News and events
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
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- Each year a Placement Fair is held jointly with the Coventry and Warwick Clinical Psychology course where NHS and third sector placement providers can meet with clinical psychology trainees and showcase placement opportunities available in their team or wider organisation.
- Date:
- 28/03/2018
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- This book is a joint project of academic and practitioners. It communicates knowledge and research findings in the neurobiological field to those who work with offenders and those who design policy for offender rehabilitation and criminal justice systems
- Date:
- 23/03/2018
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- In a study carried out by the Universities of Birmingham and York and published today in Current Biology, researchers found new insight into the process of memory consolidation during sleep. Their findings could also suggest new ways to help people remember things better, according to the researchers.
- Date:
- 09/03/2018
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- Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their language skills.
- Date:
- 22/02/2018
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- Cited was her work within prisons as a practitioner and within HM Inspectorate of Prisons where she formalised the methodology for inspecting places of custody, and completed influential thematic reviews of race relations, suicide prevention, mental health care and the use of segregation in prisons.
- Date:
- 22/01/2018
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- An experimental study has suggested that alcohol consumption contributes to self-blame in rape, and women who blame themselves may not be as likely to report it.
- Date:
- 22/12/2017
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- Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Amsterdam hope to have found a new neurobiological marker to help recognise patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Date:
- 30/11/2017
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- Professor Suzanne Higgs from the University of Birmingham, together with Professor Jeff Brunstrom from the University of Bristol and Associate Professor Lenny Vartanian from the University of New South Wales, Australia, have been awarded an ESRC Grant worth £500K for a project that aims to understand how eating with other people affects appetite.
- Date:
- 07/11/2017