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I am a cognitive and data scientist at the University of Manchester and Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute interested in experimental pragmatics, open science, and reproducible research.

I am a senior lecturer in the Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester. After completing my undergraduate degree and Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow, I spent several years working in industry before taking up my current post. My research involves tracking people’s eye-movements every millisecond during reading to understand the processes involved in how people go from letters on a computer screen to meaning in the head. Most of my work examines discourse processing and how people build a coherent mental model corresponding to the narrative that they are reading. My most recent papers have centred on examining how people understand conditional statements and how they integrate knowledge about conditionals with their on-going discourse models.

Over the last few years, I have become increasingly engaged with the application of the principles of Open Science to research in Psychology. In 2018 I joined the UK Reproducibility Network to represent the University of Manchester. Following this, I co-founded the cross-faculty University of Manchester Open Science Working Group to provide a cross-discipline forum for those in the University who advocate open and reproducible science and to give them a chance to meet, exchange ideas, and share best practice.