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Email me if you are interested in studying for a PhD. Follow the links below to find out more about my current and former students.

Current Ph.D students

- Ahmad Abu-Akel’s Ph.D. concerns the cognitive and neural basis of theory of mind, and its relation to traits for autism and psychosis in the typical population.

- Katherine Ellis’ Ph.D. concerns the application of an early theory-of-mind scale to populations with rare neurodevelopmental disorders .

- Sophie Milward’s Ph.D. concerns the development of co-representation in children.

- Laurie Powis' Ph.D. concerns behavioural evidence of theory of mind abilities in children and adults with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome.

- Eva Reindl’s Ph.D. Concerns the comparison of children’s tool-innovation capacities with those of other great ape species.

- Clare Williams’ Ph.D. concerns individual differences in children’s tool innovation.

- Zahrieh Yousefi’s Ph.D. concerns agent-based modelling of simple theory of mind abilities.

- Zhao Lin’s Ph.D., concerns the effect of social context on memory.

 Former PhD students

- Charlotte Hartwright's Ph.D. concerned the neural basis of theory of mind processes.

- Nicola Cutting's Ph.D. concerned the role of innovation and executive control in children's tool creation.

- Andrew Surtees' Ph.D. concerned psychological and spatial perspective-taking in children and adults

- Jessica Wang's Ph.D. concerned automatic perspective-taking in typical adults

- Claudia Chiavarino's Ph.D. concerned the role of reasoning about intentions in low- and high-level cognitive processes.

- Dan Carroll's Ph.D. concerned the relationship between reasoning and executive function

- Cathy Grant's Clin.Psy.D. concerned theory of mind and executive function in children with Fragile X Syndrome

- Adam Qureshi's Ph.D. concerned individual differences in basic theory of mind in typical adults.

Ian Apperly