
Congratulations to Dr Becky Gilbert who has recently started a new role as a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge working with Dr Matt Davis.
Researching the Wonders of Words

Congratulations to Dr Becky Gilbert who has recently started a new role as a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge working with Dr Matt Davis.

Dr Jenni Rodd will be working at the MRC CBU in Cambridge as a Visiting Scientist in November/December 2016.

The Word Lab’s very own Dr Jenni Rodd was recently featured on an episode of The Allusionist podcast entitled ‘This Is Your Brain On Language’.
Listen to the podcast here:

We are pleased to announce that Dr Jenni Rodd, the Principle Investigator in the Word Lab, has been promoted to Reader. Congratulations, Jenni!
Dr Jennifer Rodd has been appointed as the new Chair of the SLMS Education Domain. She takes over the role from Professor Joyce Harper.
Sir Prof John Tooke, Vice Provost (Health), said “I welcome this appointment and have the utmost confidence in Jenni to lead the Education Domain, and make a strong contribution to nurturing educational leadership across the School, and to facilitating a teaching and learning environment and culture that engages our best researchers in the SLMS educational mission. I am sure that the Domain will continue to go from strength to strength under her leadership.”
Congratulations Jenni on your appointment!
We are pleased to announce that Becky Gilbert has just joined the Word Lab as an ESRC-funded postdoc.
She will be working on investigating the role of learning mechanisms in resolving semantic ambiguities.
Hannnah Betts and Rachael Hulme are both funded by the ESRC. Eva Poort is funded by a UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Demonstratorship.
See here for a photo of them together with the other newbies in the department.
See here for an article on how the Trust has supported Jenni at various stages in her career.