Brittany Blankinship
PhD Psychology
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: b.blankinship@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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7 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Responsibilities & affiliations
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Psychology Ph.D. Programme-level Student Representative
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Doctoral College CAHSS College-level Student Representative
Undergraduate teaching
- Data Analysis for Psychology in R2
- Critical Analysis
- Research Methods and Statistics 2
- PPLS Skills Centre Tutor for writing and statistics
Postgraduate teaching
- Multivariate Statistics and Methodology using R
- PPLS Skills Centre Tutor for writing and statistics
Research summary
PhD Title: "Multilingualism in Later Life: Natural History & Effects of Language Learning "
Project activity
If you are interested in helping out with some of my research, there are a few online studies currently active:
STUDY 1 - LANGUAGE, MEMORY & IMAGINATION
In this study we would like to see how language shapes the way we remember things in the past and imagine things in future. This can be done either in one language (monolingual version) or in a bilingual version, if you speak two of the languages listed below. We have a European & an Asian set:
- (a) EUROPEAN LANGUAGES: English, German, Spanish, Polish & French, or any combination of two of them:
- (b) ASIAN LANGUAGES: Chinese, Tamil, Chinese/English, Tamil/English
STUDY 2 - LANGUAGE LEARNING
For all those who have ever learned (or attempted to learn) a language different from their first one (e.g. at university, while travelling, through social contacts etc). We have also a second version, for those who have taught a language: if you have done both, you can fill in both questionnaires, one with your student, the other with your teacher "hat" on:
STUDY 3 - LANGUAGES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
We are interested how languages develop acros the lifespan in people who speak more than one language. We have different versions of this survey: SELF-REPORT for those over 50y old & speaking more than one language & PROXY-REPORT, in which you can tell us about people you know (family, friends, people you cared for), who speak more than one language and are over 50y old; available in English, Chinese (traditional & simplified characters) & in Tamil.