Network of Partners

The Centre is drawing together a multidisciplinary network of Academic and non-HEI partners to build the field of Attention Studies. The Centre is global in its reach and we welcome collaborators from all fields.

We are currently building the network and our partnerships. The links below take you to a work in progress.

  • Agnew-Blais, Jessica, Department of Psychology, Queen Mary University London, UK. Agnew-Blais trained as an epidemiologist with a focus on psychiatric disorders. Her research investigates how genetic and environmental factors contribute to mental health over the life course. More specifically, her research examines influences on the course of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across development, especially the persistence and possible emergence of ADHD after childhood. Using longitudinal, population-based cohort studies, her work takes a developmental and life course approach understanding mental health and well-being.
  • Bar-Haim, Yair, Adler Center for Development and Psychopathology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director, Center for Development and Psychopathology, President Elect, Association for Cognitive Bias Modification (ACBM). His research focuses on emotional, cognitive, neural, and genetic mechanisms underlying anxiety and stress-related disorders.  His primary effort has been on translation of basic cognitive and cognitive-neuroscience into effective evidence-supported therapies and prevention programs for anxiety and PTSD.  A major focus of his work has been on basic attentional processes and their association with psychopathology.
  • Brendecke, Arndt, Institute of Early Modern History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Brendecke is a German historian who currently holds the Chair of Early Modern History at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich and leads a collaborative research center on “The cultures of vigilance”. His research has concentrated on the emergence of the European culture of time, the practices of knowledge production, and on the structures of power and information in early colonial empires. As a former professor of Latin American History at the University of Bern, his teaching focuses not only on the early modern history of European, but also on the history of the Caribbean and colonial Latin America.  His publications include “The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge” (2016), “Die Jahrhundertwenden: Eine Geschichte ihrer Wahrnehmung und Wirkung (1999) and “Attention and Vigilance as Subjects of Historiography. An Introductory Essay”. In: Storia della Storiografia, vol. 74, 2018, pp. 17-27.
  • Brittan, Francesca, Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Burnett, D. Graham, Department of History, Princeton University, USA.
  • Costall, Alan, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK. Costall is emeritus professor of theoretical psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He was based at the University of Southampton for many years and began his career at UCL. He has held fellowships at Manchester and Uppsala and has also been Guest Professor at Copenhagen. He has been extending ‘the ecological approach’ beyond its original home in the study of perception. He has also been engaged in historical research to help explain how modern psychology has ended up in some very strange places, most notably ‘Theory of Mind.’ His books include Against cognitivism, Michotte’s experimental phenomenology of perception, and Against theory of mind.
  • Coster, Samantha, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK. Coster worked as a Research Fellow at King’s College London and was founder member of ASK core team.  She holds research positions within University College London and several NHS Trusts. She has a background in Health Psychology and received her doctorate in Health Studies from King’s College London. Her research focuses on interprofessional education, professional role development, the well-being of healthcare students, and interventions to improve quality of care.
  • Cultures of Vigilance, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
  • Daston, Lorraine, Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany. Daston is Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her work in the history of science has returned again and again to the role of attention: how attention singles out some objects and not others as worthy of inquiry, how intense attention can infuse even the lowliest insects with moral and aesthetic values, and how scientific observation disciplines collective habits of attention.
  • Hardy, Wojciech, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland. Hardy is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Digital Economy Lab (DELab), Association for Cultural Economics Poland (ACEP) and LabFam research groups. He's the Principal Investigator of the project "Economic analysis of competition for attention - the case of digital entertainment sectors", which focuses on the ways attention economics have become key to understanding the competition between digital entertainment sectors and the strategies of the involved firms. The project team involves Sophia Gänßle (Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication; Erasmus University Rotterdam); Bartosz Jusypenko, Michał Paliński and Satia Rożynek (Faculty of Economic Sciences; University of Warsaw).
  • Hogan, Bernie, Oxford Internet Institute, UK. Hogan is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and the Director of the MSc in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute. His work focuses on how social networks and representations of identities online can be better understood and deployed towards health and wellbeing. He is a longtime collaborator on Network Canvas, a software suite for collecting network data for public health with almost a decade of funding from the US NIH.
