Emotional Cartography book launch
Tonight we are launching ‘Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self’, an edited collection inspired by Christian Nold’s project of making maps of individual’s emotional responses in different...
View ArticleThree weeks on the road, first stop San Francisco
I’m going to San Francisco on Monday. I’ll be in Berkeley and then San Francisco for the Annual Convention of the APS. After that I’m flying to Rome, then by ferry and train to Thessaloniki, then train...
View ArticleYork Cafe Scientifique 2/9/09: The Learning Brain
On Wednesday the 2nd of September I will be speaking at York Cafe Scientifique about ‘The Learning Brain’. This is what I promised to talk about: Your brain is not fixed clockwork, but an ever changing...
View ArticleThe Rough Guide to Brain Training (Moore & Stafford, 2010)
The Rough Guide to Brain Training is a puzzle book which incluces essays and vignettes by myself. The book has 100 days of puzzles which will challenge your mental imagery, verbal fluency, numeracy,...
View ArticleStudy Leave
I am on study leave. I’ll be in Berkeley, California, in February and some of March, and then from mid-March I’ll be in New York. I am contactable by email.
View ArticleThe Narrative Escape
My ebook “The Narrative Escape” was published last week by 40k books. ‘The Narrative Escape’ is a long essay about morality, psychology and stories and is availble in Kindle format (this means you can...
View ArticleTalk: Infering cognitive architectures from high-resolution behavioural data
I’ve been invited to give a talk at York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis. I’ll be speaking on the 13th of May, a friday, to the title “Infering cognitive architectures from high-resolution...
View ArticlePsychology in the Pub, Sheffield
(Local news warning: just details of a talk I’m giving) Psychology in the Pub is a Sheffield event which happens in the Showroom Cinema Bar. I’m giving a talk there on the 15th of March and I’ve just...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Andrew Dodman
Dear Andrew Dodman, Director of Human Resources, University of Sheffield Our University has a problem with inequality. Standard undergraduate student fees have lept three-fold since 2012, with the...
View ArticleReflections on No Picnic
[A reconstruction of what I wanted to say, and what I actually did say, at the launch of the book ‘No Picnic’ on 27th May 2014. Hardcopies of the book and commentaries – including this one – are...
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