🚨 New postdoc position in my lab 🚨 We are looking for a postdoc who is broadly interested in social cognition and social behaviour. Lots of flexibility to come up with new exciting projects: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

An excellent opportunity to gain theoretical and practical training from leading experts. If you are a researcher working in computational social cognition, apply now to join our summer school in July 2024! The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) Uni of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Our colleagues are looking for young autistic people (aged 16-26, diagnosis not required) in the UK to take part in a survey about *social media use* The survey is open until March 31st (see poster for details). Project website: autisminaffinityspaces.org

We’re proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024! #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes & misconceptions about neurological differences. Events schedule: neurodiversityweek.com/events #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND

During #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek let's think carefully about the language we use to speak about autism. Avoid deficit-based terms and be respectful of community preferences. Hear more about this in our new explainer video: youtu.be/2CcZAEhyd58 UoB Centre for Developmental Science School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

See some of the take-outs from our panel discussion: "Neurodiversity in Higher & Further Education" 🌟 Visit the #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek website to see how you can sign up & celebrate different minds! neurodiversityweek.com #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND

Work published by our U21 Autism Research Network team showing the power & benefit of international collaboration, targeted at community research priorities. Read the team's thread 👇to learn more about autism acceptance, camouflaging & mental health in a cross-cultural sample of autistic adults

We carried out a priority setting for research on neurodivergence. The report with the Top 10 Priorities has been published and is available on our website. Please follow this link to learn about the Top 10 and read the report: bit.ly/3vsAbBl #top10neurodivergence

We're recruiting for a fully-funded PhD studentship CENTRE-UB🎓Developing digital tools to improve screening for autism: Identifying diagnostic markers based on bodily movements🏃🏽Supervised by Jennifer Cook, Dr Hannah Heath, & I - deadline 16th May ⬇️ bit.ly/PhD_autism_scr…🧵

Looking forward to our upcoming seminar with Professor Rhodri Cusack. Details 👇.

We're looking forward to Professor Liz Pellicano visiting us for a seminar at the start of May - details 👇

CDS Seminar next week! Looking forward to welcoming Shalani Gautam - Tuesday 23rd at 1pm.

In our new #longitudinal study we show that belonging to a classroom with greater #diversity in #mindreading skills predicts the advancement of children’s own ability to reason about other people's minds APA Journals #Developmental #Psychology: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

It's Williams Syndrome Awareness Month! 🌟  Here at Cerebra Network we are passionate about conducting research to improve life outcomes of individuals with rare genetic syndromes and their families. Please follow this link for information and resources: findresources.co.uk/the-syndromes/…

Excited to have Dr Alex Carlisle coming to talk to us on 10th June at 1pm.

We're looking forward to having Professor Harriett Over come and talk to us on Thursday (18th July) at 12:30. For more details contact [email protected]

We're looking forward to having Dr Richard Cook come and talk to us on Tuesday at 12:30. For further details email [email protected]

Luckily for us, we're welcoming Professor Rieko Osu for a seminar next Friday (13th) September, at 1PM BST.

Few spaces available for the “New Methods in Infant Sensory Development” (free) workshop on 10th September at the University of Birmingham. We will talk about exciting new research with #fNIRS, #OPMs, #EEG, #newborns and #foetuses! fNIRS2024 School of Psychology, University of Birmingham UoB Centre for Developmental Science The Centre for Human Brain Health