationships between mind wandering, working memory capacity and creativity)
- Zoe Price (Teachers’ perspectives of executive functions and classroom support)
I lecture in cognitive psychology, educational neuroscience, research methods and statistics for the psychology Masters programmes.
Previously, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London I ran various modules for the MSc Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health distance learning course.
Prior to that, at London South Bank University I taught undergraduate and post-graduate students in neuropsychology, brain and behaviour development, developmental disorders, memory development, and quantitative research methods.
01-OCT-2021 | Associate Professor | Department of Psychology and Human Development | UCL Institure of Education, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-2020 | Chair of Faculty Education Forum | UCL Institure of Education, United Kingdom | |
01-FEB-2019 – 01-JUL-2021 | Academic Head of Learning and Teaching | Department of Psychology and Human Development | UCL Institure of Education, United Kingdom |
17-SEP-2018 – 01-OCT-2021 | Senior Teaching Fellow | Department of Psychology and Human Development | UCL Institure of Education, United Kingdom |