  • Huber, Irmtraud, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, Universität Konstanz, Germany. Huber is a Professor for British Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany and one of the coordinators of the Form in Dialogue research network. She has published monographs on contemporary fiction (Literature after Postmodernism 2014; Present-tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction 2016) and Victorian poetry (Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry, 2023). Her main research interest lies in the epistemology of aesthetic forms, i.e. in the ways in which specific forms condition thought and knowledge, by shaping different kinds of attention and experience. Currently she is exploring a new project on aspects of attention and concepts of time in computer games.
  • Marno, David, Department of English, University of California Berkeley, USA.
  • Mondloch, Kate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, USA. Prof. Modloch is interested in theories of spectatorship and subjectivity, and in research methods that bridge the sciences and the humanities. She is the author of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Art of Attention: Body-Mind Awareness and Contemporary Art.
  • Palmeirim, Bernardo Manzoni, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Palmeirim is a lecturer in English at the University of Lisbon, where he also teaches Creative Writing in English and 20-21st century American History and Culture. He is a researcher in American Studies at ULICES (University of Lisbon Center for English Studies). He holds a PhD in Theory of Literature (ULisbon) titled “What is Poetic Attention” (2014), on the development of the concept of attention within philosophy (of religion and of language) and poetry. His research interests also include American short forms (poetry, short stories, flash fiction, songs) and US cultural history. He is a songwriter (NOZ) with extensive music collaborations, including an awarded spoken-word research project (Walt’z Intrepid Sailors). His publications include “Stylizations of Being: Attention as an Existential Hub in Heidegger and Christian Mysticism” in Open Theology (De Gruyter, 2020) and “Attention” in the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer, 2019).
  • Pettitt, Clare, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • Posner, Michael, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, USA.  
  • Prinz, Jesse, Interdisciplinary Science Studies, Philosophy Lab, City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Director of Interdisciplinary Science Studies, and Principle Investigator of the Philosophy Lab at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.  His research focuses on the perceptual, emotional, and cultural foundations of human psychology, arts, and sciences.  He is author of over 100 articles and several books: Furnishing the Mind (MIT), Gut Reactions (Oxford), The Emotional Construction of Morals (Oxford), Beyond Human Nature (Penguin), and The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience (Oxford).  His forthcoming projects include The Moral Self, Works of Wonder, Psycho-Ontology, and The Genealogy of Western Values.
  • Raz, Carmel, Max Planck Institute for Emprical Aesthetics, Germany.
  • Risam, Roopika, Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College, USA.
  • Sahakian, Barbara, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • Singh, Harjiv, Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. Orlando Magic Basketball Club, Orlando, USA. Singh is currently the Performance and Development Scientist for the Orlando Magic NBA team and also serves as a Lecturer in Kinesiology at UNLV. His research examines the effects of a performer’s attentional focus on optimizing motor learning and performance. He is author to articles published in journals such as Human Movement Science, European Journal of Sport Science, and the Journal of Sports Sciences. He is also currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Motor Learning and Development and an associate editor in sport psychology for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. In addition, he has served on the executive committee for the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA). Through these experiences, he hopes to understand how the brain and body correlate seamlessly to coordinate skilled movement behavior.
  • Swanson, James, Child Development Center, Pediatrics School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA.
  • Valletti, Tommaso, Department of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College London, UK. Valletti is Professor of Economics both at Imperial College and at the University of Rome. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of market power in markets, particularly digital ones. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission between 2016 and 2019. He is currently a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. For a list of publications, please see http://ideas.repec.org/f/pva219.html.
  • Viragh, Atti, Department of English, University of California Berkeley, USA. Viragh is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the emergence of phenomenology and hermeneutics in the later nineteenth-century and situates Victorian literature within these philosophical developments. His article “The Grammar of Instress: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Philosophers of Mind” appeared in New Literary History and received the 2019 Ralph Cohen Prize. His work on Walter Pater is forthcoming from ELH, and he has also written and presented on writers including Alice Meynell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bram Stoker, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf.
