The School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminar series presents a talk by Mark Savary titled “A Foundation, not an Afterthought: Using Evidence-based Pedagogies to Integrate Science Communication Training into the STEM Curriculum”, which will be hosted by Dr Paula Miles in person in Seminar Room 1 in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, and online…
The School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminar series presents a talk by Debora Masini (Stockholm) titled ‘Beyond Aggression: Uncovering the Phenotypic Identity of Social Rank in Male Mice”, which will be hosted by Dr Ilary Allodi in person in the Old Library and online through MS Teams. Abstract: Laboratory mice are central to the study…
The School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminar series presents a talk by Dr Catherine Crompton (Edinburgh) titled “the Neurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST): co-designed and research-informed materials for mainstream secondary schools”, which will be hosted by Dr Lizzie Bradford in person in the Old Library and online through MS Teams. Abstract: The Neurodivergent peer Support…
The School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminar series presents a talk by Luke Fannin (Dartmouth) titled ‘Monkey bars: catalyst of debate at the center of human evolutionary biology and public health”, which will be hosted by Professor Catherine Hobaiter in person in the Old Library and online through MS Teams. Abstract: Play is an essential…
Speaker: Dr Paul Ian Campbell is an award winning academic and Associate Professor in the sociology of race and inclusion at the University of Leicester, Visiting Professor at the Open University and University of South Wales and Loughborough, and National Teaching Fellow. He is the leading voice in race and assessment in the UK and…
Curious Sounds: How music hijacks and shapes our everyday thoughts. Old Library, 28th of March at 1pm, hosted by Professor Ines Jentzsch Abstract: Music is a ubiquitous stimulus that can capture and sustain our attention, trigger autobiographical memories, and invoke vivid images in our mind’s eye. As such the study of music listening offers a…
How to achieve and maintain social cohesion when intergroup contact is positive and negative? Old Library, 21st of March at 1pm, hosted by Dr Nicole Tausch Abstract: This research paper presents a program of research on valence asymmetries in interactions between members of opposing social groups, or ‘intergroup contact’. Due to a focus on corrective…
“How organisational identification shapes public condoning of corporate corruption” Old Library, 14th of March at 1pm, hosted by Calum Cook Abstract: This talk examines how social identity processes shape condoning of organisational corruption among onlookers. Two studies examine the willingness of outside observers to condone, or else condemn, corrupt actions of real organisations, a process…
The goal of the Collective Behaviour and Intelligence seminar series is to explore the phenomena of collective behaviour and intelligence, the mechanisms underlying them and their consequences, through reading and discussion of classic and current literature. These phenomena are of interest to a wide variety of disciplines and include many different systems at various scales…
The School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminar series presents a talk by Dr Mete Uysal (Exeter) titled ‘Reconceptualise the “radical” in social movements through risk perceptions, repression, legitimacy, and efficacy’, which will be hosted by Dr Yasemin Acar in the Old Library and accessible online through MS Teams. Abstract: Collective action research in social psychology…