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Read Prof Blakemore's piece about whether adolescents aged 16 years old should be alowed to vote, published in The Times.
Congratulations Sara for receiving the Returning Carers Scheme grant.
More info about the scheme here https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/policies-procedures/returning-carers-scheme
Congratulations Lucía for receiving the Cambridge Humanities Research grant for the next study year.
More info about the grant here (internal) https://www.ahssresearch.group.cam.ac.uk/res-fund-opps/CHRG
Funded PhD opportunity:
Funded PhD opportunity:
Developmental differences and their impact on education
Developmental differences and their impact on education
Supervisors: Professors Duncan Astle and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
In collaboration with Newham College, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit are seeking a female doctoral student for a funded PhD studentship (for someone eligible for UK fees status), to start in the following academic year (25/26).
Closing date for applications 26/07/25.
Read Prof Blakemore's piece about Exam stress and the adolescent brain, published in The Times.
Welcome to Lucía Hernandez Pena
Welcome to Lucía Hernandez Pena
Lucía has joined the lab as a postdoc: read more about her here
Congratulations Kirsten Thomas and Sara de Felice for winning the People's Choice vote during the Hackathon on Multimodal Neuroimaging for their project on Multimodal imaging hackathon toolkit!
You can read more information here:
Congratulations to Blanca for being offered a policy placement at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, UK Department of Health & Social Care.
Read her application policy brief here
Time alone heightens ‘threat alert’ in teenagers – even when connecting online
Time alone heightens ‘threat alert’ in teenagers – even when connecting online
Scientists say the findings might shed light on the link between loneliness and mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, which are on the rise in young people.
Read the coverage: BBC, The Independent, DailyMail, The Guardian, University of Cambridge, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), la Repubblica (Italy), Corriere Della Sera (Italy).
UK age of criminal responsibility
UK age of criminal responsibility
Experts suggest raising the UK age of criminal responsibility from 10 years old to 14 years old to match European law
Read the article here.
Welcome to the world Enea!
Welcome to the world Enea!
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The new Lancet Commission on Adolescent Mental Health has been published, including a call for urgent action by a global consortium of world-leading experts.
You can find more details here.
Goodbye and good luck, Stan!
Goodbye and good luck, Stan!
We say goodbye to Stan, who will be working as a research assistant for the Growing up Together in Society project, led by Prof Eveline Crone.
Thank you for your time with us and good luck with this new project!
You can find out more details about the GUTS project here.
Goodbye and good luck, Alex!
Goodbye and good luck, Alex!
We say goodbye to Alex, who is starting an exciting PhD project at the SGDP Center (KCL) under the supervision of Prof Francesca Happé and Prof Emily Simonoff.
Thank you for your time with us and good luck as you embark on your PhD journey!
Hip hip - hooray!
Hip hip - hooray!
Congratulations to Dr Sara de Felice on being awarded the 2024 EPS Frith Prize!
Huge congratulations Sarah-Jayne!
Huge congratulations Sarah-Jayne!
Sarah-Jayne has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Letter in the Guardian concerning a call for graduated licenses for young people
Read it here
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore discussed social media algorithms and young people’s brains and minds on BBC Radio 4
Emily Towner from the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience group is in the Cambridge University women’s clay pigeon shooting team, who are officially national champions, and defeated all the other universities at the national championships!
Read Blanca's Psychologist magazine blog post on the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition Real Families: Stories of Change, curated by Susan Golombok.
"What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones"
"What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones"
Read Sarah-Jayne's interview with TES magazine
Welcome to Sara De Felice
Welcome to Sara De Felice
Sara has joined the lab as a postdoc: read more about her here
Read Blanca's blog post on her recent research here.
Congratulations to Dr Jovita Leung on passing her PhD viva!
The Blakemore Lab were visited by Learnus to create this video, featuring interviews with multiple lab members
"Don't blame the young for being moody"
Read Sarah-Jayne's piece on nurturing teenage minds for the Guardian.
Congratulations to Dr Gabriele Chierchia, a long -time postdoctoral research fellow within the Blakemore Lab, on starting a lectureship at the Università Di Pavia.
Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health
Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health
Read our new paper published in the JCPP, co-authored by Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and Jack Andrews
Read the news coverage in the University of Cambridge and in the Independent
Sarah-Jayne elected Honorary Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
Read more here.
Sarah-Jayne has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences.
"New Fellow Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FMedSci’s research on the adolescent brain using behavioural and neuroimaging methods has influenced policy on education, mental health and criminal justice."
Read more here.
Letter in today’s Times arguing that the Covid-19 Inquiry must include the effect of the pandemic on children and young people.
Read Blanca's interview with Gates Cambridge on
how can teenagers build resilience
Welcome to Giacomo, our new postdoc
BlakemoreLab research mentioned in parliamentary debate on education assessment reform
Congratulations to Saz Ahmed who, after 4 years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the BlakemoreLab, will take up a new job as Research Manager in the Mental Health team at Wellcome.
Sarah-Jayne was awarded the IUPsyS Quadrennial Advancement in Psychological Science Prize 2020 for contributions of high international reputation that represent a major advancement in psychological science.
Read more here.
Congratulations to Amy on her Programme Track Leader position at the CBU.
Congratulations to Emily for passing her first year PhD viva.
Congratulations to Sophie for passing her first year PhD viva.
Welcome Lydia Gabriela Speyer
Welcome Lydia Gabriela Speyer
Lydia has recently joined the lab and will be working on the CaM-App study.
Read more about her here.
Well done Dr Jack
Well done Dr Jack
Jack has passed his PhD viva with no corrections!
Cambridge Mind App (CaM-App)
Cambridge Mind App (CaM-App)
We are now launching our new study investigating the impact of social distancing on loneliness and mental health worldwide.
This project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Read their latest article "What helps against loneliness?" here.
Find out more about CaM-App here.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Kirsten is our new Research Assistant who will be based at the University of Cambridge.
Kirsten is our new Research Assistant who will be based at the University of Cambridge.
Read more about her here.
Congratulations to Jack Andrews, who has arrived in Sydney to start a postdoc on adolescent mental health, with Drs Susanne Schweizer and Louise Mewton at UNSW.
Congratulations to Jack Andrews, who has arrived in Sydney to start a postdoc on adolescent mental health, with Drs Susanne Schweizer and Louise Mewton at UNSW.
Sean Sanders interviewed Sarah-Jayne Blakemore about brain and social development for the Jacobs Foundation BOLD blog.
Sean Sanders interviewed Sarah-Jayne Blakemore about brain and social development for the Jacobs Foundation BOLD blog.
Congratulations to Blanca on being awarded the Cambridge International Scholarship 2021 to do her PhD in the lab starting in September 2021!
Congratulations to Blanca on being awarded the Cambridge International Scholarship 2021 to do her PhD in the lab starting in September 2021!
Congratulations to Professor Blakemore for being included in the shortlist of the Times Education Supplement (TES) Person of the Year 2020!
Congratulations to Gabe on being offered a Teaching Associate position in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge!
Congratulations to Gabe on being offered a Teaching Associate position in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge!
Read Professor Blakemore and Professor Tamsin Ford's piece on GCSEs and what we know about adolescent brain development and mental health posted on Rethinking Assessment
Read Professor Blakemore and Professor Tamsin Ford's piece on GCSEs and what we know about adolescent brain development and mental health posted on Rethinking Assessment
Congratulations to Professor Blakemore for Inventing Ourselves receiving the BPS Book Award 2020.
Congratulations to Professor Blakemore for Inventing Ourselves receiving the BPS Book Award 2020.
"Winning the Popular Science category, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain draws upon research carried out by author and neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore to explain the common behaviours of adolescents..."
read more about this award here.
Read Prof Blakemore's short interview in the Cambridge University Tackling Covid-19 series, focusing on social isolation and adolescent mental health
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore
A very warm welcome to our new lab members!
A very warm welcome to our new lab members!
Emily Towner has joined the lab as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
Sophie Fielmann has joined the lab as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
Dr Livia Tomova has joined the lab as a Research Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
Congratulations to Dr Suzanne Schweizer for the birth of her baby daughter, Lily!
Congratulations to Jessica Bone for submitting her thesis and for starting a postdoc with Daisy Fancourt at UCL!
