Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Janice Murray

From go to whoa: Perceiving the world

About Professor Janice Murray's research
Janice’s career-wide research interest has focused on human perception, from early questions regarding newborn babies’ understanding of speech sounds through to object and face perception. Most recently her work has focussed on the changes in our ability to recognise facial emotions that accompany normal adult ageing, and the implications of those changes for social and cognitive function. Janice joined the Department of Psychology in 1991 and has supervised 40 postgraduate students to completion.

Janice has been the Associate Dean (Academic), Sciences since 2013, and the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Sciences since 2017. In her senior leadership roles, Janice leads and supports strategic developments relating to academic matters at both the Divisional and University levels. She led the development of the MAppSc and the new multidisciplinary degrees, the BACom and BComSc. This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.