Professor Miall has been studying sensory motor control for about 30 years, from his PhD in locusts, to crayfish, primates and for most of the last decade, working on human motor control. He is particularly interested in the role of the cerebellum.

Ian Apperly is a cognitive psychologist, and his main research interest is in “mindreading” – the ability to take other people’s perspectives. He is the author of a recent book entitled “Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind”.

Professor Anthony Beech is Deputy Head of School and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychologyat the University of Birmingham, UK. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters and six books in the area of forensic science/criminal justice. In 2009 he received the Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers in ...

I am an applied researcher embedded in Birmingham mental health services. I’m a clinical psychologist by training and act as clinical director to the YouthSpace youth mental health service (www.youthspace.me) and Director of research and Innovation for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.

I’m a keen member of the Mancunian Diaspora (the ...

David Booth investigates the ways in which an individual's life works. His research and teaching centre on the processes in the mind that fit to the current situation the actions and reactions by people, members of other species and, indeed, intelligent robots.

Uta Noppeney investigates how the human brain acquires, represents and retrieves knowledge about our multisensory environment. Her team addresses this central research question from three complementary perspectives: (1) Multisensory Integration, (2) Language and (3) Concept Learning. To characterize the underlying neural and computational mechanisms, they combine psychophysics, functional ...

Now semi-retired, I have a long career behind me and have achieved a national and international reputation in the fields of addiction and community psychology.

Jane Riddoch is a cognitive neuropsychologist whose research covers visual disorders (agnosia, optic aphasia), disorders of attention (neglect, extinction) and action (apraxia, action disorganisation syndrome) and neuropsychological rehabilitation. She originally trained as a physiotherapist, then took a degree and PhD in Psychology. She has published 150 papers in leading international journals ...

My research aims to understand the health paradox of adolescence - the years between 12 and 25 are a time of great physical fitness, yet this is the period during which 75% of all mental disorders have their onset. Why should this be the case? Clearly changes in the brain are likely culprits, but how they interact with genetic and environmental factors to produce illness is unclear.

The main aim of my lab is to understand pain without injury. Consequently we hurt people using hypnosis, painful images, illusions and other trickery. I am generally interested in the nature of pain and the relationship between pain and consciousness.

I am a research psychologist interested in the study of motivated behaviours like eating and drug taking.

My primary research interest is the relationship between language, cognition and action. More specifically, I investigate gestures that people spontaneously produce during speaking and thinking and language development in children.

Dr Andrew Bagshaw is interested in developing the combination of EEG and fMRI to provide more precise spatial and temporal localisation of brain activity.

My research examines children’s and adults’ thinking about time and knowledge. I am interested in how children become able to speculate about events in the past and future and how they handle uncertainty, and how adults’ apparently sophisticated thinking in these areas is often irrational. More information about my research and my lab can be found at www.sarahruthbeck.net

Jackie is an applied developmental psychologist whose specific interest is in parenting and childhood eating behaviour and obesity.

Ingo Bojak is a computational neuroscientist. He is particularly interested in the collective activity of large groups of neurons, which for example generates the signals measured by noninvasive neuroimaging.

Dr Anke Büttner is a psycholinguist and cognitive psychologist interested in the way people make sense of language. She also has an interest in learning and teaching, in particular in the effects of encouraging students to take ownership of the work and in the processes that take place during mentoring relationships.

Louise is a Senior Lecturer, responsible for directing two postgraduate programmes in forensic psychology. Her research interests centre on family violence and group/gang aggression.

Dr Grunfeld is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and Chartered Psychologist. She trained as an audiological scientist prior to undertaking a PhD focusing on abnormalities of spatial orientation. Her more recent work is focused in the area of psycho-oncology with an emphasis on patient’s beliefs, health-related behaviours and survivorship issues.

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Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis is an HPC registered Forensic Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist with an interest in child maltreatment, including risk assessment, impact of early institutionalisation and long-term outcomes from / resilience to abuse and neglect.

Dietmar Heinke teaches statistics at the School of Psychology. His research focuses on interdisciplinary brain research integrating experimental work in psychology with theoretical/computational modeling work. for more information see his personal webpages.

