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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...

Dr Emma Gowen has been sharing her experience of participatory autism research and event organisation with the research charity Autistica. In November 2021 she shared her experience of participatory autism research with Early Career autism researchers as part of...

Dr Emma Gowen summarises the findings from a study on motor coordination in autistic adults conducted over the Summer of 2021. The researchers involved in the study were Emma Gowen and Ellen Poliakoff and two Masters students – Adeeba Waheed and Louis Early....

Together with artist Tony Hall, Ellen Poliakoff was involved in the para-lab exhibition at Rogue Studios in Gorton in September on artist-scientist collaborations. The exhibition featured work from Tony’s PhD using illusions and experimental Psychology and included...