text: News and events - School of Psychology Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/index.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2017-10-17T12:42:13Z Paper analyses approaches of online sexual offenders Lydia Rea Dr Juliane Kloess recently published a paper which aims to provide an inclusive and realistic account of the offence processes of naturally occurring, sexually exploitative interactions between offenders and victims that take place via Internet communication platforms. 2017-08-30T11:48:00Z 2017-08-30T11:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/30Aug-online-sexual-exploitation.aspx Fellowship awarded for new research into the cerebellum Lydia Rea Professor Chris Miall has received a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for 2017-18, to pursue new research into the role of the cerebellum in cognition. 2017-08-08T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/08Aug-fellowship-research-cerebellum.aspx £1M BBSRC grant awarded to study how aging influences sense of touch Lydia Rea Professor Alan Wing, together with Dr Massimiliano Di Luca, and Dr Roberta Roberts from the University of Birmingham and Dr Harriet Allen from the University of Nottingham, have been awarded a BBSRC Grant worth £1 million for a project that aims to understand how aging influences tactile surface perception in decision and action. 2017-08-02T10:00:00Z 2017-08-08T09:48:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/02Aug-bbsrc-grant-touch.aspx PhD student awarded prize for memory formation poster Lydia Rea School of Psychology PhD student Ben Griffiths was awarded a prize for best poster at the 'Cutting EEG' conference in Glasgow last month. 2017-07-31T10:00:00Z 2017-08-08T09:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/31Jul-prize-memory-poster.aspx Spotlight on: The Birmingham Institute for Mental Health Lydia Rea The Birmingham Institute for Mental Health (IMH) has been created to improve the care and outcomes of those suffering from problems in their mental health, and to ensure a sustained impact on public policy and practice. 2017-07-26T11:08:00Z 2017-08-01T15:47:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/26Jul-spotlight-imh.aspx Sleep guide developed by staff and students is launched at conference Lydia Rea A resource for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders developed by members of the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the charity Cerebra was successfully launched at a conference in Birmingham at the end of June. 2017-07-25T15:23:00Z 2017-08-01T15:45:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/25Jul-sleep-guide.aspx Psychology student wins 3-Minute Thesis competition Lydia Rea Meryl Lewis, studying for a PhD in Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, has won the 2017 University of Birmingham Three Minute Thesis competition. 2017-07-07T12:14:00Z 2017-08-01T15:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/07Jul-psychology-student-wins-3-minute-thesis-competition.aspx Policing and the justice system: tackling the key challenges Lydia Rea In the latest Birmingham Brief article, Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Dr Jessica Woodhams consider the challenges facing policing and the Criminal Justice Sector, including rehabilitation, pathways to crime and prioritisation. 2017-06-30T16:28:00Z 2017-08-01T16:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/30Jun-birmingham-brief-policing.aspx Study explores children's ability to copy products they cannot yet invent Lydia Rea Researchers from the University of Birmingham have published a study in Scientific Reports in which they investigate whether young children can copy a material cultural product that they themselves are not yet able to invent on their own. For this, the researchers adapted a tower construction task that was previously used with adults. 2017-06-29T10:15:00Z 2017-08-01T15:58:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/29Jun-children-material-culture.aspx Self-injury paper inspires Facebook video Lydia Rea An article recently published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities by Dr Caroline Richards and Professor Chris Oliver has been converted into a 60-second video on Facebook by autism researcher Professor Andrew Whitehouse, in Australia. 2017-06-26T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/26Jun-paper-inspires-video.aspx Paper explores children's tool innovation Lydia Rea Clare Whalley, an ESRC-funded PhD student, Dr Sarah Beck and Nicola Cutting (York St John University) have published a paper which explores children's tool innovation and how this is affected by prior experiences. 2017-06-21T10:15:00Z 2017-08-01T15:43:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/21Jun-children's-tool-innovation.aspx Dr Joseph Galea wins Early-Career Award Lydia Rea Senior Lecturer in the School, Dr Joseph Galea, has recently been awarded the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Early-Career Award for his significant contribution to the field of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2017-06-15T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/15Jun-galea-award.aspx PhD student a finalist in ESRC writing competition Lydia Rea PhD student David Pollard was a finalist in the ESRC Writing Competition 2017, which aims to encourage and recognise the writing skills of ESRC-funded students. 2017-05-23T10:15:00Z 2017-08-01T15:44:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/23May-pollard-writing-competition.aspx Birmingham researchers feature in ITN Productions and Police Federation new campaign Lydia Rea Psychology staff at the University of Birmingham have a long history of research collaborations with UK and overseas police forces, the findings of which inform policing tactics. 2017-05-18T12:16:00Z 2017-08-01T15:42:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/18May-birmingham-researchers-ITN-campaign.aspx Crime linkage network publishes paper Lydia Rea The Crime Linkage International NetworK (C-LINK) has published its first paper in the Journal of Criminal Justice. 2017-05-15T10:30:00Z 2017-08-01T15:31:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/15May-c-link-paper.aspx Professor Beech is invited participant at child sexual abuse prevention seminar Lydia Rea Professor Anthony Beech was an invited participant to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse seminar on 'Preventing and responding to child sexual abuse: Learning from best practice overseas' in London on Wednesday 12 April 2017. 2017-05-09T10:59:00Z 2017-08-01T15:27:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/09May-beech-iicsa-seminar.aspx PhD student awarded grant for European conference Lydia Rea PhD student Jayne Trickett has been awarded a European Sleep Research Society meeting travel grant to attend and present a poster at the Sleep and Breathing 2017 conference this month in Marseille. 2017-04-13T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/13Apr-sleep-breathing-conference.aspx £891K grant to explore restoration of motor function in the vegetative state Lydia Rea Dr Davinia Fernandez Espejo has been awarded an MRC New Investigator Research Grant worth £891K to explore the potential for electrical brain stimulation to restore motor function in the vegetative state. 2017-04-05T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/05Apr-fernandez-espejo-grant.aspx 'Why teaching children about porn and sexting is a step in the right direction' Lydia Rea Dr Juliane Kloess has written a piece for The Conversation in which she discusses the news that sex and relationship education is to be made compulsory in English secondary schools. 2017-03-31T10:37:00Z 2017-08-01T16:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/31Mar-conversation-teaching-children.aspx Paper asks 'Would broader life skills education help victims of online sexual exploitation?' Lydia Rea Dr Juliane Kloess has recently published a paper which explores victims' behaviour and responses in sexually exploitative interactions with offenders. 2017-03-08T11:30:00Z 2017-08-01T15:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/08Mar-online-sexual-exploitation.aspx PhD student presents human culture research at conference Lydia Rea Eva Reindl, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, was recently invited to give a keynote talk at the Young Social Learning Researchers (YSLR) Winter Workshop 2017 in Manchester, UK. 2017-03-03T12:01:00Z 2017-08-01T15:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/03Mar-yslr-conference.aspx Responses to emotive and social cues in Tourette Syndrome Lydia Rea A new study conducted by Dr Clare Eddy and Dr Peter Hansen may help to explain the social content and emotional tone of many tics and compulsive urges in Tourette Syndrome (TS) patients. 2017-02-17T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:37:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/17Feb-emotive-social-cues.aspx £750,000 grant to investigate post-traumatic coma Lydia Rea Dr Damian Cruse has been awarded a Medical Research Council New Investigator Grant of £750,000 to investigate consciousness and cognition in acute post-traumatic coma, and explore more accurate markers of diagnosis as well as potential for recovery. 2017-02-14T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/14Feb-coma-project-grant.aspx PhD paper features in 'out-of-body experiences' journal issue Lydia Rea A special issue of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry explores out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and associated dissociative disorders in self-consciousness, and includes contributions from former director of the Selective Attention and Awareness laboratory Dr Jason Braithwaite, and PhD student Hayley Dewe. 2017-02-08T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/08Feb-obes-special-journal.aspx New treatment manual for alcohol and drug use intervention Lydia Rea Dr Hermine L. Graham, Honorary Lecturer and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the School of Psychology, has recently published a book which looks at alcohol and drug use intervention. 2017-01-12T13:30:00Z 2017-08-01T15:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/12Jan-treatment-manual-intervention.aspx Taking a new look at chimpanzees and bonobos Lydia Rea Dr Zanna Clay, Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, and Thibaud Gruber (University of Neuchâtel) have published a paper which updates existing knowledge of chimpanzees and bonobos, and assesses their major similarities and differences. 2017-01-06T13:00:00Z 2017-08-01T15:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/06Jan-chimps-bonobos.aspx Exploring shape perception and step climbing in older adults Lydia Rea A recently published paper has shown that a loss of visual information in older adults can affect the perception of surfaces. 2017-01-04T12:45:00Z 2017-08-01T15:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2017/04Jan-step-climbing.aspx Researchers discuss unique human culture on BBC radio Lydia Rea Researchers from the Comparative Cognition Research Group (CCRG) recently presented their research on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Origins of Human Culture', which aired on Tuesday 6 December. 2016-12-22T10:45:00Z 2017-08-01T16:13:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/22Dec-human-culture-radio.aspx Chimpanzees are 'indifferent' when it comes to altruism Lydia Rea New research into chimpanzees suggests that, when it comes to altruistically helping a fellow chimpanzee, they are 'indifferent'. 2016-12-20T17:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2016/12/chimpanzees-indifferent.aspx New book explores treatment of sexual offenders Lydia Rea Professor Leam Craig and Professor Anthony Beech have recently published a major new reference book across three volumes on the theories, assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. 2016-12-12T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/12Dec-new-book-sexual-offenders.aspx Doctoral trainee publishes research into care-leavers mental health Lydia Rea Sarah Butterworth, second-year trainee on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate course in the School of Psychology, has published a paper looking at the perspectives of young people transitioning out of social care services in the West Midlands. 2016-12-07T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/07Dec-care-leavers-research.aspx Leam Craig appointed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Lydia Rea In October Professor Leam Craig was appointed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in recognition of his contributions to the social sciences. 2016-11-30T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:16:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/30Nov-leam-craig-fellow.aspx Mental Health workshop a success Lydia Rea On 23 September 2016, many staff and doctoral researchers from the School were involved in an international, interdisciplinary event on 'Relatedness and relationships in mental health.' 2016-11-24T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/24Nov-mental-health-workshop.aspx Clinical Psychology conference to become annual event Lydia Rea The Centre for Applied Psychology at the University of Birmingham hosted its first Research Conference on 5 September 2016. 2016-11-18T15:27:00Z 2017-08-01T16:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/18Nov-clinical-psych-conference.aspx School to be Bronze sponsor for international neuroscience meeting Lydia Rea The School of Psychology has been confirmed as a Bronze sponsor for the 2017 meeting of the British Neuroscience Association in Birmingham. 2016-10-27T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/27Oct-neuroscience-meeting.aspx BioMag 2020 to be held at the University of Birmingham Lydia Rea It has been announced that the world's premier biomagnetism meeting, BioMag, will be held at the University of Birmingham in 2020. 2016-10-24T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/24Oct-biomag-birmingham.aspx Anxiety guide highly commended by the British Medical Association Lydia Rea A resource developed by members of the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders together with the charity Cerebra was awarded 'highly commended' at the British Medical Association (BMA) Patient Information Awards 2016. 2016-10-21T15:14:00Z 2017-08-01T16:12:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/20Oct-anxiety-guide-bma.aspx Study explores association between memory and location Lydia Rea A new study, published in NeuroImage by Doctoral Researcher Ben Griffiths has illuminated how our brains associate a memorable event with where it occurred in the real world. 2016-10-18T16:32:00Z 2017-08-01T16:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/18Oct-memory-location.aspx PhD students present neurodevelopmental research at international conference Lydia Rea Stacey Bissell and Katherine Ellis, PhD students at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Birmingham recently presented their work at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) World Congress in Melbourne, Australia (14-19 August 2016). 2016-09-26T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/26Sep-iassidd-conference.aspx Junior scientist award for PhD student Lydia Rea Eva Reindl, third-year Phd student at the School of Psychology, received the Linda Mealey Award by the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) in August for her paper on young children's spontaneous tool-use abilities. 2016-09-19T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/19Sep-eva-award.aspx Study suggests bilinguals can better maintain attention Lydia Rea Researchers from the University of Birmingham have shed light onto the cognitive benefits of bilingualism, pointing to an enhanced ability to maintain attention and focus. 