Professor Jie Sui
Chair In Psychology
- About
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- Email Address
- jie.sui@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272479
- Office Address
School of Psychology
William Guild Building (Room S03)
King's College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Internal Memberships
- Chair of the Psychology Ethics Committee
- School REF Output Group
- School Research Committee
- University Ethics Advisory Group
- University Promotion Committee
- Research
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Current Research
- Self
- Cultural brain
- Healthy ageing
- Social interactions in VR
- Behaviour change
We welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in these research areas.
Funding and Grants
- 2025-2026. Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship: 'Tracing the neural representation of dynamic selves'.
- 2020-2024. PI. The Leverhulme Trust. 'The ubiquitous self: Testing the enhanced binding account'.
- 2017-2020. PI. ARUK. 'Self-representation as a probe for mild Alzheimer’s dementia'.
Funded doctoral projects in our lab:
- Neural plasticity and self-reference in the ageing brain
- Computational and neural mechanisms of trust updating in children
- Investigating the role of sense of agency in episodic memory formation and retrieval
- Self-relevance supporting multisensory integration in the ageing brain
- AI-based approach to predicting changes in self-perception and the relationship to cognitive decline
- Together and apart: How cognitive and affective self-processing shape real-world outcomes
Supported by BBSRC EastBio, the Leverhulme Trust, CSC, and ESRC SGSSS.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Level 4: The Social Self
- Level 1, Level 4, MSc, MRes: Ethics
- Level 3: tutorials on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Methodology B