LiGHTS Nights (Lincoln – Get Hold of Tech and Science) is a one-day celebration of how science and technology impacts on our daily lives. With a lively and thought-provoking free programme of events in venues across Lincoln, the day aims…
ESRC-DFID Funding Opportunity
A new funding opportunity is being launched as part of a decade-long partnership between the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) which aims to place innovation and appetite for risk at the…
British Academy/Leverhulme – Small Research Grants
The British Academy, in association with the Leverhulme Trust, invites applications for its small research grants. Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Funds are available to facilitate initial project planning and development; to support…
School of Psychology Research Seminar – 9th January
Dr. Stephen Gibson, York St. John University, will present details of some of his research “The last possible resort”: Rhetoric and standardization in Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments at the School of Psychology’s next research seminar. This presentation draws on materials…
Sleeping pills owe half their benefits to placebo effect, study finds
Half of the benefit of taking sleeping pills comes from the placebo effect, according to a major new study published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers re-analysed results from more than a dozen clinical trials of the most common type…
New lab to unlock the mysteries of sleep
Scientists from the University of Lincoln have launched a new research laboratory to explore the mysteries of sleep. The Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Laboratory in the University’s School of Psychology will be the base for cutting-edge studies into the links…