Oliver Panther (Keele University; supervised by Claire Monroy) has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Experimental Psychology Society / British Science Association Undergraduate Project Prize.
There were many outstanding submissions brought to the attention of BSA and EPS, congratulations to all nominated projects. Further details of Oliver’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 2026.
Election of the Fifty-Fifth Bartlett Lecturer
Marc Brysbaert (Ghent University, Belgium)
Election of the Twenty-Fifth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer
Clare Press (University College London)
Election of the Thirty-Fourth EPS Prize Lecturer
Jennifer Murphy (University of Surrey)
Election of the Fifteenth Frith Prize Lecturer
Denise Cadete (Birkbeck, University of London)
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Dundee 2025 meeting is Chloe Lanceley.
Chloe’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Over-imitation in older adults’. Chloe is based at Swansea University and supervised by Victoria Lovett, David Playfoot and Jeremy Tree.
Congratulations Chloe!
We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Antonia Hamilton who will remain in post until the end of 2026. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
For full information on the role, details on how to apply and the submission deadline, please click here.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Lancaster 2025 meeting is Oscar Sill.
Oscar’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘The developing bodily self: Children’s embodiment of virtual avatars and structural body representations’. Oscar is based at Durham University and supervised by Dorothy Cowie, Robert Kentridge, and Sam Forbes.
Congratulations Oscar!
We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle.
Artie’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Neural correlates of model-based versus model-free spatial navigation systems’. Artie is based at Durham University and supervised by Anthony McGregor, Marco Bocchio and Liam Norman.
Levi’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Individual differences in working memory usage during natural behaviour’. Levi is based at the University of Oxford and supervised by Dejan Draschkow, Sage Boettcher and Kia Nobre.
Congratulations to Artie and Levi!
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 2025.
The Committee seeks approval for the following nominations:
Election of the Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer
Dr Matthew Botvinick (Stanford University, United States of America)
Election of the Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer
Prof Elizabeth Jefferies (University of York)
Election of the Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer
Dr Melissa Colloff (University of Birmingham)
Election of the Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer
Dr Connor Keating (University of Birmingham)
Akilles Rechardt (University College London; supervised by Bradley Love) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Experimental Psychology Society / British Science Association Undergraduate Project Prize.
There were many outstanding submissions brought to the attention of BSA and EPS, congratulations to all nominated projects. Further details of Akilles’ presentation to the EPS will be provided in the near future.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the 2024 EPS York meeting is Krisztina Jedlovszky (University College London / Birkbeck, University of London, supervised by Daniel Yon)!
Krisztina’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Expected volatility and belief updating in paranoia: A reinforcement learning approach’.
Congratulations Krisztina!
It with great sadness that we inform you that Professor John Richard Hanley, known to all as Rick, died on 23rd May following a prolonged illness.
Rick studied Psychology at the University of Dundee, followed by a PGCE at Jordanhill College, Glasgow, and a PhD at Lancaster. He held academic positions at the University of Northumbria and the University of Liverpool before being appointed Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex in 1998. He retired from Essex in 2020.
Rick’s research combined experimental psychology with cognitive neuropsychology. Particular interests were developmental dyslexia and dysgraphia in English and other languages, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, recognising people from faces and voices, and semantic and biographical memory.
Rick was a regular presenter at EPS meetings and Honorary Treasurer from 2006 to 2011.
Rick will be mourned by family, including his two children and four grandchildren, friends and colleagues.
There is a tribute and comments board from the University of Essex here.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the 2024 EPS NTU meeting is Emanuela Pizzolla (University of Verona, supervised by Mirta Fiorio, Matthew Longo and Elisa Ferrè)!
Emanuela’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Sensory attenuation unveils the effect of fatigue on the sense of agency’.
Congratulations Emanuela!
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the 2024 EPS London meeting is Fatih Serin (University of Cambridge, supervised by Richard Henson)!
Fatih’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Does theta synchronicity of sensory information enhance associative memory? Replicating the theta-induced memory effect’.
Congratulations Fatih!
Didem Yurdakul (University of Aberdeen, supervised by Eva Rubinova) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Experimental Psychology Society / British Science Association Undergraduate Project 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. Further details of Didem’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 2024.
The Committee seeks approval for the following nominations:
Election of the Fifty-Third Bartlett Lecturer
Prof Mike Burton (University of York)
Election of the Joint Twenty-Third EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturers
Prof Mike Le Pelley (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Prof Jennifer Rodd (University College London)
Election of the Thirty-Second EPS Prize Lecturer
Dr Daniel Yon (Birkbeck, University of London)
Election of the Thirteenth Frith Prize Lecturer
Dr Sara De Felice (University College London)
The previous two winners of the EPS/British Science Association Undergraduate Project Prize, Lottie Shipp (2023) and Caitlin Naylor (2022), have written blog posts for the BSA to celebrate their work, alongside the talks given at previous EPS meetings.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Swansea meeting is Rebecca Norman (University College London, supervised by Jo Taylor and Jenni Rodd)!
Rebecca’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Contextual diversity, lexical processing, and word learning: A scoping review’.
Congratulations Rebecca!
The multicomponent model of working memory proposed by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch nearly five decades ago is one of the oldest and most influential models in cognitive psychology. Although the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) model was introduced in a volume of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, less well known is that some of the key empirical evidence was later laid out in more detail in a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (QJEP) by Hitch and Baddeley (1976).
It is therefore appropriate and fitting for a special issue of QJEP to celebrate 50 years of the Baddeley and Hitch working memory tradition. QJEP invites submissions of papers that provide contemporary insights and analysis for the working memory model, showcasing state-of-the-art work in this area.
Details about this special issue and the timeline can be found at the following address.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Plymouth 2023 meeting is Anita Twele (Brock University, Canada), supervised by Professor Catherine Mondloch.
Anita’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘What happens to competence? The second dimension underlying first impressions of older adult faces changes with use of naturalistic vs. controlled images’.
Congratulations Anita!
It with great sadness that we inform you that Professor David Warburton has recently passed away. David was a longstanding member of the EPS and will be greatly missed.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the 2023 EPS London meeting is David Goldenhaus-Manning (University of Essex), co-supervised by Dr Vanessa Loaiza and Dr Nicholas Cooper.
David’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Updating single features in visual working memory’.
Congratulations David!
Lottie Shipp (University of Oxford, supervised by Polly Waite and Emma Černis) has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Experimental Psychology Society / British Science Association Undergraduate Project 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. Further details of Lottie’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 2023.
The Committee seeks approval for the following nominations:
Election of the Fifty-Second Bartlett Lecturer
Prof Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Election of the Twenty-Second EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer
Prof Geoffrey Bird (University of Oxford)
Election of the Thirty-First EPS Prize Lecturer
Dr Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary, University of London)
Election of the Twelfth Frith Prize Lecturer
Dr Tom Arthur (University of Exeter)
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:
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.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Stirling meeting is Isaac Duncan-Cross (University of Manchester)!
Isaac’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘Investigating the processing of real and prosthetic hands: What can mental rotation tell us?’.
Congratulations Isaac!
It with great sadness that we inform you that Professor Oliver Braddick and Professor Martin Conway have recently passed away. Both were longstanding members of the EPS and will be greatly missed.
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