Gina Rippon

Gina Rippon is an emeritus professor of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. She is a past president of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience and, in 2015, was awarded an honorary fellowship of the British Science Association. Her research involves state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as dyslexia and autism. She also investigates the use of neuroscience techniques to explore social processes including gender stereotyping and stereotype threat. She is an outspoken critic of neurotrash, the populist (mis)use of neuroscience research to (mis)represent our understanding of the brain and, most particularly, to prop up outdated stereotypes. Her book on this topic, The Gendered Brain, came out in February 2019.