Agnieszka J Graham

Agnieszka graduated from the University of York in 2011 with a degree in Psychology before earning her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2016. She worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh before returning to the School of Psychology, Queen's, in late 2018. She was appointed as a Lecturer in Applied Developmental Psychology in September 2019.

Agnieszka studies higher-level cognition and its development across the lifespan. The ultimate goal of her work is to understand how executive functions develop and how their development can be best supported. She is currently working on a programme of research exploring mind wandering in children, examining its nature, and considering the costs and benefits that mind wandering can bring in the context of educational attainment. This line of enquiry feeds into her interests in new and original approaches to tackling educational underachievement that lead to lasting improvements in children’s lives.