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Professor Kenny Coventry holds a Chair in Psychology and serves as Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He leads the School of Psychology and has held academic roles at Dundee, Plymouth, and Northumbria Universities. His research focuses on the intersection of language, perception, and decision-making under uncertainty, supported by grants from ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC, and the European Commission.
- Key Roles: Chair in Psychology, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Former Head of School of Psychology (2012–2021)
- Education: BSc Psychology (Glasgow University), PhD Cognitive Science/Psychology (Edinburgh University)
Research Interests: Cognitive mechanisms linking language and vision/action systems, spatial communication universals, gambling decision-making, and climate change communication.
Recent Articles (2023–2025): Explore spatial communication across languages, age-related spatial processing, and attentional biases in gambling. Highlighted work includes the Nature Human Behaviour study on action constraints in spatial demonstratives.
- Awards: 2015 British Psychological Society Cognitive Prize, Fellowships from BPS, RSA, and HEA
Grants & Projects: Leads EU-funded e-LADDA (Early Language Development in the Digital Age), spatial communication studies, and collaborations with PwC on climate visualization.
Labs/Teams: Active in UEA Brain Imaging Centre and ClimateUEA initiatives.
