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Psy-Fi January 2019 Editor: Dr Nathan Emery ([email protected]) Student Editor: Mahalia Frank ([email protected]) Design & Technical support: Simona Deduchova ([email protected]) Issue 10: January 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy 2019! A very short newsletter to start the year. We always need your news, information and articles, otherwise there will be no content, so please make sure to send whatever you have either to me or to our new Student Editor, Mahalia Frank. Lastly, I would like to thank Georgia Jerwood, the previous Student Editor for all her amazing help for the last couple of years. Nathan Emery, Editor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS Dr Kristin Hadfield was interviewed for a BBC Mundo story about how stress affects the body, although you’ll have to be able to read Spanish or use Google Translate to understand it. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-46650460 Prof Lars Chittka’s research on bees was discussed in an article on crow cognition for the Financial Times. Interestingly (and rather annoyingly), my own work was mentioned a number of times in this article, but with no mention of my name… https://www.ft.com/content/c312258c-1299-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e PUBLICATIONS Vasas, V & Chittka, L (2019). Insect-inspired sequential inspection strategy enables an artificial network of four neurons to estimate numerosity. iScience, 11, 85-92. EVENTS Join us for the Department of Psychology's Inaugural Mind & Brain Lecture! Continuing our celebration of the Department's 10 year Anniversary, we have created a new named lecture to showcase the innovation, creativity, and impact of Psychology as a discipline. We are very pleased to welcome Professor Eleanor Maguire (UCL) as the inaugural speaker for this lecture (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cdcn/aboutus/steering/Maguire). Professor Maguire is a Wellcome Trust Principal Resesarch Fellow, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has also received the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to science. Professor Maguire's talk, "How are memories represented in the human brain?", will highlight her influential neuropsychological and neuroimaging research which offers a fresh perspective on the key processes underpinning autobiographical memory, and uncovers how specific brain regions interact to produce the seamless re-experiencing of past events. Following the talk, we will be hosting a wine reception in the Fogg foyer for the speaker and attendees. The event is free and all are welcome to attend! As seating and catering is limited, sign-up via EventBrite is required. You may sign-up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-mind-brain-lecture- registration-55038979068 PRESENTATIONS: Dr. Shirley Wang The first in our PSYCHOLOGY ‘getting to know you’ series, Dr. Wang will talk about her journey CAREERS in becoming a psychology lecturer at QMUL, visiting key steps in her career. SYMPOSIUM Rebecca Oldroyd A current WHEN: psychology PhD student at QMUL, th Rebecca will Wednesday, Feb 27 provide an insight into how QM undergrads can transfer to a PhD 14:00 – 16:45 program, including useful hints and tips built from her own experiences. WHERE: Dr. Kristin GEOG 1.26 Hadfield Dr. Hadfield will deliver a general overview of the PhD process, EVENT OVERVIEW: including identifying and 14:00 – 15:45: CAREER TALKS FROM THE EXPERTS applying for PhD studentships and 16:00 – 16:45: MASTERCLASS: COVER LETTER WRITING simple steps to strengthening your application. PLACES ARE LIMITED, PLEASE SIGN UP Dr. Liz Corker In the final stages USING EVENTBRITE of her Professional Doctorate in Clinical CAREER https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychology- Psychology, Dr. careers-symposium-tickets-55217097826 Corker would like TALKS: to share with you her thoughts on the application MASTER- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychology- process and the CLASS: careers-masterclass-tickets-55217306450 journey towards completing a competitive course. Come and witness some real bee art painted by real bees at the GradFest on 20th February 2019 2pm-5pm Room 2.01 Graduate Centre And learn about bee behaviour and conservation! Fi nd your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beeanardo-davinci-painting-wi t h-bees-tickets-55276631894 .
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