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News and Events
PhD studentships now available
Thursday 20th January 2011
Lancaster University
The Department of Psychology, of which the IEU is part, will be offering up to four fully funded teaching studentships commencing in October 2011. The studentships will cover Home (UK/EU) fees, plus a stipend equivalent to current Research Council grants, for up to three years.
MSc in Cyber Security applications invited
Saturday 1st January 2011
InfoLab21
This programme has been designed to meet the requirements of the current and next generation of IT security specialists. It blends world class academic teaching with the latest industry knowledge to deliver a comprehensive cutting-edge programme. The course consists of eight taught modules and a research dissertation. This is a part time MSc Programme split over two years.
CPD Seminar. Public Safety in the Night Time Economy
Tuesday 21st September 2010, 1015-1600
Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster
This 1-day seminar is open to everyone. It will focus on how understanding human behaviour can help to improve regulation of the night time economy.
IEU Summer Workshop
Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd September 2010
Fylde Senior Common Room
A two-day meeting in which IEU partners get together to discuss contemporary research and policy.
Research Updates
Lancaster's early involvement in selecting expertise remembered
The late Professor Phil Levy, who did a remarkable job of developing the Department of Psychology at Lancaster in the 1970s, has been remembered in an article in the Independent. Among other things, the article recounts how Phil conducted what might be considered a forerunner to the work of the IEU when he developed selection tools for the Royal Air Force.
Sat 12 March 2011
New Paper on the Microregulation of Violence
Currently, more is known about how aggression begins than about how it is stopped or controlled. Using videos from public security cameras, researchers in the United Kingdom examined 42 incidents of aggressive behavior in which two or more third parties were present. By comparing the behaviors of the participants in incidents that resulted in violence and incidents that did not result in violence, they found that third parties were more likely to prevent violence than to facilitate it, and as the number of third parties increased, the likelihood of violence decreased. Based on these results, the investigators concluded that collective and coordinated group intervention is more likely to lead to nonviolent outcomes.
Wed 9 March 2011
New postdoctoral staff to work on behavioral detection of insider threat
The IEU is pleased to welcome Dr. Merisa Jenkins to the Unit.
Thu 6 January 2011
Publications July - December 2010
A selection of key recent IEU member publications, covering issues from false memory through to night-time violence prevention and developing an understanding of online terrorist propaganda:
Thu 30 December 2010