When a child experiences trauma, it can sometimes lead to emotional difficulties. We know that social support can be helpful in minimising emotional problems after trauma, but exactly how this works is not well explored. Results from this study, authored by Caitlin Hitchcock of the CBU, suggested that social support may reduce negative appraisals a […]
Archives for May 2015
Rogier Kievit awarded Wellcome Fellowship
Rogier Kievit of the CBU has been awarded a four year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rogier did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Denny Borsboom, developing psychometric models to relate measures of brain structure to cognitive abilities, and is currently a postdoc on the BBSRC funded Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for […]
Anne Cutler appointed FRS
Congratulations to Professor Anne Cutler who has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Anne worked at the CBU for 10 years during the 80s and 90s before leaving the Unit to become director of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She is currently back in her native Australia where she […]