Brenda Williams is Professor of Neuroscience in Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Brenda works to enhance the student experience through evaluating and improving assessment and feedback practices and promoting skills development. Being a firm believer in diversity and inclusion, she has led the development two successful distance learning MSc programmes at the King's College London: Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, and Applied Neuroscience, for which she is Programme Lead.

As deputy head of Department of Education for Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Brenda engage with colleagues and students to integrate and promote innovative neuroscience education.

She has a passion for encouraging interest and understanding of biosciences in schools and the wider general public and does this as a member of the Royal Society of Biology London Branch Committee and as scientific advisor for the Batten Disease Family Association.

Please see her Research Staff Profile for more detail.

Key collaborators

• Professor Jonathan D Cooper, Washington University School of Medicine
• Professor Noel Buckley, University of Oxford
• Dr Angela Bithell, University of Reading
• Dr Nick Bray, University of Cardiff

Key publications

Parviainen et al., 2017. Glial cells are functionally impaired in juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis and detrimental to neurons Research

Anderson et al., 2015. Characterisation of neurons derived from a cortical human neural stem cell line CTX0E16 Research

Bithell et al., 2009. Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Maintains the Neurogenic Capacity of Embryonic Neural Progenitor Cells In Vitro but Changes Their Neuronal Subtype Specification Research Article

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