Academic Career
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Stephen, I.D., Coetzee, V., Law Smith,
M.J., Perrett, D.I. Skin carotenoid and melanin colouration affect
perceived health of human faces. |
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2010 |
Scott,
I.M.L.,
Pound, N., Stephen, I.D.,
Penton-Voak, I.S. Does masculinity matter? The contribution of
sex-typical appearance to male attractiveness in humans. PLoS ONE, 5, e13585. |
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2010 |
Stephen, I.D.,
McKeegan, A.M. Lip colour affects
perceived sex typicality and attractiveness of human faces. Perception
39, 1104-1110. |
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2010 |
Coetzee, V., Chen, J.,
Perrett, D.I., Stephen, I.D.
Deciphering faces: Quantifiable visual cues to weight. Perception, 39, 51-61. |
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2009 |
Coetzee, V., Perrett,
D.I., Stephen, I.D. Facial
adiposity:
a cue to health. Perception
38,
1700-1711. |
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2009 |
Stephen, I.D., Law Smith, M.J., Stirrat,
M.R., Perrett, D.I. Facial skin colouration affects perceived health of
human faces. International
Journal of Primatology, 6, 845-857. |
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2009 |
Stephen, I.D., Coetzee, V., Law Smith,
M.J., Perrett, D.I. Skin blood perfusion and oxygenation colour affect
perceived human health. PLoS ONE
4:e508. |
Stephen, I.D., Oldham, F.H., Perrett, D.I.,
Barton, R.A. (submitted) Redness enhances perceived aggression,
dominance and attractiveness in men's faces.
Invited seminar at
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus School of Psychology, 2010
Invited seminar at
University of Bristol Department of Biology, 2010
Invited seminar at University of Western Australia Departments of Psychology and Animal Biology, 2009
Invited seminar at University of Durham Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, 2008
Stephen, I.D., et al. (2010) Redness enhances perceived aggression, dominance and attractiveness in men's faces. ISHE
Stephen, I.D., et al. (2010) Red,
aggression,
dominance and attractiveness in men’s faces. Red Workshop,
Stephen, I.D., Oldham, F.H., Perrett, D.I., Barton, R.A. (2009) Redness enhances perceived aggression, dominance and attractiveness in men's faces. HBES Conference Proceedings 21, 58.
Stephen, I.D., Perrett, D.I. (2009) Skin pigment colouration cues health in human faces. Scottish Face Group meeting, Heriot-Watt University .
Stephen, I.D., Perrett, D.I. (2008) Skin pigment colouration signals health in human faces. HBES Conference Proceedings 20, 13.
Stephen, I.D., Perrett, D.I. (2008) Skin pigments signal health in human faces. PsyPAG
Stephen, I.D ., Perrett, D.I. (2007) Skin pigmentation, colour and health. Scottish Face Group Meeting, Stirling
Stirratt, M.R., Lawson, J.F., Sharp, M.A., Al-Dujaili, A.S., Stephen, I.D., Perrett, D.I. (2007) Fear of punishment: testosterone elicits trustworthiness in trust games. HBES Conference Proceedings 19, 82.
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Total value: £77,160. One year postdoctoral fellowship to write papers and grant applications, gain training and teaching experience and conduct additional research. Funding runs Sept 2009 – Sept 2010
BBSRC CASE studentship . Total value: £56,000 (full fees and maintenance). My PhD was funded by this grant, from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in association with multinational company Unilever. Funding runs Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
SIET Travel Grant . Total value £900. Won this highly competitive grant to attend the HBES 2008 conference in Kyoto, Japan, and meet potential collaborators.
Brain Travel Grant. Total value: £800. Won funding to give an invited talk, learn new techniques and discuss collaborations at the departments of Psychology and Animal Biology at the University of Western Australia .
British Psychological Society study visit grant. Total value: £600. Further funding towards my visit to the University of Western Australia .
Grindley Travel Grant . Total value: £500. Won funding from the Experimental Psychology Society to attend HBES conference at William & Mary College, Virginia, USA in 2007.
ASAB Conference Grant. Total value: £400. Secured funding to attend the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour summer meeting 2009 in Oxford, UK .
