Research Seminar Series, Spring 2011-12
Welcome to our Spring Seminar Series 2011-12!All seminars take place on Fridays in the departmental Lecture Theatre starting at 1.00pm, concluding by 2.00pm or shortly afterwards unless otherwise indicated. To subscribe for notification of future seminars please send an email to sympa@lists.shef.ac.uk with the subject 'subscribe psy-seminars'. n.b. You do not need to do this if you are Staff or student in the Psychology Department. The seminar programme is below or it can be downloaded from this page (please see the 'Downloads' box to the right hand side) or by contacting Josie Cassidy (j.cassidy@sheffield.ac.uk). |
10 February 2012
Dr Louise Arseneault, Kings College London
“Bullying victimisation and its harmful effect on children’s mental health problems and responses to stress”
17 February 2012
Prof Orla Muldoon, University of Limerick
“Post-Traumatic Stress: The role of Groups, Identity and Politics”
24 February 2012
Dr Atsushi Senju, Birbeck College
“Typical and atypical development of spontaneous social cognition”
2 March 2012
Dr Jane Speight, Deakin University Australia
“Managing diabetes and preventing it's complications: what makes the difference?”
9 March 2012
Dr Richard Plant, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“Why do I need to know about data management?”
16 March 2012
Dr Nathan Lepora, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“Of rats and robots: Optimal perception with a synthetic basal ganglia”
23 March 2012
Dr Jennifer McBride, University College London
“Automatic motor activation and control”
30 March 2012
Prof Pete Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease”
27 April 2012
Dr Nico Vautrelle, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“Dopamine made me do it but what did I learn”
4 May 2012
Dr Anna Weighall, Sheffield Hallam University
“The role of sleep and memory consolidation in children’s vocabulary acquisition”
11 May 2012
Prof Gustaf Gredebäck, Uppsala University, Sweden
TBA