Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2018
- Subjects
- Education, Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology , Education
Summary
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Her group runs behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with adolescents and adults.
Current post
Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Leader, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group
Past appointments
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Deputy Director
2014 - 2019
University College London Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
2009 - 2019
Publications
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Published in 2019 by Black Swan
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith - Published in 2005 by Wiley-Blackwell
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Professor Linda Darling-Hammond FBA
Linda Darling-Hammond is Founding President and Chief Knowledge Officer at the Learning Policy Institute, created to provide high-quality research for policies that enable equitable and empowering education for each and every child. She is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University.
