Congratulations to all of the UCL PALS staff members who have been nominated for the Education Awards 2024 👏👏👏

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Congratulations to all of the UCL PALS staff members who have been nominated for the 2024 Student Choice Awards.

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The Mind the Brain Conference is back!🧠
Join us to learn all about the most up-to-date research on how our brains construct consciousness!

Tickets are available to purchase via the link in our bio!
🎟️ Early Bird - £6 (available until 1st May)
🎫 General tickets - £8

UCL has renewed its commitment to support UK postgrads with 200 Master’s Bursary awards. Aimed at students from low-income backgrounds & based on financial need, the Bursary scheme provides £10k towards studying for a master’s degree at UCL.

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New Research!

We've released our latest research paper focusing on supporting children transitioning to secondary school & the interventions in place.

Read now: orlo.uk/x7bvQ

Congratulations to the team Emily Stapley Hannah Merrick, PhD Daniel Hayes, PhD #research #schools

Registration is open for the Mind the Brain conference hosted by UCL ICN on 15 June. Researchers will be exloring how our brains give rise to our imagination, consciousness-altering psychedelic experiences & more.

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Successful entrepreneurs and C-suite leaders tend to over-index on impulsivity and risk-taking, claims Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic from UCL Psych & Lang Sci in the Deccan Herald.

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#BodyDysmorphia affects about two in every 100 teens (1.9%), with the disorder being six times more common in girls than in boys, according to a new report led by Dr
Dr Georgina Krebs 💙 from UCL Psych & Lang Sci

👉 Read in U.S. News & World Report here: buff.ly/4439rEt

Featuring our very own Jeremy Skipper! The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

UCL remains ranked in the top 10 globally in 10 subject areas in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024, the world’s most consulted university ranking, including two first-place rankings.

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For the next @UCL_EP seminar John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social) presents research demonstrating how crowding in the visual scene affects peripheral and foveal vision in typical and disordered sight, and how this can be modelled by 'pooling' mechanisms for scene 'gist' encoding
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Congratulations to UCL PALS alumni Sir Demis Hassabis who has been recognised in the latest King’s Honours.

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.Anna Freud has unveiled its new 'Thinking differently' manifesto, incl:
1️⃣Empowering youth
2️⃣Focusing on communities 
3️⃣Whole-school approach to mental health & wellbeing 
4️⃣Expanding awareness of childhood trauma 
5️⃣Leveraging science & data

More @ annafreud.org/manifesto

The UCL Community Choir is open to singers of all experiences, there are no auditions & you don’t need to read music. It’s a great way to spend your lunchtime, improve wellbeing & make music with other colleagues.

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PALS staff are invited to join the HE Teaching Development Conference 2024, taking place at Royal Holloway on 4 June. This conference is designed to inspire, empower & equip you with the tools to create inclusive learning environments.

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People can become more 'rigid and inflexible' when fasting, research conducted by Dr Lucy Serpell EatingDisorderResearch_UCL UCL Psych & Lang Sci suggests.

🎧 Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Health' (from 18 mins 50 secs) ⬇️ bbc.in/4aTYbwj

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic from UCL Psych & Lang Sci has published a new book called ‘I, Human' that explores, #AI and automation that was recently featured on CBC Radio.

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Congratulations to Professor Ayelet Landau from UCL PALS on receiving a grant from the British Academy as part of their Global Professorships Programme

What an inspiring kick off from Professor Peter Fonagy and our founder Jessica Bondy at our first international conference on childhood verbal abuse today.

Together we can end verbal abuse of children by adults.
Join our mission at wordsmatter.org

#WordsMatter2024

Prof Joseph Devlin from UCL Psych & Lang Sci has visited Clarence House to launch a new campaign from the Queen’s Reading Room, a charity that promotes reading. Joe was involved in a project with them about the neuroscience of reading.

More about the charity here: buff.ly/4cNOykT