  • Whiteley, Ella, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, UK. Whiteley is a Fellow in Philosophy at the LSE, and before that worked on 'The Invisible Labour Project' at Cambridge University, where they completed their PhD. Their research focuses on the philosophy of 'salience', which broadly refers to the character of 'standing out as prominent'. More specifically, they are interested in how one can normatively assess patterns of salience in attention and language. Can one harm a person or social group simply by having the wrong property of theirs salient in one's attention, for example? Their recent publication 'Harmful Salience Perspectives', in 'Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry' (2022, ed. S. Archer) seeks to answer this question.
  • Ajana, Btihaj, Department of Digital Humanities
  • Alt, Elisa, Business School
  • Borgo, Rita, Department of Informatics
  • Bounegru, Liliana, Department of Digital Humanities
  • Calo, Susana, Department of English Language and Literature
  • Carlisle, Clare, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
  • Cavatorta, Elisa, Department of Political Economy
  • Charman,  Tony, Department of Psychology Charman joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London in 2013 after having been Professor at both the UCL Institute of Child Health and Institute of Education. His main research interest is the investigation of social cognitive development in children with autism and the clinical application of this work via screening, diagnostic, epidemiological, intervention, and infant sibling studies.  He is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and works in a specialist service for children with autism and complex neurodevelopmental conditions at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and over 30 book chapters.
  • Collins, Michael, Department of English
  • Coster, Samantha, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care
  • Devlin, Kate, Department of Digital Humanities Devlin is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on intimacy with (and intimacy mediated by) tech and its social and ethical impacts.  A lot of her work is about debunking myths around people’s fears of tech, and about encouraging new narratives. She is intrigued by the negative narratives around attention and technology – a hyped “toxicity”, requiring “detox”. She is curious about extended cognition, and her PhD many years ago was rooted in visual psychophysics around human perception and attention in computer graphics.
  • Dhillon, Amrita, Department of Political Economy Dhillon's training is in game theory and formal models of political economy. She is interested to see how political campaigns rely on voter in/attention and am interested in learning more through collaborating .
  • Ding, Can, Department of English
  • Dommett, Ellie, Department of Psychology Dommett is a neuroscientist with a background in animal models of ADHD and a particular interest in whether the superior colliculus plays a role in this condition. Her research at King’s now focuses on non-drug treatments for the condition, considering cardio and non-cardio exercise as well as dietary interventions.
  • ffrench, Patrick, Department of French  Works on 20th-century French thought, literature and film, and on critical theory. His interest in Attention Studies includes work on what might be called ‘pathologies’ of attention such as convulsion and absorption. This has informed publications on the role of the cinema in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and in the work of Roland Barthes, and current research on modes of attention in close reading and in relation to the cinema of extreme duration.
  • Fort, Joseph, Department of Music Fort's current research asks how the somatic knowledge of the minuet dance can inform our musical understanding of this genre—developing a phenomenological mode of attention that allows for ‘somatic enquiry’ into the minuet. Related topics include: listening as an active vs. passive process; issues of historical remove when attempting attentional attitudes of the past; movement and dance as a form of attentive listening; investment of bodies in listening experiences and motor intentionality; non-linguistic meaning; pleasure.
  • Geoghegan, Bernard, Department of Digital Humanities Geoghegan is a media theorist and historian of technology. His research and publications in attention studies examine how military imperatives for vigilance shaped the design of digital interfaces and the temporalities of networked communication. His website is www.bernardg.com.
  • Grassi, Simona, Economics, Business School 
  • Gray, Jonathan, Department of Digital Humanities Gray is interested in how digital data, digital methods and digital infrastructures may shape, constrain, extend and delimit attention in different ways – including in relation to how we attend to transnational issues with more-than-human scales and temporalities such as climate change, species extinction and corporate tax avoidance. He is also interested in the histories and social lives of different ways of conceptualising, defining, operationalising and attending to attention in different fields of research and practice.
  • Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Department of Political Economy
  • Head, Matthew, Department of Music
  • Hirsch, Colette, Department of Psychology Hirsch a clinical psychologist who identifies key mechanisms that predict and maintain psychological problems.  Her research has shown that both the active deployment of attentional control resource needed to focus on and shift between tasks is depleted when people worry or are experiencing psychological disorders.  There is also a tendency to have attention involuntarily captured by negative or threatening information in those with emotional problems.  She adapts psychological interventions to target these unhelpful attention processes in order to improve wellbeing and reduce distress.
  • Horta Reis da Silva, Tiago, Department of Adult Nursing  Silva is a Senior Teaching Fellow in King’s College London, Adult Nursing Department with more than a decade of experience in Caring in different countries. Silva specializes in Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing and Nursing Care of Older Adult and regularly participates in national and international projects related with these areas. Silva has a BSc in Nursing and in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a MSc in Traditional Chinese Medicine and holds a fellowship in Higher Education Academy. He is interested in how attention can impact in the Nursing profession and the shortage of staff can impact in the safety of the service users and what strategies might impact in the attention spectrum of the students. To unify my two natures, he would like to explore how the Chinese Philosophy (medicine) explores attention.
  • Hughes, Alicia, Department of Psychological Medicine
  • James, Scott, Department of Political Economy James's work relates to the role of ideas, discourse and narratives in economic policy making. His interest in attention studies relates to how policy makers interpret their interests and preferences through ideational filters, construct ‘stories’ about the economy, communicate their actions to different audiences, and cognitive and normative processes of learning over time.
  • King, Sally, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine  King is the founder of Menstrual Matters, a non-profit evidence-based online information hub about the role of the menstrual cycle in health and wellbeing. Her popular blog looks at how menstrual taboos and myths directly contribute to gender inequalities. Before specialising in menstrual health research in 2016, Sally spent nearly a decade evaluating social policies and interventions for International Development and human rights organisations. She has a master’s degree in research methods (qualitative and quantitative) and is currently completing a PhD in Medical Sociology at King’s College London, on the topic of Premenstrual Syndrome.
  • Klingler-Vidra, Robyn, Department of International Development Klingler-Vidra is Senior Lecturer at King’s College London in the Department of International Development. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018). She holds a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant (2019-2022) and convenes the BA in International Development at King’s College London.  Robyn’s research focuses on innovation, economic growth and social inclusion.
  • McDonald, Paul, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries Paul works on issues on attention in relation to media industries.
  • Maynard, Jonathan Leader, Department of Political Economy Maynard is a Lecturer in International Politics, and combines political science, political theory, history and political psychology in studying the role of ideology in political violence, armed conflict and extremism. His interest in attention thus focuses primarily on its role in drawing individuals to distinct ideological narratives and inclinations, particularly in explaining attitudes towards violence and as a dynamic in both individual and collective radicalisation.
  • Montecchi, Matteo, Business School Montecchi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing and the director of the International Marketing MSc (Executive) at King’s Business School. Trained as a marketing researcher, Matteo uses consumer-based insights and theories to inform and direct managerial practice. His research investigates consumers’ and other stakeholders’ interaction with digital technologies and digital brand touchpoints, focusing on how this interaction shapes value perceptions and behaviours. This includes artificial intelligence applications to retail practices, voice-activated commerce, blockchain-enabled transparency, and the diffusion of fake news on social media. He is also interested in the factors that lead to the strategic positioning of fashion and luxury brands and in regulatory issues associated with the distribution of luxury products.
  • Moore, Martin, Department of Political Economy
  • Naylor, James, Department of English Naylor's current research interest lies in the origins of current attention capital strategies – specifically, in late 18th century celebrity practice – and thus earlier attempts by individuals to monetise personal reputation by systematically getting people to pay attention to them.  His first degrees were in psychology and occupational psychology, and so he is naturally interested in the intersection between the psychology of attention and its literary use and interpretation.  In his business career he concentrates on communications work, which is typically concerned with getting and then making the best use of the attention of people within and beyond large organisations.