Andrea Krott is psycholinguist who is interested in language acquisition and brain responses to language processing. Many of her studies, carried out in various languages, have focused on how adults and children understand and produce compound words (e.g. “baby bottle”). Her current research concerns children’s word learning and language-related brain responses (EEG) in adults.

My main roles involve teaching, supporting and supervising research on the clinical psychology doctorate, and organising the MRes Clinical Psychology course.

Dr Ian Mitchell is an international expert on the neurobiology of the basal ganglia in relation to disorders of movement and neuropsychiatric conditions. More recently he has begun to investigate the neurobiological basis of some forms of offending behaviour.

Dr Nouwen’s main research interests focus on two areas: the motivational processes underlying dietary self-care in people with diabetes, and the Centre for Obesity Research. Dr Nouwen uses both applied clinical and social as well as experimental laboratory paradigms. He is Associate Editor of Diabetic Medicine and Consulting Editor of Health Psychology.

Stemming from many years of clinical psychology work with older people in the NHS, my research focuses on understanding psychological adjustment to a range of the most common but difficult hurdles old age can bring, including loss and bereavement, dementia, long-term illness and facing death. I am interested in factors that contribute to ill-being or well-being, including the ways that people, ...

Kimberly Quinn is a social-cognitive psychologist with interests in face processing (e.g., social categorisation, emotion recognition), self–other representation (e.g., behavioural synchrony), and moral judgement (e.g., moral certainty).

More information may be found at her personal webpage: http://www.kimberlyquinn.net/.

I have been a member of staff in the School of Psychology since 1988 and have combined my academic post with clinical psychology practice and managerial responsibilities in the NHS.

Jessica is a chartered psychologist and an HPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are policing and sexual offending.

Dr Beierholm is a computational neuroscientist researching issues on theoretical models of information processing at the behavioural level, i.e. how perceptual stimuli and cognitive instructions lead to human decisions and actions.

Dr Jason Braithwaite is a lecturer in Cognitive Psychology and Brain Science at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.  He heads the Selective Attention & Awareness Laboratory which has been supported with previous funding from the ESRC, BBSRC, RCUK, and the Bial Foundation.  He current heads projects in diverse fields ...

Dr Jonathan Catling is a Cognitive Psychologist. His main research interest lies within the field of psycholinguistics, specifically assessing the impact of the ‘Age of Acquisition’ of language on cognitive functions in later life.

Dr Di Luca is Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics (CNCR). His research goal is to identify the neural mechanisms that allow humans to combine multiple sensory signals into a unified perceptual experience. Personal website: http://massimilianodiluca.info

Dr Hermine Graham is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer; she has led in the development and evaluation of an integrated treatment and service model for people with severe mental health problems who misuse alcohol and drugs, in Birmingham. This service model has been highlighted as a model of good practice by the Department of Health. She has published articles within this area and ...

Leigh Harkins is a chartered psychologist and an HPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are sexual offending and group aggression.

Dr Amanda Ludlow is a developmental psychologist focusing on atypical development, both developmental psychopathology and developmental disorders. Her research broadly falls in to three categories: Visual Function in children with developmental disorders, Social and Emotional Development of children with sensory deficits (Children with ASD, Deafness, Blindness, Tourette Syndrome), Early Risk ...

Dr McCleery is interested in typical and atypical social-emotional, social-communicative, and language development.

Richard Bennett is a Clinical Psychologist working both at the University of Birmingham and in the NHS. He is an Academic Tutor on the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy CBT Programmes, and is the Course Lead for the Diploma in High Intensity Psychological Therapies.

I am one of the Senior Academic Tutors on the ClinPsyD Course in the School of Psychology. My role involves being a Year Tutor as well as curriculum organisation and development. I supervise research in the area of health psychology, focusing mainly on Coeliac Disease, cancer and end of life care.

John Rose is a clinical psychologist with a particular interest in working with people who have Intellectual Disabilities and work on the Clin Psy D course at the University. He also works for Dudley Community Services and has a strong emphasis on integrating research and teaching with practice in his professional life.

I work in the School of Psychology part-time (.6 FTE) on a five-year NIHR Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for research into the early signs of challenging behaviour in individuals with intellectual disabilities and genetic syndromes. Outside of this, I continue to work clinically with children and adolescents with mental health problems, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.

