News and events 

Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
 

Seminars & Events

'The origins of conduct problems' and 'Investigating the neurobiological impact of childhood maltreatment: What can we learn about risk and resilience?'
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
Birmingham Boot Camp v2.0
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.
School seminar (Speaker: Dr Chris Chambers, Cardiff University)
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
School seminar (Speaker: Professor Marion Hetherington, Psychology, Leeds 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

Kim Quinn awarded £78k by the Leverhulme Trust to study moral praise and moral condemnation
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
The CN-CR centre approaches its second anniversary, and reports excellent progress
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
House of Lords Event raises awareness of the Everyman Project
Description
In July Dr Louise Dixon attended The House of Lords to raise awareness of the Everyman Project. It was an exciting networking event, and one that will raise awareness of an organisation delivering evidence-based treatment to violent men who aggress against their intimate partner.
Date:
14/08/2012
Jim Orford to feature on Channel 4's Dispatches on Monday 6th August
Description
Emeritus Professor Jim Orford will feature on The Channel Four TV show Dispatches on the subject of gambling. The special interest just now is in the types of gambling machines, new in the last 10 years, which allow people to play virtual casino-type games on machines to be found in high street betting shops.
Date:
24/07/2012
Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson awarded £404K from the ESRC to examine "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
Description
Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Economic and Social Research Council: "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
Date:
23/07/2012
New paper in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior outlines approaches to treating emotional regulatory deficits among sexual offenders
Description
Steven Gillespie, Ian Mitchell, Dawn Fisher, and Anthony Beech have a paper published in 2012 in Aggression and Violent Behavior entitled 'Treating disturbed emotional regulation in sexual offenders: The potential applications of mindful self-regulation and controlled breathing techniques.'
Date:
23/07/2012
New International Network to Detect Serial Offenders: School of Psychology awarded £79K from the Leverhulme Trust's International Networks scheme
Description
Dr Jessica Woodhams has been successful in her application to the Leverhulme Trust for a grant to set up the first international network dedicated to research on crime linkage.
Date:
23/07/2012
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