We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Psychiatry’s latest film won the BFI Film Future Best Documentary Award in the 15-18 age group. Valerie Dunn from the Department said: “Ten of us (5 young people) went along to the Southbank today to the awards screening. There had been over 400 entries and today the […]
Forthcoming Events
Annual WiSETI Lecture: Prof. Molly Stevens, Imperial College, London, “Growing Organs and Other Small Challenges”. March 12th, 5.00 – 6pm Book via http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-wiseti-lecture-growing-organs-and-other-small-challenges-tickets-9355643983 Senior Gender Equality Network: Implicit bias, stereotype threat and women in academia. March 20th, 12.00 – 2pm Professor Jenny Saul, Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the […]
March is the School’s Equality and Diversity month!
This time last year, in advance of submitting our Athena SWAN Silver Award application, the E&D training completion rate for the School increased from 16% of academic and research staff to 34%, which was a terrific improvement. In our Athena SWAN Action Plan we committed to 50% completions by April 2014, but of course it […]
Dan David Prize for outstanding achievement
The international Dan David prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, annually awards three prizes each for outstanding achievements in the three time dimensions: Past, Present and Future. Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop, Department of Clinical Neurosciences has been chosen as laureate of the 2014 Dan David Prize for the Present Time Dimension in the field of […]
First biological marker for major depression identified
Teenage boys who show a combination of depressive symptoms and elevated levels of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol are up to fourteen times more likely to develop major depression than those who show neither trait, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, researchers […]
