Researchers from the University of Lincoln have teamed up with the WESC Foundation to create a new browser-based game called Eyelander, which aims to help children and young people with vision-loss to lead more independent lives. The game was specifically designed for people with visual field loss caused by Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) – which is usually the…Continue Reading Lincoln Psychology Introduce New Computer Game For Children With Vision Loss
Month: June 2018
College of Social Science Showcase 2018
Welcome to the annual College of Social Science Showcase programme. This is a real celebration of some of our research ad enterprise successes over the past year and includes presentations from relatively new, the more seasoned and also our very experienced researchers and academics. The staff presenting have been carefully selected so I am anticipating…Continue Reading College of Social Science Showcase 2018
Autism Research and Innovation Centre (A.R.I.C)
The ARIC is a multi-disciplinary research centre that delivers real world research grounded in the needs of people on the autism spectrum, their families and the professionals that support them. The Mission The mission of the ARIC is to create a diverse and inclusive environment where community knowledge and academic expertise merge and complement each…Continue Reading Autism Research and Innovation Centre (A.R.I.C)
Lucid Dreaming: large data base analysis.
Lucid Dreaming is where, while dreaming people become aware that their current experience is in fact a dream. Support was sought to employ a research assistant to initiate the analyses of a pre-existing data-set of thousands of dream reports. Fundamental statistics were extracted e.g. on the time required to acquire lucidity, age, gender. The words…Continue Reading Lucid Dreaming: large data base analysis.
Better Health Care for Offenders
There are over 200,000 offenders on probation in the UK. People in this group are often deprived, vulnerable and have more health needs (e.g. mental health, drug and alcohol problems) compared to the general population. Many offenders are not registered with a GP, and/or only access healthcare during crises. To reduce health inequalities, we first…Continue Reading Better Health Care for Offenders
Visual Awareness of Familiar Faces
We know from a large body of research that there are differences between the ways familiar and unfamiliar faces are processed in the brain. To date, however, there has been only a limited exploration of how the high-level concept of our familiarity with a person may influence low-level processes such as visual awareness. This study…Continue Reading Visual Awareness of Familiar Faces
Men, Poverty and Lifetimes of Care
Anxieties about father absence and the so-called ‘crisis of fatherlessness’ appear to have taken on a renewed significance and sway in the post-2008 recession and austerity contexts. Such anxieties typically implicate working-class men, perpetuating stereotypes that they are most likely to be uncaring, feckless and indifferent to family life. As with other accounts of low-income…Continue Reading Men, Poverty and Lifetimes of Care
Assessment Companion for Thinking Skills (ACTS)
Erasmus+ is a European Union initiative that aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe. A bid for a three year project that focuses on the development of critical thinking skills through innovative approaches and the exchange of good practices was submitted to Erasmus+ by the University of Lincoln in March 2017. The…Continue Reading Assessment Companion for Thinking Skills (ACTS)
Migraine and the Motion Streak
Migraine is a common and debilitating neurological disorder, affecting around 13% of adults (steiner et al., 2003) and is among the ten most debilitating disorders according to the World Health Organisation (stovener et al., 2007). The causes of the disorder are unknown, and current therapies available are commonly drugs, whose mode of action for alleviating…Continue Reading Migraine and the Motion Streak