Seminars

We invite world-leading academics to speak at a series of open seminars throughout the year, all hosted by academics within the department.

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Our seminars take place on Tuesdays at the Lecture Theatre  7, Diamond Building, starting at 12:00pm followed by lunch at 1:00 pm in the ICOSS Foyer. The seminars are hold in person, but with the possibility to join remotely.

For more information or a copy of the seminar programme please email psychology@sheffield.ac.uk.

Programme 2023-2024 - Second Semester

Date Speaker Title Host Location
13/02/2024 Professor Kalwant Bhopal Black and Minority Ethnic experiences in higher education: social justice, inclusion and white privilege. EDI Seminar Online
20/02/2024 Dr Charlotte Pennington To help or hinder: Do the labels and models used to describe problematic substance use influence public stigma? Prof. Matt Field Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
27/02/2024 Dr Meesha A Warmington The Nature of Cognitive Processes in Bilingual Children: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Dr Stanislava Naneva Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
05/03/2024 Dr Benoit Duchet Predicting and controlling neural entrainment to brain stimulation using mathematical models. Dr Alekhya Mandali Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
12/03/2024 Dr Andrea M. Philipp Cognitive control in language processing: Modality-specific effects on language switching Dr Claudia von Bastian Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
19/03/2024 Dr Beth Armstrong TBC Dr Nicola Buckland Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
16/04/2024 Dr Kelly Burgoyne Parent-Delivered Early Language Intervention. Prof. Danielle Matthews Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
23/04/2024 Prof. Adam Chuderski Mapping, integrating, and processing relations across various cognitive tasks. Dr Claudia von Bastian Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
07/05/2024 Dr Markus Quirin TBC TBC Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
14/05/2024 Dr Christoph Wiest Novel feedback markers for adaptive deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Dr Alekhya Mandali Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
21/05/2024 Prof. Eleni Vasilaki TBC Dr Hazem Toutounji Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building
28/05/2024 Dr Teresa Crew The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity: A Class Apart. EDI Committee Online

 

Programme 2023-2024 - First Semester

Date Speaker Title Host Location
03/10/2023 Dr Christian Webb Predictors And Mechanisms of Change in the Treatment of Depressed Adolescents Professor Jaime Delgadillo

Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building

10/10/2023 Dr Jenny Retzler The neurocognitive basis of inattention in children born very preterm Dr Megan Freeth

Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building

17/10/2023 Dr Emily Burdett The ontogeny of human ingenuity: Exploring the factors that promote problem-solving and innovation in childhood Dr Gideon Salter

Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building

24/10/2023 Dr Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez Reifying AI: Robots, humans and the space in between Dr Stanislava Naneva

Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building

31/10/2023 Dr Dan Denis Mechanisms of memory consolidation during human sleep Dr Tim Riley Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building
14/11/2023 Dr Carolina Feher Da Silva Model-free or muddled models in the two-stage task? Dr Hazem Toutounji Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building
21/11/2023 Dr Noam Tal-Perry A Practical Overview of Microsaccades in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience Dr Alon Zivony Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building
28/11/2023 Dr Evie Vergauwe

Selection and prioritization in working memory: One privileged state, Two patterns, Three interpretations

Dr Vanessa Loaiza Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building
05/12/2023 Dr Toby Ellmers A Freudian Slip: How psychological factors affect balance and fall risk Dr Hannes Saal Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building
12/12/2023 Dr Saafi Mousa Anti-Oppression in Psychology EDI Committee Lecture Theatre 1,  Sir Henry Stephenson Building

 

Programme 2022 -2023

Date Speaker Institution Title Host Location
21/10/22 Dr Lesley Uttley The University of Sheffield Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: how objective are they really? Professor Tom Webb The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2
04/11/22 Dr Hannah Rapaport Macquarie University, Australia Experiencing the world differently: Understanding Autistic people’s perceptual and everyday lives Professor Elizabeth Milne The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2
11/11/22 Professor Wayne Gray Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. USA From the Fosbury Flop to Tetris and beyond! What action games tell us about the human acquisition of expertise in complex dynamic tasks Dr Tom Stafford 3pm - 4pm, Online
02/12/22 Dr Alessandra Souza University of Porto, Portugal Boosting the storage capacity and fidelity of visual working memory Dr Caudia von-Bastian The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 / Online
09/12/22 Dr Hannah Rodhe University of Edinburgh Informativity in cooperative communication Dr Danielle Matthews The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2
10/03/23 Dr Miriam Sebold Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin Learning and decision-making of disorders from the "compulsive spectrum" Professor Matt Field Online
24/03/23 Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc University of Dundee The role of online communities in addiction recovery Professor Matt Field SS Teaching Room 2
31/03/23 Dr Aimee Elizabeth Pink The Agency for Science, Technology and Research Social anxiety and assets moderate the influence of ostracism stress on children’s snack consumption:
Findings from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Cohort.
Dr Nicola Buckland  Online

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