#NewPaper from Daniel Hart Baker et al., Kirralise Hansford Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN York Psychology Binocular integration of chromatic and luminance signals Journal of Vision jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…

Delighted to share that I’ve passed my viva with no corrections! 🎉 Huge thanks to my examiners, Dr Hannah Hobson & Elizabeth Evans, for such thoughtful and engaging discussions, and to my supervisors, Catherine Preston & MaryAnn Noonan, for their invaluable support throughout this journey!!

We are still looking for one more participant! Either currently pregnant or given birth within 12 months and identifies as autistic. Expression of interest survey with this link: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eK…

EPS Award Nominations for approval at the AGM in January 2025. Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer Matthew Botvinick Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer Elizabeth Jefferies Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer Melissa Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer Connor Keating

Ecstatic to receive an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep” York Psychology Stay tuned for job ads in 2025! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

We've been awarded two ERC Consolidator Grants for projects on sleep and online misogyny. Congrats to PIs Scott Cairney and Harriet Over! york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

New job posting at the Department of Psychology, University of York. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP599/res…

On the 5-year anniversary since the first COVID-19 cases in the UK, Dr Heidi Baseler (Psychology Department, University of York) talks with ITV, airing on Friday, 31st January 2025 at 6pm about research on effects of long COVID on working memory and other brain changes.

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In support of all the women who work and pursue the study in STEM the Psychology Department would like to acknowledge their invaluable contribution to the advancement of science.

Proud of our students who came top group in a recent Year 1 group ‘mini-project’ exercise designing evidence-based anti-knife crime interventions. These projects were run in collaboration with Anthony Olaseinde from the charity Always an Alternative CIO based in Sheffield.

A research fellow at the Psychology Department Dr Sophie Meekings has been profiled by the British Science Association as part of Smashing Stereotypes campaign for British Science Week (7th-16th March). britishscienceweek.org/smashing-stere….

Psychology's own Dr Scott Cairney has been awarded the Senior Translational Research Award by the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) for his academic career to-date in improving understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms linking sleep to mental health.

YNiC celebrates its 20th Anniversary

Dr Silvia Gennari, Ramya Balakrishnan and Nicoleta Gavrila from the Psychology Department promoting science and women in science at the 2025 Soapbox Science in York on Parliament Street. This is the fifth year in a row our female researchers have made us proud.

Psychology Department's own Prof. Mike Burton awarded the Research Board’s Lifetime Achievement award 2025. Congratulations!

Yet another award to celebrate! Our own Dr Angela De Bruin has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society.

More acknowledgement of amazing researchers at the Department of Psychology, University of York. Prof. Elizabeth Jeffries is awarded the 2025 British Psychological Society President's Award!