Brian Cox, the Royal Society’s for Public Engagement in Science, and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Photo courtesy the Royal Society
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore has won the prestigious Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018, which celebrates the best of science writing for a non-specialist audience. Professor Blakemore won the prize for her solo debut book, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain , which presents cutting-edge findings based on her own laboratory research on the adolescent brain and how its development ultimately shapes the adults we become. "I'm deeply honoured to win this award," said Professor Blakemore, deputy director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. "I started working on the adolescent brain about 15 years ago, and it was thanks to Royal Society funding that I was able to get to where I am now, so I am very appreciative of their support. I'm enormously grateful to my research group, both current and former members, and the teenagers I work with, as there would have been no research to write about without them, and everyone else who has helped me with this book." Professor Blakemore's research looks at the development of social cognition and decision-making during adolescence. She was recently made a fellow of the British Academy, and this year earned the British Psychological Society's Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, recognising both her research and commitment to public engagement. She also won the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013 and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2015.
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