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- In the forthcoming Horizon programme 'The Truth About Taste', Jackie Blissett will be discussing some of the reasons why children like some foods and dislike others, how this changes as they move from infancy to adulthood, and some of the psychological processes involved in our development of food likes and dislikes.
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- 26/03/2013
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- PhD students Angela Meadows and Sara Tookey are running a multidisciplinary conference on the subject of Weight Stigma and Health.
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- 22/03/2013
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- Teresa da Silva, a doctoral research student working in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology under the supervision of Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Leigh Harkins, has contributed a chapter entitled "Multiple Perpetrator Rape as an international phenomenon" to the Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape published on the 5th of March 2013.
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- 18/03/2013
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- Drs Steve Mayhew (pictured right) and Andy Bagshaw (pictured left) have been awarded £39,840 by the Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund to develop a collaborative project entitled ' Birmingham-Nottingham multimodal neuroimaging alliance: Understanding spatio-temporal brain network dynamics'.
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- 18/03/2013
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- Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape, edited by Dr Jessica Woodhams and Professor Miranda Horvath, is the first text to be compiled regarding this type of sexual violence which has been so prominent in international news recently.
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- 28/02/2013
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- Representing the University and the organisation he has founded, Gambling Watch UK, Professor Jim Orford spoke last Monday at a meeting to launch a campaign to remove high-stake gambling machines from betting shops.
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- 18/02/2013
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- The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have released a press notice regarding the latest trends in child sexual exploitation online. One of the major stories highlighted by the press release was the published literature review written by Helen Whittle (School of Psychology PhD student and CEOP employee), Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis and Anthony Beech (School of Psychology).
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- 18/02/2013
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- Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Jo Moss, Professor Ian Apperly and Dr Joe McCleery have been awarded £200,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to carry out a three year project which will evaluate social-cognition and its relation to social functioning in three genetic syndromes; Cornelia de Lange, Fragile X and Rubinstein Taybi syndromes.
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- 04/02/2013