2016-09-12T11:16:00Z 2017-08-01T16:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2016/09/bilinguals-attentional-control.aspx €1.5 million European grant for evolution of human culture project Lydia Rea Dr Claudio Tennie, Birmingham Fellow in the School of Psychology, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant of €1.5 million to evaluate early stone tools in the context of cumulative culture. 2016-09-09T09:57:00Z 2017-08-01T16:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/09Sep-erc-human-culture-grant.aspx 'Numbness' in the face of a threat: depersonalisation experiences Lydia Rea Hayley Dewe, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, has published a new paper which investigates emotional arousal in those predisposed to depersonalisation type experiences. 2016-09-07T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/07Sep-depersonalisation-experiences.aspx €1.5 million European grant awarded for memory project Lydia Rea Dr Maria Wimber, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant of €1.5 million to explore how the brain reconstructs memories. 2016-09-05T10:09:00Z 2017-08-01T16:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/05Sept-erc-memory-grant.aspx Revealing how we replay past experiences Lydia Rea A new study from Dr Simon Hanslmayr's lab reveals the neural mechanisms that enable our brains to replay videos and sounds experienced in the past. 2016-09-01T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:06:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/01Sep-past-experiences.aspx Steve Mayhew receives award for brain fluctuations paper Lydia Rea Dr Steve Mayhew, Birmingham Fellow in the School of Psychology, received the Neuroimage Editor's Choice Award in July for a paper investigating brain activity fluctuations. 2016-08-26T10:46:00Z 2017-08-01T16:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/26Aug-steve-mayhew.aspx Researchers awarded an MRC grant of £98,000 Lydia Rea Orna Rosenthal, Chris Miall (School of Psychology) and David Punt (School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences) were recently awarded an MRC Confidence in Concept grant of £98,000 to develop their methods for mapping upper limb motor performance after stroke. 2016-08-10T10:00:00Z 2017-08-01T16:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/10Aug-mrc-grant.aspx Best Publication Award for PhD Student Lydia Rea Eva Reindl, third-year PhD student in the School of Psychology, has been awarded with The Michael K. O'Rourke Best Publication Award for the best PhD publication in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences 2016, receiving £400. 2016-07-28T10:00:00Z 2016-07-18T15:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/28Jul-best-publication-award.aspx EEG could indicate levels of awareness in a vegetative state Lydia Rea New research suggests that an electroencephalogram (EEG) could be a strong indicator of the level of awareness of patients in a vegetative state after a severe brain injury. 2016-07-27T09:01:00Z 2016-07-27T08:55:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2016/07/EEG-scans-could-help-diagnose-levels-of-awareness-in-patients-with-a-disorder-of-consciousness.aspx How the brain predicts the future Lydia Rea Dr Massimiliano Di Luca and Dr Darren Rhodes have devised a model that takes into account past experience of the world to generate expectations for the future and have studied how it applies to time perception. 2016-07-25T10:00:00Z 2016-07-18T15:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/25Jul-brain-predicts-future.aspx PhD student takes part in Soapbox Science event Lydia Rea On Saturday 18 June some of the country's top female academics took to the streets of Oxford to tell the public about their research. This event, run by Soapbox Science, was one of a series which aims to promote women in science in an interesting and engaging way as they share their passion for science with the general public. 2016-07-21T10:00:00Z 2016-07-18T15:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/21Jul-soapbox-science-event.aspx Overall Winner achievement award for PhD student Lydia Rea Shana Gander-Zaucker, Doctoral Researcher in the School of Psychology, has won the Overall Winner achievement award, at the Graduate School's 10th annual Research Poster Conference. This year the event was held at the Aston Webb building at the University of Birmingham on 14 June. 2016-07-18T15:59:00Z 2016-11-01T10:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/18Jul-achievement-award-phd-student.aspx The key challenges facing UK policing today Lydia Rea In a recent Birmingham Brief article, Dr Jessica Woodhams (School of Psychology) and Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (Department of Economics) discuss the challenges that criminal justice faces from society, and the areas of research on which the new Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing is focusing. 2016-07-15T10:17:00Z 2016-11-01T09:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/15Jul-birmingham-brief-policing.aspx Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations Lydia Rea New research, using a Bayesian inference model of audio and visual stimuli, has shown how our perception of time lies mid-way between reality and our expectations. 2016-07-14T10:00:00Z 2016-07-18T16:41:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2016/07/humans-perceive-time-somewhere-in-between-reality-and-our-expectations.aspx BPS awards success for Forensic Psychology staff Lydia Rea The Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology has had double success in the recent round of awards given by the Division of Forensic Psychology (British Psychological Society). 2016-07-11T10:00:00Z 2016-11-01T09:56:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/11Jul-bps-awards.aspx Spotlight on: The Centre for Human Brain Health Simon Levermore The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) is an inter-disciplinary brain research facility established with the mission of understanding what makes a brain healthy, how to maintain it, how to prevent and reverse damage and how to develop the next generation of interventions and tools for personalised brain healthcare. 2016-07-08T09:38:00Z 2016-07-08T09:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/08Jul-spotlight-centre-human-brain-health.aspx Conference on using behavioural science to target prolific criminals Lydia Rea October 2016 sees the British Academy hosting a conference on the use of behavioural science techniques to target prolific criminals. The conference will take place at the stunning headquarters of the British Academy in central London. 2016-07-06T10:00:00Z 2016-11-01T09:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/06Jul-conference-behavioural-science.aspx Second interdisciplinary Conference on Culture held in Birmingham Lydia Rea The student-led Culture Conference was held at the University of Birmingham on 9 and 10 June, following the success of last year's conference, which received very positive feedback and raised further questions for debate. 2016-07-01T10:00:00Z 2016-06-28T16:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/01Jul-culture-conference.aspx Crime Linkage Symposium held in New York Lydia Rea The Crime Linkage International NetworK (C-LINK) which was set up and hosted by the School of Psychology in 2013, presented the findings of its two international research projects during a C-LINK symposium at the 17th Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology in New York last month. 2016-06-28T14:11:00Z 2016-06-28T13:55:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/28Jun-c-link-symposium.aspx Exploring route learning in individuals with brain injury Lydia Rea A project team in the School are developing a virtual environment that will allow them to explore route learning in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). 2016-05-30T10:15:00Z 2016-05-12T09:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/30May-route-learning-project.aspx Understanding chimpanzee behaviour in zoos Lydia Rea A recent Birmingham Brief article, based on the work of researchers in the schools of Biosciences and Psychology, considers how zoos could modify great ape enclosures to elicit wild-type behavioural profiles. 2016-05-27T15:09:00Z 2016-05-31T09:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/27May-chimpanzees-zoos-birmingham-brief.aspx Movement and social interaction in individuals with autism Lydia Rea A review article recently published by Dr Jennifer Cook looks at movement kinematics and social cognition in individuals with autism. 2016-05-18T10:00:00Z 2016-05-10T16:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/18May-movement-autism.aspx Study looks at emotional eating in childhood Lydia Rea Research studies carried out in the School have shown how parental feeding practices inform the development of emotional eating. 2016-05-12T11:00:00Z 2016-05-12T13:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/12May-childhood-eating.aspx First Women in Science Event a success Lydia Rea Last month the School of Psychology hosted its first Women in Science Event (WiSE). WiSE is a new collaboration between the University and the Athena Swan Charter for Women in Science, designed to provide a platform for discussion about women in science. 2016-05-12T10:00:00Z 2016-05-10T16:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/12May-wise.aspx Professor Beech presents at conference in Pakistan Lydia Rea Anthony Beech, Professor in Criminological Psychology and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, presented at the first ever International Conference on Forensic Psychiatry in Pakistan, 'Healing the Held' on 8 and 9 April 2016. 2016-05-10T15:29:00Z 2016-11-01T09:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/10May-conference-pakistan.aspx Clinical staff and trainees organise conference Lydia Rea Staff and trainees from the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology are organising a one-day conference to showcase their clinical research. 2016-04-25T09:00:00Z 2016-11-01T10:06:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/25Apr-clinical-conference.aspx Award for Forensic Clinical Doctoral Trainee Lydia Rea Ian Burke, Forensic Clinical Doctoral Trainee in the School of Psychology, has won the Division of Clinical Psychology's Faculty of Forensic Clinical Psychology Pre Qualification award. 2016-04-18T09:00:00Z 2016-11-01T10:06:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/18Apr-award-forensic-clin-trainee.aspx Researchers discuss Tourette's findings on BBC programme Lydia Rea Work conducted at BUIC was recently featured in BBC Two programme 'Employable Me', a series which looks at employability amongst jobseekers with neurological conditions such as Autism and Tourette's. 2016-04-12T14:56:00Z 2016-04-12T14:50:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/12Apr-buic-tourettes-bbc.aspx Grant to explore memory and empathy Lydia Rea Dr Federica Meconi has won a prestigous Marie-Curie grant worth over 183,000 Euros for a two-year project to explore how memories shape empathy for others. 2016-03-31T13:57:00Z 2016-03-31T13:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/23Mar-memory-empathy.aspx Grant to investigate Autism Spectrum Disorder Lydia Rea A research team including Dr Jennifer Cook has been awarded £70,000 from the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund to investigate learning and reward processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 2016-03-21T10:00:00Z 2016-03-16T14:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/21Mar-asd-grant.aspx How do we process the multisensory world? Lydia Rea A recently published paper has demonstrated that the signals from different senses are partially integrated in parts of the brain that have previously been assumed to process signals from only one sense such as vision. 2016-03-16T14:45:00Z 2016-03-16T14:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/16Mar-multisensory-processing.aspx How does the brain 'feel' objects? Lydia Rea A paper published in NeuroImage by a recently graduated doctoral researcher explores how viewing an object can induce brain activity related to touch. 2016-03-03T15:30:00Z 2016-02-25T16:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/03Mar-surfaces-touch.aspx How long is a second? Lydia Rea A paper by doctoral researcher Ninja K. Horr, Dr Massimiliano Di Luca, and Dr Maria Wimber, recently accepted for publication in NeuroImage, investigates the brain's ability to keep track of time. 2016-03-02T09:00:00Z 2016-02-25T15:13:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/02Mar-perceived-time.aspx 2M Euro grant for childhood brain injury research Lydia Rea Amanda Wood has been awarded a grant worth more than 2 million Euros by the European Research Council to look at whether brain imaging biomarkers can predict outcomes of childhood brain injury. 2016-02-25T15:08:00Z 2016-02-25T14:47:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/25Feb-childhood-brain-injury-grant.aspx Human children and wild great apes share tool use cognition Lydia Rea Young children will spontaneously invent tool behaviours to solve novel problems, without the help of adults, much as non-human great apes have been observed to do. The findings, from the School of Psychology, are contrary to the popular belief that basic tool use in humans requires social learning. 2016-02-24T09:29:00Z 2016-02-24T09:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/24Feb-tool-use-cognition.aspx Which circumstances make us better perspective-takers? Lydia Rea Recent PhD graduate from the School of Psychology Brad Mattan is the lead author on two new papers published in the journals Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience on the role that age and empathy play in visual perspective taking. 2016-02-16T09:00:00Z 2016-02-08T10:17:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/16Feb-perspective-taking.aspx Attachment in children living in alternative care Lydia Rea Manuela Garcia Quiroga, PhD student in the School of Psychology, has recently published a paper which suggests that the attachment bond which children in alternative care establish for their carers, differs from that of the attachment established by family-raised children. 2016-02-11T09:45:00Z 2016-02-08T09:51:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/11Feb-attachment-children.aspx The brain mechanisms that facilitate episodic memory Lydia Rea A new study paper, co-authored by Dr Simon Hanslmayr, has suggested how opposing brain mechanisms might facilitate episodic memory. 2016-02-08T09:42:00Z 2016-02-08T09:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/08Feb-episodic-memory.aspx Remembering past events quicker than we thought Lydia Rea Research published in the Journal of Neuroscience has shown that retrieving memories of events from our past may take place quicker than we previously thought – and it is possible to interfere with that process. 2016-01-06T10:56:00Z 2016-01-11T10:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2016/06Jan-remembering-past-events.aspx Human decision-making in using objects Lydia Rea A recently published research paper has provided further insight into how humans decide how to use an object, a question which has long been of interest to psychologists. 2015-12-21T12:15:00Z 2015-12-16T14:19:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/21Dec15-using-objects-paper.aspx Offender strategies in online sexual exploitation Lydia Rea A recently published paper has looked at the strategies that sexual offenders use when communicating with victims via Internet platforms. 