Maeve Stillman, a 2nd year Biosciences student completed an 6 week summer internship with us. The internship is jointly organised by Autism@Manchester and The University of Manchester’s Careers Service and aims to allow autistic students to experience working in an...

One of our PhD students in the BEAM Lab, Camilla Woodrow-Hill, recently attended the Research in Imagery and Observation conference in Limerick to give a talk on her research. The talk was entitled, ‘Combined action observation and motor imagery of keyboard typing:...

Ying, Emma and Leneh attended the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden. To view Emma and Yings posters, click on the links below. Emma: From “one big clumsy mess” to “a fundamental part of my character.” Autistic...

Ellen, Ying and Hayley attended the British Neuroscience conference in Brighton. To view their posters click on the links below: Hayley: How are different aspects of sensory processing in fibromyalgia affected across modalities? Ellen: Moving and singing in my head:...

Although Ellen and Emma have been collaborating since 2002, the BEAM lab became an "official" entity in 2012. To celebrate 10 years of the BEAM lab we invited friends and colleagues to share memories, research talks and new adventures. The afternoon started with an...

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...