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betina.ip@ndcn.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 610 476


Directions to my office at the WIN-Annexe, Wolfson Building


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OxCIN-Annexe, Wolfson Building, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.


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Team members

Research groups

Collaborators

Oxford

Dr Beata Godlewska, Dept. Psychiatry

Dr William Clarke, NDCN

Dr Aaron Hess, NDCN

International

Anouk Schrantee, University of Amsterdam

Dennis Levi, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jun-Yun Zhang, Peking University, Peking, China

Generously funded by

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I. Betina Ip

DPhil

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow

  • Principal Investigator
  • Hugh Price Fellow, Jesus College

I am fascinated by the influence of the environment on brain function. This interaction has been studied in neuroscience through investigating how sensory experience affects visual development. What supports experience dependent learning in early childhood? Can we facilitate learning in adults by understanding neuroplasticity?

My lab attempts to answer to such questions using advanced multimodal brain imaging, especially functional MR Spectroscopy (fMRS), behavioural measures and digital technology, including virtual reality.

Ultimately, our research can contribute to a better understanding of how experience makes us who we are, and identify ways to harness cutting edge neuroscience and digital technology to improve health.


About me

I read for my DPhil at St John’s College, Oxford. I then worked on fine-scale representations of binocular disparity in the human brain at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics as a postdoc. In 2020, I was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship and moved to the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. I joined Jesus College in 2022 as a Hugh Price Fellow in Neuroscience.

Positive Research Culture & Public Engagement

Research culture is important to me. I am a mentor for the BIPOC STEM network, supporting ethnically diverse students at the University; I facilitate women’s career advancement as part of the Women in Clinical Neurosciences committee, and I have co-led the WIN Centre's Early Career Researcher's group (2020-2022) to enhance researchers' careers. I have also authored a children's picture book on neuroscience featuring my daughter and myself as an owl.

Current Students

Joshua Briddon, FHS student 2025 Wadham College

Lucy Starling, Doctoral training project student 2024 Linacre College

Rebecca Willis, WIN-NDCN (DPhil student) 2023 Green Templeton College

Sylvana Vilca-Melendez, Dept. Psychiatry (DPhil studentr) 2022 St Hughs College

Lab alumni

Po-Chun Tseng, MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience 2024

Dr Jacek Matuszewski, Visiting researcher 2022

Kathleen Tracey, FHS student 2021/22, Wadham College

Amblyopia VR study

Websites

  • Amblyopia VR Study

    Can we use VR to change vision in amblyopes, and what are the neural mechanisms?

  • Koala Study

    What are the neural substrates of childhood amblyopia?

  • HEROES Study

    Can exercise, combined with short time deprivation, change vision in adult amblyopes? Collaboration between CNRS, Paris and The Vision Group, Oxford

Research opportunities

Unversity of Oxford project students

I often have projects for students, so if you are a student at the University of Oxford interested in gaining research experience, please come and talk to me at any point. For example, Oxford MSc/DPhil can do a graduate rotation project. Bio/medical sciences undergraduate students can get in touch about a possible FHS project. Projects can involve a variety of brain and behavioural techniques, data collection as well as analysis of existing data.

Prospective national and international DPhil students

I welcome expressions of interests from prospective graduate students who want to work in my lab. Please send me a brief motivation, your CV, and information about your research interests. Further information on the DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences can be found here.

Postdoctoral and research assistant positions will be advertised here and on the University's job website.


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