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Research successes: October 2009

October 2009

Thanks and appreciation go to Trish Gooding for her fantastic efforts and accomplishment in her role as Director of Postgraduate Affairs in the School. Trish has worked tirelessly to improve the support of postgraduate students in the School and in general in improving the quality and quantity of PhD students.

Congratulations to two members of the School who have recently contributed greatly to knowledge transfer and the international recognition of the work:

• Luke Jones, from Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Research Group, had his research on altering time perception featured in a cover story of New Scientist in October. Timewarp: How the brain creates the fourth dimension. New Scientist, 2731, 32-38.
• Rachel Calam was an invited consultant for a UN consultation "Workplace Prevention: Promoting Health and Preventing Substance Abuse" in Vienna.

Grants

Chris Plack, from the Audiology and Deafness Research Group, together with Ifat Yasin (also ex University of Manchester MSc student and now at UCL) bagged another grant from EPSRC entitled "The Role of the Efferent System in Auditory Gain Reduction".

Papers accepted

In the Audiology and Deafness Research Group, PhD student Alicja Malicka had her paper "Diagnosing cochlear dead regions in children" (Malicka A, Munro K, Baker R Cheers A) accepted into Ear and Hearing. This is Alicja's second accepted paper in her PhD enrolment period.

Colette McKay had a paper published in Psychological Medicine via an international collaboration with Melbourne University and the Mental Health Research Institute: "Reduced connectivity of the auditory cortex in patients with auditory hallucination: a resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

In the Clinical and Health Psychology Research Group, Warren Mansell edited a special issue of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist on Control Theory and CBT which was published last month. It contains 10 articles including international contributions, plus papers by Dr Sara Tai, and two postgraduate students from our School.