Richard Cook
Social Perception Research Group
University Education:
2004-2007
BSc Psychology (First Class), University College London
Highly commended by Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences for outstanding academic achievement
2007-2008
MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology (Distinction), University College London
2008-2012
PhD in Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London.
"Visuomotor Correspondence in Imitation and Self-Recognition" pdf
Supervised by Cecilia Heyes (University of Oxford) and Alan Johnston (UCL); examined by David Shanks (UCL) and Antonia Hamilton (University of Nottingham)
Positions Held:
February 2012 - August 2013
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, City University London
August 2013 - August 2017
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, City University London
September 2017 - December 2022
Reader of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
January 2023 - present
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Leeds
February 2018 - present
Honorary Research Fellow, University of York
Awards and honours:
2013 Identified as an ESRC Future Research Leader
2014 Awarded the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology
2015 Identified as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
2018 Awarded the Twenty-Sixth Prize Lecture by the Experimental Psychology Society
2018 Awarded the Seventeenth Elizabeth Warrington Prize by the British Neuropsychological Society
2020 Awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society
Major funding awards:
2013 ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (£246,166)
2017 ERC Starting Grant (1.5m euros)
