School research seminars
Time: 4pm on Thursdays
Venue: Turing Seminar room, Coupland 1 Building, Oxford Road
6 October 2011
'From laughter to slaughter:Detecting and responding to positive and negative words'
Dr Zach Estes (University of Warwick)
Host – Dr Alex Wood
13 October 2011
'Frequency and imageability effects in children's processing of inflected forms'
Dr Cristina Dye (University of Salford)
Host – Dr Ludovica Serratrice
20 October 2011
'Discursive research as a paradigm of scientific social psychology'
Prof Jonathan Potter (University of Loughborough)
Host - Dr Susan Speer
27 October 2011
'Who Cares? The Origins of Social Concerns'
Dr Keith Jensen (Queen Mary University of London)
Host - Dr Paul Ibbotson
3 November 2011
Reading week
10 November 2011
'The functional organisation of audio-visual speech and signed language processing: Neuroimaging evidence of biological constraints and modality specificity'
Dr Cheryl Capek (University of Manchester)
Host - Dr Wael El Deredy
17 November 2011
'Blood/organ donation and Human Altruism'
Prof Eammon Ferguson (University of Nottingham)
Host – Dr Alex Wood
24 November 2011
'Racism, violence, environmental degradation, and better living conditions: Connecting the dots with the sociology of collective control'
Prof Kent McClelland (Grinnell College, Iowa)
Host - Dr Warren Mansell
1 December 2011
'Neuropsychological mechanisms of somatic awareness and disturbance'
Dr Ellen Poliakoff (University of Manchester)
Host - Dr Cheryl Capek
8 December 2011
'The mechanisms behind suicide: From social rank to emotional instability'
Dr Peter Taylor (University of Manchester)
Host - Dr Alex Wood
15 December 2011
'Delivering Health Psychology into Government: the development of a health behaviour change competency framework'
Prof Marie Johnston (University of Aberdeen) and Prof Diane Dixon (University of Strathclyde)
Host – Prof Alison Wearden
For further information about departmental seminars, please contact jayne.ward@manchester.ac.uk