Our Communications Officer, Livia Harriman, manages departmental websites, social media accounts, newsletters and events 5:40 am: My four-year-old son wakes me up. It’s time for breakfast. I let my dog Pads out into the garden. Then I make coffee. 6:00 am: I check the four Twitter accounts that I manage for work. Read […]
Archives for April 2021
A Day in the Life of our Education Supervisor (working remotely)
Our Education Supervisor, Adisa Broadhurst, oversees Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Visiting student-related matters in the department 7 am – My 5 and 7 yr old kids wake me up with their singing and banging. I start the day off with a smoothie. I am not really a morning person so sunshine really helps me get […]
Mental Health and COVID-19
A new study by Graham Murray looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: a comparison between Germany and the UK The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic social and economic changes in daily life. First studies report an impact on the mental health of the general […]
Congratulations to Aicha Massrali on completing her PhD
Aicha completed her PhD thesis titled “Cellular phenotypes associated with NRXN1 mutations in Autism: an iPSC study” under the supervision of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Dr Mark Kotter and Dr Deepak Srivastava. Can you give us a short background into what your PhD/MPhil was about? Autism is often referred to as an enigma because of […]