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Get to know the researchers, students, and collaborators that make up our lab.
Meet the team
Lab Director
Dr Judith Gentle
Senior lecturer in Psychology
Lab members
Emma Aitken
Research Assistant in Neurodiversity and Motor Development
Dr Debbie Gooch
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology
Dr Lewis Jayes
Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Programme for Psychology
Dr Marie Martel
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology
Students
- Tobi Shenjobi - Placement student (2025-2026)
- Jamie Rutland-Lawes - ClinPsychD (From 2024)
Affiliated Members - University of Surrey
Dr Philip Dean
Research Fellow
Professor Emily Farran
Professor in Developmental Psychology
Dr Erica Hepper
Senior Lecturer in Personality/Social Psychology
Dr Anesa Hosein
Associate Professor in Higher Education
Dr Aliah Shaheen
Visiting Senior Lecturer
Professor Harriet Tenenbaum
Professor in Developmental and Social Psychology
Darren Tunstall
Programme Leader, MA Acting, Associate Professor
External collaborations
(in alphabetical order)
Dr Daniel Brady - University of Reading
Prof Peter Hegarty - Open University, UK
Dr John Macklin - University of East London, UK
Dr Emily Meachon - University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr Liam O'Reilly - Brunel University, UK
Dr John Twycross - University College London, UK
Alumni
Staff
- Dr Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo
- Dr Ines Violante
- Dr Hayley Leonard
- Dr Daniel Brady
Students
- Jiang Yi Pan - Placement student (2024-2025)
- Dan Reed - Postgraduate student (2024)
- Jayes Somers - Postgraduate student
- Declan Hutton - Placement student (2023-2024)
- Emily Ling - Placement student (2021-2023)
- Mirela Ivanova - Placement student
- Marta Topor - PhD student (2018-2022)
- Will Mayes - PhD student (2018-2021)
- Lewis Ralph - Placement student
- Serif Omer - Clinical Doctorate trainee (2018-2021)
- Ana M. Jijon Nemalceff - Clinical Doctorate trainee (2016-2019)
- Zhaoying Yu - Placement student (2019)
- Amelia Bennett - Placement student
- Shiloh Grant-Smith - Postgraduate student
- Joanna Argent - Postgraduate student
- Gemma Armstrong - Postgraduate student
- Jess Bosi - Postgraduate student