Our team
Meet the team.
Our researchers
Director of the Surrey Baby Lab
Dr Alexandra Grandison
Associate Head of Education for the School of Psychology
Biography
Alexandra is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, the Director of the Surrey Baby Lab and the lead for the School of Psychology’s DevELOP (Development, Education, Learning, and Outreach in Psychology) research group. She started her career as an academic in 2010 and loves her job. She enjoys teaching and supporting students and conducting fascinating research. Her main research focus is language, which is a fundamental part of what makes us human. She is particularly interested in whether the language we speak shapes the way we think about and understand our world. The work that we do at the Surrey Baby Lab explores this idea by investigating how babies interact with their environment before they have language, the impact of language learning during childhood, and the implications of speaking different languages across the lifespan.
Emily Clark
Research Assistant
Biography
Emily Clark is an Undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Surrey, currently on a placement year with the Surrey Baby Lab. Under supervision of Dr Alexandra Grandison. She believes this placement is an incredible opportunity to test and grow her current skills and knowledge, as well as prepare her for final year. With this placement she hopes to gain practical experience in collecting data, but also develop other skills like data analysis, writing, and an insight into research. For example, understanding of the influence of language on perception, namely influence on stereotypes.
Mafalda Batista Da Costa
Postgraduate Researcher
Biography
Mafalda is a postgraduate research and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Surrey. She completed her Psychology BSc (Hons) at the University of Kent, and her MSc in Developmental Psychology at the University of Surrey. She is a member of DevELOP and SEER research groups, as well as the new Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Equality Research Group (PIER). Her PhD aims to gain insight into how individuals, specifically children, interpret and understand the pronoun “they” and whether this may have an impact on gender-stereotypes in education.
Mabel Baldry
Research Assistant (Undergraduate placement year)
Biography
Mabel Baldry is an undergraduate psychology student at the University of Surrey, currently undertaking her placement year at the Surrey Baby Lab under Dr. Alexandra Grandison. She is particularly interested in how language relates to thought and consciousness. During her placement, she hopes to gain experience in practical research skills and is looking forward to exploring how the language we speak affects our perceptions of gender.
Emily Marsh
Research Assistant (Undergraduate placement year)
Biography
Emily Marsh is an undergraduate Psychology student. For her placement this year, she is working as a Research Assistant to Alexandra Grandison at the Surrey Baby lab. During this placement she would like to gain practical skills such as collecting and analysing data and developing experiments through contributing to current research. She is particularly interested in how language affects our understanding of gender.
Affilaites
Collaborators
- Greville G. Corbett
- Michael Franjieh
- Anna Franklin
- Paul T. Sowden
- Diana Tham
Research assistants
- Christopher Delivett
- Catarina Duarte
- Grace French
- Cerys Jones
- Paulina Kapciak
- Rebecca Steedman
- Gabriella Sherry
- Emily Wilkinson
- Nina Toleva
- Lily Greene
- Irina Mannerak
Postgraduate researchers
- Yousuf Alazmi
- James Alvarez
- Beejal Mehta
- Adam Pedley
- Chloe Taylor
- Lexi Ball
- Imogen Brooks
- Isabella Cordani
