Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- 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
- 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
- Description
- Dr Kimberly Quinn from the School of Psychology has been awarded £78,297 from the Leverhulme Trust for a research project entitled 'Witnessing Virtue versus Vice: Comparing Moral Praise and Moral Condemnation'.
- Date:
- 21/08/2012
- Description
- Research in the Centre for "Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics" is flourishing, and we are delighted to announce that we have secured more than €5.5M in funds coming into the University as part of five European research projects.
- Date:
- 14/08/2012