Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- 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 (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
- Chris Miall has featured in a news article and podcast for Nature titled 'Neuroscience: Idle minds' (19 September 2012), which discusses the activity of the brain while it is in a resting state.
- Date:
- 10/10/2012
- Description
- Dr Joe McCleery and incoming overseas PhD student, Supriya Malik, from the School of Psychology have been awarded £103,272 from the UK charity, Autistica, and Fortis Healthcare (India) for a research project entitled 'The effects of gesture training on the neural processing of auditory and visual gestures in children with autism.'
- Date:
- 24/09/2012
- Description
- Doctoral researcher Dinesh Ramoo (pictured) has been chosen as one of the six students sponsored by the British Science Association to represent the University at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.
- Date:
- 24/09/2012
- Description
- Dominique Moran and Louise Dixon (Psychology) have been successful in obtaining funding from the ESRC for a project entitled 'Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK' (£370k fEC).
- Date:
- 13/09/2012
- Description
- The 'Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers' (ATSA) has awarded Ross Bartels the Graduate Student Award, with which he will be presented at ATSA's 2012 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, USA (October 17th - 20th).
- Date:
- 13/09/2012
- Description
- Prof Jim Orford appeared on the Channel 4 Dispatches TV programme which finally appeared, after some postponements, on the evening of August 6. The programme was about one of Jim's favourite research topics, gambling, and particularly focused on what are now called Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).
- Date:
- 06/09/2012
- Description
- The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) awarded Jason Thomas the Hannah Steinberg Award at its 2012 Summer Meeting in Harrogate, in recognition of his research.
- Date:
- 23/08/2012
- Description
- A grant of £140,462 has been awarded to Drs. Michael Larkin, John Rose and Biza Kroese in the School of Psychology to explore the experiences and views of social care services amongst people with learning disabilities and black and minority groups. The award was made by the National institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research (3rd Wave) and it will run until the end of 2013.
- Date:
- 21/08/2012