
Welcome
Welcome to the Body, Eyes and Movement (BEAM) Lab.The BEAM lab is jointly run by Drs Ellen Poliakoff and Emma Gowen, based in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. We research how our brains use sensory information such as vision and touch to create action and...

Publications
For full publication lists click on Dr Emma Gowen or Dr Ellen Poliakoff. Related...

People
Current BEAM Lab members Ying Bai (PhD student) Dr Judith Bek ((Post Doctorate Research Associate) Leneh Buckle (PhD student) Martin Casussus (PhD student) Benjamin Hamblin-Pyke (PhD student) Elizabeth Le Luan (PhD student) Ketan Parmar (Optometrist and PhD student)...

Participate in our research
If you would like to participate in our research please see the current studies listed here.Alternatively, if you would like to be considered in future research studies please contact Ellen (ellen.polikoff@manchester.ac.uk) or Emma (emma.gowen@manchester.ac.uk). ...

Work with us
Please click on the following links to find out about job and PhD opportunities in the BEAM lab Work with Dr Emma Gowen and Dr Ellen Poliakoff Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of ManchesterOxford RdManchesterM13...

BEAM features in The Psychologist magazine
Ellen and Emma's participatory work has been featured in an article published in The Psychologist, the official publication of The British Psychological Society. Click here to read the...

Summer 2022: Lucy, our Autism@Manchester intern shares her experience of the role
Lucy Porte, a 2nd year Computer Science student completed an 8 week summer internship with us. The internship is jointly organised by Autism@Manchester and The University of Manchester's Career Service and aims to allow autistic students to experience working in an...

July 2022: University of Toronto visit
In July 22, Professor Tim Welsh, Dr April Karlinsky and Molly Brillinger from the University of Toronto came for a 2 day visit to the BEAM lab. The visit was part of a collaborative project funded by The Universities of Manchester and Toronto exploring the...

July 2022: Neia attends Neural Control for Movement (NCM) conference
Theofaneia (Neia) Ntounia presented a poster on her PhD work in the annual meeting of the society for the neural control of movement. Neia says:"I was privileged enough to be part of such an interesting event. There was a wide range of talks given by people from a...

Experimental Psychology Society Stirling meeting July 2022
Isaac Duncan-Cross who had an Experimental Psychology Society Graduate Research Bursary to work with us last summer, describes the EPS Stirling meeting (July 2022).This was my first in person conference and going in I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. The quality...

Playlist for Parkinson’s Live Concert
The Playlist for Parkinson’s LIVE concert was held at the Royal Northern College of Music, based on research about how people with Parkinson’s use music by Ellen Poliakoff from BEAM, Michelle Phillips (RNCM), Dr Dawn Rose (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and...

Experience in action: an art-science collaboration
Drs Ellen Poliakoff and Emma Gowen were awarded funding from The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) to work with artist, Dr Antony Hall to develop and use art-science experiential workshops to address sensorimotor processing in older...

Investigating optometric and orthoptic conditions in autistic adults
Dr Ketan Parmar summarises the findings from his study where he conducted eye examination on autistic adults. The researchers involved in the study were Drs Emma Gowen and Catherine Porter and Professor Chris Dickinson. The academic team collaborated with autistic...

Frontiers research topic in autism
The Frontiers research topic, Autism: Innovations and Future Directions in Psychological Research has been completed and published in Frontiers in Psychology.The topic was guest edited by Dr Emma Gowen, together with Drs Laura Crane (University College London) and...

Funding award for art-science collaboration in older adults with autism and Parkinson’s.
Drs Ellen Poliakoff and Emma Gowen have been awarded funding to work with artist, Dr Antony Hall to develop and use art-science experiential workshops to address sensorimotor processing in older adults with autism and Parkinson’s. The project will increase...
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