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Understanding Voices Workshops: An invitation to voice-hearers and those who support them (Durham & London, March 2019)
HtV has been working with members of the voice-hearing community to develop Understanding Voices (UV) – a new web resource that will help people find clear, balanced, comprehensive information about voice-hearing. We have now built a prototype site and would be delighted if you could join us to provide feedback on what we have developed so far.
Interested in science communication? We’re hiring!
We’re hiring! Applications are invited for a Research Assistant based in Psychology with a particular emphasis on mental health and science communication.
Recent posts
Welcoming Dr Guido Furci to Hearing the Voice
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Guido Furci to Hearing the Voice as a Junior Research Fellow with HtV and the School of Modern Languages and Culture.
Registration now open! Personification Across Disciplines, Durham, 17-19 September 2018
Hearing the Voice warmly invite you to join us for Personification Across Disciplines 2018, an interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives. Keynote speakers include H. Porter Abbott (University of California, Santa Barbara) Guillaume Dumas (Institut Pasteur), Nev Jones (University of South Florida) and Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Podcast: Why we talk to ourselves
Listen to Charles Fernyhough – PI and Director of Hearing the Voice – discussing the role of self-talk in our daily lives with WHYY’s Radio Times and NPR Sirius, a Philadelphia-based public affairs program.
Literary Voices: Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18–20 August 2018
How do writers experience the voices of the characters they create? How do their readers? Do you hear different voices for different characters? Have you ever experienced those characters saying things beyond the pages of a book? Hearing the Voice is delighted to...
Unusual Experiences Support Group (Oxford)
Hearing voices? Seeing visions? Other unusual perceptions? Then come along to The Mill and talk with others who understand in a safe and friendly environment.
Stranger things: how our expectations do (and don’t) shape what we hear
From time to time, all of us are likely to have an experience of seeing or hearing something and then finding that other people don’t share the experience. It’s quite common to think about those experiences as being a bit unusual – maybe like a hallucination, or an illusion – but actually these “individual differences” in perception can be quite common.
CRAZYWISE: a film by Kevin Tomlinson and Phil Borges (18 July, London)
Hearing the Voice are delighted to draw your attention to a screening of Kevin Tomlinson and Phil Borges’ film CRAZYWISE on 18 July (6:15PM) at the UCL Institute of Child Health, organised by Mind in Camden.
Public Lecture: Religious Experience in Predictive Minds (28 June)
Hearing the Voice warmly invites you to attend a public lecture by Uffe Schjødt (Aarhus University) on 28 June (5-7PM) at Elvet Riverside, where Uffe will speak on religious experience in predictive minds.
