We are excited to share that our School has reached position 82 worldwide in the latest QS Psychology Subject Rankings, marking a strong improvement over last year. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

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Discover the world's top universities for Psychology. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 in various disciplines.

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📣 15th BEAR PGR Conference 📣 Calling all postgraduate researchers and staff at the University of Birmingham! Join the BlueBEAR Conference 2026 to explore high-performance computing research, attend talks, and connect with other researchers: bear-conference-2026.github.io/index.html

We are excited to welcome Andrew Welchman as a Professor of Neuroinnovation and new Head of School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. Andrew served as faculty at our School from 2005 to 2013 and later worked at the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust, Prodromic, and ieso.

We are excited to share that researchers at our Institute for Mental Health will share £11m in research funding to identify key barriers to mental health access. (1/3)

🎉 Happy Chinese New Year from the faculty at our School - may everything go as you wish!

📣 When can children know what they remember? Can this help the UK justice system? We teased apart implicit (gestures) and explicit (confidence ratings) ways children monitor and control their memory, including decisions to answer or withhold during recall. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106367

We are excited that Tamara Swaab and George (Ron) Mangun are joining our School this year - University of Birmingham has announced two appointments that will strengthen its global leadership in cognitive neuroscience and study of language, brain, and behaviour. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un...

Very happy to share that I have been awarded a 3-year ECR fellowship by the HFF to investigate how digital use influences social motivation/reward processing in young adults. Excited to get started! 🧠 @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...

Huo Family Foundation Awards $17.6M for Groundbreaking Research on the Impact of Digital Technology on Young People – Huo Family Foundation

The Huo Family Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 20 major multi-year research grants, totalling $17.6 million, through its inaugural Science Programme on the Effects of the Usage of Digit...

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We are excited to welcome Professor Elaine Fox, an internationally renowned cognitive psychologist and affective scientist, as our new Professor of Psychology, focused on mental health, wellbeing, and the biological and social factors that shape behaviour. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ps...

A new patient-led support initiative, Brum Buddies, has launched to help people aged 50 and over recover after major chest or lung surgery. The group was developed through a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham, and Age UK Birmingham (1/2)

This week the Babylab celebrated a very special event: our very own Alice Cousins defended her PhD thesis and completed her PhD. We couldn’t be prouder. Warmest congratulations Dr Cousins! 🩷 🎉

Passionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)

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Today we welcome attendees of The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging conference to @uob-sop.bsky.social and @unibirmingham.bsky.social ! Two days of inspiring talks exploring how the brain, body, and environment shape foraging behaviour. #MechForage2025 uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... @thechbh.bsky.social Get in touch if interested, and please share!

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Ever wondered about the variety and depth of neuroscience research at the University of Birmingham (if not, why not?)? Seek no further: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Join us 🗓️ DEADLINE THIS THU 2 Oct! Last call for applications for two exciting & fun positions in the Birmingham BabyLab to work on multisensory development in term-born and preterm infancy w Andy Bremner, Monica Gori, and Andy Surtees. Please repost: 👉 lnkd.in/gczD5EwX (postdoc) 👉 lnkd.in/ga92z3sM

We’re excited to share some leadership updates at the CHBH! After three years, Dr @katjakornysheva.bsky.social stepped down this month, we're grateful to Katja for her leadership. Prof @bagshaap.bsky.social will continue as Co-Director and we welcome Prof Stephane De Brito as Co-Director into 25/26.

Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠

We then heard from Andrew Surtees (@uob-sop.bsky.social) about how mood can impact children’s mentalizing processes - are children like adults, becoming more egocentric when in happier moods? Is it helpful to be sad?!

Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com

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🧪Really pleased to see this collobarative work come together. Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social on her first PhD publication - a great milestone. Thanks also to Dr Isabel Morales-Munoz and @bagshaap.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social for their valuable contributions. #sleepresearch

Warwick Psychology@warwickpsych.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧠💤 New analysis of data from over 10,000 UK teens reveals a strong link between sleep problems at age 14 and self-harm—both at that age and later at 17. Self-harm remains one of the leading causes of death among adolescents. acamh.onlinelibrary.... 1/2

The advert for Head of School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (@uob-sop.bsky.social, working closely with @thechbh.bsky.social) is currently open, deadline August 6th #neurojobs

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The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is looking for a new Head of School: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... Get in touch if you have any questions and please circulate. @uob-sop.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social ‬

Team @thechbh.bsky.social coming home from @meguki2025.bsky.social with FOUR awards. @harrycook.bsky.social and Chloe Clifford were runners-up for the poster prize, @ajquinn.bsky.social took second in the art competition, and Tommy Clausner won the art competition. What a day!

Our new study shows that accelerated long-term forgetting occurs more often in stroke patients than in age-matched controls. After one week, 35% showed marked forgetting despite normal recall after 30 min. Important for neuropsychological diagnostics. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/jnp....

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is searching for a new Head of School. For details of the appointment please visit www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... The deadline for applications is Wednesday 6th August at 23:59 BST 2025. Please share!

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The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is looking for a new Head of School: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... Get in touch if you have any questions and please circulate. @uob-sop.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social ‬

Award-winning research and Brum-themed food @unibirmingham.bsky.social Founders’ Awards & Chancellor’s Dinner this evening

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...