Psychology News
Take a look at the brilliant posters our second year students have been working on
The PS216 poster presentation took place on Friday, 6th March 2020. Our second year students have created some really brilliant posters for display.
It was not easy at all for our judges (Professor Derrick Watson, Head of Department, and Liz Farmer, representative of our OHD team) to pick the winners. After much agonising, they have decided on the following:
The 3 prizes for “the most eyecatching poster” go to: (in no particular order)
• Does Smoking affect False Memory by Zainab Haider, Shanzeh Rizvi, Noraiya Akthar, Kiran Shahid and Ebony Wynter
• Effect of Mother’s and Father’s Helicopter Parenting on University Student’s Wellbeing by Athena Cheung, Kayleigh Elias, Andrea Garcia Llorens, Lucky Haytov and Sara Sheikh
• What Does Doodling Do? by Destiny Cotton, Eunice Wong, Mary Ahsan, Jasmine Chan and Yasmine Sit
The 3 prizes for “the best poster pitch” go to: (again, in no particular order)
• Winning Red: Replicating the Effect of Wearing Red on Sporting Performance for Male and Female Football Teams by Ben Crange, Priyashobana Jeyakumaran, Dinusha Kulathas, and Abigail Taylor
• Investigating the Relationship between Carotenoid Coloration and the Perception of Health and Attractiveness in Humans by Tara Justin, Cat Mason, Abbey Parker, Gracie Sheppard and Tanya Yau
• How Generous Are You? By Rebecca Kingston, Emma Leach, Alex Norris, and Orla Pembroke
Very well done! Congratulations to all students and supervisors.
Success for PhD candidate and Research Assistant, Nicole Baumann who has been awarded a prestigious 3 year Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Nicole Baumann, building on existing work with Professor Dieter Wolke on the outcomes of preterm birth, has been awarded a prestigious 3 year Marie Curie Global Fellowship to allow her to work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) with Dr Julia Jaekel and at TNO (the Netherlands) with Professor Stef van Buuren. Nicole will then return to the UK to Leicester University working with Professor Samantha Johnson on research into trajectories of social, emotional and attention problems following very preterm birth.
Professor Dieter Wolke has received the 2020 Award from the BPS for Distinguished Contributions to British Developmental Psychology
The Distinguished Contributions Award is presented by the BPS Developmental Psychology Section to the candidate who has made substantial contributions to research in Developmental Psychology or through Developmental Psychology to wider society.
Dieter's research investigates why some children and adolescents develop mental health or social problems and others don’t. He has therefore investigated the consequences of being born preterm and early regulatory problems such as excessive crying or poor sleep from birth into adulthood. Furthermore, he studies how sibling or peer bullying and parenting alters developmental outcome. The award will be presented at the BPS Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2020 in Sheffield in September 2020.
Previous winners include: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor Dorothy Bishop, Professor Annette Kamiloff-Smiht and Professor Bruce Hood.
Congratulations Dieter! 
