DEAN D'SOUZA
Principal Investigator
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ELAN lab
School of Psychology
Cardiff University
A Bit About Me
I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. My research focuses on how infants adapt to the diverse environments in which they grow, learn, and develop. Through my fellowship, I am developing ecological and interactionist methods that combine measures of infants’ everyday environments with naturalistic observation, experimental data, and computational modelling. My work aims to understand development as an unfolding process of adaptation, in which brain, body, behaviour, and environment are continuously coupled and mutually shaping over time.
History
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
2017 - 2019
2015-2016
2010-2014
2009-2010
Research Visitor, University of Cambridge
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Supervising students on PBS6
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Collaboration with the Embodied Attention & Learning lab
Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University
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Course leader of BSc Psychology (with Criminology)
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Fellow, Higher Education Authority
Lecturer in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Set up the ELAN lab
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Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University
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Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
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Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
PhD in Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Lake Tahoe, California, USA
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Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction), Birkbeck, University of London
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Fellow, John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University, NY, USA.
2016-2017
Research Associate, UCL
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Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
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Visiting Lecturer, Università di Roma LUMSA, Italy
2021 - 2024
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, City, University of London
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Leads 'Genes to Behaviour' and 'Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience'
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Affiliated with the Cognition and Development Centre
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2024-)
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Affiliated with the Cardiff Babylab
2024 - present
2005-2009
BSc in Psychology (First Class), Birkbeck, University of London
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