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Perceptual reality is not as it seems

Date
, 2 - 3pm

Host: Carlo Campagnoli Speaker: Fulvio Domini, Professor at Brown University (Dept of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences.) Abstract: VR and XR technologies are making incredible advances in creating a visual stimulation that closely resemble what is experienced in our daily life. Realistic and high-resolution immersive displays not only have the capability of offering affordable alternative entertainment, but...

Understanding complex inequalities through language research

Date
, 1 - 3pm

Language@Leeds is a University-wide interdisciplinary network for language research. Our work tackles key societal questions through the rigorous study of language, using diverse methods and approaches, e.g., from experimental methods and natural language processing to ethnography and multimodal analysis. Language can be a vehicle of social inclusion or exclusion in many contexts; in this event...

Unlocking your most sensitive data for remote access across the UK

Date
, 1:30 - 2pm

Speaker: Adam Keeley, Data Analytics Team Manager, LIDA Summary: Research at the University of Leeds using personal and sensitive data has long benefitted from LASER, a Trusted Research Environment managed and run by Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA). With the option to restrict access to physical Safe Rooms that were previously only available from...

App-Based Intervention to Promote Walking in UK Cancer Patients

Date
, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Category

Speaker: Dr Fiona Kennedy, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences Summary: Increased moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) can improve clinical and psychosocial outcomes for people living with and beyond cancer (LWBC). APPROACH is funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research and the grant covers both a pilot study and a full scale RCT. The pilot RCT assessed the feasibility...