Lauren Ballaera

Dr. Lauren Bellaera is Director of Research and Impact at The Brilliant Club, a UK-wide charity whose aim is to support less advantaged students to access the most competitive universities and to succeed when they get there. Alongside this role, Lauren is a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Institute of Education, UCL. She teaches applied research methods and supervises Master’s dissertations in Psychology and Education.

Lauren has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Warwick and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, Lauren was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Her research examined the role of critical thinking in higher education.