July 2019 – ResearchInTouch workshop
Ellen and Dan attended the first ResearchInTouch workshop at the University of Nottingham. This was a two-day meeting bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines who are interested in the somatosensory system. Ellen was a co-organiser of the event and...
July 2019 – Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Jade recently presented at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She shared her experiences of writing a systematic review about non-interventional research in Parkinson’s, and discussed the difficulties in...
June 2019 – Body Up Conference
Body Up was a one-day conference organised by colleagues at the University of Manchester exploring various topics relating to embodiment and social interaction. The BEAM lab was well represented with oral and poster presentations; you can read more about the event in...
June 2019 – Parkinson’s UK PPI event
Ellen, Jade and Mimi were invited to attend the Parkinson’s UK Research Roadshow in Kendal on 12th June. Over 75 people with Parkinson’s from across the North West and their friends and family attended. In the morning there was a series of talks updating the group on...
June 2019 – World Parkinson Congress
Ellen and Jude attended the World Parkinson Congress in Kyoto, Japan, from 4th to 7th June 2019. This international conference takes place every 3 years and provides a unique environment where researchers, clinicians, practitioners and people with Parkinson’s can...
June 2019 – Autism@Manchester fundin
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...
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...
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