Dr Foyzul Rahman

BSc, MSc, PhD

  • Lecturer in Psychology

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Foyzul Rahman

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Foyzul Rahman graduated with a BSc (Hons) and an MSc in Psychology in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He then went on to complete a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Aston University (2017-2020) which focused on social cognition and neurocognitive decline in healthy ageing.

After his PhD, Foyzul worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH, University of Birmingham) during the years 2021-2023. His post-doc work focused on a large-scale exercise intervention study that investigated the protective qualities of aerobic exercise and bilingualism in improving the trajectories of neurocognitive decline in older adults. In May 2023, Foyzul was appointed Lecturer in Psychology at Birmingham City University where he taught on both under- and postgraduate modules focusing on cognitive psychology, research methods and statistics, and cognitive ageing. Foyzul joined Loughborough University in February 2025 as a Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology.

Foyzul’s research examines how cognitive decline (e.g., in working memory, attention, inhibitory control, etc.) is associated with natural, non-pathological ageing, and the interventions/modifiable lifestyle choices by which these declines can be slowed or improved. With the use of neuroimaging (primarily functional, structural, and perfusion MRI), his work also seeks to uncover a neurological and potentially mechanistic explanation of neurocognitive ageing. Currently, Foyzul’s research can be summarised into three themes:

  1. How fitness and bilingualism might mitigate age-related cognitive decline (The FAB Project) – collaboration with the University of Birmingham;
  2. Examining if fitness might alleviate cognitive symptoms (‘brain fog’) in (peri)menopause – collaboration with Birmingham City University and University of Nottingham;
  3. Examining the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and cognitive decline in older adults – collaboration with the University of Birmingham.

Foyzul is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham.

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