  • Neate, Timothy, Department of Informatics Neate is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher and a Lecturer in Computer Science. He is interested in understanding human capabilities and designing multimodal technologies that complement our limited attentional resources. His work utilises co-design, where he involves end-users directly in the design process of technologies.  His research aims to simplify complex attention demands from computer interfaces through multimodal interactions – i.e., multiple ways of interacting – to make computers more accessible for a range of users.  Through this, he has developed a range of novel multimodal tactile, tangible, auditory and visual interfaces for novel interactions with technology, media and data.
  • Norman, Ian, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care Norman is Professor of Mental Health and was founder member of ASK core team. FNMPC was an early adopter of mindfulness training, which shifts attentional focus to the present moment, and Norman is leading research exploring the potential of mindfulness training to improve nurse wellbeing and patient care. He who has used mindfulness techniques within his cognitive behavioural psychotherapy practice, is an established researcher in nursing education. A key research objective is to widen opportunities for nursing students to learn mindfulness within their intensive curriculum. Digital learning offers one solution, combined with embedding mindfulness into teaching and clinical practice.
  • Ouzia, Julia, Department of Psychology
  • Pembroke, Beatrice, Executive Director, Culture
  • Plangger, Kirk, Business School Kirk's research explores how digital technologies mediate and change the consumption process and how organisations should address these technologies. More specifically he is interested in how individuals' attention can be directed to address issues regarding the consumption of false media (e.g. fake news, Deepfakes, GANs, etc), digital well-beingusing technology (e.g. wearables, AI etc), and environmental sustainability.
  • Popescu, Diana, Department of Political Economy
  • Rafferty, Anne Marie, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
  • Rebaza-Soraluz,  Luis, Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
  • Renzo, Massimo, School of Law  Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law. Renzo is currently working on a philosophical account of manipulation, a notion that has received surprisingly little attention in the philosophical literature. The two questions he is interested in are: a. What is it to manipulate someone’s behaviour? ; b. Why is manipulation wrong (when it is wrong)? As part of this project, he has an interest in the question of how our attention is manipulated by new technologies, especially social media. This process raises deep philosophical questions concerning the relationship between autonomy and attention
  • Rubia, Katya, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Rubia is a Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience. She has developed neurocognitive and fMRI tasks to understand the brain correlates of the development of attention between childhood and adulthood and of abnormal attention in developmental disorders including ADHD, autism, conduct disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), pediatric depression and childhood abuse.  Her current research capitalises on the insights gained from over 3 decades of neuroimaging in ADHD to develop novel brain-based therapies to improve attention including fMRI-Neurofeedback and non-invasive brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current (tDCS) and trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS).
  • Runswick, Oliver, Department of Psychology Runswick is a performance psychologist specialising in skill acquisition. He researches learning and performance of complex motor skills in domains such as sport, dance, lifeguards, and the military. Ollie’s work in attention examines topics such as the optimal focus of attention; attentional processes in expert performers; the effects of technology on attentional focus; and the relationship between anxiety, attentional processes, and performance in complex skills.
  • Russell, Charlotte, Department of Psychology
  • Saunders, Max, Department of English Professor of English with special interests in Impressionism, Modernism, Life Writing, the impact of digital media on self-presentation, and how people attend (or don’t) to the future.
  • Spence, Paul, Department of Digital Humanities
  • Spratling, Michael, Department of Informatics
  • Srnicek, Nick, Department of Digital Humanities Nick works on attention economy, platform capitalism and labour.
  • Stazicker, James, Department of Philosophy Stazicker works on philosophical and scientific problems about consciousness. His research into attention explores how paying attention affects which details of a scene we see. He connects this with questions about the mechanisms of consciousness in the brain, and with questions about how consciousness enables us to know ourselves and the world around us.
  • Tanner, Simon, Department of Digital Humanities Tanner is a digital humanities scholar with a wide-ranging interest in cross-disciplinary thinking and collaborative approaches that reflect a fascination with interactions between memory institution collections (libraries, museum, archives, media and publishing) and the digital domain. His Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) is used for culture, heritage and digital impact assessment all over the world. He created the Balanced Value Impact Model website. His latest book (Delivering Impact with Digital Resources: planning strategy in the attention economy) relates this impact work to the Attention Economy and he is interested in all aspects of attention that relate to memory institutions.
  • Tuncdogan, Aybars, Business School 
  • Turner, Mark, Department of English Turner a Professor of English with particular research interests in 19th century print culture, technology and media history. His current project thinks about ‘seriality’ and ‘miscellaneity’ as key concepts in understanding print, modernity and the history of the digital.
  • Varaki, Maria, Department of War Studies Varaki is a lecturer in International Law and the last years has been working on the Aristotelian aretaic theory of ethics with a particular focus on the virtue of phronesis and its importance on exercise of discretion and judgment
  • Viganò, Luca, Department of Informatics Vigano is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Cybersecurity group at the Department of Informatics.  His research focuses on formal methods and tools for the specification, analysis and verification of cybersecurity and privacy. He is particularly interested in socio-technical security, where humans are modelled explicitly as part of the systems to investigate whether their behaviour, misunderstandings and lack of attention can lead to vulnerabilities.
  • Vogel, Mira, King's Academy Vogel is a Lecturer in Education and Leads the Learning and Teaching Programme for colleagues new to teaching or new to King's. Her interest in attention and distraction was sparked by educators' concerns that digital devices were out-competing them for their students' attention. This led some to consider outright bans to remove responsibility from students, and others to consider inaction implying that the responsibility was entirely with students. Between these two positions, Mira promotes practical evidence-informed strategies which address the causes of students' distraction: access to technologies, boredom, fear of missing out and low metacognition.
  • vom Lehn, Dirk, Business School vom Lehn is Professor of Organisation and Practice. He studies how aesthetic experiences, i.e. the looking and seeing of works of art, is achieved in interaction in museums and galleries.
  • Wheatley, Catherine, Department of Film Studies Wheatley has a research interest in spectatorship theories and practices, including links to cognitive neuroscience and philosophical / literary accounts of attention by philosophers such as Stanley Cavell and Iris Murdoch. She is particularly interested in thinking about how shifts in viewing practices (from theatrical exhibition to home viewing) have affected attention when viewing films, and what the ideological implications of these shifts might be.
  • Wilson, Nick, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries
  • Yakis-Douglas, Basak, Business School Yakis-Douglas is a strategy scholar who studies how attentional limitations of Top Management Team members impact organisational decision making. Using the Attention-Based View of the firm to frame her research, Basak focuses on how attention is sustained to strategic issues over significant periods of time through cognitive and political tactics and material artefacts.
  • Zahn, Roland, Department of Psychological Medicine Zahn’s lab aims at bridging important gaps between basic cognitive neuroscience and the phenomenological psychopathology of affective disorders and disturbances. Phenomenological psychopathology is the description of unusual subjective experiences or behaviours that cause suffering of individuals who have those experiences or of the people they interact with. The methodological framework for his research has been labelled “Translational Cognitive Neuroscience” (Zahn 2010). His lab’s long-term aim is to use translational cognitive neuroscience models of affective disorders to develop novel approaches to their nosology, prevention, and treatment. By improving the understanding of mood disorders for example, his lab expects to deliver more precise predictors of prognosis which can be used in decision support systems to personalise treatment, as well as to develop hypothesis-driven neurocognitive treatments such as fMRI neurofeedback.
  • Zhu, Feng, Department of Digital Humanities Zhu is interdisciplinary game studies scholar working on the aesthetics of computer games (including the ‘aesthetics’ of play) and on understanding forms of gameplay as ambivalent between an aesthetics of existence and a neoliberal self-fashioning. I see attention as central to driving the dispositions that gamers acquire, such as being sensitised to minute units of time and space in the frenetic activity of gameplay – a ‘gamer habitus’ in which creative anticipation is also at work. This calibration of the sensorium needs to be theorised if we can understand how we might transform ourselves in alternative ways.