2015-12-21T10:00:00Z 2015-12-16T13:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/21Dec15-offender-strategies-paper.aspx Understanding brain damage in vegetative state patients Lydia Rea Dr Davinia Fernández-Espejo, Lecturer in the School, has published a paper that provides new insight into the neural bases of the vegetative state and related disorders such as the minimally conscious state. 2015-12-16T12:43:00Z 2015-12-16T12:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/16Dec15-brain-damage-vegetative-state.aspx Presentation highlights female sexual offender differences Lydia Rea Dr Steven Gillespie was recently invited to present on the topic of female sexual offenders at the 33rd meeting of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes against Children. 2015-12-16T11:14:00Z 2015-12-16T12:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/16Dec15-interpol-presentation.aspx Youth behavioural problems and brain differences Lydia Rea Young people with behavioural problems, such as antisocial and aggressive behaviour, show reduced grey matter volume in a number of areas of the brain, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry. 2015-12-10T16:05:00Z 2015-12-16T15:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/10Dec15-youth-brain-differences.aspx Taking a new approach to appetite Dr Suzanne Higgs has been awarded an £800,000 project grant from the BBSRC to investigate how the pleasure of eating is affected by cognitive functions like memory. 2015-12-04T09:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/23Nov15-appetite-grant.aspx Rethinking dominance: a short film The film company Coast has recently made a short film about a paper by Jennifer Cook, which shows that many dominant individuals, far from ignoring information from others, are actually keen social learners. 2015-12-02T09:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:36:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/30Nov15-dominance-film.aspx Prize for healthy eating presentation Dr Jason Michael Thomas was awarded a prize for his presentation on healthy eating, delivered at the Early Careers Researchers Event in Food 2015. 2015-11-30T09:44:00Z 2015-12-31T21:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/13Nov15-presentation-prize-eating.aspx Project funding from Guangzhou Municipal Government Lydia Rea The University of Birmingham has been successful in bids for funding that will see key projects supported by the Guangzhou Municipal Government in China, including one which will look at memory improvement resulting from transcranial direct stimulation. 2015-11-18T14:54:00Z 2015-12-16T15:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/18Nov15-gmg-project-funding.aspx Attention to eyes and psychopathic traits Researchers in the School have published a paper which shows that male individuals with high psychopathic traits have reduced attention to the eye region when looking at faces. 2015-11-16T09:54:00Z 2015-12-31T21:16:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/16Nov15-attention-psychopathic-traits.aspx Challenging gender bias in schools Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes spoke at a London conference on 20 October about what gender differences in the brain can and cannot tell us about gender disparities in education. 2015-11-10T16:58:00Z 2015-12-31T21:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/10Nov15-burnett-heyes-talk-gender-bias.aspx Doctoral Researcher paper looks at the effect of psychopathy on metacognition in schizophrenia Doctoral Researcher Ahmad Abu-Akel (pictured right) has had his paper accepted by the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He has conducted research into the effect on metacognition, of comorbid psychopathy in schizophrenic patients with a history of criminal offending. 2015-10-28T10:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:32:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/28Oct15-abu-akel-paper.aspx Paper investigates teenage social behaviour in real-world networks A recent paper published by Stephanie Burnett Heyes et al. in Child Development uses a combination of social network mapping and experimental social cognition tasks to investigate teenage social behaviour in real-world networks. 2015-10-22T10:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/22Oct15-burnett-heyes-paper.aspx Awareness in a vegetative state New insight into a vital cerebral pathway has explained how some patients in a vegetative state are aware despite appearing to be unconscious and being behaviourally unresponsive. 2015-10-21T11:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/22Oct15-awareness-vegetative-state.aspx Mapping the adolescent mind: The Birmingham Perspective How understanding developments in the brain can give young people a better platform. 2015-10-15T09:11:00Z 2015-12-31T21:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/15Oct15-burnett-heyes-perspective.aspx Doctoral Researcher Supriya Malik receives prestigious prize PhD student Supriya Malik, from the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, was awarded the Pat Howlin Prize at the Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes International Scientific Symposium held at University College London in September. 2015-10-12T10:36:00Z 2015-12-31T21:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/12Oct15-supriya-malik-howlin-prize.aspx Would you like to sleep better? Take part in our study The Oxford Access for Students Improving Sleep (OASIS) study, in collaboration with Dr Jason Braithwaite, is offering an effective state-of-the-art sleep improvement programme to all students who take part. 2015-09-29T10:11:00Z 2015-12-31T21:35:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/29Sep15-sleep-study.aspx Lecturer writes commentary for UNICEF Office of Research School of Psychology Lecturer Stephanie Burnett Heyes recently wrote a commentary for UNICEF Office of Research. 2015-09-15T12:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/15Sep15-unicef-commentary.aspx ESRC funding secured for seminar series exploring cognitive intervention across the lifespan Dr Fiona McNab, in partnership with AgeUK, has secured funding for a seminar series entitled 'Cognitive intervention across the lifespan'. 2015-09-10T12:15:00Z 2015-12-31T21:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/10Sep15-funding-seminar-series.aspx Participants needed for visual memory studies Participants are needed to take part in two visual memory studies, taking place in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. 2015-08-06T10:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:05:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/06Aug15-call-for-volunteers.aspx Successful self-other dynamics conference organised On 6 July 2015, approximately 50 researchers from Birmingham and across the UK converged on the University of Birmingham for a one-day conference titled, 'It takes two to tango: A translational approach to self-other dynamics'. 2015-08-05T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T21:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/27Jul15-one-day-conference.aspx New study shows how complex bonobo communication is similar to that of human infants Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that wild bonobos, our closest living relatives in the primate world, communicate in a similar manner to human infants, using a high-pitched call type, or 'peep', that requires context to be understood. 2015-08-04T12:05:00Z 2015-12-31T21:02:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/04Aug15-bonobo-communication.aspx Measuring the time it takes to find 'a friend in a crowd': new paper In everyday life we are frequently faced with the task of finding a certain object among many other irrelevant objects (e.g. a friend in a crowd). The strategy underlying this visual search has been a topic of interest in psychology for many years. 2015-08-04T09:45:00Z 2015-12-31T21:31:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/28Jul15-heinke-lin-paper.aspx Grant from the Bial Foundation to examine hallucinatory anomalous body experiences Dr Jason Braithwaite (pictured right) has been awarded a grant for €41,600 from the Bial Foundation to examine anomalous body experiences in non-clinical populations. 2015-07-29T12:11:00Z 2015-12-31T21:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/27Jul15-bial-foundation-grant.aspx The hyperexcitable brain: two papers published Dr Jason Braithwaite has published two new papers which explore the hyperexcitable cortex in individuals predisposed to anomalous perceptions. 2015-07-29T12:11:00Z 2015-12-31T21:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/27Jul15-hyperexcitable-cortex-papers.aspx Participants needed (13-17 years of age) Researchers in the School of Psychology are looking for healthy teenagers to participate in a research project. The project is studying how young people respond to rewarding information. 2015-06-02T14:21:00Z 2015-12-31T20:59:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/01Jun-participants-needed.aspx The Conversation: Why do heavier children do worse at school? It's not their fault Heavier people are less likely to be hired and more likely to be fired – and some of this may begin at school. Angela Meadows, Doctoral Researcher in the School of Psychology, comments. 2015-06-02T09:36:00Z 2015-12-31T20:59:00Z https://theconversation.com/why-do-heavier-children-do-worse-at-school-its-not-their-fault-42458 The dark side of the 'love hormone'; research points to striking similarities with the effects of alcohol Researchers at the University of Birmingham have highlighted significant similarities between the behavioural effects of oxytocin and alcohol. 2015-05-20T12:33:00Z 2015-12-31T21:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/20May15-love-hormone.aspx Researchers identify a genetic marker, which influences brain activity patterns that place children at higher risk of psychological problems later in life Researchers studying a healthy population of young children have uncovered evidence for an association between a genetic marker that modulates the uptake of a particular brain chemical ('neurotransmitter'), serotonin (5-HTTLPR), and patterns of activation in the right and left frontal lobes of the brain, that have previously been associated with increased susceptibility for later psychological problems, including depression and anxiety. 2015-05-19T12:25:00Z 2015-12-31T21:19:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/18May15-genetic-marker.aspx PhD student paper points to improved method for investigating brain changes in sleep Rebecca Wilson, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, has recently published her work in the journal NeuroImage. The study investigates dynamic changes in the connectivity of brain regions using fMRI. 2015-05-19T11:43:00Z 2015-12-31T21:20:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/19May15-brain-changes-sleep.aspx Motor system may be involved in selection of perceptual targets, PhD student paper suggests School of Psychology PhD student Phil Woodgate is lead author on a new paper published in Behavioural Brain Research on the topic of visual attention. This recent paper by Phil and colleagues suggests that the motor system, a brain area involved in programming and executing motor responses, is also involved in the selection of perceptual targets. 2015-05-19T11:42:00Z 2015-12-31T21:20:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/19May15-motor-system-targets.aspx The Conversation: How alcohol makes you friendlier – but only to certain people What happens to your brain when you drink? 2015-05-18T10:05:00Z 2015-12-31T21:18:00Z https://theconversation.com/how-alcohol-makes-you-friendlier-but-only-to-certain-people-41730 Balanced tendency to autism and psychosis could diminish perspective-taking difficulties Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shed new light on the relationship between autistic tendencies and psychosis proneness in neurotypical adults. 2015-05-15T11:15:00Z 2015-12-31T21:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/15May15-autistic-tendencies-psychosis.aspx Researcher interviewed for BBC radio programme Jackie Blissett was recently interviewed as part of a BBC World Service radio programme about fussy eating in children. 2015-05-05T16:12:00Z 2015-12-31T21:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/05May15-blissett-radio-interview.aspx How we hold information in the mind as we age Data collected from 29,000 players of a smartphone game has revealed changes to the way information is held in mind as we get older. The conducted study showed that as a compensation for information held in mind being more vulnerable to distraction, older adults seem to approach the task of putting information in mind as if distractors were present. 2015-05-05T16:12:00Z 2015-12-31T21:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/05May15-information-mind-ageing.aspx Clinical psychologists nominated for Enterprising Birmingham Innovation Competition award Dr Ruth Howard and Dr Gary Law, School of Psychology, were recently shortlisted for the final of the Enterprising Birmingham Innovation Competition 2015 award. The nomination recognises their exciting partnership with Warburton's and the development of the second 'Gut Feelings' film to support parents of children and young people living with coeliac disease. 2015-04-29T14:20:00Z 2015-12-31T21:34:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/29Apr15-enterprising-birmingham-competition.aspx Published doctoral researcher paper explores pathways to offending Doctoral Researcher Ewa Stefanska, together with Professor Anthony Beech and Daz Bishopp, has published a paper in the Journal of Criminal Justice which explores offence pathways of non-serial sexual killers, with a focus on whether the pathways of those with a previous conviction for rape or attempted rape differed from those who had no such convictions. 2015-04-29T13:58:00Z 2015-12-31T21:33:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/29Apr15-dr-paper-offending-pathways.aspx Enhancing cognition research featured on scientific video journal website The work of Research Fellow Paul Pope has been featured on the website JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) - the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. 2015-04-03T10:26:00Z 2015-12-31T21:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/03Apr15-paul-pope-jove.aspx 1.9 million Euro ERC grant to explore memory coding in human brains Episodic memory is the time machinery that allows us to mentally travel back in time in order to relive past experiences, often in great sensory detail. These memories are highly associative and very information rich, but how are these memories coded in human brains? 2015-03-27T13:19:00Z 2015-12-31T21:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/27Mar15-memory-coding-grant.aspx 1.5 million Euro ERC grant for project to explore motor learning influences Motor learning is a fundamental process which influences many aspects of our lives; from learning to walk in childhood to the rehabilitation process following an illness or injury. Despite the impact to society, it has proved extremely difficult to develop interventions that significantly enhance human motor learning in health or disease. Recent work from the Galea lab suggests that reward- and punishment-based feedback have positive but dissociable effects on motor learning. 2015-03-27T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T21:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/27Mar15-motor-learning-project-grant.aspx The effects of punishment and reward on motor learning - paper published in Nature Neuroscience In a new study published by Nature Neuroscience, Birmingham Research Fellow Joseph Galea and colleagues, show that reward- and punishment-based feedback (winning money based on task success vs. losing money based on task failure) have both positive, but dissociable, effects on motor learning and memory; while punishment led to faster learning, reward caused greater memory retention. 