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Lancaster campus wins awards from students (04/07/2011)

A nationwide student survey 2011 reveals that the Lancaster campus has (again) scooped the prize for the "Best University Halls" (awarded to the Institution demonstrating the highest levels of student satisfaction amongst residents), as well as winning categories for "Best learning environment", "Best individual accommodation" and "Best booking experience". This emphasizes the quality of the overall student experience when studying Psychology at Lancaster!

New book on Early Memory (01/06/2011)

Prof Mark Howe has recently published a new book on one his areas of expertise. Titled, "The nature of early memory", this work not only reviews the basic science research on both humans and non-human animals, it explores the clinical and forensic implications of our psychological understanding of early memory. One review commented, "In the nature of early memory Howe provides a tour de force review of contemporary research on memory development during infancy and childhood."

Great employment prospects for Lancaster's psychology graduates (11/03/2011)

Data from HESA (the Higher Education Statistics Agency) and used by the Complete University Guide, confirm the excellent graduate prospects of psychology students at Lancaster. Analysis of the percentage of students that quickly secure employment, or are accepted to do further study, etc, show that Psychology at Lancaster is rated better than all comparable psychology departments at "1994 Universities" and rated 5th when placed against "Russell Group" Universities. It is further evidence that studying psychology at Lancaster is a great career choice!

Department is part of the largest centre in England for social science postgraduate training (10/03/2011)

The North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) is one of 21 in the UK, created by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and will provide PhD students with access to quality research training in social science disciplines. We are part of the largest centre in England for social science postgraduate training, with more studentships available than through any other training centre. More details

Former Head of Department remembered (09/03/2011)

Professor Phil Levy, who worked in this Department, and lead the Department during his time here, has been remembered in a piece in the Independent newspaper.

International Congress on Phonetic Sciences satellite conference (25/01/2011)

A satellite conference of the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences is being chaired by Dr Karen Mattock. Conference details can be found here.

The Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone (PLRT) conference will be held in Hong Kong on August 22-23, 2011, as a satellite of the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS; Hong Kong, August 16-21, 2011). The conference will identify a worldwide network of researchers and laboratories actively conducting advanced research on tone, and will be held in Hong Kong, at the centre of an area in which a large proportion of the world’s tome languages are spoken. We hope to attract researchers from linguistics, phonetics, speech science, psychology, engineering, speech pathology, and having the conference as a satellite to ICPhS will enhance accessibility and delegates’ access to home-institution conference funding.