Dr Trevor Crawford acted as my second Supervisor during my PhD at Lancaster University and is now a collaborator on multiple research projects and an academic mentor for me as an early-career researcher. In addition to providing me with the support required to carry out doctoral research and successfully submit within 3-years, Trevor also provided me with unparalleled opportunities to develop myself as an early career researcher; giving me the skills required to continue my career development as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.
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Trevor provided me with the opportunity to develop, analyse and write my first publication in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and has continued to contribute to two more publications and three manuscripts in preparation. One of which is a continued collaboration exploring the predictive mechanisms of psychosis. Dr Trevor Crawford has provided support and assistance in my continued research training by providing the opportunity to visit Kuopio, Finland, and Lisbon, Portugal to gain further neuroscience training, as well as support in presenting my research at numerous national and international conferences. Two presentations to note were a visit to The University of Bonn where Trevor and I visited Dr Ulrich Ettinger to discuss our current research and to give me the opportunity to present to his Lab, who shared similar research interests and provided me with the opportunity to discuss my thesis. Secondly was the opportunity to present my first publication at an Experimental Psychology Society conference in London, which has now allowed me, with Trevor’s nomination, to become a postgraduate member of the society.
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Trevor and I have worked together for a number of years now and plan to continue our collaborations further, through the development of more research publications in the realm of our joint interests, and in terms of future grant plans, which will extend and develop the ideas born out of my PhD research. Trevor has gone above and beyond his care of duty as a PhD Supervisor, now academic mentor and professional friend as I continue my career in academia. He has provided me with brilliant career development advice, which assisted in my current research associate placement, as well as opportunities I would not have had or taken if not nudged by him.
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