Dr Wai-Ling Bickerton SROT, MSc, PhD

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Wai-Ling Bickerton

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7760

Email w.bickerton@bham.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • MSc
  • SROT
  • CPsychol

Biography

Wai-Ling was trained as an occupational therapist and obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology. She has been part of a team that develops the Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS). She worked with a large number of survivors of brain injuries and trained health professionals from worldwide. Her research interests also cover the cognitive analyses of everyday actions for rehabilitation. She has managed large scale research projects in psychiatry, neuro-rehabilitation and neuropsychology around the UK and Hong Kong. Her greatest interest is in seeing research innovations translated into patient benefits. For that, she has received the Enterprising Birmingham Award 2011, The Medici Fellowship 2010, The Knowledge Transfer Gateway Fund 2009, The Big Ideas Award 2009 and the UnLtd HEFCE Social Enterprise Catalyst Award in 2010.

Publications

Bisiker J and Bickerton W-L (in press) Using a comprehensive and standardised cognitive screen (BCoS) to guide cognitive rehabilitation in stroke. British Journal of Occupational Therapy

Humphreys, G.W., Bickerton, W-L., Samson, D., & Riddoch, M.J. (2012) The Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS), Psychology Press: London.

Bickerton W-L, Riddoch MJ, Samson D, Balani AB, Mistry B, Humphreys GW (2012) Systematic assessment of apraxia and functional predictions from the Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS). Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry,  83(5):513-21.   doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2011-300968

Chechlacz M, Rotshtein P, Roberts KL, Bickerton W-L, Lau JKL, Humphreys GW (2012) The prognosis of allocentric and egocentric neglect: Evidence from clinical scans. PLoS ONE, 7(11) e47821.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047821

Chechlacz M, Terry A, Rotshtein P, Bickerton W-L, & Humphreys GW (2012). Common and distinct neural mechanisms of visual and tactile extinction: A large scale VBM study in sub-acute stroke. Seeing and Perceiving, 25(s1), 17–17.

Bickerton, W-L., Samson, D., Williamson, J., Humphreys, G.W. (2011) Separating forms of neglect using the Apples Test: Validation and functional prediction in chronic and acute stroke. Neuropsychology, 25: 567-580.

Chechlacz, M., Rotshtein, P., Bickerton, W-L. , Hansen, P.C. , Deb, S. and Humphreys, G.W.(2010) Separating neural correlates of allocentric and egocentric neglect: Distinct cortical sites and common white matter disconnections, Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27: 3, 277 — 303

Bickerton, W-L, Humphreys, G.W. & Riddoch, M.J. (2007) The case of the unfamiliar implement: Schema-based over-riding of semantic knowledge from objects in everyday action. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13: 1035-1047

Apperly, I.A., Samson, D., Chiavarino, C., Bickerton, W-L., & Humphreys, G.W. (2007). Testing the domain-specificity of a theory of mind deficit in brain-injured patients: Evidence for consistent performance on non-verbal, "reality-unknown" false belief and false photograph tasks. Cognition 103: 300-321.

Bickerton, W-L., Humphreys, G.W. & Riddoch, M.J. (2006) The use of memorised verbal scripts in the rehabilitation of action disorganisation syndrome. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 16 (2): 155-177

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