Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 22/05/2013 (10:00-11:00)
- Description
- Part of the Ingestive Behaviour Group talk. Speaker: Bessy Chirwa
- 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
- MRes Clinical Psychology student Joshua Muggleton has had an article published on the Guardian website in which he discusses the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s plans to remove the terms "Asperger's syndrome" and "autism" and replace them with "autism spectrum disorder".
- Date:
- 17/12/2012
- Description
- Professor in Criminological Psychology, Anthony Beech, has taken part in a discussion on Radio 4 on the psychology of the child sex offender. The programme was broadcast on Tuesday 11 December 2012 at 9am.
- Date:
- 10/12/2012
- Description
- An MRC grant for approximately £818K has recently been awarded to Professor Stephen Wood for research into – 'Linear and non-linear brain changes over the transition to psychosis'.
- Date:
- 10/12/2012
- Description
- Forensic Psychology PhD student Helen Whittle has had two literature reviews accepted to be published in the Journal 'Aggression and Violent Behavior'. The article, titled, "A review of online grooming: characteristics and concerns" explores the research surrounding how young people are targeted by offenders on the internet. The second article explores risk factors that may make a young person vulnerable to being groomed online.
- Date:
- 10/12/2012
- Description
- Dr Ruth Howard and Dr Gary Law have created a new DVD for young people with Coeliac Disease. It came from an ESRC Knowledge Transfer Grant, and features young people talking about their experiences of living with and managing Coeliac Disease.
- Date:
- 06/12/2012
- Description
- Professor Jim Orford made an appearance on the BBC1 Panorama programme shown on the evening of Monday 5th November. Like last month's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, this was devoted to gambling and again focused on the problems associated with the high stake fixed odds betting machines now to be found in high street betting shops.
- Date:
- 09/11/2012
- Description
- Professor Max Birchwood and Professor Helen Lester (primary care) have recently secured an NIHR grant for £2M. The 'PARTNERS2' project aims to help primary care and community based mental health services work more closely together.
- Date:
- 09/11/2012
- 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