Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 25/06/2013 (12:00-13:30)
- Location:
- Mechanical Engineering basement room B22
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speakers: Professor Essi Viding and Dr Eamon McCrory, UCL
- Date
- 09 (12:00) - 12/08/2013 (18:00)
- Description
- The Birmingham Boot Camp v2.0 comprises the Advanced ERP Workshop and the tDCS & tACS Workshop.
- Date
- 19/11/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building - R3 on the Edgbaston Campus map - room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Dr Chris Chambers, Cardiff University
- Date
- 03/12/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building - R3 on the Edgbaston Campus map - room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Marion Hetherington, Psychology, Leeds University
News
- Description
- It's a familiar sight at the fairground: rows of people gaping at curvy mirrors as they watch their faces and bodies distort. But while mirrored surfaces may be fun to look at, new findings by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Giessen, suggest they pose a particular challenge for the human brain in processing images for 3D vision.
- Date:
- 21/01/2013
- Description
- Dr Joseph Galea (Birmingham Fellow, School of Psychology) has been awarded the '2012 Klein-Vogelbach Prize for the Research of Human Movement' for his paper 'Dissociating the roles of the cerebellum and motor cortex during adaptive learning: the motor cortex retains what the cerebellum learns'.
- Date:
- 15/01/2013
- Description
- Professor Anthony Beech has been invited to speak at the Open University Psychological Society conference at the University of Westminster on the subject of Understanding the Mechanisms of Sexual and Violent Offending: A Neurobiological Perspective.
- Date:
- 15/01/2013
- Description
- Steven Gillespie and Juliane Kloess, doctoral researchers at the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, have been invited to present their research at the European Winterschool 2013.
- Date:
- 17/12/2012
- 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