My work is funded by a 1+3 award from the ESRC, supervised by Professor Malcolm MacLeod, and focuses on applied cognitive research.

My current research aims to clarify the link between memory inhibition and aging. Inhibitory control enables us to exclude irrelevant information from consciousness. The impairment of this highly adaptive mechanism may underlie many of the memory difficulties seen in older adults. However, recent research suggests that inhibitory control can be improved with training, and therefore that memory decline is not inevitable. Ultimately, our research aims to lead to a future training intervention which can improve memory in older adults.

More broadly, I am also interested in applications of memory research in regard to autobiographical memory and clinical conditions including PTSD, as well as false memories, mediators of the memorability of faces, and comparative approaches to the study of cognitive evolution.