2015-03-20T13:26:00Z 2015-12-31T21:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/20Mar15-nature-neuroscience.aspx Watching the brain forget Researchers from the School of Psychology, together with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, have been able to track how individual memories are forgotten in the human brain. 2015-03-16T12:06:00Z 2015-12-31T21:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/16Mar15-frequent-recall.aspx Alternatives to imprisonment research presented at the Council of Europe Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, Professor Tony Beech, presented at the Council of Europe 7th meeting of the Committee of Experts on the reform of the Court. 2015-03-05T10:28:00Z 2015-12-31T21:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/05Mar15-council-europe.aspx Published doctoral researcher paper explores perspective taking School of Psychology PhD student Brad Mattan is lead author on a new paper published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognitionon the topic of perspective taking. 2015-03-05T09:59:00Z 2015-12-31T21:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/05Mar15-perspective-taking-paper.aspx Blue is the colour: why do we see #TheDress so differently? There has been passionate debate on the internet over a blue and black dress that to some people – perhaps even the majority – appears white and gold. But what is the reason behind a discrepancy that has caused such division within households and offices? 2015-03-02T10:34:00Z 2015-12-31T21:00:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/the-dress-schofield.aspx Student paper exploring attitudes of support workers towards individuals with intellectual disabilities Undergraduate student Natalie Golding and Professor John Rose have published a paper in the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities which explores support workers' attitudes and knowledge towards individuals with intellectual disabilities to see whether a new attitude scale needs to be developed. 2015-02-20T17:05:00Z 2015-12-31T21:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/20Feb-paper-attitudes.aspx Doctoral Researcher paper explores how the brain uses simple processes to avoid 'double-checking' PhD student Yuanyuan Zhao and Dr Dietmar Heinke have published a paper contributing to the long-standing debate as to whether IOR is caused by attentional processing or perceptual processing. 2015-02-20T16:41:00Z 2015-12-31T21:21:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/20Feb-ior-paper.aspx Undergraduate student paper cited as most read within Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities A paper published in December 2010 by Abbye Andrews (undergraduate student currently training to become a clinical psychologist) and Professor John Rose has been cited as the most read article within the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities. 2015-02-20T16:40:00Z 2015-12-31T21:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2015/20Feb-ug-paper-most-read.aspx New paper investigates scientific explanations for Near-Death Experiences School of psychology PhD student Hayley Dewe is a co-author on a new paper published as part of wider engagement and scientific outreach in The (UK) Skeptic magazine. Hayley's paper explores how the latest findings from brain science can help explain Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). 2014-12-22T12:09:00Z 2015-12-31T20:51:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/22Dec-paper-investigates-near-death-experiences.aspx Experience-based Co-Design workshop aims to raise standard of mental health services A recent workshop hosted by the School of Psychology provided training to academics, NHS staff and service-users on how to improve mental health services through Experience-based Co-Design (EBCD). EBCD uses the experiences of staff and service-users to raise the standard of healthcare systems. 2014-12-19T11:55:00Z 2015-12-31T20:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/workshop-experience-based-co-design.aspx REF confirms School's position among research elite, 5th in the UK The School of Psychology has achieved a very impressive performance in the Research Excellence Framework (2014), building on its long-recognised strengths in research. Psychology at Birmingham is ranked 5th in the Russell Group for its world-leading (4*) research, making it one of the best stand-alone Psychology schools in the country. 2014-12-18T13:33:00Z 2015-12-31T20:48:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/18Dec-ref-confirms-schools-position-among-research-elite.aspx Researchers share their work at ESRC Festival of Social Science A group of School of Psychology doctoral researchers recently organised a public engagement event at Birmingham Central Library. The exhibition was part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and included posters and interactive demonstrations. 2014-12-01T14:57:00Z 2015-12-31T21:58:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/previous/researchers-share-their-work-at-esrc-festival-of-social-science.aspx Doctoral researcher's paper focuses on children's homes in Latin America PhD student Manuela Garcia Quiroga has published a paper on the subject of children's homes and foster care around the world, with a special focus on Latin America. 2014-11-20T11:44:00Z 2015-12-31T20:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/20Nov-doctoral-researchers-paper-focuses-on-childrens-homes-in-latin-america.aspx Provocative discussion lays bare the sinister side of technology Professor Anthony Beech examined the internet's darker side during a filmed discussion with playwright Jennifer Haley at London's Royal Court Theatre. 2014-10-23T15:19:00Z 2015-12-31T20:52:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/22Octprovocative-discussion-lays-bare-the-sinister-side-of-technology.aspx Landmark book series reveals What Works in Offender Rehabilitation News article about The School of Psychology's Professor Leam Craig and Dr Louise Dixon being invited to edit an international book series about offender rehabilitation. 2014-10-15T09:27:00Z 2015-12-31T20:47:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/14Oct-landmark-international-book-series.aspx £415,000 grant allows researcher to investigate why memories fade or linger Dr Maria Wimber has been awarded a £415,000 grant to investigate the processes that underlie how we retrieve memories. 2014-10-06T09:40:00Z 2015-12-31T20:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/03Oct-grant-allows-researcher-to-investigate-why-memories-fade-or-linger.aspx Great Brain Experiment proves a smart way to measure memory The School of Psychology's Dr Fiona McNab has been investigating working memory - information held in the mind for a short period of time - through a specially created app called The Great Brain Experiment. 2014-08-15T10:53:00Z 2015-12-31T20:45:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/14Aug-great-brain-experiment-proves-smart-way-to-measure-the-memory.aspx Professor Stephen Wood named among World's Most Influential Scientific Minds The School of Psychology's Professor Stephen Wood has been named among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014. 2014-08-07T15:54:00Z 2015-12-31T20:32:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07Aug-professor-among-worlds-most-influential-scientific-minds.aspx Antiepileptic drugs taken during pregnancy may increase risk of impaired development for children New research suggests that taking antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy increases the risk of the child having impaired brain development. 2014-08-01T11:47:00Z 2015-12-31T20:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/01Aug-antiepileptic-drugs-taken-during-pregnancy.aspx Researchers share their passions at poster conference Psychology postgraduate students showcased their work at a research poster conference on 10 June. 2014-07-14T10:53:00Z 2015-12-31T20:38:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/11July-poster-presentations.aspx Worldwide anti-crime network brings together police and academics A global network dedicated to linking serial crimes recently met for a three-day workshop. 2014-07-14T09:52:00Z 2015-12-31T20:34:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07July-worldwide-anti-crime-network-brings-together-police-and-academics.aspx Paper proves that children are naturals when it comes to teamwork A paper by PhD student Sophie Milward on the topic of children's ability to co-operate with others has been accepted by prestigious journal Cognition. 2014-07-01T15:58:00Z 2015-12-31T20:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/01July-children-are-naturals-when-it-comes-to-teamwork.aspx Research group hopes to provide a clearer picture of how we interpret images A new research network is aiming to deepen our understanding of how humans, animals and machines interpret visual images. 2014-06-24T10:20:00Z 2015-12-31T20:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/24June-research-group-interprets-visual-images.aspx Tools for Talking supports the development of shared understandings between service users and social care providers A School of Psychology project has been shedding light on the social care experiences of people with learning disabilities from minority ethnic populations. 2014-06-23T15:28:00Z 2015-12-31T20:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/tools-for-talking-project.aspx Researchers from across UK share ideas at Studying Language in Mind conference Doctoral researchers from the School of Psychology and Department of Applied Linguistics recently organised a one-day conference called Studying Language in Mind: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Research Methodology. 2014-06-12T14:08:00Z 2015-12-31T20:40:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/12June-studying-language-in-mind-conference.aspx Past imperfect: study explores brain's ability to forget unpleasant memories New research from the School of Psychology has shed light on the human brain's amazing ability to dispose of unhappy memories. 2014-06-12T09:25:00Z 2015-12-31T20:39:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/11June-study-explores-brains-ability-to-forget-unpleasant-memories.aspx Trainee psychologist plays vital role in securing £100,000 for vulnerable youngsters Trainee Clinical Psychologist Carly Spicer made her mark during a work placement by helping a social enterprise secure £100,000 of government funding. 2014-05-29T14:49:00Z 2015-12-31T20:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/28May-trainee-psychologist-plays-vital-role-in-securing-funding.aspx Keeping to the beat is no mean feat: Scientists reveal how two tracks of music become one How does a DJ mix two songs to make the beat seem common to both tracks? And how accurate does beat mixing need to be to enhance, rather than disrupt perceived rhythm? In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, scientists from the School of Psychology presented a new model that predicts whether or not two tracks will seem to share a common beat. 2014-05-21T12:15:00Z 2015-12-31T20:50:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/21May-two-tracks-of-music-become-one.aspx Birmingham Brief: Playing with fire - the peril of Britain's obsession with gambling Professor Jim Orford examines the government's decision to grant increased powers for local authorities to refuse new licences for betting shops and impose extra controls on machine gambling. 2014-05-07T12:11:00Z 2015-12-31T20:35:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/thebirminghambrief/items/2014/05/playing-with-fire-peril-of-Britains-obsession-with-gambling.aspx Electricity provides the spark of understanding for brain researchers Brain oscillations are rhythmic electrical fluctuations that affect a number of cognitive functions, including memory. But can they be used to change our behaviour? Dr Simon Hanslmayr and colleagues tested this question in a paper. 2014-05-01T12:47:00Z 2015-12-31T20:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/01May-electricity-provides-spark-of-understanding-for-brain-researchers.aspx Researcher examines online exploitation in new paper Juliane Kloess, a doctoral researcher working in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology under the supervision of Professor Anthony Beech, has obtained acceptance for publication of her literature review paper in the forensic journal Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. 2014-04-17T11:03:00Z 2015-12-31T20:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/01april-researcher-examines-online-exploitation.aspx Comedian Robin Ince lends a hand to The Selective Attention and Awareness Laboratory Science enthusiast and stand-up comedian Robin Ince visited The Selective Attention and Awareness Laboratory in the School of Psychology on 27 March to take part in a number of exciting experiments designed to investigate anomalous experiences and hallucinations. 2014-04-04T14:32:00Z 2015-12-31T20:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/04April-robin-ince-lends-hand-to-selective-attention-and-awareness-laboratory.aspx Letter published in the journal Brain in reply to a study that gathered media attention Steven Gillespie (University of Birmingham, pictured top), Joseph McCleery (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, pictured middle) and Lindsay Oberman (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, pictured bottom) have recently had a letter published in the journal Brain, commenting on differences in empathic functioning between individuals with psychopathy and autism. 2014-03-24T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/05Mar-letter-journal-brain.aspx New international network and website dedicated to the subject of family members and addiction The newly established Addiction and the Family International Network (AFINet) will build upon the work of the Addiction, Drugs and the Family (ADF UK) group to create a global membership network. ADF UK consists of a number of academics/clinicians who collaborate on undertaking research in this field and in attempting to raise the profile of this neglected area of research and practice. 2014-03-13T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:43:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/13Mar-network-website-for-addiction.aspx Six million Euros awarded to research project investigating conduct disorder in adolescent females FemNAT-CD, an international research project funded by the European Commission and endorsed by the World Health Organisation will investigate the neurobiological and environmental factors implicated in female conduct disorder, a psychiatric condition that is characterized by severe antisocial and aggressive behaviour. Several universities across Europe will collaborate, and the University of Birmingham is one of two sites primarily responsible for the collection of neuroimaging data. 2014-03-13T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:44:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/13Mar-six-million-euros-award.aspx Call for participants: study into conduct disorder in adolescent females We are currently recruiting participants, males and females age 9-18 with and without behavioural problems. Compensation will be provided and our schedule is flexible. If you are a parent or affiliated with a school nearby and would like to be involved, please contact us. 2014-03-04T16:49:00Z 2015-12-31T20:37:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/10Mar-call-for-participants.aspx Birmingham psychologists present at prestigious forensic science conference During a trip to South Africa on a C-LINK research project, Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Amy Burrell were invited to the 2nd National Conference for Forensic Science (10-13 February 2014) to present on the linking of crimes using modus operandi. 