Our team

Sienna Black is an undergraduate Psychology student from the University of Bath. For her placement year, she is working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Alexandra Grandison at the Surrey Baby Lab. During this year, she hopes to gain practical research skills and an insight into the research process. She is particularly interested in the influence of colour on cognition and perception and how language influences gender and stereotypes. 

William Bartlett is an undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Surrey. Currently he is taking a placement year in which he is working under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Grandison at the Surrey Baby Lab. He is interested in understanding how perception in infancy and at younger ages can influence preferences and thought patterns later in life. During his placement he hopes to improve on his data analysis skills as well as develop a greater understanding of the research process.

Melisa is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Surrey. After completing her Psychology BSc at Istanbul Kultur University, she found her calling in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Padova. She is interested in understanding the development of numerical cognition. During her MSc, she conducted a study on young adults, and now she is shifting her focus to working with infants and their parents to explore the neural similarities across generations. She is also a member of the Learning Brain Lab at UCL, collaborating with her colleagues to bring more contributions into the field.