{"id":12962,"date":"2021-01-29T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:57","slug":"oxford-university-spotlight-dr-rebecca-merkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2021\/oxford-university-spotlight-dr-rebecca-merkley\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University Spotlight: Dr. Rebecca Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Oxford University Spotlight: Dr. Rebecca Merkley\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Oxford University\u2019s Experimental Psychology Department Spotlights 100 Women Graduates, including Cognitive Science\u2019s Dr. Rebecca Merkley<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This year (2020)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2020-10-06-oxford-university-recognises-100-year-anniversary-formal-admission-women\">marks&nbsp;100 years<\/a>&nbsp;since women were&nbsp;first&nbsp;awarded degrees at Oxford in 1920.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our Centenary Project is part of a wider University of Oxford initiative to celebrate the many ways in which women graduates have contributed to University and gone on to make their mark in the world. Our&nbsp;Centenary Project&nbsp;casts a spotlight on 100&nbsp;amazing&nbsp;women who have graduated from EP (undergraduate or graduate). Dr. Rebecca Merkley, Assistant Professor with the Department of Cognitive Science, was featured<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>as part of this initiative. For more information, please visit &nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/epics.web.ox.ac.uk\/people\/rebecca-merkley\">https:\/\/epics.web.ox.ac.uk\/people\/rebecca-merkley<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Oxford University\u2019s Experimental Psychology Department Spotlights 100 Women Graduates, including Cognitive Science\u2019s Dr. Rebecca Merkley This year (2020)&nbsp;marks&nbsp;100 years&nbsp;since women were&nbsp;first&nbsp;awarded degrees at Oxford in 1920.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our Centenary Project is part of a wider University of Oxford initiative to celebrate the many ways in which women graduates have contributed to University and gone on to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}