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DR GILLIAN S FORRESTER

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
United Kingdom

​Email: g.forrester@bbk.ac.uk
University Page

UPCOMING and RECENT EVENTS


Science guest lecture :
Becoming human – the evolution of cognition
The City Literary Institute
 (£9 ticketed event)
Course Dates: 16/11/18 
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 
Location: KS - Keeley Street


Cerebral Lateralization and the Evolution of Social Cognition:
A Cross-Species Perspective
 Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
School of Anthropology and Conservation
University of Kent
20th November 2018

British Psychological Society: Developmental Psychology Section
Annual Conference 2018
Laterality in children’s cradling behaviors and socio-communicative abilities 
Liverpool, 12th-14th September.


The Children and Technology Lab (CHaT Lab) 
Invited Guest Speaker
University of Sussex
 Motor Behaviour Predicts Social Cognition in Children 
5th July 2018


Left-Handedness
What a Predicament Podcast
What a Cat Productions
​August 2017: Airdate TBA

FutureProof: Ireland's Newstalk FM
The Science of Tongues
August 2017: Airdate: TBA

BBC Radio 4
18th April 2017
The Shock
What happens in the Brain?

Invited Speaker
Accademia dei Lincei

Handedness Facts: from Evolution to Neuroscience
April 4th-5th  2017
Palazzo Corsini, Rome  


BBC Radio 4 Archive Hour
5th November
Segment: The Neuroscience Behind Stage Fright
Live recording Catalyst Club: Brighton
​22nd September


Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
26th October
Department of Psychological Sciences
​Birkbeck, University of London

Invited Speaker
Developmental Neurocognition Laboratory
18th October
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Autism Workshop​
​Can Lateralised Motor Action Act as a Marker for Children at Risk for ASD?
6th September
(Birkbeck, University of London
Wellcome Trust)


ISBE: Symposium: Fine Motor Coordination and Langauge Abilities in Children
3rd August
University of Exeter

Catalyst Club: Brighton
10th March
The Evolution of Modern Human Cognition


Royal Society: Motor Laterality: 
28-29 April
Closed Conference, Chicheley Hall
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