Paul has received a distinction (and 95% GPA!) in Open University course: Graduate Certificate in Theoretical Statistics and Probability. A brilliant achievement- congratulations Paul!
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Read morePatricia and Jo attend CiNet conference and visit RIKEN institute. →
Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler were in Japan this month, attending the CiNet conference and visiting the RIKEN institute!
Read more about the CiNet conference here
Read more about the RIKEN institute here
Read morePatricia Lockwood elected as APS Fellow! →
Congratulations to Patricia Lockwood who has been elected as a Fellow for the Association for Psychological Science for her ‘outstanding contributions to the science of psychology’.
Read moreNew lab member January 2023! →
We have recently welcomed Janine Pfirrmann, a new Research Assistant/ Lab Manager to the lab. You can find out more about Janine on our ‘People’ page. Welcome!
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Read morePatricia Lockwood attends Women of the Future Awards 2022! →
Having been shortlisted for the Science category, Patricia Lockwood attended the Women of the Future Awards 2022, joined by Cherie Blair CBE, and the Countess of Wessex.
Read morePaul Vanags and Tabitha Hogg awarded a Distinction!
Two members of our lab have been awarded Distinctions. Paul’s is in MSc Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Reading. Tabby’s is in MSc Psychology from the University of Birmingham. Congratulations on your achievements!
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Read moreNew lab members Autumn 2022! →
We have recently welcomed two new members to our lab. Zhilin Su has entered his first year of a 4-year PhD and Tabitha Hogg is a new Research Assistant/Lab Manager to the lab. You can find out more about them on our ‘People’ page. Welcome!
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Read moreJo Cutler wins best talk award at SNE Conference! →
Jo Cutler was given the ‘Best Talk’ award for her talk titled ‘Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex decreases effortful prosocial behaviours’ at 2022 SNE Conference!
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Read morePatricia Lockwood shortlisted for the 2022 Women of the Future award! →
Patricia Lockwood is a finalist for the 2022 Women of the Future award in the science category.
Read moreJo Cutler and Todd Vogel awarded travel funding for SNE Conference!
Jo Cutler was awarded Guarantors of Brain and Society for Neuroeconomics Travel Awards to give talk at SNE conference 2022.
Todd Vogel was also awarded a Global Engagement Fund travel award to present poster at SNE conference 2022.
Read morePatricia Lockwood, Matthew Apps, and Steve Chang received the 2022 SANS Innovation Award →
The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) awarded the authors for their innovative paper “Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms”.
Read moreJo Cutler awarded the Excellence in Discovery Science Award for an Early-Career Researcher!
Jo Cutler received the “Excellence in Discovery Science Award for an Early-Career Researcher” as part of the Birmingham School of Psychology Awards.
Read morePatricia Lockwood receives 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award →
The Association for Psychological Science awarded Patricia Lockwood for her transformative early career contributions.
Read morePatricia Lockwood awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant! →
Patricia Lockwood was awarded a prestigious ERC grant to investigate why and when people decide to help others using innovative methods.
Read morePhD opportunity 2022! →
The lab has a fully funded position available! The project will focus on social learning and motivation, under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Lockwood and Prof. Ole Jensen (@neuosc).
Part of the BBSRC MIBTP scheme, deadline: 9 January 2022.
Email p.l.lockwood@bham.ac.uk before applying. We look forward to receiving your applications!
Read morePatricia Lockwood awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology →
Dr. Lockwood was selected as an outstanding researcher by Leverhulme Trust!
Read morePhD opportunities 2021!
The lab has two fully funded positions available @TheCHBH @IMH_UoB! (http://sdn-lab.org). One from the BBSRC using fMRI, MEG and modelling https://tinyurl.com/y3eeqduk and one from the MRC using modelling to understand antisocial behaviour, learning and development. Email p.l.lockwood@bham.ac.uk before applying. We look forward to receiving your applications!
Read morePatricia Lockwood elected as Board Member for Society for Neuroeconomics →
Patricia has been elected by members of the Society for Neuroeconomics (https://neuroeconomics.org/) to serve as a Board Member.
Read morePatricia Lockwood receives Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award
Patricia received the Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award at the Society for Social Neuroscience in Chicago. This distinguished award is for ‘recognizing the formation of new approaches or paradigms within a field of neuroscience, and or the development or advancement of research that cuts across fields of neuroscience ‘.
Read moreNew Website
The Social Decision Neuroscience Lab has a new website. Here, you can read about our research interests, publications and news.
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