News and events
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Latest news
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- Patricia Lockwood, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health and Institute for Mental Health, has recently been named recipient of the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship.
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- 14/01/2021
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- Assessing the ability of unresponsive patients with severe brain injury to understand what is being said to them could yield important insights into how they might recover, according to new research.
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- 05/01/2021
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- Researchers at the University of Birmingham are investigating how sex offenders have changed their behaviour in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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- 05/01/2021
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- Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a new sensor to measure weak magnetic signals in the brain, which has the potential to increase understanding of connectivity in the brain.
- Date:
- 23/11/2020
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- A grant of £2.1M has been awarded to the University of Birmingham to develop an international network that will commission research on humanitarian protection law and policy.
- Date:
- 20/11/2020
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- The processes our brains use to avoid harming other people are automatic and reflexive – and quite different from those used when avoiding harm to ourselves, according to new research.
- Date:
- 15/10/2020
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- New treatments which identify existing treatments could be repurposed for effective use in psychosis which can move towards better and more personalised medicine.
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- 08/10/2020
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- Psychologists at the University of Birmingham are working with The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to help the charity in its response to children who are at risk of suicide.
- Date:
- 09/09/2020