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Brain Awareness Week activities engage the public
21 March 2019
Brain Awareness Week is an annual global initiative designed to raise awareness among the public about brain-related research and the impact that neuroscientists are having on the world.
Later school start time trialled in Teensleep Project
21 March 2019
Researchers in our Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute are working with Havant & South Downs College on a teenage sleep study.
Discussing autoimmune encephalitis research and treatment
19 December 2018
Patients, carers, clinicians and scientists get together to talk about this condition
We offer a work experience week for Oxfordshire students, as well as getting involved in a range of other initiatives.
Work Experience Programme 1-5 July 2019
We will be offering a five-day programme of work experience activities for Year 12 students based in Oxfordshire who are interested in brain research and are planning to go to university. The programme gives students the chance to learn from practising scientists and will include:
- a project using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- a project using magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- short talks about neuroscience research going on in the Department
- mini projects on ophthalmology, sleep, cellular neuroscience and eye movements
How to apply
The deadline for applications is 6.00pm on Friday 5 April.
Contact communications@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for more information about the programme.