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White text made of dots on black backgroud saying 'Dreamachine'

The Dreamachine Project wins 2023 CogX award for Best Innovation in Creative Arts

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:53:00 BST

The Dreamachine Project has won the 2023 CogX award for Best Innovation in Creative Arts. Professor Fiona Macpherson is the co-academic lead on the project.

Fiona Macpherson cover story in the New Scientist
Fiona Macpherson cover story in the New Scientist

Fiona Macpherson’s work featured in the cover story, “How Are You Thinking?”, for the New Scientist.

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:53:00 BST

Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

Heather Annan
Heather Annan

Heather Annan, PhD Student, Wins Multiple Prestigious Scholarships

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:41:00 BST

Heather Annan, a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience has won a Kennedy Memorial Scholarhsip to be a Visiting Fellow at MIT for 2023-2024. This follows on the heels of her recent award of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Programme Scholarship which is enabling Heather to spend several months this summer, 2023, conducting research at the University of Tokyo.

New Perspectives on Dreaming
New Perspectives on Dreaming

Conference on New Perspectives on Dreaming

Wed, 03 May 2023 17:41:00 BST

3-4 July 2023

Neil McDonell
Neil McDonell

Neil McDonnell and colleagues secure a multi-million pound grant for their two-year Museums in the Metaverse project.

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:41:00 BST

Neil McDonnell and colleagues secure a multi-million pound grant for their two-year Museums in the Metaverse project. This grant is from the UK government under the new "levelling up" Innovation Accelerator scheme.

Finalists for the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023
Finalists for the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023

Finalists for the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:41:00 GMT

The finalists have been revealed for the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2023, the annual celebration of business-academic partnerships, hosted by Interface.

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Picture of Dr Hannah Fry looking through an eyeglass which makes her eye look big and Prof Adam Rutherford on a black background with white question marks popping forward

Macpherson on The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:32:00 GMT

The CSPE's Fiona Macpherson was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 Programme The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry on 10th January 2023. The case was the Blind Mind's Eye and Fiona discussed how different philosophers' and psychologists' imagery capacities may have influenced their thoeries of how the mind works.

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Sunday post logo saying

Macpherson's Work on Aphantasia Featured in the Sunday Post

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:32:00 GMT

Fiona Macpherson's was interviewd in the Sunday Post about aphantasia - the reduced ability to form mental imagery.

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A black megaphone on a mustard yellow background with the words,

Macpherson is Guest on Philosophy Takes On The News Podcast

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:32:00 GMT

The CSPE's Fiona Macpherson was a guest on the Philosophy Takes On The News podcast, on 9th December 2022 on Series 2, Episode 8. It was the end of year special on constitutional reforms, crypto and effective altruism, end of year round-up, plus hopes and fears for 2023.

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The Royal Society of Edinburgh logo. White text on blakc backgrouns saying

McDonnell has article on VR in education in RSE's ReSourcE magazine

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:32:00 GMT

Neil McDonnell's article, “Enhanced Learning: Into the Metaverse” is published in ReSourcE, the magazine of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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The Royal Society of Edinburgh logo. White text on blakc backgrouns saying

Macpherson has article on perception in RSE's ReSourcE magazine

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:32:00 GMT

Fiona Macpherson's article, “Perceptual Diversity: Do You See What I See” is published in ReSourcE, the magazine of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an dis feature on their blog.

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