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Dear Colleague,
You are invited to participate in a national multidisciplinary seminar on "Making better people: neuroscience, education and social policy". For full details, please see attached memo.
This is the fourth meeting in an ESRC funded seminar series on Neuroscience, Identity and Society, jointly organised between the Institute for Science and Society (ISS, University of Nottingham) and the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BIOS, LSE). It aims to bring together social scientists, psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, philosophers, educationalists, anthropologists, and scholars from a range of other disciplines to explore the way in which neuroscientific ideas are influencing and framing policy, profession practice and public understanding in the broad area of education, childcare and social policy.
Speakers:
· Professor Jay Belsky (Professor of Psychology and Director of Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck College University of London).
· Professor John Geake (Professor of Education at the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University)
· Professor Tomas Paus (Professor of Psychology and Mental Health and Director of the Brain and Body Centre, University of Nottingham).
Date: 11.30-17.00, Tuesday 13th March 2007
Venue: Delta Suite, university Staff Club, University of Nottingham
The meeting will be followed by an informal drinks reception from 5.00 - 6.15.
Booking details: Numbers will be strictly limited to ensure plenty of opportunity for participation, so please book early. Previous seminars have been heavily oversubscribed. To request a booking form, or any further information, please contact: [log in to unmask], or visit the series website at: www.neuroscienceandsociety.org
I hope you will be able to attend and I look forward to seeing you in Nottingham.
Yours sincerely
Paul Martin
Institute for Science and Society
University of Nottingham
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