Lucy Alford is a keen zoologist whose specific interests lie in the areas of entomology, macroecology, physiology and behavior. Following on from her PhD centered on insect thermal biology and resilience to temperature extremes, she is currently engaged in a challenging and exciting project focused on resilient systems. For this, she is interested in applying her knowledge of resilience theory ...

Debbie Allen is a postdoctoral researcher who works at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. She is currently funded by the National Autistic Society.

As well as lecturing and tutoring undergraduates, Dr Giles Anderson uses behavioural and eye-tracking measures to investigate patterns in visual search.

I am a cellular and molecular neurobiologist by training but I have made carrier change from neurobiology to cognitive neuropsychology and swapped lab bench with microscope for MRI scanner.

My research interests span behavioural and theoretical neuroscience, focussing on visual perception. I am interested in how we can conceptualise the relation between low-level neuronal physiology and the effects on behaviour band experience that they give rise to.

My main research interests lie in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Visual Attention and Numerical Cognition.

My current research examines how the brain controls coordinated movements, and which structures in the brain contribute to the improvement and adaptation of movements during motor learning. My PhD thesis examined how observing the actions of others can modulate the activity of the human motor system.

Dr Jiang’s main research interests are image processing and pattern recognition. Now she works with Dr Andrew Schofield for the project "Extract intrinsic image from a single image". They try to integrate the knowledge of human vision system into computer vision system.

Dr Johannsen’s reseach interests cover a range of topics related to the control of body balance, posture and gait: ageing, stroke, cognition-motor interference, interpersonal postural coordination, 'light touch' effects on balance, and neurorehabilitation.

Katerina is currently working as coordinator for Dr Joe McCleery’s behavioural and EEG/ERP research on language development in toddlers at high risk of developing autism, funded by the UK-based charity organisation Autistica. She is also working with Dr Kita on further projects on infant’s perception and use of sound symbolism.

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Dr Lin works as a research fellow investigating the onset of severe mental illness in adolescents and young adults.

Dr. Femke Maij is a postdoctoral researcher working on haptic perception during arm movements in Professor Alan Wing’s group.

Dr Mavritsaki investigates the underlying processes in visual cognition and learning using biological plausible spiking neurons. Furthermore, she identifies new mathematical techniques that will allow the easier identification of the parameter space in such complicated systems.

Dr Steve Mayhew conducts a lot of simultaneous EEG-fMRI experiments in an effort to better understand the coupling between single-trial variability in electrophysiological and haemodynamic measurements of brain responses, and how interactions between ongoing brain processes and external events are intrinsic to the function of the brain.

I am a research fellow at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, School of Psychology. My main research interests include the study of behavioural phenotypes in neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability.

Dr Renate Reniers works as a Research Fellow investigating youth mental health using various neuroimaging techniques.

Dr Rosenthal’s research interests focus on basic mechanisms of perceptual dynamics, learning and recovery. Her work is multi disciplinary in its nature. She has a very extensive research experience in studying perception and learning in humans (both healthy and neurologically impaired) and primate, using psychophysical, neurophysiological, neural modeling, engineering and robotic ...

Dr. Femke Rutters is a research biologist interested in genetic, endocrine, behavioral factors involved in body-weight development.

I am a Research Fellow at the Cerebra Centre where I am involved in research into behaviour and family adjustment in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders.

I am interested in investigating the relationships between the brain, cognition and behaviour.

Rachel Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in the Sensory Motor Neuroscience research group. Her current research is funded by The Stroke Association and investigates auditory cueing in walking and stepping.

Dr Ali Chowdhury is a registered Clinical Scientist and MR Physicist in a joint post with the BUIC and the University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust. His work in the area of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Spectroscopy (MRS) includes providing expert advice in sequence development, quality assurance (QA) and MR safety. In addition, he is active in clinical research including ...

I am a researcher and teaching instructor based in the School of Psychology.

I am interested in how we come to make decisions about what we will and won’t enjoy, as well as the impact social norms and beliefs have on behavior. I am also keen to understand how this information might be used to prompt behavioural change or encourage ‘better’ decision ...