Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974)
[ is ]Professor
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of Psychology
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and Cognitive Neuroscience
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at the University of Cambridge
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and co-director of the Wellcome Trust
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PhD Programme in Neuroscience at University College London
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Education
Blakemore was educated at Oxford High School and St John's College, Oxford
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, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
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degree in Experimental psychology
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in 1996. She completed postgraduate study at University College London
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where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert
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and Chris Frith
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Research and career
After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research
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fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety
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on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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Fellowship (2004–2007) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship
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(2007–2013) at UCL.[ She is actively involved in increasing the ]public awareness of science
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, frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools and acted as scientific consultant on the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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series ''The Human Mind'' in 2003.