Supervision

I am always enthusiastic to hear from potential PhD students. Please get in touch.

A PhD with me will involve using robust and open science methods to address theoretical ideas in cognitive science. Plus extensive mentoring on all aspects of the scholarly life, conducted in Sheffield’s best coffee shops.

I am not currently accepting applications for PhD places. My old advice page about applying is here.

Current PhD and postdoc supervision

Postdoc

  • Adam Partridge (2022 -), as Open Research Training Lead for the University of Sheffield and part of the UKRN Open Research Programme

  • Amber Copeland (2018–2025) on “Reinforcer-specific value-based decision-making in persistence of and recovery from alcohol use disorder”

  • Georgi Karadzhov (2024–2025) – “DEliBots – Deliberation Enhancing Bots” (at University of Cambridge)

PhD

  • Indro Adinugroho (2021–2025) – Investigating the Relation between Fundamentalism, Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Perceived Political Leadership toward Political Trust

  • Hazel Gordon (2021–2025) “Informing citizens? Effects of imprints on digital political advertising

  • Ioanna Spentza (2017–) – Factors affecting Everyday Problem-Solving skills in Older Adults

Second supervisor to…

  • James Myers (2022-) ‘Modelling cognitive decline in dementia patients: the impact of social isolation’

  • Vesko Varbanov (2020-) ‘Sensory processing in Autism Spectrum Conditions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’

Previous supervision and examining

As primary PhD supervisor

As a secondary PhD supervisor

  • Georgi Karadzhov (2019–2022) – “DEliBots – Deliberation Enhancing Bots” (at University of Cambridge)

  • Ozan Vardal (2018–2022) – Leveraging Big Data from eSports Games to Understand Human Skill Acquisition (At University of York)

  • Elena Petrovskaya (2019–2023) – Decision-making & e-sports (At University of York)

  • Amber Copeland (2018–2022)  – ‘Value-based decision-making and self-control in alcohol-related behaviour change and recovery from addiction’

  • August Lindemer (2018-2022) ‘Planetary Fever – The Climate Change Communication of Health Professionals.’

  • Siham Albesisi (2018 - 2023) ‘emotion regulation on ADHD children’

  • Stephanie Powell ’ The relationship and effects of young children’s use of technology’

  • Máté Gyurkovics –  ‘Affective factors in cognitive control: Behavioural and neural investigations in adults and adolescents’

  • Stephanie Armstrong ‘Relation between the Executive Function development and the reading acquisition, from a neuropsychological view’

  • Andreas Bunge (Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield), “The mental structure of prejudice”, February 2018

  • Luana Nunes, “Ethological Decision Making with Non-Stationary Inputs Using MSPRT Based Mechanisms” May 2017

  • Alvin Pastore (Department of Computer Science), “Neuroeconomics, Reinforcement learning and the equity premium puzzle” January 2017

  • Stephanie Dunn (with Elizabeth Milne and Megan Freeth), PhD 2016 ‘Electrophysiological correlates of visual search in the autism spectrum’

  • Hamideh Kerdegari (supervised with Tony Prescott), PhD 2016 ‘Head-mounted Sensory Augmentation System for Navigation in Low Visibility Environments’

  • Tom Bullock (supervised with Elizabeth Milne and Dick Eiser), 2012, ‘Crossmodal Load and Selective Attention’

Research Associate Supervision

  • Zarha Arjmandi Lari, 2022 - 2023

  • Dagmar Adamcová, 2017–2018: “Quit while you’re ahead: a surprising interaction between game performance and motivation” (Blog post, Jupyter notebook). Erasmus exchange

Post doctoral supervision

PhD Examining

  • Matthew Warburton, University of Leeds, 8 March 2024

  • Nick Simonsen, University of Nottingham, 18 October 2023

  • Danielle Beaton, University of Sheffield, 23 November, 2022

  • Emma Henderson, Kingston University London, 17 September 2021

  • Stanislava Naneva, University of Sheffield, 11 November 2020

  • Andrea Caso, Birkbeck, University of London, 1 July 2019

  • Athanasios Kokkinakis, University of York, 12 March 2019

  • Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, University of Sheffield, 15 February 2019

  • Jim Lumsden, University of Bristol, 19 October 2018

  • Conor Heapy, University of Sheffield, 4 May 2018

  • Joe Thompson, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 30 April 2018

  • Jonathan Glancy, University of Sheffield, 2 December 2016

  • Christian Beyle Sandoval, University of Sheffield, 9 October 2015

  • Maria Dagioglou, University of Birmingham, 7 April 2014

  • Jennifer Lewis, University of Sheffield, 2012

  • David Cameron, University of Sheffield, 2011

  • Alexander Cope, University of Sheffield, 2011

  • Mike Roberts, University of Sheffield, 21st October, 2010