
Dr Rebekah White
During my undergraduate degree at the Australian National University, I took an eclectic mix of Arts and Science subjects. I discovered Psychology in my third year and delighted in the breadth of the subject. I vividly remember the joy I felt after my first Cognitive Psychology lecture. I sat outside the lecture hall, frantically scribbling ideas and feeling that I might have just discovered my ‘thing’! I went on to do an Honours, MPhil, DPhil and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) focusing on topics within the fields of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology.
During my JRF, I gave Prelims Cognition tutorials at Pembroke. I derived great joy from sharing this wonderful subject with first-year students, and hoped that they might feel the same buzz that I experienced as an undergraduate student discovering the subject. In 2013, I was invited to take on the role of Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke and the rest is history! In addition to Prelims Cognition, I now tutor Prelims Social Psychology and Prelims Developmental Psychology. Over the years, I have also taught Pembroke Visiting Students for Part One courses in Cognition, Social Psychology, Individual Differences, and Perception. I love being a Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke.
We have a vibrant, supportive and close-knit community and, because Psychology is so broad a subject, I am constantly learning – often through conversations with students at lunches, meetings, and research events. It is a joy to witness the progression – academic and personal – of our students from their first tutorial through to their final exam, and above all, I love it when our students discover their own ‘things’.
White, R.C., Gasper, G.E.M., McLeish, T.C.B., Tanner, B., Harvey, J., Sonnesyn, S.O., Young, L.K., Smithson, H.E. (2021). Magnifying grains of sand, seeds, and blades of grass: Optical effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow)(circa 1228-1230). ISIS, 112, 93-107.
White, R.C., & Remington, A. (2019). Personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it. Autism, 23, 1042-1045.
White, R.C., Davies, M., & Aimola Davies, A.M. (2018). Inattentional blindness on the full-attention trial: Are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Consciousness and Cognition, 59, 64-77.
White, R.C., & Aimola Davies, A.M. (2017). Asynchrony in the rubber hand paradigm: Unexpected illusions following stroke. Cortex, 93, 224-226.
White, R.C. & Plassart, A. (2015). Stimulus-parity synaesthesia (1893/2014): Introducing a ‘forgotten’ subtype. Cortex, 66, 146-148.
Dr Rebekah White

During my undergraduate degree at the Australian National University, I took an eclectic mix of Arts and Science subjects. I discovered Psychology in my third year and delighted in the breadth of the subject. I vividly remember the joy I felt after my first Cognitive Psychology lecture. I sat outside the lecture hall, frantically scribbling ideas and feeling that I might have just discovered my ‘thing’! I went on to do an Honours, MPhil, DPhil and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) focusing on topics within the fields of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology.
During my JRF, I gave Prelims Cognition tutorials at Pembroke. I derived great joy from sharing this wonderful subject with first-year students, and hoped that they might feel the same buzz that I experienced as an undergraduate student discovering the subject. In 2013, I was invited to take on the role of Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke and the rest is history! In addition to Prelims Cognition, I now tutor Prelims Social Psychology and Prelims Developmental Psychology. Over the years, I have also taught Pembroke Visiting Students for Part One courses in Cognition, Social Psychology, Individual Differences, and Perception. I love being a Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke.
We have a vibrant, supportive and close-knit community and, because Psychology is so broad a subject, I am constantly learning – often through conversations with students at lunches, meetings, and research events. It is a joy to witness the progression – academic and personal – of our students from their first tutorial through to their final exam, and above all, I love it when our students discover their own ‘things’.
White, R.C., Gasper, G.E.M., McLeish, T.C.B., Tanner, B., Harvey, J., Sonnesyn, S.O., Young, L.K., Smithson, H.E. (2021). Magnifying grains of sand, seeds, and blades of grass: Optical effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow)(circa 1228-1230). ISIS, 112, 93-107.
White, R.C., & Remington, A. (2019). Personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it. Autism, 23, 1042-1045.
White, R.C., Davies, M., & Aimola Davies, A.M. (2018). Inattentional blindness on the full-attention trial: Are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Consciousness and Cognition, 59, 64-77.
White, R.C., & Aimola Davies, A.M. (2017). Asynchrony in the rubber hand paradigm: Unexpected illusions following stroke. Cortex, 93, 224-226.
White, R.C. & Plassart, A. (2015). Stimulus-parity synaesthesia (1893/2014): Introducing a ‘forgotten’ subtype. Cortex, 66, 146-148.