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Research Experience
07/2018 - 06/2023
Research Fellow B
Sussex Baby Lab and Sussex Colour Group, University of Sussex
ERC funded project COLOURMIND
Key Skills :
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Research on visual perception in infancy, preschoolers, and across the life span
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Cross-cultural research and collaboration
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Expertise in eye-tracking, colorimetry, wearable devices, and psychophysics with infants, children, and adults.
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Multivariate data analysis and management
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Lab administration and support (e.g. data management and data security protocols)
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Research supervision and co-ordination of junior members of the lab
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MATLAB for experiment presentation and analysis
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Delivery of UG and MSc lectures and seminars
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Presentations at national and international conferences
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Promotion from Research Fellow A to Research Fellow B in 2021
Jan 2018 - April 2018
Research Assistant
Sussex Baby Lab and Sussex Colour Group, University of Sussex
Employed as part of an ERC proof of concept COLOURSPOT (PIs: Jenny Bosten, Anna Franklin), developing a test for Colour Vision Deficiency (‘colourblindness’) for pre-school and school age children. Equipment calibration, data management, and data analysis.
Sept 2014 - April 2018
PhD : Infant Colour Perception
Supervisiors: Prof. Anna Franklin and Dr Jenny Bosten.
Part funded by ERC grant 'CATEGORIES' (to AF). Characterising colour perception and cognition in the first year of life.
2012 - 2014
Research Assistant
Sussex Baby Lab and Sussex Colour Group, University of Sussex
Part time whilst completing my MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction).
Key Skills:
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Research on colour perception in infants
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Scheduling and running testing sessions and participant recruitment
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Data coding and eye tracking
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Data management and analysis
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Lab administration
Additional research experience:
2011 - 2012 : Honorary Research Assistant
Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Birmingham
Selected Publications and Presentations
Skelton, A. E., Franklin, A., Bosten, J.M., (under review). Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4-months of age. Pre-print doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.06.494927
Skelton, A. E., Maule, J., & Franklin, A. (2022). Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 90-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12447
Skelton, A. E. & Flack, Z. M., (2022). When to use a cookie, and when to use a ruler: A response to Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savelei's “six solutions for more reliable infant research”. Infant and Child Development, e2337. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2337
Tang, T., Álvaro, L., Alvarez, J. Maule J., Skelton, A. E., Franklin, A., Bosten, J. (2021). ColourSpot, a novel gamified tablet-based test for accurate diagnosis of color vision deficiency in young children. Behaviour Research Methods. doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01622-5
Skelton, A. E., & Franklin, A. (2020). Infants look longer at colours that adults like when colours are highly saturated. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(1), 78-85. doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01688-5
Skelton, A. E., Catchpole, G., Abbott, J. T., Bosten, J. M., &Franklin, A. (2017). Biological origins of color categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(21), 5545-5550. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612881114
Franklin, A., Skelton, A. and Catchpole, G. (2014). The case for infant colour categories. In: Anderson, Wendy, Biggam, Carole P, Hough, Carole and Kay, Christian (eds.) Colour studies: a broad spectrum. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 169-180. ISBN 9789027212191
Recent recorded presentations:
Colour Discrimination and Natural Scene Statistics, Colour Group UK Jan 2022
The Development of Colour Perception,Optica (formally OSA) Vision and Colour technical group, 2021
Public Engagement
Select examples:
Are Instagram’s Aesthetic Moms Hindering Kids’ Development? Amelia Tait, Wired
Meet The People Using ‘Dopamine Dressing’ To Boost Their Mood. Beth Ashley, Refinery29
Through a Babies Eyes: the first 6 months (video co-directed with Etta Loves, animated by Gusto Media)
Appearance on Canadian Broadcasting Company TV documentary ‘Living Colour’
Scientific American ‘ Are Colors Innate or Learned’
Invited TEDxISM talk
Outreach talks at schools on colour vision, developmental science, and pathways to academic careers.
Consultancies with Baby Theatre groups (e.g. Filskit, Flying Eye)
Grants and Awards
Research With Impact Awards University of Sussex : Emerging Impact (£1000. Employment of Research Software Developer for conversion of exisitng code to web app). The BabySee App: enabling parents, and those working in Early Years Education, Arts, and Industry to see what babies see. 2022.
ESRC NPIF Accelerating Business Collaboration Fund, University of Sussex Business Engagement Fund. (£3000. Production of video on the development of vision in collaboration with Etta Loves). 2021
University of Sussex internal ECR Research Fund (£2494. Employment Research Assistant). 2021
Palmer award from Colour Group UK (2019). This award supports a number of outstanding Early Career postgraduate members
Speaker award for presentation at International Colour Vision Symposium (ICVS) in Riga, Latvia, July 2019, awarded by the Optical Society of America.
Grant for attendance of International Colour Vision Society Summer School (2018).
Teaching and Supervison
UG module : Everyday Problems in Psychology
Lecture on Colour and Vision and Everyday Problems in Psychology (including colour in the classroom, visual stress, and colour vision deficiency ('colour blindness').
UG and MSc module: Cogntive Psychology
Lecture (2020, 2021) on Visual Development and Natural Scene Statistics; seminar (2018-2021) on the 'Big Questions' of Colour Science ('Is my red the same as your red?')
UG Developmental Psychology and Discovering Statistics Seminars (2015 - 2017). TA for seminars during my PhD.
Supervision or co-supervison to date of 10 UG projects and 5 placement students; co-supervision of PhD student.
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Academic memberships:
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Colour Group UK
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Vision Science Society
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International Colour Vision Society
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International Congress of Infant Studies. Selected as a member of International Congress of Infant Studies Communication Committee (https://infantstudies.org/communication-committee/).
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