Postgraduate Education Programme
Important: please discuss your education and training needs with your supervisor and read the Postgraduate School of Life Sciences’ guide about the Researcher Development Programme
A seminar programme for first-year postgraduate students has been jointly established by the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. This consists of a weekly series of theoretical seminars presented by senior researchers. Please ensure that you make a note of all the seminars and training programmes you attend in your Researcher Development Logbook which you will need to present at your 1st year viva (PhD Students).
Please use your time in Michaelmas term to work on the Core Skills Training Programme and attend any other talks and training opportunities that you may identify with your supervisory team.
Postgraduate Seminars 2023
These seminars take place in-person on Tuesdays at 3-4:30pm in Lent Term and 3-5pm in Easter Term.
*** We highly recommend that all MPhil and 1st year PhD students attend all the seminars listed below.
| Lent Term 2023 | ||
| 24 Jan: 1.30 – 3pm *** changed time | Deborah Talmi | The psychology and neuroscience of emotion |
| 31 Jan: 3 – 4.30pm | Peter Jones | Psychiatric classification |
| 07 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Tobias Goehring | TBC – Title to follow |
| 14 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Camilla Nord | Cognitive and computational approaches in neuropsychiatry |
| 21 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | TBC – Title to follow |
| 28 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Tristan Bekinschtein | Consciousness |
| 07 Mar: 3 – 4.30pm | John Duncan | Intelligence and the frontal lobes |
| 15 Mar: 3 – 4.30pm | Matt Lambon-Ralph | Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods – The case study of semantic cognition |
| Location: Main Lecture theatre at the MRC CBU | ||
| Easter Term 2023 – Robust Behavioural Science | ||
| 25 Apr: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Introduction – Overview of the course contents and aims |
| 2 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Replications |
| 9 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Questionable Research Practices |
| 16 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | TBC – Title to follow |
| 23 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Pre-registration and Registered Reports |
| 30 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Frand, Errors and Scientific Self-Correction |
| 6 June: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Journals, Publishing and Computational Reproducibility |
| 13 June: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Psychology as a Robust Science |
| Location: Main Lecture theatre at the MRC CBU | ||