Congratulations to Dr Basiro Davey, who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to higher and health education.Basiro is a Senior Lecturer in the faculty of Science, and deputy-director of the Health Education and Training (HEAT) programme in Ethiopia.
A text on autism by OU academics has been highly commended in the Popular Medicine category of the British Medical Association (BMA) annual book awards.The Autism Spectrum in the 21st Century: Exploring Psychology, Biology and Practice was authored by Dr Ilona Roth (pictured) with Science Faculty colleagues Dr Rosa ...
This week the 3rd edition of Frederick Toates textbook ‘Biological Psychology’ will appear containing an increased on-line contribution and links to over 100 video clips of some of the classical studies such as squid axons and amnesia/brain damage. Please see:
The Floodplain Meadows Partnership hosted by the Open University Life Sciences department have just been awarded a major grant from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation to continue work over the next three years on this exciting project. The Floodplain Meadows Partnership is a multi partnership outreach and research project ...
Ellie Dommett has been awarded a 2010 NARSAD Young Investigator Award of $50,457.75 over two years starting July 2011 to work on the Project “An investigation into the Efficacy of Atomoxetine in Ameliorating Individual Symptoms of ADHD: An evidence based approach to subtype-specific treatment. These awards aim ...
OU academics Drs Ilona Roth and Payam Rezaie of the Life Sciences Department are the editors of a new book on autism research just launched by Cambridge University Press. The book presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on autism, with cutting-edge contributions from leading investigators in this fast moving field. ...
Mike Stewart has been appointed as Treasurer elect of FENS, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, beginning in February 2011 for 4 years. FENS represents over 30,000 neuroscientists from 31 National European Neuroscience societies (in Western and Eastern Europe) and several monodisciplinary societies. ...
On the launch of their New Book– The Emergence of HumansPatricia J Ash and David J Robinson (2010). The Emergence of Humans. Chichester, John Wiley. 324 pages. The idea for the book came from writing the short course on human evolution, S292, which used a set book rather than a specially written one. This book ...
Life – a BBC/OU series transmitted last autumn. In addition to this award, Life has 3 nominations for awards at WildScreen, the premier natural history film festival. In addition to David Robinson as academic team leader for the series, Caroline Pond, Patricia Ash, Jeff Thomas, Mike Dodd, Eric Bowers and Tim ...
I’m delighted to inform you that iSpot has been selected by the Wildscreen New Media Jury as an ARKive New Media Award finalist. The winner will be announced at the Wildscreen Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 13th October
To Mel Georgiou who won 3 prizes in the OU Postgraduate Poster Competition last Friday. She won the category prize for Science and is one of 8 who will go on to represent the OU at the Midlands Hub competition on 5th July at Nottingham Trent University AND she won the online ‘Peoples Choice’ prize! Well ...
Jon Golding (Life Sciences), together with colleagues from Imperial College London, show that certain types of therapeutically relevant adult stem cells migrate to sites of brain injury following injection into the blood circulation. This is an important advance in stem cell research, since hitherto it was considered ...
Professor Mike Stewart (Life Sciences) and Professor Janet Grant (Director of the Centre for Education in Medicine) have been awarded £200,000 for its Distance Learning Medical Centre (DLMC) programme in Ethiopia. The programme will train doctors specifically for practice in areas of the country that currently ...
Duncan Banks spent an evening with members of Diabetes UK in Chelmsford on Tuesday 16th March. The title of his talk was "The psychological impact of diabetes". He gave examples of his personal experiences of people with diabetes, how the condition affects someone's life, how depression is common in ...
Dr Katherine Leys, Science Staff Tutor for the OU in the South Region gave an interview on Monday 1st March on BBC Radio Oxford where she publicised an outreach event the OU was holding in R02. The interviewer asked some unexpected questions about the OU in general and science, so she ended up with a few minutes ...
Prof Fred Toates who has been elected a Fellow of the United States based Association for Psychological Science, the principal American organization for promoting scientific psychology.Dr Hilary MacQueen who has been appointed a Fellow of the Society of BiologyProf David Gowing has been given £20,000 by CEH for ...
New research by The Open University, King’s College London, the University of Cambridge and Birkbeck College suggests that the causes of autism and intellectual disability are mostly distinct.The researchers found that behavioural and personality characteristics related to autism (also called ‘autistic ...
Association for Science Education Annual Conference January 2010Despite the wintery white out intrepid members of the science faculty and East Midlands regional staff flew the OU flag at the 3 day annual conference of the Association for Science Education (ASE) held at Nottingham University (Jan 7th - 9th). The OU ...
The tenth and last episode of ‘Life’ will be transmitted on BBC 1 on 14th December. The series has been 5 years in the making, with the filming and editing taking over three years. David Robinson from Life Sciences attended the first meeting to discuss the series in 2004. The OU became a co-producer, along ...
Tissue engineers in the Life Sciences Department have developed an advanced 3-dimensional cell culture model of the spinal cord damage environment. This powerful new system, published this month in the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, recreates key cellular events that follow central nervous ...
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