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- 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
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- 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.
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- 09/11/2012
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- '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
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- 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
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- 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