Monday 13 October 2025

• 16:00 - The physiology of cognitive control
  Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 12:15 - Sleep disruption and early psychosis: A new treatment target
  Dr Felicity Waite (University of Oxford)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025
• 15:00 - Harry Pack & The Purple UFO, Art as a Portal into Deeper Self Awareness and Connectivity
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 11:00 - Immune alterations in first-episode psychosis and the effects of natalizumab: A neuroimaging study with concurrent CSF measures
  Dr Yuya Mizuno (King's College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Monday 20 October 2025

• 10:00 - Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
  Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
  Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 09:30 - Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
  Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - A Developmental Lens on Youth Suicide: Insights from Quebec Birth Cohorts and a Systematic Review
  Dr Marie Claude Geoffroy (McGill University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025
• 13:00 - Characterizing salience signals in the insula
  Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 12:00 - Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
  Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 27 October 2025

• 15:00 - The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
  Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 3 November 2025

• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
  Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 09:30 - Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
  Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - From co-creation to implementation: developing and scaling an intervention to promote healthy sleep in adolescents
  Dr Anneke Vandendriessche (Ghent University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 13:00 - Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
  The seminar is to be held in the Lecture Theatre 2 (lower ground floor), not the usual seminar rooms (Seminar Room 7/8).
  Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 10 November 2025

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
  Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 09:30 - Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - How do screens impact adolescents' sleep? A theoretical review and experimental insights into bedtime displacement
  Dr Serena Bauducco (Örebro University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Monday 17 November 2025

• 16:00 - Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
  Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 09:30 - Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
  Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Accessibility and effectiveness of early intervention sleep programmes for adolescents
  Dr Faith Orchard (University of East Anglia)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Monday 24 November 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
  Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 09:30 - Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
  Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Improving access to help with sleep in youth mental health: A system-wide implementation programme
  Dr Rebecca Rollinson (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 09:00 - Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
  TBA
• 09:00 - Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
  TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

• 16:00 - ECR Firetalks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 09:30 - Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
  Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - How adolescents seek and offer support within friendships: insights from lived experiences and hypothetical situations
  Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Thursday 11 December 2025

• 13:00 - What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
  Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• 09:30 - Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
  Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Monday 19 January 2025

• 16:00 - Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
  Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 22 January 2025

• 12:00 - Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
  Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 26 January 2025

• 16:00 - Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
  Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 February 2025

• 16:00 - Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
  Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 February 2025

• 16:00 - Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
  Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2025

• 16:00 - Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
  Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2025

• 16:00 - ECR - Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 27 April 2025

• 16:00 - From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
  Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2025

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
  Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 8 June 2025

• 16:00 - Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
  Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2025

• 16:00 - ECR Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series