BEAM Lab

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...