Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

academic_advisors = doctoral_students = notable_students = known_for = awards = Plainlist| Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2006) for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith. During her PhD, she was a POST Fellow at the UK Parliament.

Research and career After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2004–2007) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2007–2013) at UCL. on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education. She co-directed the Wellcome Trust four-year PhD programme in Neuroscience at UCL and was founding editor-in-Chief of the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She serves on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and vision committee for mathematics education and science education.

Awards and honours Blakemore won the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013 and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2015. Blakemore held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2013. In March 2015 Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific. She was awarded Humanists UK's Rosalind Franklin lectureship in 2017.

In July 2018 Blakemore was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). The British Psychological Society awarded Blakemore the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in August 2018 which provides a lifetime membership to the Society. Blakemore was the winner of the 2018 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. She won Suffrage Science award in 2011. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2022. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.

Personal life Blakemore is the daughter of Colin Blakemore

In 2024, she wrote in The Times about assisted dying and her father's experience with his terminal illness.