Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 23 (09:30) - 24/05/2013 (18:00)
- Description
- Registration is now open for a one-day conference that will present research focusing on internal models across various fields such as psychophysics, neuroscience, and cognitive robotics.
- Date
- 28/05/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Gregor Thut, University of Glasgow
- Date
- 04/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cambridge
- Date
- 07/06/2013 (09:00-17:00)
- Description
- The Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders will be holding a free one day research conference at the University of Birmingham. The conference will cover aspects of the cognitive, social and behavioural phenotypes of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Date
- 18/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Ian Loram, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Date
- 25/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Aston Webb WG12
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Essi Viding and Dr Eamon McCrory, UCL
News
- Description
- Research conducted by Suzanne Higgs into the link between memory and appetite has featured in a New Scientist article titled 'Memory: Lost in the here and now'.
- Date:
- 24/10/2012
- Description
- An ESRC collaborative project brings together developmental psychologists Sarah Beck and Ian Apperly and bioscientist Jackie Chappell to explore human tool making. The project develops work funded by a College of Life and Environmental Sciences Cutting Edge grant and Nicola Cutting's PhD work.
- Date:
- 24/10/2012
- Description
- 'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law and Interventions' has become the number one bestseller in Forensic Psychology on Amazon. The book is co-edited by Professor Anthony Beech (pictured right), Deputy Head of School and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham.
- Date:
- 17/10/2012
- Description
- Jonathan Lee and Attila Sik (School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine) have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Biolotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council: "The neural mechanisms of memory updating".
- Date:
- 17/10/2012
- Description
- Lucy Wilde, from the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the School of Psychology, has been awarded one of the first postdoctoral research training fellowships from the UK support group charity the Tuberous Sclerosis Association.
- Date:
- 15/10/2012
- Description
- Chris Miall has featured in a news article and podcast for Nature titled 'Neuroscience: Idle minds' (19 September 2012), which discusses the activity of the brain while it is in a resting state.
- Date:
- 10/10/2012
- Description
- Dr Joe McCleery and incoming overseas PhD student, Supriya Malik, from the School of Psychology have been awarded £103,272 from the UK charity, Autistica, and Fortis Healthcare (India) for a research project entitled 'The effects of gesture training on the neural processing of auditory and visual gestures in children with autism.'
- Date:
- 24/09/2012
- Description
- Doctoral researcher Dinesh Ramoo (pictured) has been chosen as one of the six students sponsored by the British Science Association to represent the University at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.
- Date:
- 24/09/2012