Seminars
We invite world-leading academics to speak at a series of open seminars throughout the year, all hosted by academics within the school.
Our seminars take place on Tuesdays at the Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building, starting at 12:00pm followed by lunch at 1:00 pm in the ICOSS Foyer. The seminars are hold in person, but with the possibility to join remotely.
For more information or a copy of the seminar programme please email psychology@sheffield.ac.uk.
Programme 2023-2024 - Second Semester
Date | Speaker | Title | Host | Location |
13/02/2024 | Black and Minority Ethnic experiences in higher education: social justice, inclusion and white privilege. | EDI Seminar | Online | |
20/02/2024 | To help or hinder: Do the labels and models used to describe problematic substance use influence public stigma? | Prof. Matt Field | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
27/02/2024 | Dr Meesha A Warmington | The Nature of Cognitive Processes in Bilingual Children: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. | Dr Stanislava Naneva | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building |
05/03/2024 | Predicting and controlling neural entrainment to brain stimulation using mathematical models. | Dr Alekhya Mandali | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
12/03/2024 | Cognitive control in language processing: Modality-specific effects on language switching | Dr Claudia von Bastian | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
19/03/2024 | Dr Beth Armstrong | TBC | Dr Nicola Buckland | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building |
16/04/2024 | Parent-Delivered Early Language Intervention. | Prof. Danielle Matthews | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
23/04/2024 | Mapping, integrating, and processing relations across various cognitive tasks. | Dr Claudia von Bastian | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
07/05/2024 | PSI Theory: An Integrative, System-Dynamics Approach Toward the Self, Self-Regulation, and Emotion Regulation | Prof Tom Webb | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
14/05/2024 | Novel feedback markers for adaptive deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson’s disease. | Dr Alekhya Mandali | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
21/05/2024 | Tracking subjects' strategies in behavioural choice experiments at trial resolution | Dr Hannes P. Saal | Lecture Theatre 7, Diamond Building | |
28/05/2024 | The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity: A Class Apart. | EDI Committee | Online |
Programme 2023-2024 - First Semester
Date | Speaker | Title | Host | Location |
03/10/2023 | Predictors And Mechanisms of Change in the Treatment of Depressed Adolescents | Professor Jaime Delgadillo |
Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
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10/10/2023 | The neurocognitive basis of inattention in children born very preterm | Dr Megan Freeth |
Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
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17/10/2023 | The ontogeny of human ingenuity: Exploring the factors that promote problem-solving and innovation in childhood | Dr Gideon Salter |
Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
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24/10/2023 | Dr Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez | Reifying AI: Robots, humans and the space in between | Dr Stanislava Naneva |
Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
31/10/2023 | Mechanisms of memory consolidation during human sleep | Dr Tim Riley | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building | |
14/11/2023 | Model-free or muddled models in the two-stage task? | Dr Hazem Toutounji | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building | |
21/11/2023 | A Practical Overview of Microsaccades in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience | Dr Alon Zivony | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building | |
28/11/2023 |
Selection and prioritization in working memory: One privileged state, Two patterns, Three interpretations |
Dr Vanessa Loaiza | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building | |
05/12/2023 | A Freudian Slip: How psychological factors affect balance and fall risk | Dr Hannes Saal | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building | |
12/12/2023 | Dr Saafi Mousa | Anti-Oppression in Psychology | EDI Committee | Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Henry Stephenson Building |
Programme 2022 -2023
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Location |
21/10/22 | Dr Lesley Uttley | º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ | Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: how objective are they really? | Professor Tom Webb | The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 |
04/11/22 | Dr Hannah Rapaport | Macquarie University, Australia | Experiencing the world differently: Understanding Autistic people’s perceptual and everyday lives | Professor Elizabeth Milne | The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 |
11/11/22 | Professor Wayne Gray | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. USA | From the Fosbury Flop to Tetris and beyond! What action games tell us about the human acquisition of expertise in complex dynamic tasks | Dr Tom Stafford | 3pm - 4pm, Online |
02/12/22 | Dr Alessandra Souza | University of Porto, Portugal | Boosting the storage capacity and fidelity of visual working memory | Dr Caudia von-Bastian | The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 / Online |
09/12/22 | Dr Hannah Rodhe | University of Edinburgh | Informativity in cooperative communication | Dr Danielle Matthews | The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 |
10/03/23 | Dr Miriam Sebold | Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Learning and decision-making of disorders from the "compulsive spectrum" | Professor Matt Field | Online |
24/03/23 | Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc | University of Dundee | The role of online communities in addiction recovery | Professor Matt Field | SS Teaching Room 2 |
31/03/23 | Dr Aimee Elizabeth Pink | The Agency for Science, Technology and Research | Social anxiety and assets moderate the influence of ostracism stress on children’s snack consumption: Findings from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Cohort. |
Dr Nicola Buckland | Online |