Neuroscience

Domain Chair:

Prof. Trevor Smart

Domain Coordinator:

Dr Matt Wakelin

Communication and Events Officer:

Rachel Heatley

Public Engagement Events

Don't Miss
Dr Tali Sharot (Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences) and Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) on Dara O'Briain's BBC Science Club. Watch now

What's On

  • The Vox Lab: a poetry residency at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

    • From February – March 2013. Consortium student James Wilkes is poet-in-residence at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He will be working with the ICN’s Speech Communication Laboratory to write a new work of poetry investigating speech and the voice. As part of his residency, he will be organising public talks between neuroscientists, poets and humanities scholars. Conversationalists will include Steven Connor and Denise Riley from the London Consortium, and Sophie Scott from the ICN. The residency will result in a symposium and publication.
    • The Vox Lab is supported by the Wellcome Trust and the London Consortium. For further details see the residency blog and follow on Facebook or Twitter
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Archive

Please note that the archive of events tabled below is constantly being updated, and does not include all engagement events that have involved UCL neuroscientists. If you know of any events, which are not listed below, please send details, including any useful website, to us.

Event
Date
More details
Type of activity
The Voice Symposium  Nov 2012
  •  A one-day symposium and evening performance bringing together scientists, artists, researchers, musicians and poets around the common topic of the voice
  • As a preview for "The Voice Symposium," symposium organiser James Wilkes presented an hour-long feature on Resonance 104.4FM, discussing the subject of the human voice from scientific and artistic perspectives. Listen here
  •  Multidisclipinary symposium
Neurology and Me: Disease, Art Health and Hope  Nov 2012
  • The UCL Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation and Movement for Hope presented a public evening of talks and artistic works featuring cutting-edge collaborations between neuroscientists, artists and individuals diagnosed with neurological conditions.  This evening included videography, fine art, live ballet, jazz and contemporary dance, live music and exhibition.  
  • A playlist of all the videos for the entire event can be seen here
  •  Performance, talks

TED talks

TEDxUCL talks on You Tube

 Ongoing
  • Talk, podcast
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience public engagement activities Ongoing
  • General activities (talks, exhibitions, media work etc.)
  • Work with schools, young people and teachers
  • Books
  • Podcasts and media links
DCAL public engagement listing Ongoing
  • Details of public engagement activities at the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre
  
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Objects of Emotion at Wellcome Collection June 2012
  • Profs Patrick Haggard and Vince Walsh (ICN) and others uncover the latest science exploring the mysteries of empathy in puppetry and elsewhere in culture.
  • Talk/workshop
Gathering Light exhibition at Street Gallery, University College Hospital
 May-June 2012
  • The exhibition is the result of a ground-breaking project in which patients and clinical researchers worked together with award-winning photographer Clare Park to explore their feelings about clinical research.

Read more
  • Exhibition
Wellcome Trust blog - Focus on Stroke: Making Advances
 May 2012
  • Ten leading clinicians, researchers and other professionals, including Prof Masud Husain (ION)Prof Sophie Scott (ICN), Dr Nick Ward (ION), working on stroke answer the question: What do you think has been the most significant advance or turning point in the field during your career so far?
  • Blog
"Out of Control" BBC Horizon
 March 2012
  • TV
Brains on Film 2012
 March 2012

Winner of the 'ICN Brains on Film' Competition 2012 at University College London, We Didn't Start the Scanner
  • Short films pitched at general audience
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The search for genius and Einstein's brain March 2012

Dr Mark Lythgoe presents The search for genius and Einstein's brain during Brain Awareness Week.

  • Public talk
The Performing Brain - A Moving Story @ British Library
 		March 2012
  • A collaborative event hosted by the British Library and UCL Neuroscience, with scientists from UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and UCL Institute of Neurology
  • Watch lecture here
  • Multi-disclipinary lecture
  • Interactive demonstrations
The Social Brain in adolescence
 March 2012
  • Public talk
The Point of Perception end March 2012

  • An installation by Madi Boyd made in collaboration with neuroscientists Dr Beau Lotto and Dr Mark Lythgoe is now open for public viewing at the LottoLab, The Science Museum in London
  • Art installation
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It's Nice That Selfridges Talks Series Feb 2012
  • Three experts, including UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience's Dr Jenny Crinion, from three distinctly different fields talked about language - how it has evolved, its modes of use, experimentation with format, and what happens when we lose language skills.  Read review
  • Public talk
The Ear Jan 2012
  • Listen to The Ear, the first in a new series of podcasts called Body Pods. The Ear has been made by David Rosenberg, co-founder of experimental theatre company Shunt and UCL Ear Institute's Director,  David McAlpine. Body Pods is co-produced by Fuel and Roundhouse. To find out more visit fueltheatre.com
  • Podcast
BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific: Uta Frith
 Dec 2011
  • Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) talks to Jim Al Khalili about her pioneering work on autism and dyslexia
  • Radio broadcast
The Curious Brain in the Museum - The 2010 Henry Cole Lecture Nov 2011
  • Lecture
  • Film
Wondermind
 Nov 2011
  • Inspired by Tate Liverpool’s  exhibition, Alice in Wonderland, an art-science collaborative made up of scientists, led by UCL Institute of Child Health Dr Michelle de Haan, curators, game designers and filmmakers, Wondermind is a series of pioneering interactive games, videos and an online blog to help children learn about the science of the developing human brain
  • Read more: UCL Neuroscience News, BBC Click (from 2:45mins)
  • Interactive games
  • Video
  • Blog
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BBC Free Thinking Festival
 Nov 2011
  • Radio broadcast+
Fry‘s Planet Word Oct 2011
  • TV documentary
Battle of Ideas Oct 2011
  • Public debate
Musical Brain Conference 2011 - Oct 201
  • Why Music?  Is Music Different from the Other Arts?
  • Conference
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The Science Network panel discussion
 July 2011
  • Prof Neil Burgess took part in a panel discussion on Spatial Cognition 
  • Panel discussion
The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
 June 2011
  • Science festival, talks, demos
Fissure
 May 2011
  • Fissure was a unique walking performance that unfolded over three days in the Yorkshire Dales between 20-22 May, 2011. It was an extraordinary encounter between artisits, scientists, including UCL's Dr Chris Clark, audiences and landscape that explored life, death, grief and renewal
  • Dr Chris Clark also talked about tractography, brain mapping and art with Louise Wilson at the ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’ Exhibition at the British Library in September 2010.
  • Louise Ann Wilson's webpage
  • Site-specific performance
  • Talks
Brains on Film  2011
 		April 2011
  • Short films pitched at general audience
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Knit a Neuron
 2011
  • Hands on
Brain Awareness Week at UCL
14-20 March 2011
  • Online interviews and videos, featured on UCL home page
  • Public talks (for general audience and patient groups)
'Do You Hear What I Hear? Your Brain and Sound @ British Library
 11 October 2010
  • British Library-UCL Neuroscience collaborative project (involving researchers from UCL Ear Institute, Speech, Hearing and Phoentic Sciences, Psychology and Languages Sciences and Deafness Research UK) - details reported as case study on NCCPE website
  • Multi-disclipinary lecture
  • Interactive demonstrations
Lottolab Studio
 Ongoing
  • World's first public perception research space. Collaboration between Beau Lotto (IoO), Science Museum, and a variety of other collaborators
  • Talks, exhibitions, apps, art-science collaboration, media work etc.
  • Participative experiments and events with and for children and adults
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