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Carl Hodgetts

Carl Hodgetts

Lead Coordinator - Beautiful Minds

I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway. I use brain imaging to understand how we create memories and process the spatial world. I am passionate about making neuroscience and psychology accessible to anyone, particularly groups who are underserved and underrepresente…

Natalie Starkey

Natalie Starkey

Lead Coordinator - Beautiful Minds

I am the Research Coordinator for the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway. My background is in psychological research methods, with a focus on cognitive and forensic psychology. I am passionate about research impact and community engagement, especially with underrepresented communities.

Rosie Drysdale

Rosie Drysdale

Team member

I am a PhD candidate in Psychology, researching how babies learn about their body through multisensory information including touch and heartbeats. When I’m not doing fun experiments with babies I enjoy crocheting or cycling around London. I’m looking forward to connecting the local community with sc…

Sam Berry

Sam Berry

Team member

Originally setting myself up for a career in the music industry, I soon realised this wasn’t for me and so took a drastic swerve to study psychology. Although I partly chose this subject because I didn’t know what else to do, I quickly fell in love and have been studying and researching human behavi…

Elise Gear

Elise Gear

Team member

I am a second year PhD candidate at Royal Holloway looking at non-clinical presentations of paranoia. My current research study utilises eye tracking in virtual reality and mindfulness to explore how we form interpretations of people in social situations. Given that my research explores experiences …

Irena Arslanova

Irena Arslanova

Team member

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway. I study how signals from within our bodies (like the beating of the heart) influence the brain. I am particularly interested in how the brain-body interplay gives rise to our experience of time. I want to make people o…