2014-03-04T15:39:00Z 2015-12-31T20:27:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/04Feb-forensic-science-conference.aspx US ambassador visits the centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Matthew Barzun, the US ambassador to UK, visited the centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics on 6 February 2014.During his visit, Uta Noppeney, CNCR co-director, described the centre's philosophy, research directions, international collaborations and the associated CNCR MSc program. 2014-03-04T15:39:00Z 2015-12-31T20:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/06Feb-us-ambassador-visit.aspx Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship won for studying multisensory integration Dr Johanna Zumer (pictured right) and Professor Uta Noppeney (pictured left) have succeeded in obtaining 2 years of funding through the EU Marie Curie IEF to carry out novel investigations to understand the neural basis of deciding when multisensory signals should be integrated versus segregated. 2014-02-28T10:20:00Z 2015-12-31T20:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/28Feb-zumer-grant.aspx Birmingham Perspectives: Better Policing Collaboration to link academics with practitioners "Crime and policing has always been at the forefront of public debate. Yet academic researchers and practitioners have not collaborated as fruitfully as they might have to understand 'what works' by way of interventions and the costs and benefits of alternate interventions. There is however reason to hope that there will be a push towards more evidence-based policing." 2014-02-24T11:58:00Z 2015-12-31T20:52:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/better-policing.aspx Social norms paper highlighted in Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics A recent paper by Dr Suzanne Higgs and Jason Thomas was highlighted in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the authors were invited to produce an accompanying podcast. 2014-02-17T09:05:00Z 2015-12-31T20:47:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/17Feb-social-norms-paper.aspx Crime Linkage International Network researchers set for South Africa trip Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Amy Burrell are soon to embark on a research trip to South Africa. The visit has been arranged through the Crime Linkage International Network which was set up by Dr Woodhams in May 2013, and is the first of its kind to bring together academics and practitioners with a professional interest in linking crimes committed by a common offender. 2014-02-17T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:47:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/17Feb-crime-linkage-south-africa.aspx Louise Dixon: Prisons research featured in ESRC's Britain in 2014 magazine Research being undertaken by Dominique Moran and Marie Hutton at GEES, and Louise Dixon in Psychology, has been chosen to feature in the ESRC's flagship newsstand magazine Britain in 2014. 2014-02-07T10:17:00Z 2015-12-31T20:32:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07Feb-britain-in-2014-magazine.aspx College of Policing grant to build links between academics and the police A partnership involving the University of Birmingham has been awarded £50,000 by the College of Policing to forge links between academics and the police. 2014-02-07T10:17:00Z 2015-12-31T20:33:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07Feb-police-grant.aspx Scientists reveal the pecking order of musicians playing in a group Does Charlie Watts lead the Rolling Stones from the drums? Did Jacqueline du Pré lead Daniel Barenboim from the cello? These questions may in the future have answers thanks to an intriguing model developed by a team of scientists from the Universities of Birmingham, Münster and London's Royal Academy of Music, in research published today (Wednesday 29th January 2014) in the Royal Society Journal Interface. 2014-01-29T09:58:00Z 2015-12-31T20:55:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/29-Jan-14-Scientists-reveal-the-pecking-order-of-musicians-playing-in-a-group.aspx Are you a stroke survivor having trouble completing everyday tasks? Participants needed for research project Researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a study which aims to develop tools to help stroke survivors with everyday tasks. 2014-01-27T09:20:00Z 2015-12-31T20:50:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/21-Jan-14-Are-you-a-stroke-survivor-having-trouble-completing-everyday-tasks--Participants-needed-for-research-project.aspx Charlotte Hartwright publishes Theory of Mind paper in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience In a forthcoming paper, Dr Charlotte Hartwright, working with Professor Ian Apperly and Dr Peter Hansen, provides new understanding on the role of the rostral medial prefrontal cortex (rmPFC) in enabling us to represent the mind states of other social agents, termed having a 'Theory of Mind' (ToM). 2014-01-17T15:21:00Z 2015-12-31T20:34:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07Jan-hartwright-paper.aspx Partnership event for project exploring views of social care services amongst people with learning disabilities A team of researchers from the School of Psychology have been working on a project funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research. The project has been exploring the views of social care services amongst people with learning disabilities from minority ethnic groups. On the 29th November, they held an event at the University which involved working with people with learning disabilities, and with direct care providers, to get feedback on the preliminary outcomes of the study. 2014-01-17T15:21:00Z 2015-12-31T20:33:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2014/07Jan-asc-partnership-event.aspx Joseph Galea launches game in Great Brain Experiment app The Great Brain Experiment is a unique scientific experiment being run by UCL which uses games on mobile applications (phones/tablets) to test 10,000s of participant's memory, impulsivity and attention. Dr Joseph Galea, in collaboration with Dr Sven Bestmann (UCL), has included a game on the new release called "How do I deal with pressure?". This game investigates how participants' motor performance is affected by reward and punishment. 2013-12-19T16:06:00Z 2015-12-31T20:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/19Dec-great-brain-exp-app.aspx Doctoral Researcher Helen Whittle interviewed for BBC Wales A final year Forensic Psychology doctoral research student was recently interviewed for a news piece aired on BBC Wales and BBC radio 4. 2013-12-19T15:27:00Z 2015-12-31T20:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/19Dec-whittle-interview.aspx DVD resource for young people living with coeliac disease Ruth Howard and Gary Law developed a DVD resource for young people living with coeliac disease through an ESRC knowledge transfer grant and this was completed and launched in 2011. Having undertook an evaluation of the DVD and revised the content, they worked with Alta Innovations to make the DVD suitable for commercial sale, by way of an ULtd social enterprise grant. 2013-12-16T10:58:00Z 2015-12-31T19:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/16Dec-coeliac-dvd.aspx Doctoral researchers hold lunchtime talks at the new library for the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences Doctoral researchers from the School of Psychology recently ran a public engagement event at the New Library in Birmingham city centre. This was organised as part of the ESRC festival of Social Sciences and involved a day of posters and interactive activities with members of the public in order to present and discuss research that is taking place at the University. 2013-12-05T12:31:00Z 2015-12-31T19:39:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/05Dec-lunchtime-talks.aspx Juliane Honisch and Mark Elliott present on the science of synchrony at the Bloomsbury Festival Research fellows Juliane Honisch and Mark Elliott presented the science behind how and why people synchronise movements at the Bloomsbury Festival in London on 20th October 2013. 2013-11-26T12:03:00Z 2015-12-31T20:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/26Nov-bloomsbury-festival.aspx Resting state fMRI work featured in Scientific American Chris Miall's recent work using resting state fMRI to study changes in the connectivity of the brain induced by learning was highlighted in an article in Scientific American this month. 2013-11-22T16:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20Nov-miall-scientific-american.aspx Simon Hanslymar paper 'Prestimulus oscillatory phase at 7Hz gates cortical information flow and visual perception' accepted by Current Biology Against the intuitive notion that information flows in a continuous, steady-state fashion from our sensory channels, research demonstrated that humans sample visual information in discrete time windows oscillating at around 5-10 Hz. 2013-11-18T16:35:00Z 2015-12-31T20:02:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Nov-hanslymar-paper.aspx Jim Orford speaks to BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours about gambling problems in young people On 10th October Jim Orford spoke to BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours about gambling problems. This was following on from a report which was recently published by the national organisation GamCare saying that there are an increasing number of younger people amongst the clients of their services for people with gambling problems. 2013-11-18T16:17:00Z 2015-12-31T20:02:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Nov-orford-bbc.aspx £388K grant awarded to research the neuropsychological profile of different sex offenders Dr Ian Mitchell, Dr Pia Rotshtein and Prof Anthony Beech have been awarded £388,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to fund research on the neuropsychological profiles of different types of sexual offenders. 2013-11-13T09:15:00Z 2015-12-31T19:44:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/06Nov-sex-offenders-profile-grant.aspx Doctoral researcher Mary Heald awarded the Pat Howlin Prize by the Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes Mary Heald, PhD student in the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, has been awarded the Pat Howlin Prize by the Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes at their 17th International Symposium in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 2013-11-13T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:43:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/06Nov-pat-howlin-prize.aspx New paper on children's tool making features in special issue on Tool Use as Adaptation, published by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A group of Psychologists and a Biologist from University of Birmingham, led by Dr Sarah Beck, have been investigating tool making in children, and in particular whether children can make novel tools to solve a problem, without having seen an example of the tool they need before they try it. 2013-11-06T10:23:00Z 2015-12-31T19:43:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/06Nov-new-paper-tool-use.aspx Anthony Beech invited to speak at the Council of Europe about alternatives to imprisonment Professor Anthony Beech was invited to speak as one of the small number of scientific experts at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, in France, on 25-27th September 2013, about alternatives to imprisonment. 2013-11-05T17:14:00Z 2015-12-31T19:42:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/05Nov-beech-council-europe.aspx £70K NSPCC grant awarded to explore The Impact of Online Sexual Abuse on the Victim The sexual abuse of children online has exploded in recent years and the psychological repercussions can be detrimental to the development and wellbeing of young people. However, whilst the risk posed to young people online is an ever increasing cause for concern, the research in this field is extremely limited. 2013-10-14T11:21:00Z 2015-12-31T19:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/14Oct-nspcc-grant.aspx Crime Linkage International Network launches website After a successful application to the Leverhulme Trust by Dr Woodhams, a Senior Lecturer in the School, a collaborative research network has been set up. The network encompasses researchers and practitioners with a professional interest in crime linkage, which is a psychological process whereby practitioners seek to identify crime series through the analysis of crime scene behaviour. 2013-10-14T11:06:00Z 2015-12-31T19:52:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/14Oct-crime-linkage-website.aspx Giving peace a chance: Doctoral Researcher Ahmad Abu-Akel has paper accepted by Psychoneuroendocrinology Doctoral Researcher Ahmad Abu-Akel has had his paper accepted by Psychoneuroendocrinology. He has conducted research into the effect of the hormone oxytocin on the empathic responses of Israeli Jews to pain experienced by Palestinians, in collaboration with the University of Haifa in Israel and the University of Chicago in the USA. 2013-10-07T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:46:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/07Oct-abu-akel-paper.aspx Leam Craig receives £90K grant to conduct Ministry of Justice research study in partnership with Coventry University Leam Craig has been selected by the Ministry of Justice to conduct a research study into Expert Witnesses in the Family Courts, in partnership with Coventry University. A research grant of £90k has been awarded for this study. 2013-10-07T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:46:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/07Oct-leam-craig-grant.aspx Successful 14th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW) hosted at Birmingham Staff from the School of Psychology recently hosted the 14th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW) at the University of Birmingham. RPPW is the primary international research conference for dissemination of time perception and movement timing related research and has been established for nearly thirty years. 2013-09-27T12:06:00Z 2015-12-31T20:17:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/27Sep-rppw-workshop.aspx £333K grant awarded to research a social norms approach to encourage healthier eating Dr Suzanne Higgs (Reader in the Psychobiology of Appetite) has been awarded £333,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to fund research on the use of social norms to promote healthy eating. 2013-09-27T12:06:00Z 2015-12-31T20:16:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/27Sep-grant-healthier-eating.aspx Stephen Mayhew and Andy Bagshaw have paper accepted by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) This paper is the product of a collaboration between Birmingham's School of Psychology and Nottingham's Physics department using novel multimodal brain imaging techniques to better understand an often overlooked phase of brain function. 2013-09-10T17:03:00Z 2015-12-31T19:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/10Sep-mayhew-bagshaw-paper.aspx £300K grant awarded for project to study the origins of cumulative culture in humans and great apes Dr Claudio Tennie (a recent Birmingham Fellow) has been awarded £300,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to carry out a three year project which will evaluate the origins of cumulative culture in human children and great apes. 2013-09-10T17:02:00Z 2015-12-31T19:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/10Sep-tennie-grant.aspx Global ranking reinforces Birmingham's position as a world-class university The University of Birmingham has made an impressive 15 place rise to 62nd in this year's QS World University Rankings, cementing its position in the top 100 universities globally and placing it 10th in the UK. 2013-09-10T09:48:00Z 2015-12-31T19:49:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/10-Sept-Global-ranking-reinforces-Birminghams-position-as-a-world-class-university.aspx Professor Leam Craig appointed as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society Professor Leam Craig, member of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology in the school, has been appointed Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS). 