PhDs for James Thomas and Justin Sulik

By Kenny | October 2, 2014

Congratulations to Dr James Thomas and Dr Justin Sulik, who were awarded their PhDs this week. James did his PhD with Simon Kirby and Richard Shillcock (Informatics), on “Self-domestication and Language Evolution”; since his PhD he has been working as a post-doc with Richard. Justin was supervised by Kenny Smith and Jim Hurford, and his thesis was titled “Cognition at the Symbolic Threshold: The role of adductive inference in hypothesising the meaning of novel signals”. He is currently a course tutor for psychology and linguistics on the University’s International Foundation and Open Studies Programmes.