Dan Poole and Emma Gowen have been awarded a Wellcome Trust institutional Translational Partnership Award (iTPA) Access to Expertise (A2E) grant for their project, "Developing a partnership between Autism@Manchester and GMMH NHS autism services", which will run from...
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May 2019 – Dancing with your Brain
Dancing with your Brain took place at Z-arts in Manchester on 29th May as part of the nationwide Age of Creativity 2019 festival. The event followed on from the BEAM lab’s recent collaborative project on dance for Parkinson’s with English National Ballet and...
April 2019- Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO)
Ellen, Jude and Hayley attended the annual RIO group conference which was hosted at Teesside University on 25th-26th April. The conference featured research presentations discussing motor imagery and action observation across a range of different fields including...
April 2019- Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
On 10th-12th April the latest EPS meeting was hosted at The University of Manchester. A particular highlight from the meeting was a symposium on characterising motor imagery organised by Ellen, which brought together some of the most influential researchers in the...
March 2019 – Psychology of prosthetics
Ellen and Lizzi Lewis presented at an Experimental Psychology Society funded research workshop, “The Psychology of upper limb prosthetic use". The multidisciplinary workshop included keynote talks from Dr Tamar Makin (University College London) and Dr Raoul Bongers...
January – March 2019 – Reproducible science
Jade attended the Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science workshop at Great Windsor Park in January, and following this she wrote an article about the workshop and open science from the perspective of an early career researcher, which has been published on the...
November 2018 – North West Coast Clinical Research Network
Jude was invited to speak about dance and Parkinson’s at the North West Coast CRN conference in Warrington, which was attended by patients, NHS staff and commissioners. Following a presentation about our research and engagement with people with Parkinson’s,...
November 2018 – PPI for researchers
Jade’s work on patient and public involvement in Parkinson’s research was included in the new Parkinson’s UK PPI guidance for researchers handbook. Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of ManchesterOxford...
November 2018 – BEAM lab at Parkinson’s UK
Ellen, Jude, Jade and Aline presented the latest findings from their work on Parkinson’s at the Parkinson’s UK Research Conference in York. This included our studies on action observation and imitation, dance and impulsivity. Lab members were also involved in a panel...
October 2018 – Visit from Professor Ricarda Schubotz
Professor Ricarda Schubotz from the Institute of Psychology, University of Münster, visited the BEAM lab and gave a talk on her imaging and behavioural research around what information our brains use to compute expectations around upcoming action steps. Emma and Ellen...
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