Jamie Brown

Ph.D. student

Jamie completed a BA in Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge in 2005.

For his chosen Part II concentration, Experimental Psychology, he completed a dissertation and research project, both of which were concerned with how humans learn. This sparked his interest in the field of learning. Subsequently, Dr Kate Plaisted's enthusiasm for research into autism has focused that interest to the role of learning in autism spectrum disorders; Dr Plaisted is now his PhD supervisor.

Additionally, he has continued to research another theme from his dissertation: the relationship of IQ and the ability to learn without conscious awareness to expert behaviour. Between gaining his BA and beginning his Ph.D., Jamie worked as a research assistant at both the Institute of Employment Research, University of Warwick and the Department of Developmental Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Publications

Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., & Brown, J. (2005). A systematic literature review of research into career-related interventions for higher education. Higher Education Careers Service Unit, Manchester.
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Hasluck, C., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., Brown, J., Marris, L., McGivern, Orton, G., & White, R. (2006). Evaluation of skills coaching trials and skills passports: A synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence. Commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions. Corporate Document Services, Leeds.
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Brown, A. & Brown, J. (in preparation). Communities of practice, joint knowledge development and the role of virtual support: The case of the National Guidance Research Forum Website in the UK.

Brown, A. & Brown, J. (in preparation). Synthesising research findings on workplace learning: The experience of the UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme in linking with other workplace learning researchers in Europe and Australia.
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Brown, A., Barnes, S-A., & Brown, J. (in preparation). Overview of the UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme’s work-related learning research and plans for a web-based platform for sharing expertise on research in work-related learning.
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Kyte, Z.A., Brown, J., Wilkinson, P.O., Sahakian, B.J., & Goodyer, I.M. (in preparation). Cognitive style and neurocognition in adolescents with bipolar disorder and unipolar depression.