Dr Hannah J Stewart – Head Pelican
I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology. I am a paediatric auditory neuroscientist and am interested in the effect of everyday hearing technology on children with normal hearing and hearing loss. Specifically, on their cognition and academic ability. I use neuroimaging techniques to understand the underlying mechanisms of speech and non-speech listening skills. I am also exploring how to bring gaming and virtual reality to paediatric hearing and listening research.
I completed my PhD at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research looking at auditory attention in children. During my PhD I won ERASMUS funding to go to the Rotman Institute in Toronto to work with Dr Claude Alain and learn how to use EEG and MRI. This grew my love for neuroimaging and led me to postdocs at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with Professor David Moore, where I led the MRI work, and UCL with Professor Stuart Rosen.
My work has been funded by UKRI, EPSRC, MRC, ERASMUS ACN, The Oticon Foundation, RNiD and NSF.
Outside of science I am a big baker, cakes and puddings especially. Lately I have been tearing my house apart and am slowly putting it back together again.
Marianna Muszynska
Research assistant: VR Programmer
I am currently a PhD student at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development in the Physical Cognition Lab under the supervision of Dr. Ori Ossmy. I am interested in cognitive, neural and behavioural patterns that children with ADHD exhibit while solving problems. We use embodied virtual reality in the form of cartoon-like games to explore these patterns and individual differences, such as perception-action strategies children use to solve embodied problems or how they adapt to changing environments.
I have completed my BA in Cultural Studies with Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Lodz, Poland where my research project focused on analysing the impact of screens and other digital effects on the audience during the musical performance. Further I completed my second undergraduate at Birkbeck, BSc in Biomedicine with Biophysics, and finally my MSc in Psychology, also at Birkbeck where I focused on ADHD and its impact on action planning in adults.
If not science, you can find me either horse riding, running or really badly playing the violin.
El Smith
Research assistant: James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership
Megan Griffiths
Research assistant
I am an undergraduate student of psychology with a particular interest in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Specifically, I am fascinated by the biology of the brain and how it works to allow us to live our lives, from learning language to regulating our emotions and so on. I am also very interested in how atypical development and disorders can be studied in the brain.
In my personal life I enjoy reading fiction and baking. Something particularly delicious that I enjoy making is kladdkaka, a Swedish dessert that is a cross between a brownie and a chocolate cake!
Faye Brookes
Research assistant
I am an undergraduate Psychology student at Lancaster University. Within psychology I have a particular interest in Neuroscience. In my spare time, I am part of the baking society executive and enjoy reading thriller books.
Amelia Simmonds
Research assistant
I am an undergraduate psychology student who’s interested in developmental psychology particularly atypical development. Specifically, the ways in which learning disorders can negatively impact a child’s experience of mainstream education.
When I’m not studying, I enjoy doing trampolining and playing netball. I also love doing jigsaw puzzles particularly challenging ones with over 3,000 pieces.
Erin Rothwell-Wood
Research assistant
I am an undergraduate Psychology student at Lancaster University, with a particular interest in Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience. More specifically, I’m interested in how adverse childhood experiences can impact our neurobiology.
Outside of psychology, I enjoy playing and watching netball and spending time with my dog, Ziggy and my cat, Lucy.
Dayna Tryer
Research assistant
Paediatric Listening, Cognition and Neuroscience
The PELiCAN Lab is associated with Lancaster University’s BabyLab.
Contact us at: PELICAN@lancaster.ac.uk