2013-08-23T10:28:00Z 2015-12-31T20:05:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20Aug-leam-craig-fellow-bps.aspx Research on anomalous cognitive experiences featured on National Geographic Channel Some of Dr Jason Braithwaite's research on how certain contexts can make people 'feel' spooked has been featured in a recent programme on the world-wide National Geographic channel. In the programme Dr Braithwaite explains how anomalous perceptions and hallucinations can be induced in certain susceptible observers if the context and setting is right. 2013-08-20T16:05:00Z 2015-12-31T20:05:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20Aug-national-geographic.aspx Dr Jason Braithwaite interviewed for BBC News feature on near-death experiences Dr Jason Braithwaite has been interviewed for a BBC News article that points to an explanation for why people claim to see white light or "life flash before their eyes" during near-death experiences. 2013-08-16T16:43:00Z 2015-12-31T19:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/16Aug-braithwaite-bbc.aspx Doctoral researcher Zoe Stephenson invited to speak at Forensic Psychology conference in Belfast Doctoral researcher, Zoe Stephenson (Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology) was an invited speaker in the symposium entitled Assessing Risk in Sexual Offenders at the Division of Forensic Psychology conference in Belfast in June. The aim of the presentation was to present research findings of a project commissioned by the Ministry of Justice into the Sequencing of interventions with violent and sexual offenders. 2013-08-05T09:29:00Z 2015-12-31T19:39:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/05Aug-stephenson-forensic-conference.aspx Funding granted for family and social network intervention research study A study, funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, will adapt and further develop the Social Behaviour and Network Therapy approach to be used with young people as part of a new grant for £528.563. 2013-07-31T11:00:00Z 2015-12-31T20:21:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/30Jul-copello-research-study.aspx Paper on speech-accompanying gestures accepted by the Journal of Experimental Psychology Dr Sotaro Kita and his colleagues' paper on individual differences in production of speech-accompanying gestures has been accepted by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The study investigated the psychological profile of people who produce gestures more frequently and more saliently than others. 2013-07-18T10:44:00Z 2015-12-31T20:00:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Jul13-gestures-paper.aspx Extended funding for the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders Cerebra have confirmed renewed funding for the The Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders for six years from 2014. The work of the Centre focuses on the cognitive, emotional and behavioural disorders experienced by children and young adults with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder and genetic syndromes. 2013-07-18T10:17:00Z 2015-12-31T19:59:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Jul13-funding-cerebra.aspx Paper by Doctoral Researcher Teresa da Silva examining heterogeneity within multiple perpetrator rapes is accepted for publication by Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment Doctoral Researcher Teresa da Silva has had her paper examining heterogeneity within multiple perpetrator rapes accepted for publication by Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 2013-06-26T15:06:00Z 2015-12-31T20:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20Jun13-paper-da-silva.aspx Leam Craig and Louise Dixon publish a new book - What Works in Offender Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment Professor Leam Craig and Dr Louise Dixon, from the Centre of Forensic and Criminological Psychology, along with Professor Theresa Gannon (University of Kent) published a new book in May 2013 entitled What Works in Offender Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment (Wiley-Blackwell). 2013-06-20T14:43:00Z 2015-12-31T20:06:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20Jun13-craig-dixon-new-book.aspx New Scientist cover feature on "Mind Reading" Work by Professor Ian Apperly and colleagues is highlighted in the cover feature of this week's New Scientist magazine. The article "Mind readers: how we get inside other people's heads" describes research on social perspective-taking, to which Ian has made a significant contribution in the past decade. 2013-06-14T16:44:00Z 2015-12-31T19:52:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/14Jun-new-scientist-apperly.aspx Honorary research fellow publishes papers to explore untreated psychosis Dr Charlotte Connor, Honorary Fellow at The University of Birmingham, has recently had two papers published following research conducted in collaboration with Professor Max Birchwood at The University of Birmingham. 2013-06-03T10:39:00Z 2015-12-31T20:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28May-papers-untreated-psychosis.aspx Professor Leam Craig receives the Senior Academic Award from the Division of Forensic Psychology, British Psychological Society 2013 Professor Leam Craig, member of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology in the school, has received the 2013 Senior Academic Award from the Division of Forensic Psychology, for distinguished contribution to academic knowledge in forensic psychology. 2013-05-23T11:08:00Z 2015-12-31T20:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/23May-leam-craig-award.aspx Anthony Beech presents at invited experts' workshop entitled 'Developing sexual offender laws and treatment in Europe' Professor Anthony Beech, Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, School of Psychology, has recently presented (May 16-17th 2013) at an invited experts workshop entitled 'Developing sexual offender laws and treatment in Europe' at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Criminal Law in Freiburg Germany. 2013-05-20T10:53:00Z 2015-12-31T20:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20May-beech-workshop.aspx New paper evaluates the effectiveness of group-based CBT for people with intellectual disabilities This is the main paper to be produced from a trial of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with people who have learning disabilities and anger problems that was supported by the National Institute for Health Research through an award of over a million pounds. John Rose and Biza Stenfert Kroese who work in the clinical group in the School of Psychology were integral members of the team. 2013-05-07T16:52:00Z 2015-12-31T19:45:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/07May-rose-kroese-press-release.aspx Psychology jumps 14 places to number 7 in Complete University Guide rankings The University of Birmingham has been ranked number 7 out of 112 universities for Psychology subjects in the Complete University Guide 2014 league tables. 2013-05-01T10:05:00Z 2015-12-31T19:37:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01May-university-guide-rankngs.aspx Working to improve inpatient psychiatric units in Coventry Warwickshire Partnership Trust Work conducted in the School's clinical psychology group is changing clinical practice in inpatient psychiatric units in Coventry Warwickshire Partnership Trust. 2013-04-26T11:37:00Z 2015-12-31T20:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/26Apr-larkin-inpatient-psychiatric.aspx £72,000 grant to establish a research collaboration with Brazilian universities Drs Andy Bagshaw, Steve Mayhew and Amanda Wood, in collaboration with Dr Alberto Tannus (University of São Paulo) and Professor Peter Morris (University of Nottingham), have been awarded £72,000 to establish a research collaboration with Brazilian universities in the São Paolo region under the Scientific Cooperation Agreement between FAPESP, University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham. 2013-04-25T17:16:00Z 2015-12-31T20:12:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/25Apr-bagshaw-grant.aspx Paper in Neuropsychopharmacology discusses human vigour in relation to environmental rewards Ulrik Beierholm has contributed to a paper titled 'Dopamine Modulates Reward-Related Vigor', published in Neuropsychopharmacology on 18th February 2013. 2013-04-22T12:40:00Z 2015-12-31T20:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/22Apr-neuropsychopharmacology-paper.aspx Selective Attention and Awareness Laboratory leads new study into out-of-body experiences: volunteers needed University of Birmingham scientists are looking for volunteers who have had out-of-body experiences to come forward and be involved in a new study which seeks to identify the scientific causes behind these bizarre phenomena. 2013-03-28T16:13:00Z 2015-12-31T20:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Mar-out-of-body.aspx Over-egging the chocolate this Easter: why you should always keep an eye on what you are eating Research in the School of Psychology suggests that 'attentive eating' affects how much people choose to eat. A paper published recently by the research team in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition took an overview of research on attentive eating and concluded that encouraging people to eat more attentively could aid appetite control. 2013-03-28T10:55:00Z 2015-12-31T20:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Mar13-easter-chocolate.aspx Jackie Blissett to feature on Horizon programme about taste In the forthcoming Horizon programme 'The Truth About Taste', Jackie Blissett will be discussing some of the reasons why children like some foods and dislike others, how this changes as they move from infancy to adulthood, and some of the psychological processes involved in our development of food likes and dislikes. 2013-03-26T15:10:00Z 2015-12-31T20:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/26Mar-blissett-horizon.aspx PhD students organise Weight Stigma and Health conference PhD students Angela Meadows and Sara Tookey are running a multidisciplinary conference on the subject of Weight Stigma and Health. 2013-03-22T11:38:00Z 2015-12-31T20:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/22Mar-phd-student-conference.aspx Doctoral Researcher Teresa da Silva contributes a chapter to the first text on Multiple Perpetrator Rape Teresa da Silva, a doctoral research student working in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology under the supervision of Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Leigh Harkins, has contributed a chapter entitled "Multiple Perpetrator Rape as an international phenomenon" to the Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape published on the 5th of March 2013. 2013-03-18T10:32:00Z 2015-12-31T20:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Mar-teresa-da-silva.aspx Steve Mayhew and Andy Bagshaw awarded grant for collaborative project with University of Nottingham Drs Steve Mayhew (pictured right) and Andy Bagshaw (pictured left) have been awarded £39,840 by the Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund to develop a collaborative project entitled ' Birmingham-Nottingham multimodal neuroimaging alliance: Understanding spatio-temporal brain network dynamics'. 2013-03-18T10:19:00Z 2015-12-31T20:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Mar-bagshaw-grant.aspx Forthcoming first text on Multiple Perpetrator Rape Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape, edited by Dr Jessica Woodhams and Professor Miranda Horvath, is the first text to be compiled regarding this type of sexual violence which has been so prominent in international news recently. 2013-02-28T12:18:00Z 2015-12-31T20:17:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Feb-forthcoming-text-woodhams.aspx Jim Orford speaks at a campaign launch to remove high-stake gambling machines from betting shops Representing the University and the organisation he has founded, Gambling Watch UK, Professor Jim Orford spoke last Monday at a meeting to launch a campaign to remove high-stake gambling machines from betting shops. 2013-02-18T13:29:00Z 2015-12-31T19:59:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Feb-jim-orford-fobts.aspx Literature review findings highlighted in Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre press release The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have released a press notice regarding the latest trends in child sexual exploitation online. One of the major stories highlighted by the press release was the published literature review written by Helen Whittle (School of Psychology PhD student and CEOP employee), Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis and Anthony Beech (School of Psychology). 2013-02-18T12:01:00Z 2015-12-31T19:58:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Feb-ceop-press-coverage.aspx £200K grant awarded for project to evaluate social-cognition and its relation to social functioning in three genetic syndromes Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Jo Moss, Professor Ian Apperly and Dr Joe McCleery have been awarded £200,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to carry out a three year project which will evaluate social-cognition and its relation to social functioning in three genetic syndromes; Cornelia de Lange, Fragile X and Rubinstein Taybi syndromes. 2013-02-04T12:44:00Z 2015-12-31T19:36:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01Feb-grant-social-cognition.aspx Cerebra team awarded £95K ESRC grant to develop website resource for rare genetic syndromes Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Jo Moss and Dr Debbie Allen have been awarded a grant from the ESRC in partnership with Cerebra. The project is part of the ESRC's knowledge exchange scheme and will enable the development of a website resource for parents, carers and professionals working with children and adults with six rare genetic syndromes. 2013-02-04T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:36:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01Feb-cerebra-resource-grant.aspx University of Birmingham scientists devise unique stroke assessment tool Scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a unique screening instrument that provides a 'one-stop' brain function profile of patients who have suffered stroke or other neurological damage. 2013-01-31T09:52:00Z 2015-12-31T19:58:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/16Jan-stroke-assessment-tool.aspx Dr Jason Braithwaite grant for £32,000 from the Bial Foundation to study cortical suppression Dr Jason Braithwaite has been successful in being awarded a grant for £32,000 from the Bial Foundation to study the role of cortical suppression in those showing signs of depersonalization disorder and associated dissociative / hallucinatory experiences in the non-clinical population. 2013-01-29T10:36:00Z 2015-12-31T19:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-braithwaite-grant.aspx Doctoral researcher Alena Streltsova published in the Journal of Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Alena Streltsova, a doctoral research student working in the Infant and Child Laboratory, has published a study showing that touch areas of our own brain are activated as if we were being touched ourselves when we observe other people being touched. 