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DVD produced for young people with Coeliac disease
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
Jim Orford appears on BBC1's Panorama programme to discuss gambling
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
Professors Max Birchwood and Helen Lester secure NIHR grant for £2M
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
Suzanne Higgs' research into appetite featured in the New Scientist
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
£450k ESRC grant to investigate children's and adult's making of tools
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
Book co-edited by Professor Anthony Beech 'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law, Interventions' (2012) becomes No1 bestseller in Forensic Psychology
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
£508k award from the the BBSRC to study the neural mechanisms of memory updating
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
£80,000 award to fund 'Challenging behaviour and Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Tuberous Sclerosis'
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
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