About Fenja Ziegler

I received a BSc in Psychology from City University, London. My PhD work at the University of Nottingham was supervised by Peter Mitchell in Psychology and Gregory Currie in Philosophy. I was awarded my PhD in 2004 and stayed in Nottingham as a lecturer and research fellow. In September 2010, I moved to Lincoln University as a senior lecturer in Psychology.

Department Responsibilities

I am the module co-ordinator for Development in Context (Level 1), contribute to Research Skills 2 (Level 2), and supervise IS projects (Level 3). I also organise the Lincoln Summer Scientist week, the school’s internal research seminar programme, and am the academic administrator of the Sona Experiment Management System. I am a member of the British Psychological Society and serve as the BPS - School of Psychology liaison. I am the School’s Impact Champ: responsible for public engagement and impact.

Subject Specialism

behavioural economics, social decision making, perspective-taking, theory of mind

Qualifications

• PhD Psychology and Philosophy — 2004
• BSc(Hons) Psychology — 1999

Awards

• College Research Fund ‘Accuracy in surrogate medical decision-making’ — 2012
• UROS, ‘Curse of knowledge and desire in children’s belief reasoning?’ (with Daniel Shepherd), — 2012
• Faculty Research Fund, Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences, University of Lincoln: Economic — 2011

Professional Affiliations

• Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
• British Psychological Society (BPS)
• American Psychological Society (APS)
• European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP)

External Activities and Consultancy

Reviewer for Academic Journals:
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, British Journal of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, Infant and Child Development, Philosophical Psychology, The European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Reviewer for Grants:
The Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC.