The SHELL Study Team
Project Lead
Matt Davis is a programme leader at the MRC-CBU and co-directs the SHELL Study. He’s been researching how people recognise speech (or “wreck a nice beach?”) for more than 25 years. In other projects he is using brain imaging to figure out which parts of the brain are at work when you’re listening, speaking or learning language.
Project Lead
Lizzie co-directs the SHELL study. She will be visiting schools with the team of research assistants to run the science activity days so you may see her around. She is excited to explore lots of interesting questions about children’s hearing and language skills as well as have lots of fun in the classroom.
Research Staff
James works on the design of the SHELL study iPad tasks and the analysis of behavioural data. His research interests focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying speech perception.
Graduate Student
Jacqueline is a PhD student in the Davis Group who studies how the brain understands speech by using both sound and visual cues, like lip movements. Jacqueline has contributed to the design of the audiovisual speech task for the SHELL study.
Research Coordinator
Laura coordinates and manages the day-to-day aspects of the SHELL study. She is a postdoctoral researcher interested in inclusion and wellbeing in schools.
Research Assistant team members
Our team of three Research Assistants will be visiting schools to deliver engaging activities and tasks during the SHELL study outreach days.
SHELL Advisory Board
- Prof. Jenny Gibson (Professor of Neurodiversity and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Education)
- Dr Esther van Sluijs (Chief Scientific Officer – Adolescent Health Study, Director – Cambridge Epidemiology & Trials Unit)
- Dr Marina Salorio Corbetto (Specialist Research Audiologist)
- Dr Tamsin Holland Brown (paediatrician and health entrepreneur)
SHELL Study 