Overview
Overview
The Department is committed to a policy of ensuring that all members of staff achieve their full potential in a supportive and responsive work environment. We have enthusiastically adopted the Athena SWAN charter of good employment practice for women working in science, engineering and technology in higher education and research. We were delighted to receive the Gold Athena SWAN Award in 2019.
We are very fortunate in having so many excellent female staff in the Department, both in academic and non-academic roles. To support their career development and also to meet the needs of all staff, we support flexible and part-time working patterns where possible, provide mentoring, and fund the activities of an Early Career Forum run by postdocs for junior researchers in the Department.
You can read the Department's successful 2019 Gold Athena SWAN Award Application (PDF , 2,870kb).
Recent successes
Recent successes for women in the Department
Faculty
Dr Silke Göbel (Senior Lecturer)
- Promoted to Senior Lecturer 2015
- Director of the MSc course in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2013-present
- Chair of MSc Board of Examiners 2015-present
- Principle Investigator on ESRC grant Cross-format number integration and its relationship to mathematics performance 2017-2020
- Editorial board, Lernen und Lernstörungen, Hogrefe & Huber Verlag 2011-present
- Editorial board, Journal of Numerical Cognition, PsychOpen 2011-present
Dr Lisa Henderson (Senior Lecturer)
- Promotion to Senior Lecturer 2017
- Co-Director MSc course in Development, Disorders & Clinical Practice, 2012-present
- Chair of Graduate School Board 2018- Present
- Principal Investigator on Waterloo Foundation grant 2014 - 2015
- Principle Investigator on ESRC grant to carry out research in to sleep and memory consolidation across typical and atypical development 2015-present
- Co-Investigator on ESCR grant 2018-2019
Professor Elizabeth Jefferies
- Chair of York Neuroimaging Science Committee 2013-2015
- Chair of Inclusiveness and Development Committee 2015- present
- Principle Investigator on Starting grant from European Research Council (ERC) 2012-2016
- Principle Investigator on grant from Stroke Association 2013-2017
- Principle Investigator on Consolidator grant from European Research Council (ERC) 2017-2022
- Associate Editor for Journal of Neuropsychology 2014-present
- Action Editor for PeerJ 2014- present
- Member of the MRC’s Neuroscience and Mental Health Board 2018-present
Professor Elizabeth Meins
- Chair of the Departmental Research Committee 2017-present
- Professorial Fellowship from ESRC 2014-2017
- Principle Investigator on an ESRC grant Maternal Mind-mindedness: Transmission mechanisms and Predicting Development into Early Adulthood. 2018- 2021
- REF2021 Assessment Panel for Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
- 2019 Dutch Universities Research Assessment Panel for Pedagogical and Educational Sciences
Dr Harriet Over (Senior Lecturer)
- Promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2017
- Principle Investigator on Future Research Leaders Grant, Economic and Social Research Council 2014 – 2017
- Co-Investigator on Leverhulme Trust Project Grant 2016 – 2020
- Principle Investigator on Starting grant from European Research Council (ERC) 2017 - 2022
- Margaret Mead Award for Social Sciences, British Science Association 2017
- Margaret Donaldson Early Career Prize, British Psychology Society 2018
- Philip Leverhulme Prize 2018
Dr Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (Senior Lecturer)
- Chair of Board of Studies 2015-2018
- Member of the Faculty of Sciences Board 2018-present
- Co-Investigator on Unilever Industry Grant 2017
- Co-Investigator on a grant from British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant to investigate the neural mechanisms of perspective taking during communication 2015
- Action editor for Royal Society Open Science 2014-present
Professor Katie Slocombe
- Promotion to Professor 2018
- Career and student employability coordinator 2013-present
- Principle Investigator on Consolidator grant from European Research Council (ERC) 2017-2022
- Gave a Plenary lecture at Animal Behaviour Society, Milwaukee, USA, 2018
Early Career Researchers
Emma James, Year 3 PhD student receives a $1000 prize (2018) following the publication of three pre-registered experiment in Developmental Science awarded by COS (Centre for Open Science)
Jet Sander, Year 3 PhD student receives first prize in the Falling Walls contest at York Falling Walls Lab (2018) and advances to the finals in Berlin (November, 2018)
2018 Departmental Teaching awards go to Anika Smith, Eithne Kavanagh and Kirsti Wailes-Newson, Year 3 PhD students
Dr Fionnuala Larkin
- Associate Lecturer at the Department, University of York 2016-2019
- Co-designed a novel psycho-educational intervention to promote mind-mindedness in parents using new technology with Professor Elizabeth Meins.
- Managed a randomised controlled trial in partnership with the NHS to evaluate an intervention to promote mind-mindedness in new parents, including managing a small team of researchers and students.
- Co-authored manual for an NSPCC Programme: Parents, Pregnancy and Well-Being.
- Co-Investigator on ESRC grant Maternal Mind-mindedness: Transmission mechanisms and Predicting Development into Early Adulthood. 2018- 2021
Dr Kirsty Graham
- 2017 Gorilla Awards in Behavioural Science, Shortlisted , Gorilla.sc
- 2016 Russell Trust Award (Postgraduate), University of St Andrews
- 2016 St Leonard’s College Lecture Prize, University of St Andrew