2013-01-22T16:21:00Z 2015-12-31T19:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-alena-streltsova-journal.aspx Dr Mark Elliott receives £5,000 under the equipment sharing scheme to work at the University of Worcester's Motion Performance Centre Dr Mark Elliott, from the School of Psychology is investigating group synchrony in collaboration with the Vibration Engineering Research Group at Sheffield University and has recently received £5k under the EPSRC Equipment Sharing scheme to access facilities at the University of Worcester's Motion Performance Centre. 2013-01-22T15:25:00Z 2015-12-31T19:54:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-elliot-equipment-sharing.aspx Uncovering the secrets of 3D vision: How glossy objects can fool the human brain It's a familiar sight at the fairground: rows of people gaping at curvy mirrors as they watch their faces and bodies distort. But while mirrored surfaces may be fun to look at, new findings by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Giessen, suggest they pose a particular challenge for the human brain in processing images for 3D vision. 2013-01-21T17:03:00Z 2015-12-31T20:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/21Jan13-secrets-3d-vision.aspx Birmingham Fellow Dr Joseph Galea awarded the 2012 Klein-Vogelbach prize of £7,000 Dr Joseph Galea (Birmingham Fellow, School of Psychology) has been awarded the '2012 Klein-Vogelbach Prize for the Research of Human Movement' for his paper 'Dissociating the roles of the cerebellum and motor cortex during adaptive learning: the motor cortex retains what the cerebellum learns'. 2013-01-15T16:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:55:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-galea-klein-vogelbach-prize.aspx Professor Anthony Beech invited to speak at the Open University Psychological Society conference Professor Anthony Beech has been invited to speak at the Open University Psychological Society conference at the University of Westminster on the subject of Understanding the Mechanisms of Sexual and Violent Offending: A Neurobiological Perspective. 2013-01-15T15:36:00Z 2015-12-31T19:53:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan13-Beech-invited-talk.aspx Doctoral researchers invited to present their research at the competitive European Winterschool 2013 Steven Gillespie, Juliane Kloess and Ross Bartels, doctoral researchers at the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, have been invited to present their research at the European Winterschool 2013. 2012-12-17T08:45:00Z 2015-12-31T19:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-cfcp-winterschool-conference.aspx MRes student has an article on Asperger's syndrome published in the Guardian MRes Clinical Psychology student Joshua Muggleton has had an article published on the Guardian website in which he discusses the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s plans to remove the terms "Asperger's syndrome" and "autism" and replace them with "autism spectrum disorder". 2012-12-17T08:30:00Z 2015-12-31T19:13:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-student-article-guardian.aspx Anthony Beech speaks on Radio 4 programme about the psychology of the child sex offender Professor in Criminological Psychology, Anthony Beech, has taken part in a discussion on Radio 4 on the psychology of the child sex offender. The programme was broadcast on Tuesday 11 December 2012 at 9am. 2012-12-10T16:55:00Z 2015-12-31T19:11:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-beech-radio4.aspx Professor Stephen Wood awarded a £818K grant for research into 'linear and non-linear brain changes over the transition to psychosis' An MRC grant for approximately £818K has recently been awarded to Professor Stephen Wood for research into – 'Linear and non-linear brain changes over the transition to psychosis'. 2012-12-10T12:04:00Z 2015-12-31T19:12:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-stephen-wood-grant.aspx PhD student Helen Whittle offers insights into online grooming research in the Journal 'Aggression and Violent Behavior' Forensic Psychology PhD student Helen Whittle has had two literature reviews accepted to be published in the Journal 'Aggression and Violent Behavior'. The article, titled, "A review of online grooming: characteristics and concerns" explores the research surrounding how young people are targeted by offenders on the internet. The second article explores risk factors that may make a young person vulnerable to being groomed online. 2012-12-10T12:02:00Z 2015-12-31T19:12:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-helen-whittle.aspx DVD produced for young people with Coeliac disease Dr Ruth Howard and Dr Gary Law have created a new DVD for young people with Coeliac Disease. It came from an ESRC Knowledge Transfer Grant, and features young people talking about their experiences of living with and managing Coeliac Disease. 2012-12-06T16:56:00Z 2015-12-31T19:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/06Dec12-dvd-coeliac-disease.aspx Jim Orford appears on BBC1's Panorama programme to discuss gambling Professor Jim Orford made an appearance on the BBC1 Panorama programme shown on the evening of Monday 5th November. Like last month's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, this was devoted to gambling and again focused on the problems associated with the high stake fixed odds betting machines now to be found in high street betting shops. 2012-11-09T16:13:00Z 2015-12-31T19:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/07Nov12-orford-gambling.aspx Professors Max Birchwood and Helen Lester secure NIHR grant for £2M Professor Max Birchwood and Professor Helen Lester (primary care) have recently secured an NIHR grant for £2M. The 'PARTNERS2' project aims to help primary care and community based mental health services work more closely together. 2012-11-09T15:07:00Z 2015-12-31T19:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/07Nov12-birchwood-lester-grant.aspx Suzanne Higgs' research into appetite featured in the New Scientist Research conducted by Suzanne Higgs into the link between memory and appetite has featured in a New Scientist article titled 'Memory: Lost in the here and now'. 2012-10-24T16:42:00Z 2015-12-31T19:30:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/24Oct12-higgs-new-scientist.aspx £450k ESRC grant to investigate children's and adult's making of tools An ESRC collaborative project brings together developmental psychologists Sarah Beck and Ian Apperly and bioscientist Jackie Chappell to explore human tool making. The project develops work funded by a College of Life and Environmental Sciences Cutting Edge grant and Nicola Cutting's PhD work. 2012-10-24T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/24Oct12-esrc-grant-making-tools.aspx Book co-edited by Professor Anthony Beech 'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law, Interventions' (2012) becomes No1 bestseller in Forensic Psychology 'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law and Interventions' has become the number one bestseller in Forensic Psychology on Amazon. The book is co-edited by Professor Anthony Beech (pictured right), Deputy Head of School and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham. 2012-10-17T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:21:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/17Oct12-beech-forensic-book.aspx £508k award from the the BBSRC to study the neural mechanisms of memory updating Jonathan Lee and Attila Sik (School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine) have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Biolotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council: "The neural mechanisms of memory updating". 2012-10-17T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:20:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/17Oct12-bbsrc-award-memory.aspx £80,000 award to fund 'Challenging behaviour and Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Tuberous Sclerosis' Lucy Wilde, from the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the School of Psychology, has been awarded one of the first postdoctoral research training fellowships from the UK support group charity the Tuberous Sclerosis Association. 2012-10-15T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:20:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/15Oct12-award-tuberous-sclerosis-association.aspx Chris Miall features in a Nature article and podcast to discuss brain activity in the resting state Chris Miall has featured in a news article and podcast for Nature titled 'Neuroscience: Idle minds' (19 September 2012), which discusses the activity of the brain while it is in a resting state. 2012-10-10T13:37:00Z 2015-12-31T19:13:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Oct12-miall-nature-podcast.aspx Joe McCleery and Supriya Malik awarded £103k to study early behavioural intervention for young children with autism Dr Joe McCleery and incoming overseas PhD student, Supriya Malik, from the School of Psychology have been awarded £103,272 from the UK charity, Autistica, and Fortis Healthcare (India) for a research project entitled 'The effects of gesture training on the neural processing of auditory and visual gestures in children with autism.' 2012-09-24T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:16:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-autism-grant.aspx Dinesh Ramoo sponsored to represent the University at the British Science Festival 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. 2012-09-24T08:30:00Z 2015-12-31T19:17:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-dinesh-ramoo.aspx 'Breaking the Cycle' grant won by Dominique Moran and Louise Dixon 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). 2012-09-13T18:52:00Z 2015-12-31T19:17:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-breaking-cycle-grant.aspx Ross Bartels awarded by the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers 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). 2012-09-13T18:50:00Z 2015-12-31T19:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sept12-ross-bartels-award.aspx Research into Fixed Odds Betting Terminals features on Channel 4's Dispatches 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). 2012-09-06T10:46:00Z 2015-12-31T19:10:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/09Sep12-jim-orford-dispatches.aspx PhD student Jason Thomas wins the Hannah Steinberg Award 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. 2012-08-23T10:23:00Z 2015-12-31T19:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Aug12-jason-thomas-award.aspx People with learning disabilities from black and minority groups: An exploration of their experiences and views of social care services 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. 2012-08-21T09:05:00Z 2015-12-31T19:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Jul12-bme-social-care.aspx Kim Quinn awarded £78k by the Leverhulme Trust to study moral praise and moral condemnation 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'. 2012-08-21T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Aug12-kim-quinn-award.aspx The CN-CR centre approaches its second anniversary, and reports excellent progress 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. 2012-08-14T11:06:00Z 2015-12-31T19:18:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/14Aug12-cncr-progress.aspx House of Lords Event raises awareness of the Everyman Project 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. 2012-08-14T09:57:00Z 2015-12-31T19:19:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/14Aug12-dixon-house-of-lords.aspx Jim Orford to feature on Channel 4's Dispatches on Monday 6th August 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. 2012-07-24T16:01:00Z 2015-12-31T19:09:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/06Jul12-orford-dispatches.aspx Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson awarded £404K from the ESRC to examine "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?" 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"?" 2012-07-23T12:25:00Z 2015-12-31T19:28:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-esrc-theory-mind.aspx New paper in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior outlines approaches to treating emotional regulatory deficits among sexual offenders 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.' 2012-07-23T11:55:00Z 2015-12-31T19:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-new-paper-sexual-offenders.aspx New International Network to Detect Serial Offenders: School of Psychology awarded £79K from the Leverhulme Trust's International Networks scheme 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. 2012-07-23T11:20:00Z 2015-12-31T19:29:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-leverhulme-trust-award.aspx Congratulations to our PhD students who graduated this week Information on Congratulations to our PhD students who graduated this week 2012-07-11T17:30:00Z 2015-12-31T19:13:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-congratulations-phd-students.aspx School of Psychology welcomes Professors Kim Shapiro and Jane Raymond We are delighted to welcome two new members of the school. Professor Kim Shapiro and Professor Jane Raymond join us this month from the University of Bangor. 2012-07-11T17:21:00Z 2015-12-31T19:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-welcome-shapiro-raymond.aspx Kim Quinn and colleagues awarded £478k by the ESRC to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony Dr Kimberly Quinn from the School of Psychology, in collaboration with Prof. John Cacioppo from the University of Chicago, has been awarded £478,137 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a research project to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony. 2012-07-11T17:10:00Z 2015-12-31T19:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-kim-quinn-grant.aspx First UK Event-Related Potential (ERP) Boot Camp hosted at the University of Birmingham Students and staff interested in becoming more expert in using the event-related potential (ERP) approach to studying human cognition were recently treated to a rare event on the University of Birmingham campus. 2012-07-11T17:01:00Z 2015-12-31T19:14:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-erp-bootcamp.aspx I just can't get me out of my head: Charlotte Hartwright and colleagues demonstrate that Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex inhibits self perspective when predicting the action of another A paper newly published in Neuroimage written by Charlotte Hartwright, Ian Apperly and Peter Hansen demonstrates that typically functioning adults find it difficult to overcome their own perspective when making a behavioural prediction about someone else. 2012-07-11T17:01:00Z 2015-12-31T19:15:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-ventrolateral-prefrontal-cortex.aspx Talking (cognitive) therapy helps reduce severity of distress among psychotic patients Cognitive therapy (CT) reduces the severity of psychotic experiences in adults who are at risk of developing conditions such as schizophrenia, a study published on the BMJ website claims. 2012-05-18T14:33:00Z 2015-12-31T19:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-cognitive-therapy.aspx Paper in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry indicates that forthcoming changes to diagnostic criteria for Autism could lead to exclusions for many individuals with genetic syndromes It is often reported that the presentation of ASD characteristics in these genetic syndromes differs (in very subtle ways) to that observed in individuals with ASD. According to current diagnostic guidelines this might be classified as 'atypical autism'. Forthcoming changes to these guidelines may result in many individuals with genetic syndromes who currently meet diagnostic criteria for 'atypical autism' to be excluded, with inevitable consequences for access to appropriate resources and intervention. 