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Research seminars

Our research seminar series is held during term time. In these seminars academics from Essex and other Psychology departments present and discuss their latest research.

You don't need to be a psychologist to attend - we welcome anyone from the university who has an interest in the area being discussed.

Spring term 2025

• 28 January - Why does sleep matter in dementia? - Dr Zanna Voysey (University of Cambridge)

Autumn term 2024

• 8 October - Expert musicians’ visual behaviour during change blindness - Pétur Jónasson (Royal College of Music London, and University of Iceland)
• 22 October - Novel approaches to study neurobiological underpinnings of individual differences in development - Anna Gui (University of Essex)
• 29 October - Non-belief and ethical subjectivities - Rachael Shillitoe (University of Birmingham)
• 5 November - When allies fail to act - Maja Kutlaca (Durham University)
• 12 November - The Promises and Perils of Multiculturalism - Colleen Ward (Victoria University of Wellington)
• 19 November - A neurological basis for visual stress - Arnold J. Watkins (University of Essex)
• 3 December - What is Social About Sacrificial Dilemmas? - Paul Conway (University of Southampton)

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