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Invited Speakers 2011/12
Thursdays 4:00pm
Venue Frank and Katherine May Lecture Theatre, Henry Wellcome Building
Autumn Term – 13th October – 15th December 2011
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Invited by |
|---|---|---|---|
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13 October |
Dr Liu Chengwei Junior Research Fellow in Management, Jesus College, Oxford |
Exceptional Performance: Skill or Luck? |
Dr Briony Pulford |
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20 October |
Dr Julie A. Kirkby Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University |
Binocular coordination and Dyslexia |
Dr Kevin Paterson |
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3 November |
Dr. Declan McNicholl and Dr. Maria Dale Recovery & Rehabilitation Psychology, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust |
An overview of the Leicestershire NHS Neuropsychology Department and Huntington's Disease (HD) Service |
Dr Steve Shimozaki, Dr Doug Barrett, Miss Elizabeth Bryant |
|
10 November |
Prof Christopher C French Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London |
The Psychology of Ghosts and Hauntings |
Dr Tessa Webb |
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17 November |
Dr Jeremy Wyatt Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham |
Deciding where to look: A computational model of gaze control for manipulation |
Dr Sarah White |
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24 November |
Dr Rebecca Horn Independent Psychosocial Specialist |
Lessons in Resilience: From Prisons to Refugee Camps to Gaza |
Prof Clive Hollin |
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1 December |
Dr Forsyth Alasdair Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, Caledonian University, Glashow |
Observing the role alcohol in incidents of disorderly behaviour |
Dr Vincent Egan |
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8 December |
Cancelled |
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15 December |
Dr Yulia Kovas Department of Psychology. Goldsmiths, University of London |
Genetics, Genomics, Culture, and Mathematics: the latest results from twin and cross-cultural studies |
Dr Darya Gaysina |
Spring Term – 2nd February – 29th March 2012
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Invited by |
|---|---|---|---|
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2 February |
Dr Rob A. Nash Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford |
Video-mediated interviews with witnesses: Futile or fruitful? |
Dr Heather Flowe |
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16 February |
Dr Natalie Gold King's College London |
Experiments on Moral Intuitions: Judgments in Trolley Problems |
Dr Briony Pulford |
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23 February |
Dr Denis McKeown Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds |
Uncovering a short-term non-verbal memory |
Professor Mark Lansdale |
|
1 March |
Cancelled |
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8 March |
Dr Marie-Christine Pardon School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham |
Therapeutic potential of stress mediators in the early stages of Alzheimer's like pathology in a mouse model |
Dr Claire Gibson |
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15 March |
Dr Kerstin Meints Department of Psychology, University of Lincoln |
How to prevent dog bite injuries? The Blue Dog and more... |
Dr Carlo De Lillo |
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22 March |
Professor Dawn Brooker Director of the Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester |
Person-centered approaches to dementia care in care homes and hospitals: Old hats and new brooms |
Dr Robertson Noelle |
| Social event |
Summer Term – Thursday 10th May 2012
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Invited by |
|---|---|---|---|
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10 May |
Professor Erik D. Reichle University of Pittsburgh |
Using E-Z Reader to Simulate Eye Movements in Reading and Non-Reading Tasks Abstract |
Dr Sarah White |