Department of Psychology Travel Grant . Total value: £1000. Secured funding to attend HBES conferences in 2007 and 2008, as well as PsyPAG 2008 in Manchester .
HBES Travel Grant . Total value £150. Won funding to attend HBES 2008 conference.
Module
coordinator on 2nd year undergraduate course
Statistical Methods 2.
Lectured on the 2nd year undergraduate course Critical Issues in Psychology.
Lectured and tutored for the MSc course in Origins of Mind: Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St Andrews School of Psychology .
Demonstrated in practical sessions for the junior honours level course Brain & Behaviour 1 at the University of St Andrews School of Psychology .
Co-Supervised final year undergraduate dissertations at the University of Durham Department of Anthropology and University of Ulster Department of Psychology
Co-Supervised undergraduate students on summer research projects at the University of St Andrews . One summer student won a prize of £250 and received coverage in the St Andrews Citizen and University of St Andrews website for the best summer project in the university.
Played a significant role in supervision of undergraduate students doing research projects in the Perception Lab, including final year honours project students.
Completed GradSkills course entitled “Introduction to Tutoring and Assessment” to qualify me to teach at the University of St Andrews, and provide tutoring and marking skills. Also included ethical and legal responsibilities.
Presented work and proposed knowledge transfer project to senior leaders at Health Scotland, Equally Well, NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government . Discussions on Public Health projects are ongoing.
Produced press release publicising my published work.
My work has been widely reported in the press, including BBC Health, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The LA Times, El Mundo, The Mirror, and the Metro in addition to several online and radio outlets.
Demonstrated Face Transformer technology to the public and staff at special exhibitions that I arranged at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, Magna in Rotherham and Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester .
Volunteered at National Science Week science fairs in 2007 and 2008, Edinburgh Science Festival, 2008, and Psychology For All, 2009 (a British Psychological Society event in London), demonstrating face morphing software and 3D photography equipment and answering questions from the public, including children and adults of all ages.
Interviewed for Glasgow Herald, 2007, BBC World Service, 2008 and The National, 2008.
Produced images for publication in the Sunday Post, 2007 and Femme Actuelle, 2007.
Attended BBSRC Media Training Course in London, 2008, where I learned interview techniques and press release writing skills.
Presented at Teachers Together, an event designed to help state school teachers to encourage pupils to apply for science courses at top Scottish universities, 2007, 2008.
Completed accredited Level 5 Award in Research Management.
Organised two training sessions for PhD students on the grants process.
Member of the ESRC peer review college.
I organise the Social and
Evolutionary Discussion Group in the Department of
Experimental Psychology at the
Referee for the peer-reviewed journals Emotion, British
Journal of Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Ethology
Bulletin, Swiss Journal of Psychology.
Referee for the Czech Science Foundation
Refereed papers for peer-reviewed journals Current Anthropology, the Journal of Sports Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and PNAS, in association with my supervisor.
Coordinated a team of researchers in St Andrews and Newcastle and liaised with suppliers, technicians and computer programmers to design and implement a system for taking and colour-calibrating photographs for use in my research.
I organised the Social and Evolutionary Discussion Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol.
Human
Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES)
European
Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA)
Association
for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
International
Society for Human Ethology (ISHE)
Dr
Elizabeth Sheppard, Chrystalle Bih Yuan Tan (Psychology), University of
Nottingham, Malaysia Campus
Dr
Ian Penton-Voak, Isabel Scott, Dr Marcus Munafo, Dr Bruce Hood
(Experimental
Psychology), Dr Neill Campbell, Alex Davies, Rosie Campbell, Dr Colin
Dalton (Computer
Science),
Prof
Robert
Barton (Anthropology), Dr Lynda Boothroyd (Psychology),
Prof
David
Perrett, Vinet Coetzee, Ross Whitehead (Psychology),
Dr
Lesley
Knapp, Simeon Innocent (Biological
Anthropology),
Dr
Nick
Pound (Psychology)
Dr
Erika
Nurmsoo (Psychology),
Dr
Diana
Fleischman (Psychology),