News
Emily Towner from the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience group is in the Cambridge University women’s clay pigeon shooting team, who are officially national champions, and defeated all the other universities at the national championships!
Family Dynamics on Display
Read Blanca's blog post here.
"What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones"
Read Sarah-Jayne's interview with TES magazine
Welcome to Sara De Felice
Sara has joined the lab as a postdoc: read more about her here
Read Blanca's blog post on her recent research here.
Congratulations to Dr Jovita Leung on passing her PhD viva!
The Blakemore Lab were visited by Learnus to create this video, featuring interviews with multiple lab members
"Don't blame the young for being moody"
Read Sarah-Jayne's piece on nurturing teenage minds for the Guardian.
Congratulations to Dr Gabriele Chierchia, a long -time postdoctoral research fellow within the Blakemore Lab, on starting a lectureship at the Università Di Pavia.
Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health
Read our new paper published in the JCPP, co-authored by Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and Jack Andrews
Read the news coverage in the University of Cambridge and in the Independent
Sarah-Jayne elected Honorary Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
Read more here.
Sarah-Jayne has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences.
"New Fellow Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FMedSci’s research on the adolescent brain using behavioural and neuroimaging methods has influenced policy on education, mental health and criminal justice."
Read more here.
Letter in today’s Times arguing that the Covid-19 Inquiry must include the effect of the pandemic on children and young people.
Read Blanca's interview with Gates Cambridge on
how can teenagers build resilience
Welcome to Giacomo, our new postdoc
BlakemoreLab research mentioned in parliamentary debate on education assessment reform
Congratulations to Saz Ahmed who, after 4 years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the BlakemoreLab, will take up a new job as Research Manager in the Mental Health team at Wellcome.
Sarah-Jayne was awarded the IUPsyS Quadrennial Advancement in Psychological Science Prize 2020 for contributions of high international reputation that represent a major advancement in psychological science.
Read more here.
Congratulations to Amy on her Programme Track Leader position at the CBU.
Congratulations to Emily for passing her first year PhD viva.
Congratulations to Sophie for passing her first year PhD viva.
Welcome Lydia Gabriela Speyer
Lydia has recently joined the lab and will be working on the CaM-App study.
Read more about her here.
Well done Dr Jack
Jack has passed his PhD viva with no corrections!
Cambridge Mind App (CaM-App)
We are now launching our new study investigating the impact of social distancing on loneliness and mental health worldwide.
This project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Read their latest article "What helps against loneliness?" here.
Find out more about CaM-App here.
Welcome!
Kirsten is our new Research Assistant who will be based at the University of Cambridge.
Read more about her here.
Congratulations to Jack Andrews, who has arrived in Sydney to start a postdoc on adolescent mental health, with Drs Susanne Schweizer and Louise Mewton at UNSW.
Sean Sanders interviewed Sarah-Jayne Blakemore about brain and social development for the Jacobs Foundation BOLD blog.
Congratulations to Blanca on being awarded the Cambridge International Scholarship 2021 to do her PhD in the lab starting in September 2021!
Congratulations to Professor Blakemore for being included in the shortlist of the Times Education Supplement (TES) Person of the Year 2020!
Congratulations to Gabe on being offered a Teaching Associate position in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge!
Read Professor Blakemore and Professor Tamsin Ford's piece on GCSEs and what we know about adolescent brain development and mental health posted on Rethinking Assessment
Congratulations to Professor Blakemore for Inventing Ourselves receiving the BPS Book Award 2020.
"Winning the Popular Science category, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain draws upon research carried out by author and neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore to explain the common behaviours of adolescents..."
read more about this award here.
Read Prof Blakemore's short interview in the Cambridge University Tackling Covid-19 series, focusing on social isolation and adolescent mental health
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore
A very warm welcome to our new lab members!
Emily Towner has joined the lab as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
Sophie Fielmann has joined the lab as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
Dr Livia Tomova has joined the lab as a Research Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
Congratulations to Dr Suzanne Schweizer for the birth of her baby daughter, Lily!
Congratulations to Jessica Bone for submitting her thesis and for starting a postdoc with Daisy Fancourt at UCL!
Congratulations to Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore for being elected a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science
Written evidence submitted by CUSP
Written evidence to the Education Committee reviewing the impact of Covid-19 on education and children’s services, from Cambridge University Cross-Disciplinary Special Interest Group for Policy related to children and young people.
"The delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a 'national disaster' that is putting their mental health at risk"
Read BBC's report on the Letter to the editor published in The Sunday Times
Read the Letter to the editor: School shut-out is crushing children signed by more than 100 leading Psychologists in the UK urging education secretary, Gavin Williamson, to reconsider.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/letter-to-the-editor-school-shut-out-is-crushing-children
"Reduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say"
Paper on social distancing and adolescent mental health (The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health) on BBC
Science, Policy & Pandemics
Dr Rob Doubleday invites Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Paul Ramchandani to speak about how the pandemic is impacting wellness in children and adolescents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mbV99cdLA&feature=youtu.be
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's Interview on The Naked Scientists
Sarah-Jayne discusses the Teenagers and Social Isolation with Phil Sansom
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/teenagers-and-social-isolation
New review paper relevant to COVID19 crisis!
In this short review we discuss social distancing and adolescent mental health, and social media as a potentially mitigating factor.
Read it here!
Congratulations Jovita!
Congratulations to Jovita Leung for passing her MPhil-PhD upgrade. Very well done!
Age of Criminal Responsibility
Letter to The Times on the 27/12/2019
Lecture on the Adolescent Brain
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore will be giving a lecture on the adolescent brain during the Cambridge Science Festival on March 16th at 19 30. More information about the event here.
UPDATE: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19
Merry Christmas and Goodbye Emma!
Special Christmas lunch with games and a warm farewell to Dr Emma Jayne Kilford. Congratulations on your Post doc position at the Clinical Psychology department. We wish you all the best!
You can read about her new position at our People page.
Congratulations Blanca!
Blanca made the Dean's List for her brilliant work during her Master's. Well done!
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who came to the farewell party and for all the lovely gifts!
The BlakemoreLab has moved to Cambridge, as Sarah-Jayne has taken up a Chair in Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Welcome Blanca!
We welcome Blanca who has joined our lab as the new Research Assistant.
Goodbye Cait
After being in the lab with us for three years, Cait Griffin has recently started working as a UX Researcher. Good luck!
Several members of the lab were recently interviewed by the Swiss radio channel SRF. You can listen to the interview in full here
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's interview on Woman's Hour
Sarah-Jayne discusses the development of the adolescent brain with Jenni Murray (10 minutes in)
Read Sarah-Jayne's interview in The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03f340c0-49a6-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44
Jack receives Sully Scholarship
Congratulations to Jack on being awarded the Sully Scholarship, which is a PALS prize for PhD students who have excelled in their upgrade report and interview.
Inventing Ourselves
Congratulations to Sarah-Jayne on winning the Royal Society Insight Investment Prize for "Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain"!
Congratulations Delia!
Delia has been awarded the British Neuroscience Association Doctorate Prize 2018
No Corrections!
Huge congratulations to Dr Emma Kilford on passing her viva.
Welcome back to Emma Kilford
Emma will be working as a postdoc on our recently awarded GCRF Global Impact Accelerator award 'Developing a scalable treatment for depression in adolescents in rural South Africa'
Congratulations Maxi!
Well done to Maxi on being awarded a distinction in his MSc!
Congratulations Sarah-Jayne!
Congratulations to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on winning the the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018.
Watch the 2018 award ceremony, presented by Professor Brian Cox with the link below.
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/10/book-award/