Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Chair of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group researches the development of the social brain in adolescence, with a particular emphasis on social cognition, peer influence and sensitivity to social context.

Blakemore's lab, the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group, is based at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK. THe lab is focused on the development of social cognition, peer influence and decision making in the adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Their work includes experimental behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with adolescents and adults. 

Blakemore has advised government departments, authored books including Inventing Ourselves, mentored a large number of early career researchers, and has received several international awards for her research. She has been elected an Honorary Fellow of St John's College Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Association of Psychological Science, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Royal Society.