Arran received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Reading, UK in 2018. In his doctoral work he used non-invasive brain stimulation to examine the role of different brain areas in action imitation. He then spent two and a half years working at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, working on the role of body perception in movement. He has been a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling since July 2020.