Congratulations to Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore for being elected a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science
Congratulations to Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore for being elected a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science
Written evidence submitted by CUSP
Written evidence submitted by CUSP
Written evidence to the Education Committee reviewing the impact of Covid-19 on education and children’s services, from Cambridge University Cross-Disciplinary Special Interest Group for Policy related to children and young people.
"The delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a 'national disaster' that is putting their mental health at risk"
"The delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a 'national disaster' that is putting their mental health at risk"
Read BBC's report on the Letter to the editor published in The Sunday Times
Read the Letter to the editor: School shut-out is crushing children signed by more than 100 leading Psychologists in the UK urging education secretary, Gavin Williamson, to reconsider.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/letter-to-the-editor-school-shut-out-is-crushing-children
"Reduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say"
"Reduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say"
Paper on social distancing and adolescent mental health (The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health) on BBC
Science, Policy & Pandemics
Science, Policy & Pandemics
Dr Rob Doubleday invites Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Paul Ramchandani to speak about how the pandemic is impacting wellness in children and adolescents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mbV99cdLA&feature=youtu.be
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's Interview on The Naked Scientists
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's Interview on The Naked Scientists
Sarah-Jayne discusses the Teenagers and Social Isolation with Phil Sansom
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/teenagers-and-social-isolation
New review paper relevant to COVID19 crisis!
New review paper relevant to COVID19 crisis!
In this short review we discuss social distancing and adolescent mental health, and social media as a potentially mitigating factor.
Read it here!
Congratulations Jovita!
Congratulations Jovita!
Congratulations to Jovita Leung for passing her MPhil-PhD upgrade. Very well done!
Age of Criminal Responsibility
Letter to The Times on the 27/12/2019
Lecture on the Adolescent Brain
Lecture on the Adolescent Brain
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore will be giving a lecture on the adolescent brain during the Cambridge Science Festival on March 16th at 19 30. More information about the event here.
UPDATE: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19
Merry Christmas and Goodbye Emma!
Merry Christmas and Goodbye Emma!
Special Christmas lunch with games and a warm farewell to Dr Emma Jayne Kilford. Congratulations on your Post doc position at the Clinical Psychology department. We wish you all the best!
You can read about her new position at our People page.
Congratulations Blanca!
Blanca made the Dean's List for her brilliant work during her Master's. Well done!
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who came to the farewell party and for all the lovely gifts!
The BlakemoreLab has moved to Cambridge, as Sarah-Jayne has taken up a Chair in Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Welcome Blanca!
We welcome Blanca who has joined our lab as the new Research Assistant.
Goodbye Cait
Goodbye Cait
After being in the lab with us for three years, Cait Griffin has recently started working as a UX Researcher. Good luck!
Several members of the lab were recently interviewed by the Swiss radio channel SRF. You can listen to the interview in full here
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's interview on Woman's Hour
Listen to Sarah-Jayne's interview on Woman's Hour
Sarah-Jayne discusses the development of the adolescent brain with Jenni Murray (10 minutes in)
Read Sarah-Jayne's interview in The Times
Read Sarah-Jayne's interview in The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03f340c0-49a6-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44
Jack receives Sully Scholarship
Jack receives Sully Scholarship
Congratulations to Jack on being awarded the Sully Scholarship, which is a PALS prize for PhD students who have excelled in their upgrade report and interview.
Inventing Ourselves
Inventing Ourselves
Congratulations to Sarah-Jayne on winning the Royal Society Insight Investment Prize for "Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain"!
Congratulations Delia!
Congratulations Delia!
Delia has been awarded the British Neuroscience Association Doctorate Prize 2018
No Corrections!
No Corrections!
Huge congratulations to Dr Emma Kilford on passing her viva.
Welcome back to Emma Kilford
Welcome back to Emma Kilford
Emma will be working as a postdoc on our recently awarded GCRF Global Impact Accelerator award 'Developing a scalable treatment for depression in adolescents in rural South Africa'
Congratulations Maxi!
Congratulations Maxi!
Well done to Maxi on being awarded a distinction in his MSc!
Congratulations Sarah-Jayne!
Congratulations Sarah-Jayne!
Congratulations to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on winning the the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018.
Watch the 2018 award ceremony, presented by Professor Brian Cox with the link below.
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/10/book-award/
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