Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2013-14

Welcome to our Autumn Seminar Series 2013-14!

All seminars take place on Fridays in the departmental Lecture Theatre starting at 12.00pm, concluding by 1.00pm 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.

Please note that the seminar details may occasionally change during the semester

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 Liz Carl (liz.carl@sheffield.ac.uk).

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
4.10.13	Dr Keon West	University of Roehampton	"Understanding and confronting Jamaican anti-gay prejudice"
11.10.13	Dr Richard Russell	Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, US	"Why cosmetics work"
18.10.13	Professor Barbara Maughan	King's College London	"Anti-social behaviour - A life-span perspective"
25.10.13	Dr Kate Cavanagh	University of Sussex	"Can mindfulness be learnt by self-help?"
1.11.13	Professor Merideth Gattis	University of Cardiff	"Learning from social environments"
8.11.13	Dr Ted Barker	King's College London	"The impact of maternal depression & associated risk factors on child development"
15.11.13	Dr Colin Bannard	University of Texas	"Re-thinking the role of imitation in language acquisition:  how learner's negotiate the bias-variance tradeoff"
22.11.13	Dr Anna Franklin	University of Sussex	"Colour categories in language and thought"
29.11.13	Dr Peter Dayan	University College London	"The control of control"
6.12.13	Professor Jackie Andrade	University of Plymouth	"The elaborated intrusion theory of desire:  from theory to behaviour change"
13.12.13	Dr Angela Rowe	University of Bristol	"Oxytocin and human sociality'"
20.12.13	Professor Rod Nicolson	University of Sheffield, Dept of Psychology	"Positive dyslexia:  science, sense and synergy"