2012-05-18T14:32:00Z 2015-12-31T19:21:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-autism-diagnosis.aspx Massimiliano Di Luca awarded £15K from the Royal Society to investigate how humans perceive material softness The project will investigate how humans perceive the softness of an object while pressing their hand against it. The grant will be used to purchase a force-feedback device that simulates the haptic interaction with objects having different materials. 2012-05-18T14:17:00Z 2015-12-31T19:22:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-di-luca-grant.aspx Staff and students come out in blue for Autism Day A large number of Staff and Postgraduate students, as well as the Chancellor and Vice Chancellors of the University, wore blue on the 2nd of April, 2012, in recognition of World Autism Awareness Day. 2012-04-05T15:52:00Z 2015-12-31T19:08:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/05Apr12-autism-day.aspx ESRC award £71K to investigate the interaction between working memory and selective attention The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have awarded Dr Alex Balani £71K to investigate the interaction between working memory and selective attention. 2012-03-27T12:11:00Z 2015-12-31T19:32:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/27Mar12-esrc-award.aspx Jason Braithwaite awarded £125K by the Leverhulme Trust to examine Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience The Leverhulme Trust has awarded the University of Birmingham a £125,634 Research Project Grant to examine Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience (OBE). 2012-03-27T12:11:00Z 2015-12-31T19:32:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/27Mar12-leverhulme-funding.aspx Staff and students get young people involved in science at the Big Bang Fair From 15-17 March a group of staff and students from the School were at the Big Bang Fair at Birmingham's NEC. The annual event is aimed at young people across the UK and encourages them to get involved in science, maths and engineering. 2012-03-22T12:21:00Z 2015-12-31T19:27:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/22Mar12-big-bang.aspx Forthcoming paper in Psychological Review proposes new model of action perception Previous research on dual-tasks has shown that, under some circumstances actions impair the perception of action-consistent stimuli, while under other conditions actions facilitate their perception. This paper proposes a new model to reconcile these contrasting findings. 2012-03-20T13:54:00Z 2015-12-31T19:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/20Feb12-action-perception.aspx Brain-based biases leading to out-of-body experiences to be published in top international neuroscience journal Recent research from the School of Psychology revealing underlying biases in brain function and how these relate to anomalous bodily experiences is to be published soon in the top international neuroscience journal 'Cortex'. 2012-03-20T13:37:00Z 2015-12-31T19:23:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/20Feb12-out-of-body-experiences.aspx Dr Ban and Dr Welchman publish new paper in Nature Neuroscience exploring depth cues in the brain Hiroshi Ban and Andrew Welchman's new paper in Nature Neuroscience reveals an area of the brain that fuses different depth cues together to support three-dimensional (3D) perception. The research demonstrates that area V3B/KO in the dorsal visual cortex is particularly important in integrating depth information from different cues. 2012-02-21T16:37:00Z 2015-12-31T19:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-ban-welchman-depth-cues.aspx Professors Davies and Beech produce new book titled 'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law, Interventions' Graham Davies (University of Leicester) and Anthony Beech (University of Birmingham) present an exciting and broad range of topics within the field including detailed treatments of the causes of crime, investigative methods, the trial process, and interventions with different types of offenders and offences. 2012-02-21T16:15:00Z 2015-12-31T19:24:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-beech-new-book.aspx £98K ESRC grant awarded to investigate communication by deaf children without conventional language input Sotaro Kita has been awarded a £98,000 research grant from the Economic and Social Research Council, with two collaborators, Professor Susan Goldin Meadow and Professor Diane Brentari (both at the University of Chicago). 2012-02-21T15:40:00Z 2015-12-31T19:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-grant-deaf-comms.aspx Professor Deb becomes panel member of NIHR West Midlands Research for Patient Benefit Professor Shoumitro Deb (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) has been appointed as a panel member for the West Midlands Research for Patient Benefit advisory committee. 2012-02-21T15:24:00Z 2015-12-31T19:25:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-deb-nihr.aspx School of Psychology to be represented at the prestigious MHRN National Scientific Meeting 25-27 April 2012 This Scientific Meeting gives researchers and mental health professionals the chance to meet together and find out about some of the pioneering studies supported by the MHRN. Professor Max Birchwood will be speaking on 'Public mental health and the prevention of serious mental illness' on Wednesday 25th, and Professor Shoumitro Deb will be chairing a session to discuss 'Interventions in Intellectual Disabilities: what is the evidence' on Thursday 26th. 2012-02-21T14:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:26:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-mhrn-meeting.aspx Birmingham-Warwick-Leicester collaboration receives £4.5 million Government investment The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) will receive £4.5 million from the BBSRC. Match funding from the three universities will enable the partnership to fund up to 90 four-year PhD studentships over the next three academic years in important biological fields such as food security, industrial biotechnology and bio-energy. 2012-02-02T10:50:00Z 2015-12-31T19:35:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/31Jan-collaboration-receives-government-investment.aspx Alan Wing and Andrew Welchman new BBSRC panel members Information on Alan Wing and Andrew Welchman new BBSRC panel members 2012-01-26T15:51:00Z 2015-12-31T19:31:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/26Jan12-wing-welchman-bbsrc.aspx Max Di Luca awarded 100k€ Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG) Dr Max Di Luca has been awarded a 100k€ Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG) for a project titled 'Temporal Information in Crossmodal Stimuli. 2012-01-26T15:31:00Z 2015-12-31T19:31:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/26Jan12-maxdiluca-award.aspx £716K EPSRC grant awarded to investigate the relationship between structural and functional networks in the Thalamocortical System Andrew Bagshaw (School of Psychology) and Theo Arvanitis (School of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering) have been awarded a £716,000 EPSRC grant for a new project: 'The Human Brain as a Complex System: Investigating the Relationship between Structural and Functional Networks in the Thalamocortical System'. 2011-12-21T10:50:00Z 2015-12-31T19:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-human-brain-epsrcgrant.aspx £50K Feeding For Life Foundation grant awarded to staff in the School Jackie Blissett, Gill Harris and Suzanne Higgs have been awarded a £50K Feeding For Life Foundation grant towards a project examining the effectiveness of specific ways in which parents may increase the success of introducing new foods to their 2-3 year olds. 2011-12-20T17:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:00:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-feeding-for-life.aspx Research conducted by Caroline Richards and Chris Oliver into self-injurious behaviour featured on a Channel 4 News Dr Caroline Richards' PhD research investigating the risk markers and causes of self-injurious behaviour in autism spectrum disorder was highlighted in a recent Channel 4 News article. 2011-12-20T16:07:00Z 2015-12-31T19:02:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-self-injurious-behaviour.aspx Stuart Derbyshire 2012 winner of the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine Stuart Derbyshire is the 2012 winner of the Paul D MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. The award is given every year by the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) for outstanding neuroscientific research that advances knowledge directly related to Dr MacLean's hypothesis regarding altered cortical-subcortical interactions affecting physical disease outcomes or mediating processes that can be directly linked to disease outcomes. 2011-12-20T15:59:00Z 2015-12-31T19:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-maclean-award.aspx Research into Action: Mental Health Services for People with Learning Disabilities A report compiled by Biza Stenfert Kroese and John Rose investigating the training needs of staff who work with people with Learning Disabilities from the Judith Trust charity has recently been launched. 2011-12-20T15:49:00Z 2015-12-31T19:01:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-judith-trust.aspx Focus on the Birmingham Fellows: About Stephen Mayhew Dr Stephen Mayhew was one of the successful candidates offered a Birmingham Fellowship under the Cognitive Psychology theme. Steven explains a bit about his research. 2011-11-18T09:31:00Z 2015-12-31T18:59:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/17Nov11-stephen-mayhew.aspx PhD student Leah Bull awarded the Pat Howlin prize School of Psychology PhD student Leah Bull was awarded the Pat Howlin prize at this year's Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes Scientific Symposium held in Brisbane. 2011-11-18T09:08:00Z 2015-12-31T18:59:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/17Nov11-leah-bull.aspx School of Psychology announces four Birmingham Fellows Four Birmingham Fellowships have been offered under the Cognitive Psychology theme, championed by the School of Psychology. 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z 2015-12-31T18:56:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-birmingham-fellows.aspx Assassination under hypnotic suggestion: Stuart Derbyshire features on Derren Brown's The Experiments series Channel 4 is currently showing a series of four shows by Derren Brown called "The Experiments". The first 'experiment' asked whether an ordinary person could be programmed to kill using hypnotic suggestion. Dr Stuart Derbyshire was asked to take part, along with Professor Zoltan Dienes from Sussex University, to discuss the nature of hypnosis and to facilitate a hypnotic task that could not be easily faked or simulated. 2011-11-03T13:00:00Z 2015-12-31T18:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-derbyshire-derrenbrown.aspx Jackie Blissett teams up with the IdeasLab to produce a free iphone app, 'Comfort Eater Beater' Dr Jackie Blissett and IdeasLab at the University of Birmingham have designed an app to try to get people thinking about how they are using food to deal with their emotions, and to try to suggest simple alternatives that may get people through those moments when a chocolate biscuit seems irresistible. 2011-11-03T12:00:00Z 2015-12-31T18:57:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-comfort-eater-beater-app.aspx Birmingham Cognitive Screen featured in NIHR film series BCos, the Birmingham Cognitive Screen project, is featured in the National Institute for Health Research Stroke Research Network short film series (part 2) released for the World Stroke Day on the 29th Oct 2011. 2011-11-03T11:00:00Z 2015-12-31T18:56:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-cognitive-screen.aspx Remembering to Forget: Destroying Bad Memories and Breaking Bad Habits Retrieving a memory is crucial when trying to extinguish it completely, according to research published today (18 October) by University of Birmingham scientists in the journal Nature Communications. 2011-11-03T10:00:00Z 2015-12-31T18:58:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-RememberingtoForget.aspx Professor Jim Orford elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society Emeritus Professor Jim Orford (pictured right) was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society at the Society's annual general meeting in London on 24th June. 2011-09-29T16:34:00Z 2015-12-31T19:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-orford-honorary-bps-fellow.aspx Recent paper and grant investigating the timing of brain processes involved in taking someone else's perspective. Many studies suggest that multiple brain processes are involved in perspective-taking. Joe McCleery, Ian Apperly and colleagues have combined new behavioural methods with scalp recording of the brain's electrical activity to investigate the order in which these processes occur. 2011-09-29T16:34:00Z 2015-12-31T19:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-someone-elses-perspective.aspx Second of BPS funded seminars on multiple perpetrator rape hosted by Dr Jessica Woodhams Information on Second of BPS funded seminars on multiple perpetrator rape hosted by Dr Jessica Woodhams 2011-09-29T16:33:00Z 2015-12-31T19:03:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-second-seminar-perpetrator-rape.aspx Forthcoming article in Attention Perception and Psychophysics proposes hybrid account of Inhibition of Return Studies into human visual perception rarely control for how participants weigh up processing speed against processing accuracy. For the first time, the paper presents evidence in one experiment that IOR affects both, processing speed and processing accuracy. 2011-09-29T16:10:00Z 2015-12-31T19:05:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/paper-perception-psychophysics.aspx Recent paper in Psychological Science demonstrates how spontaneous gestures influence problem solving A recent paper in Psychological Science demonstrates that when one spontaneously produces gestures during problem solving, one tends to solve the problem based on concrete spatial information as opposed to more abstract information. 2011-09-29T16:10:00Z 2015-12-31T19:02:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-gestures-problem-solving.aspx Research Explains Why People Get Drunk at the Office Party Getting drunk at the office party and behaving in an inappropriate way may be down to the fact that drinking alcohol in an unfamiliar environment can lead to an inability to reign in unsuitable behaviour, according to research by psychologists at the University of Birmingham published online in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. 2011-09-20T16:55:00Z 2015-12-31T19:00:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/19Sep11ResearchExplainsWhyPeopleGetDrunkattheOfficeParty.aspx Dr Andrew Welchman wins £1.2M fellowship from the Wellcome Trust - School of Psychology Andrew Welchman has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science. 2011-07-22T16:09:00Z 2015-12-31T19:07:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/welchman-wellcome-grant.aspx New grants awarded to staff in the School New grants awarded to staff in the School of Psychology in July 2011. 2011-07-22T09:00:00Z 2015-12-31T19:04:00Z https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/grants-july2011.aspx