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The Black Mind Initiative aims to reform the current mental health system nationally, by encouraging young Black people to take up a degree related to the mental health profession, the initiative will then support them in their studies and encourage them to work in senior roles in mental healthcare.

The capacity for language is built upon our ability to understand combinations of words and the relationships between them, but the evolutionary history of this ability is little understood. Now, researchers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have managed to date this capacity to at least 30-40 million years ago, the last common ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans.

Dr Adriano R. Lameira, from the Department of Psychology at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, for his project: The ape and the first word: Understanding the origins and evolution of the first linguistic structures in the human clade through comparative research.

Legal child gambling in the UK is strongly associated with adult disordered gambling, specifically Lottery products, new research has shown.

The mental health and wellbeing of students at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ during the COVID-19 pandemic will be tested, tracked, and tackled by internationally renowned psychologists at the institution.

People born small for gestational age (SGA) have a lower IQ throughout development, however the differences in IQ to those born appropriate for gestational age (AGA) reduce by adulthood. The effects of SGA on IQ are nearly as large as being born into lower socio-economic status or receiving poor parenting in infancy.