Lesley Ferrier is secretary to Professor David Perrett and his research
team, the Perception Lab.

Duties for Prof. Perrett

Maintaining appointments diary, logging and dealing with all mail, organising travel and accommodation, tracking expenditure on class and project grants. All other work as required, including assisting Dave Perrett in his role as Director of Research for the School of Psychology.

Duties for the Perception Lab

Maintaining subject pool system: includes recruiting subjects; contacting and scheduling subjects for a variety of experiments; assigning confidential ID numbers; ensuring completion of consent forms; processing subject money and payment system.

Liaising with various media for interviews, filming, etc; liaising with various parties requesting image processing work; both of which include negotiating over terms and conditions, and ensuring necessary paperwork is complete.

Organising and maintaining regular mailings to gather images and data for research studies. Ensuring images are received, processed and returned safely and promptly.

Maintaining general and reprint filing system; ordering supplies; dealing with all telephone and email enquiries for the Perception lab.