Our team

Leah Drew is an Undergraduate Psychology student at Loughborough University. For her placement year, she is working as a Research Assistant with Dr. Alexandra Grandison at the Surrey Baby Lab. She hopes that this year she will continue to develop her practical skills, and her knowledge of Cognitive Developmental areas of Psychology. During the year, she hopes that the research she will help develop will develop her SPSS and data analysis skills further. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the Saxophone, reading, going to the gym, and going swimming. 

Dermot Hobby is an undergraduate Psychology student at Loughborough University, currently completing his placement year as a Research Assistant with Dr. Alexandra Grandison at the Surrey Baby Lab. He's enthusiastic about developing practical research experience and gaining a deeper insight into the processes behind developmental psychology. During his placement, Dermot aims to strengthen his skills in data analysis, particularly using SPSS and Tobii, tools he hopes to carry forward into further education. His main research interests include optimal categorisation, with a particular focus on how grammatical gender can shape cognition, an area he's looked at previously and been interested in. 

Melisa is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Surrey. After completing her Psychology BSc at Istanbul Kultur University, she found her calling in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Padova. She is interested in understanding the development of numerical cognition. During her MSc, she conducted a study on young adults, and now she is shifting her focus to working with infants and their parents to explore the neural similarities across generations. She is also a member of the Learning Brain Lab at UCL, collaborating with her colleagues to bring more contributions into the field.