Category: Forthcoming Workshop

Please see below information regarding the search for a new Lab-leader in the EEG-lab of Prof. Matthias Müller at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

The successful candidate has either an educational background as a Technical Assistant or in Psychology. He/she will have experience in working in an EEG-lab, has profound Matlab programming skills and experience in managing a scientific lab and given the international orientation of the lab, he/she speaks fluently English.

The position is a permanent full-time position at the University of Leipzig, with all the amenities thereof. Annual salary will be around 35.000 Euros.

For more information of the scientific work in the lab see:

https://www.lw.uni-leipzig.de/en/wilhelm-wundt-institute-for-psychology/working-groups-1/experimental-psychology-and-methods/research

or contact Prof. Müller at m.mueller@uni-leipzig.de.

Leipzig is one of the most aspiring town in Germany offering a vivid cultural life and is titled the “better Berlin” in the meantime.

Given that the position is a university position, applications with the identification number 212/2022 need to be sent to the Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences not later than July 26th 2022.

Prof. Dr. Marc Schönwiesner
Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften
Talstraße 33
04103 Leipzig

or by e-mail: dekanat.lw@uni-leipzig.de.

The 6th European Summer School on Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition is taking place July 9th – 23rd 2022 in Szklarska Poręba, Poland.

Applications are now open and the deadline is April 1st 2022.

For more information see: https://sites.uci.edu/cmmc/

Congratulations to Caitlin Naylor from the University of Bath (and Caitlin’s supervisor, Dr Michael Proulx) who has been selected as the winner of the EPS / BSA prize for best undergraduate research project in experimental psychology!

There were many outstanding submissions brought to the attention of BSA and EPS, congratulations to all nominated projects. More details of Caitlin’s presentation to the EPS will be provided in the near future.

Following the autumn EPS committee meeting, we are delighted to announce the Committee’s award nominations for approval at the Annual General Meeting in January 2022.

The Committee seeks approval for the following nominations:

Election of Fifty-First Bartlett Lecturer
Professor Robert Logie (University of Edinburgh)

Election of Twenty-First EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer
Professor Gareth Gaskell (University of York)

Election of Thirtieth EPS Prize Lecture
Dr Clare Sutherland (University of Aberdeen)

Election of Joint Eleventh Frith Prize Winners
Moataz Assem (University of Cambridge) and Matthew Mak (University of York)

The Royal Institution are holding an event called ‘Hearts and minds: The science of behaviour change’ and invite you to an evening packed full of revelations about how we work as human beings. Click here to find out more!

Many problems that our society faces – climate change, poor health, depleted natural resources – require us to change the way we do things. To combat climate change we need to use less fossil fuel. To reduce obesity we need to eat less and move more. To reduce lung cancer we need to stop smoking. The list goes on.

So if we know what to do, why aren’t these problems solved? Behavioural science has found that we don’t always act rationally or in our best interest, and simply being told what we need to be doing doesn’t work. Understanding how people make decisions can help us design interventions that encourage people to change behaviour in beneficial ways. However, there is an important balance to be struck between personal freedom and helping people lead better lives.

Join a panel of experts as they explore this fascinating area at the intersection of psychology, economics and policy.

About the speakers
Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL. Susan’s research focuses on developing the science of behaviour change interventions and applying behavioural science to interventions. She works with a wide range of disciplines, practitioners and policy-makers and holds grants from a large number of organisations including the Wellcome Trust, National Institute of Health Research, Economic and Social Research Council and Cancer Research UK.

Nick Chater has over 200 publications, has won four national awards for psychological research, and has served as Associate Editor for the journals Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, and Psychological Science. He was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2010 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012. Nick is co-founder of the research consultancy Decision Technology; and is on the advisory board of the Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insight Team (BIT), popularly know as the ‘Nudge Unit’.

Toby Park leads the energy and sustainability work at BIT (Behavioural Insights Team), covering topics as diverse as domestic energy use, sustainable transport and wider pro-environmental behaviours including recycling, food consumption, air quality and water conservation. The energy and sustainability team also work closely with the productivity and economic growth team, with an interest in promoting sustainable business practice and green growth. Toby also works with our consumers team supporting our housing work.

Toby’s background is originally in engineering, having spent a number of years running environmental impact assessments and acoustic design work for architectural and building services clients. He returned to academia to focus on social and cognitive psychology before joining BIT in 2014. He holds Masters degrees in Engineering (1st class) and Psychology (distinction).

The event will be chaired by Stavroula Kousta, Chief Editor of Nature Human Behaviour.

Timing
The doors will open at approximately 6.30pm, with a prompt start at 7.00pm.

Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery.

Filming
This event will be filmed and on the Ri’s YouTube channel within a few months. Subscribe for free to hear when new videos are released.

Accessibility
The theatre is on the first floor and there is step-free access from the street via lift.

The closest underground station is Green Park, which is step-free.

There is space at floor level in the theatre for wheelchair users.

Seating is usually unreserved for our events. If you and your group require seating reservations, please do let us know by email and we’ll be more than happy to help.

Carers can receive a free ticket to an event by emailing events@ri.ac.uk.

Our theatre is equipped with an Audio Induction Loop.

The human hand is remarkable, and the loss of an upper limb represents a huge challenge for one’s sensorimotor system. To address this challenge, we will bring together psychologists, prosthetists, bioengineers, and prosthetic-users to present and discuss work which furthers our understanding of the psychology of upper limb prosthetic use.

This day-long workshop will take place on the 19th of March 2019 at Manchester Metropolitan University, immediately prior to Trent International Prosthetics Symposium which is being held in the same city.

Further details, including registration and abstract submission, can be found here:  https://prostheticsworkshop.wixsite.com/event

Traditional research into the neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie long-term memory has typically focused on how we encode information from a single exposure into memories that are then retrieved once in a test phase. Through these type of paradigms, we have learned a lot about the brain mechanisms that underlie memory for unique experiences. However, in real life, very similar experiences are often encoded multiple times, and memories are often retrieved/reactivated repeatedly. Recent evidence suggests that repeated encoding and retrieval can change memories in different ways. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who investigate long-term memory malleability over time from different theoretical angles and using different cognitive neuroscience methodologies.

 Further details can be found here: https://kentmemoryworkshop2019.weebly.com/

Organisers: Zara Bergstrom and Robin Hellerstedt