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The Team
DR DEAN D'SOUZA
Principal Investigator
Dean has been investigating mechanisms of developmental change and tracing the developmental trajectories of higher-level abilities such as language back to their basic-level origins in infancy, in typical and atypical populations. He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Science & Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, supervisor on PBS6 at the University of Cambridge, Chartered Psychologist, and Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
DR HANA D'SOUZA
Co-Investigator
Hana currently holds the Beatrice Mary Dale Research Fellowship in Psychology at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is interested in the development of attention and motor abilities, and how these interact over developmental time and constrain other domains in typically and atypically developing children. As part of the London Down Syndrome (LonDownS) Consortium, she has been investigating individual differences and interactions between various domains and levels of description across development in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome.
DR DAN BRADY
Collaborator
Dan has been developing scripts for one of our projects. His primary research interest is looking at motor control and learning in typically developing individuals and individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD).
He is also interested in how functional brain networks differ in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly when and how this differentiation occurs and how it translates to behavioural differences.
DR FLEUR CORBETT
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Fleur has a PhD from UCL. Fleur is currently following up the children with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome and Williams syndrome whom we previously tested in infancy and toddlerhood. Fleur is measuring the childrenās current set of abilities in order to relate their new abilities to the previous measures we took, and by doing so, discover which of the early, basic-level measures best predict later outcomes in these children.
STEFANIA CANGEMI
Erasmus Trainee
Stefania is a postgraduate student at the University of Verona in Italy. In collaboration with Hana D'Souza at the University of Cambridge, Stefania is working on observational data we collected from toddlers with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Our aim is to understand more about how toddlers with neurodevelopmental disorders and their parents interact in naturalistic settings.
SIMONE GUBBINS
Research Assistant
Simone is an MSc psychology student at Anglia Ruskin University. Under the supervision of Dr Fiona Richardson, Simone is currently using artificial neural networks to investigate sensitive periods and recovery implications after paediatric brain insult.
Simone has research interests in bilingualism, neurodevelopmental disorders, and traumatic brain injury, with a special focus on sensitive periods, and is pursuing a career as a clinical psychologist specialising in paediatric neuropsychology.
LILLY GYIMES
PhD student
Lilly is studying the role of parenting in the development of emotion understanding in Williams syndrome. She also plans to train parents to use emotion validation with their children. Lilly has an MSc in Clinical Child Psychology and volunteers for children with developmental disabilities in Cambridgeshire.
LIBBY
Honorary Scientist
Libby is an āhonorary scientistā at the ELAN lab. She visited us 7 years ago with her brother to help with our research. Libby is currently working on a school project on scientists and sent us this picture!
Past Members
ISABEL QUIROZ
Research Assistant
Isabel has been involved in running infant/toddler studies at the Birkbeck Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD), including a very large testing protocol for the London Down Syndrome Consortium (LonDownS). She is currently collecting infant eye tracking data for us, while studying for a Master's degree in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy (part-time) at Birkbeck, University of London.
RAHUL BHALE
Intern
Rahul is a student in the Seven-Year Medical Program at Boston University & Boston University School of Medicine. His interests include incorporating research in clinical settings in the fields of orthopedics and neurology.
SHANNON DILKS
Student Volunteer
Shannon has been working at a children's foster home for boys with autism. She is very interested in understanding how family structure and relationships shape typical and atypical development, and is working towards a career as a clinical child psychologist.
BESS CONWAY
Student Volunteer
Bess is a psychology student with aspirations to become a forensic psychologist. She has a particular interest in developmental psychology, especially the child development of offenders.
AMY BOWLER
Student Volunteer
Amy is a psychology student at Anglia Ruskin University. She is interested in typical and a typical child development, and is pursuing a career in paediatric neuropsychology.