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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Most seminars will be hosted online, with some in-person seminars stated below. Our seminars take place on Fridays, starting at 12.00pm and concluding by 12.50pm or shortly afterwards unless otherwise indicated.
For more information or a copy of the seminar programme please email psychology@sheffield.ac.uk.
Programme 2023-2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Location |
| 03/10/2023 | Dr Christian Webb | Harvard University | Predictors And Mechanisms of Change in the Treatment of Depressed Adolescents | Prof. Jaime Delgadillo |
Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
| 10/10/2023 | Dr Jenny Retzler | University of Huddersfield | The neurocognitive basis of inattention in children born very preterm | Dr Megan Freeth | TBC |
| 17/10/2023 | Dr Emily Burdett | University of Nottingham | The ontogeny of human ingenuity: Exploring the factors that promote problem-solving and innovation in childhood | Dr Gideon Salter | TBC |
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 |