Birsu Kandemirci

Birsu Kandemirci is a Lecturer in Psychology within the Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience (L5). His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to education. He holds a PhD from The University of Sheffield (2018) focusing on technology, peer collaboration, and children's creativity.

Research expertise includes cognitive development, children's creativity, theory of mind, source monitoring, and evidentiality in linguistics. His studies explore language's role in social cognition and cross-linguistic comparisons between Turkish and English-speaking children.

Key achievements include the 'I am a Scientist Psychology Zone winner' (2023) and a Turkish Ministry of Education scholarship (2013). He has presented invited talks on topics like language and social cognition in young children (2019-2022), chaired the UK Creativity Researchers' Conference (2019), and contributed to professional associations like the Higher Education Academy.

His datasets include longitudinal studies on complement clauses and false belief understanding, and cross-linguistic evidentiality research available on Open Science Framework.