Dr Jasmine Virhia
About
Dr Jasmine Virhia is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.
Jasmine has expertise across cognitive neuroimaging, experimental psychology and behavioural science in organisational contexts. On the latter, she is particularly passionate about focussing her research on diverse and often underrepresented groups.
Jasmine was awarded a 3-year British Academy Early-Career Research Fellowship to focus on understanding the experiences of Neurodivergent professional workers in the UK and whether stereotypes of skills associated with Autism, ADHD and Dyslexia bias hiring decisions. In doing so, she’s conducting qualitative interviews with Neurodivergent professional workers and behavioural experiments with hiring managers.
As a Postdoctoral Researcher at LSE, Jasmine’s qualitative research involved two large scale interview studies (n=300). These studies explored the experiences of diverse professional workers post COVID-19, with a focus on exploring the relationship between identity, flexibility well-being, and productivity.
Whilst completing her PhD Jasmine’s quantitative research used neuroimaging (fMRI) and linear modelling to reconceptualise the dominant cognitive theory of verbal short-term memory. Using theories of forward-modelling and goal-directed action planning/execution via cortico-cerebellar loops, her work proposes that brain areas involved in verbal short-term memory and long-term learning are domain-general, rather than domain-specific.
Awards
- PhD Scholarship
- LSE Early-Career Researcher Changemaker Fund
- The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Expertise
Behavioural Science; Experimental Psychology; Qualitative Methods; Cognitive Neuroimaging
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer MPhil/PhD Cohort (2026)
- Guest Lecturer Marginalised Voices in Psychological and Behavioural Science (2025, 2026)
- Guest Lecturer on Executive MSc Behavioural Science (2024)
Jasmine has co-supervised a group project of MSc Behavioural Science students to produce a ‘Dictionary of Behavioural Biases: The Return to Work Post-Pandemic.’ She was also an Academic Mentor for Uggla Scholars 2021-2024.
From 2016-2019 Jasmine convened Undergraduate Psychology seminars at Royal Holloway, University of London. She also taught on Undergraduate Neuroanatomy tutorials using post-mortem brains from 2017-2019.
Jasmine is a Associate Fellow of the Higher-Education Academy.