The project is built around a new technique developed by the Humphreys laboratory for studying the effects of personal social biases on perception. In this novel approach, the research team will ‘tag' stimuli for self-relevance to participants, which subsequently alters how the stimuli are perceived. Results show that there is a linked rapid change in brain activity reflecting the coding of personal relevance.

This commitment, amounting to nearly £3 million, has been made possible by a generous legacy from one of the College's most eminent Emeritus Fellows, Dr Francis Marriott, who died in May this year.

The Leverhulme Trust awards only a handful of Research Leadership grants once every few years. Dr Giustino will use the grant to build computer models of biomimetic photovoltaic devices as part of a project nicknamed 'ELYSIA', after the photosynthetic sea slug elysia chlorotica.

Tibet has an unusually rich tradition of biographical writing, the larger part of which is still waiting to be explored.

The aim of the conference was to view Tibetan biographies and auto-biographies within the broader context of life-writing across the world and to explore new avenues of interpretation and understanding, addressing for instance literary theory, cross-cultural perspectives, art history, and the pragmatics of (re-)enactment of life-stories.

Both projects were designed by the architects Berman Gueddes Stretton and built by Benfield & Loxley, the team who are currently responsible for the construction of the Leonard Wolfson Lecture theatre, due to transform the face of the College in 2013.

Kubal teaches political sociology and socio-legal approaches to migration at the International Migration Institute, and was highly commended for her work on designing a new options course for the MSc.

European Court of Human Rights Judge András Sajó laid out the groundwork for the discussion with a lecture on Thursday 18th October in which he argued that, in times of popular disenchantment with political representation such as Europe is currently experiencing, more power is shifted to the judiciary in areas of public policy decision-making.

A provocative new policy brief published today by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society was presented by the author to the House of Lords Communications Committee today, advising them to abandon the concept of ‘press freedom' altogether.