Team

Dr Marina Bazhydai

Marina is the Principal Investigator for the Curiosity Battery project. She holds the Lecturer position at the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University and is affiliated with the Developmental Psychology research group and the Infant and Child Development Lab. She completed her PhD in developmental psychology at Lancaster University, obtained an Ed.M. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, B.A. and M.A. degrees from Belarus State University, worked as an educator, and held research positions at Harvard and Yale Universities in the USA.

Dr Lily FitzGibbon

Lily is the co-investigator for the Curiosity Battery project and leads the research team at the University of Stirling. She holds a lecturer position at the in the School of Psychology at the University of Stirling where her research focuses on children's curiosity, play, and decision making. She is affiliated with the Cognition and Health Psychology research groups at the University of Stirling and with the Outdoor Play Research Centre at the University of Exeter. She studied for her BA, MA, and PhD between the Psychology and Philosophy departments at the University of Sheffield before taking postdoctoral positions at the University of Birmingham, the University of Southern California, the University of Reading and the University of Exeter.

Dr Mathilde H. Prenevost

Mathilde is Lead Researcher with the Curiosity Battery project and is employed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on developing and validating the Curiosity Battery. She completed her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Oslo, where she studied children’s sudden insight. These two lines of work reflect her broader interests in epistemic emotions and the interplay between theory and measurement in psychological science.

Morana Mladic

Morana is a first-year PhD student with the Curiosity Battery Project at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on the relationship between curiosity and learning in children. She completed her BSc at the University of Stirling and her MSc in Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the factors that influence children’s cognitive and social development, and the role of education in shaping these outcomes.

Dan Murray

Dan is a first-year PhD student with the Curiosity Battery Project at Lancaster University. His research focuses on the relationship between curiosity and wellbeing in childhood. He completed his BSc at Manchester Metropolitan University before joining the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University to study for an MSc. Broadly, he is interested in individual differences in children’s cognitive and social development, particularly as they relate to outcomes in educational and clinical contexts.

Javeria E. Khan

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