Mind the Generation Gap! Uta Frith in conversation with Clare Press, Matthew Longo and Emily Jones.
Uta Frith, who looks back on a 50-year research career, will be in conversation with three young researchers, who all have recent experience of maternity/paternity leave. They will discuss questions about life and work, particularly how to manage gaps and transitions. The conversation will try to open up discussion about exactly how people of the older generation can share their knowledge and how personal experience can benefit others.
Date: Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Time: 16:00-17:00 (drinks reception to follow from 17:00)
Venue: Room B34, Birkbeck (Main Building), University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E7HX (entry from Torrington Square)
Drinks reception to be held at: Rayne Seminar Room, CBCD, Henry Wellcome Building (across Torrington Square from Main Building, entrance on footpath between Torrington Square and Woburn Square)
Uta Frith was born and educated in Germany and trained in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. She is best known for her research on autism and dyslexia and is now Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL-ICN. Since retiring in 2006, Uta has expanded her interests in science communication. She is a Twitter enthusiast and chairs the Royal Society’s Diversity Committee.
Clare Press studied at UCL before undertaking a fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. Her first lectureship was at the University of Reading, and she is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Birkbeck. She examines the mechanisms that underlie our ability to map between action and perception, as needed for action control and some social abilities. Clare also manages Research Methods teaching and UCAS Admissions within the department.
Matthew Longo studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago before moving to the UK in 2006. He was a postdoc at UCL-ICN before he joined the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, where he is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. Matt’s research focuses on the psychological and neural bases of body representation. He is the director of the master’s course in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology and the head of the department’s Athena SWAN working group.
Emily Jones is a Lecturer at CBCD. She studies the mechanisms underlying symptom emergence in neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism and ADHD. To do this, Emily uses neurocognitive and neurophysiological methodologies like eye tracking and EEG to assess brain development. She also coordinates the Eurosibs study, a prospective longitudinal study of infant siblings across 7 European countries and is part of the EU-AIMS project, which aims to develop new treatments for ASD.