Finishing PhD student, Emma Hill, has rcently been awarded the 2013 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Conference Best Poster Presentation Excellence Award for her poster presentation entitled ‘A new decentering and perspective broadening training intervention for recurrent depression’. As an Excellence Award winner, Emma will be invited to present her work at […]
John Duncan receives Heineken award
On September 27th John Duncan received his Heineken Prize 2012 from the Prince of Orange, crown prince of the Netherlands, as part of a week of celebrations and events. John becomes Laureate of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science for his remarkable innovative, multidisciplinary research into the relationships between psychology, behaviour and intelligence […]
Young Investigator Award for CBU scientist
Dr Matti Stenroos, a post-doc in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Methods group, has been awarded the Young Investigator Award in the category of modelling and methods at the Biomag 2012 conference in Paris. Dr Stenroos develops methods that allow us to estimate electrical brain activity from non-invasive measurements of electric potentials and magnetic fields […]
New MRC funding scheme rewards Early Career Scientists at CBU
Four CBU scientists will receive additional funding under a new scheme launched to mark the upcoming MRC Centenary in 2013. Richard Meiser-Stedman, an MRC funded Clinician Scientist Fellow based at the Unit, will use his award to further his work on understanding the nature of PTSD and developing early stage treatments; Michael Ewbank, a CBU […]