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Join us on 5th September: Dyslexia as a mental health story

We are very excited to present the our latest results at the RSE Curious festival on 5th September at 2pm. We will explore the relationship between dyslexia, dyscalculia and mental health through during an engaging session. Book your free tickets now and join us...

Why most of us are right-handed?

Many thanks to El Pais for covering our work on handedness for their summer series "Preguntas aún sin respuesta" (=still unanswered questions). The full article (Spanish) can be found at this link (subscription required)...

Welcome Ines!

We are excited to host Inés García-Ortiz who will spend a month with us as visiting scholar. Ines is a PhD student in the Psychiatric Genomics Group led by Dr Claudio Toma at the Molecular Biology Center “Severo Ochoa” in Madrid. Inés will be investigating the role of...

New MRC funded project

We are excited to start a new project funded by the Medical Research Council Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) to explore the link between specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia and mental health through a qualitative approach. This work is a...

New publication

See our latest publication written with members of the SLDN network  reflecting on the implications of the new dyslexia Delphi definition: Toward an Improved Understanding of Dyslexia: Reflections on a New Consensus Definition and Its Implications...

PhD opportunity!

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD project: "Combining Omics Data and AI Approaches to Dissect the Role of Genetic Factors in Brain Health and Healthy Aging" More information at this link...

Welcome Priyatam and Rebecca!

We welcome to the group Priyatam Dutta and Rebecca Watts. Priyatam is a Global PhD student who, after completing the first part of his PhD in at the University of Bonn has now moved to St Andrews to complete his thesis. Rebecca has just started her PhD funded by a...

New Paper!

"Shaping UK Research Priorities in the Area of Specific Learning Difficulties by Surveying People with Lived Experience" - See our new paper reporting the results of the Specific Learning Difficulties Network survey -...

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