Speaker Profile

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, PhD

Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group; Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Author, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain (2018); Co-Author, “Development of a Gamified Cognitive Training App “Social Brain Train” to Enhance Adolescent Mental Health” (2022, Wellcome Open Research), “Navigating the Social Environment in Adolescence: The Role of Social Brain Development” (2021, Biological Psychiatry), “The Effects of Social Deprivation on Adolescent Development and Mental Health” (2020, Lancet Child and Adolescent Health), and The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education (2005)

Sarah-JayneBlakemore, PhD

Past Talks

Teaching Social Brains
Strategies to Promote Student Connections, Collaboration, Cooperation, and Belonging
How Early Experiences Mold Learners
The Sheraton NY Times Square, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
April 21-23, 2023
Learning How to Learn
Applying Learning Sciences for Deeper Reasoning, Retention, and Reflection
Social Brains ghj_amp Classrooms
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
November 22-24, 2019