1. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in experimental psychology in 1996.
13 Facts About Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is actively involved in increasing the public awareness of science, frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools and acted as scientific consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind in 2003.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education and co-wrote a book with Uta Frith on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore serves on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and vision committee for mathematics education and science education.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2013.
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In March 2015 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was awarded Humanists UK's Rosalind Franklin lectureship in 2017.
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In July 2018 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was the winner of the 2018 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.