The Baby Lab Team

James Alvarez

James joined the Surrey Baby Lab as a Research Officer working on a project investigating how infants and adults categorise the visual world. He is currently doing a PhD and is interested in how perception and cognition interact to enable us to infer categories in the structure of an environment, and how we can think and reason about categories flexibly.

Gabriella Sherry

Gabriella is an Undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Bath and will be spending the current year working as a research assistant at the Surrey Baby Lab. This forms part of her professional placement year, during which she aims to advance her understanding of developmental research. In particular, Gabriella is interested in the role of colour in recognition and learning and the development of perception.

Chris Delivett

Chris is currently studying for a BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Surrey.  He is presently working at the Surrey Baby Lab as a research assistant during his professional placement year. During this time Chris aims to further his understanding of the way in which infants learn to perceive their world. Ultimately he aims to broaden his knowledge of infant development and the processes involved in conducting developmental research.

Lexi Ball

Lexi is currently studying for a BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Surrey. Lexi joined the Surrey Baby Lab in 2011 when she worked as a research assistant as part of her professional placement year. This year she is conducting her final year dissertation at the Surrey Baby Lab. Through her research Lexi hopes to learn more about child development. She would like to go on to study for a PhD, with an aim to becoming a lecturer in either Developmental or Social Psychology.

Imogen Brooks

Imogen is an undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Surrey. She worked as a research assistant at the Surrey Baby Lab as part of her professional placement year and is now doing research with the lab for her final year dissertation. She is conducting a number of studies looking at colour-object associations, primarily in infants. Her aim is to further her interest and understanding of infant development, specifically in the area of perception.