Postgraduate supervision
Professor Riggs welcomes applications from students interested in word learning, action learning, tool use, theory of mind, and counterfactual thinking.
Completed PhDs (as both 1st or 2nd supervisor)
Dr Cathy Grant (1999) Autism and theory of mind
Dr Andrew Simpson (2004) Cognitive development / inhibitory processing
Dr Dan Carroll (2004) Cognitive development / executive functions
Dr Helen Broadley (2011) Autism and Counseling
Dr Amanda Holland (2014) Fast mapping / word learning
Dr Sharon Cox (2014) Theory of mind and addiction
Dr Iveta Eimontaite (2016) Neural correlates of decision making
Dr Dane Rowley (2016) Moral & social reasoning in TBI patients
Dr Erin Dysart (2016 ) Action & word learning
Dr Jennifer Boland (2017) Hypothetical thinking in depression
Dr Wan Ying Zhao (2017) Neural correlates of gesture processing
Dr Ilse Coolen (2018) Mathematical cognition in children
Dr Andrew Lucas (2020) Word learning in adults
Dr Lee Parkin (2021) Neural correlates of spatial processing
Current students
Shamini Howshigan: Improving recycling behaviour
Tom Peney: Cognitive processes in VR
Alex Smith: Knowledge and belief processing
Thomas Thompson: Automaticity of visual perspective-taking