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UKRI: "The benefits of public engagement for researchers"

Wellcome Trust: "How we engage the public"

Awards: 

• 2023 Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA) funded by Faculty of Medical School, Newcastle University. 

Selected outreach events and lectures:

• Holmes Memorial Lecture:  Lecture 1: Humans: Can you learn to train your brain? (17 January, 2024)

• Scent & Science Festival 2023 (1 July, 2023, Featherstone Castle at Haltwhistle, UK, FMS Research Excellence FMS Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA) funded public engagement event)

• "Gene, Brain and Behaviour: Power of Prediction and Autism Spectrum Disorders" Enrichment Seminars in Psychology, Newcastle University (March 2021)

• BBC Radio 3: Music Matters: Music in the Time of Our Lives (17-18 March, 2017)

• Meet the Neuroscientist: Great Exhibition of the North (Great North Museum, 24 August, 2018)

• Brain Awareness Week: Palace of Science (Wylam Brewery, 12 March, 2019)

• European Researchers Night: Supported by the European Commission as a part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme (Great North Museum, 28 September 2018)

• "Rhythmic Brain. How rhythms can help our perception and learning?": Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (June 2017)

• "Music, Language, Syntax? Sequence Learning and Neurological Disorders": Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (Dec 2016)

• "Rhythms of your brain. Keys to train your brain through sounds": Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (January 2016)

• "Is Music Just for Us? Searching for the origins of musicality through neural symphony": Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (May - June 2016)

• "Interaction between cortical responses and natural sounds in the primate auditory system using MRI-guided electrophysiology'': Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany (June 2013)

• "Human Brain Function and Behaviour": Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Japan. Neuroscience, Mental Health (Summer course, 2013)

Selected media:

• The work in 2017 was selected in the Biggest Media - PLOS Biology in the Media in 2017 with over 12,000 views and also featured in Scientific American: The Brain Has Its Own “Autofill” Function for Speech. The neural version of a texting app anticipates what comes next when we hear speech

• Newcastle University Press release: What’s coming next? Scientists identify how the brain predicts speech