PhD student Libby recently attended and presented a flash talk at the North West Universities R day at the Manchester Technology Centre. It was a day filled with guest speakers including Andy Field and Robin Lovelace who gave talks on how they are using the...
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October 2018 – Parkinson’s UK feature
Ellen was featured in this month’s issue of the Parkinson’s UK research magazine ‘Progress’, discussing her research and the importance of involving participants in the process. You can also read about the experience of one of our research participants, Anne-Marie....
October 2018 – Science Spectacular
Jude was joined by dance artist and collaborator Gayathri Ganapathy at Science Spectacular, a family science event organised by the University as part of Manchester Science Festival. We challenged visitors to think differently about dance by imitating and guessing the...
September 2018 – Exploring Somatic Sensation
The BEAM lab has been working with Loop Dance Company on an art-science project investigating audience reactions to live performance. As part of the project ‘Exploring Somatic Sensation’, the company (based in Kent) visited Manchester on 10th September. We invited a...
July 2018 – Faculty awards
Autism@Manchester won the group category for Outstanding Contribution to Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement awards, hosted by the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. Ellen was also highly commended for her work in PPIE. Related...
July 2018 – British Society of Gerontology
The BSG 2018 conference took place at the University of Manchester on 4-6 July and was attended by researchers from across the UK with an interest in ageing. Ellen presented work from two of the lab’s interdisciplinary collaborations on Parkinson’s: home training of...
July 2018 – Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities
This conference, hosted by the University of Kent on 2-4 July, brought together ideas from the Arts and Humanities with approaches from Psychology and Neuroscience. Jude co-presented findings of an art-science collaboration with Nina Atkinson (Loop Dance and...
June 2018 – Investing in Success
Emma and Ellen have been awarded £10k from the University of Manchester’s Investing in Success Scheme. They will be using the award to fund research into action prediction in autistic adults, including research visits and seminars from international collaborators....
Jude presented some of her research on how people with Parkinson’s watch and respond to dance. This was followed by a talk by Julio Vega, PhD student co-supervised by Ellen, who is developing a smartphone system for monitoring and profiling symptoms in Parkinson’s....
April 2018 – PhD success
Sabrina Subri successfully defended her thesis and has been awarded a PhD. Congratulations Sabrina and all the best in your future career! Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of ManchesterOxford RdManchesterM13...
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