About

I was born in Merthyr Tydfil and live in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan.  I am Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath, where until September 2020 I taught and conducted research in Cognitive Science. Earlier in my career, I worked at the Universities of Lancaster, Cardiff and Manchester, and also at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York.

My poems have been published in magazines such as The Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Dark Horse, The North and Poetry Wales. In 2010 I was selected by Michael Laskey and Joanna Cutts to be the Smiths Knoll Mentee, and my pamphlet The Probabilities of Balance was published that same year. My first full-length poetry collection, Pattern Beyond Chance, was published by HappenStance Press in 2015 and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. My second collection, The Windmill Proof (September 2021), and a pamphlet The Wax Argument & Other Thought Experiments (February 2022) were published by the same press.

My scientific publications and citation data can be found on my google scholar profile.

Contact me by email: stephenjpayne AT gmail DOT com

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