Rate My Professor Gemma Learmonth

Dr Gemma Learmonth is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling, where she joined the Psychology team in 2023. Prior to this appointment, she held a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellowship in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow from 2018 to 2023 and completed her PhD there in 2016. Her research centres on visuospatial attention, pseudoneglect, cognitive aging, laterality, non-invasive brain stimulation, mobile EEG, neurofeedback, and mobile cognition, with a particular focus on hemispatial neglect and how interactions with natural environments influence attentional processes.

Dr Learmonth leads the Stirling Open Research and Scholarship Network and serves as the UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Lead at the University of Stirling, as well as an Open Science Champion for the Division of Psychology. She holds editorial roles including Recommender (Action Editor) for Peer Community in Registered Reports and PCI Psychology, Consulting Editor for Cortex, and Action Editor for the Neuropsychology section of Cogent Psychology. Her publications include numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics such as age-related differences in sustained attention, meta-analyses of line bisection tasks in children and older adults, non-invasive brain stimulation in stroke patients with hemispatial neglect, and the use of mobile EEG in complex environments, appearing in journals including NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, PLOS ONE, and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.