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 - present
Reader in Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
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
Major funding awards:
2013 ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (£246,166)
2017 ERC Starting Grant (1.5m euros)
