Dr. Amanda Williams graduated with her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Steele. She continues to be a collaborator. Her program of research has been largely guided by a a desire to better understand how prejudice and stereotypes develop across the lifespan, and the consequences that these attitudes and beliefs can have for person perception and behavior.

In her primary area of research I have focused on the development of implicit, or automatic, racial prejudice and academic stereotyping among children in elementary school (aged 5-12 years) in an attempt to better understand the conditions under which, and the ages at which, biases emerge.

In a second line of research, started both in the IPSC lab and with Dr. Kerry Kawakami, she made use of eye-tracking technology to examined how visual attention is allocated during person perception and impression formation, as well as the relationship between visual attention and intergroup processes.

From February 2013 to February 2014, Dr. Williams was a postdoctoral fellow in the Intergroup Social Perception Lab under the supervision of Kristin Pauker at the University of Hawaii (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kpauker/Pauker_Lab/People.html). In February of 2014, she started a tenure-track faculty position as a Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. She is now a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Bristol.

You can learn more about Dr. Williams research at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/people/amanda-t-williams/overview.html