Research Seminar Series, Spring 2018-19
Welcome to our Spring Seminar Series 2018-19
All seminars will take place on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, starting at 12.00pm and concluding by 12.50pm or shortly afterwards unless otherwise indicated.
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The seminar programme found below 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 | Host |
| 15.2.19 | Dr Lesley McGregor | University College London | "Bowel Cancer Screening: Interventions to Increase Participation" | Dr Simone Bijvoet-van den Berg |
| 22.2.19 | Professor David Leiser | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | "The Primate Cognitive Toolbox and Economics Understanding" | Dr Richard Rowe & Dr Gurleen Popli (Economics) |
| 1.3.19 | Dr Jo Moss | University of Birmingham | "Autism in genetic syndromes: prevalence, trajectory and causal mechanisms" | Dr Megan Freeth |
| 8.3.19 | Professor Marijn de Bruin | Radboud University Medical Centre, The Netherlands | "The IC-SMOKE project - Changing how we look at evidence from behavioural smoking cessation trials: Accounting for poor reporting and variability in control groups when interpreting and comparing intervention effects" | Dr Thomas Webb |
| 15.3.19 | Dr Philip Newall | University of Warwick | "Exploitative innovation in gambling" | Dr Tom Stafford |
| 22.3.19 | Dr Jim Grange | Keele University | "What role for inhibition in task switching?" | Dr Tom Stafford |
| 29.3.19 | Dr Esther Kuehn | German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases | "The cortical microstructure of myelin in health and disease" | Dr Hannes Saal |
| 5.4.19 | TBC | |||
| 3.5.19 | TBC | |||
| 10.5.19 | Dr Simon Hanslmayr | University of Birmingham | "How a desynchronized cortex and a synchronized hippocampus cooperatively form and retrieve memories" | Dr Robert Schmidt |