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Latest News
| Date | Department | News |
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03/04/2012 |
PALS |
The Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, has won the Silver Award for the UCL Green Impact scheme. |
| 02/04/2012 | ICN |
Jake Fairnie and Anna Remington were awarded £7,500 from the UCL Bright Ideas Award for One Minute Manuscript!
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02/04/2012 |
ICN |
Jake Fairnie and Anna Remington won the ICN Brains on Film competition. To view their video on YouTube called 'We Didn't Start the Scanner' please go here>>> |
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26/03/2012 |
CEHP |
Domestic violence affects one million children in the UK Research by Dr Eamon McCrory (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) shows the neurological impact
on children of domestic violence is similar to soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more>>> |
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12/03/2012 |
CPB | Helene Joffe and a team of academics from the universities of Birmingham, Lancashire, Southampton and UCL, will be researching a new project about 'Transforming the engineering of cities to deliver societal and planetary wellbeing'. Helene is a co-investigator with the team and the EPSRC has awarded the project a grant of £6,150,000. |
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05/03/2012 |
CPB | Helene Joffe and an interdisciplinary team (Sophie Bostock, Tse-Hui Teh and Matthew Pope) won the Crucible Wellbeing research prize of £10 000 for their project ‘Windows to Wellbeing’ |
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22/02/2012 |
Dev Sci | Dr Michael Clarke has been awarded a new research grant for a project entitled 'Functional gaze control in young children with cerebral palsy', funded by SPARKS (Sport Aiding Medical Research for Kids). |
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22/02/2012 |
CEHP | Chris Brewin and John King from CEHP, together with Mel Slater from UCL Computer Science and Paul Gilbert from the University of Derby, have been awarded a grant of £447,488 by the Medical Research Council’s Experimental Medicine for Mental Health programme for a project on overcoming self-critical attitudes using virtual reality. |
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12/2011 |
CEHP |
Dr Eamon McCrory, lead author from the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and the Anna Freud Centre, has published a brain imaging study last December showing that 'children exposed to maltreatment show similar brain patterns to soldiers exposed to combat'. This was the first fMRI study of emotional processing in children following familial maltreatment. |
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13/12/2011 |
PALS | Psychology Christmas Video |
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02/12/2011 |
PALS |
British Aphasiology Society Student Project Prize 2011
Helen
Davy (2011 graduate) has been awarded the Student Project Prize of the British
Aphasiology Society for her project entitled ‘Getting into shape: The effect of
Shape Coding on the spoken language production of a man with chronic aphasia’.
This is a prestigious national prize, awarded to the best student project in
the UK on any topic relating to acquired aphasia. |
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30/11/2011 |
PALS | Congratulations to our students Ria Bernard, Kate McMahon & Rebecca Burns who are recipients of UCL Mentor Awards 2011! |
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18/10/2011 |
PALS |
David Curtin
(graduated BSc Speech Sciences 2011) was awarded student campaigner of the year award
at a ceremony for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
Honours and Giving Voice awards at Westminster on 18th October,
2011. More>>> |
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10/10/2011 |
LING |
Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT) gave a presentation
in the Linguistics Department at UCL about the importance of the study
of human language to our understanding of the human mind, titled “On the
Poverty of the Stimulus”.The video is now available to view on this link here. |
| 06/10/2011 |
PALS |
A team of UCL colleagues has been awarded £55K from JISC to help fund a 2-year project which will develop the digital literacy of teaching administrators at UCL. |
| 06/10/2011 |
CEHP |
Prof. Mary Target and Dr Nick Midgley received a grant from the Monument Trust, which began in July 2011, for a qualitative study of the experience of young people and their families receiving psychological treatment for adolescent depression. Both Mary and Nick are employed at the Anna Freud Centre and at UCL, and the grant ‘sits’ more in AFC, but with a strong UCL link. |
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