Name: Inside the Mind: Thinking, Learning and Connecting
Start: 2026-05-18T19:00:00
End: 2026-05-18T21:00:00
Location: Department Coffee + Supplies at Campfield House

How does your mind shape who you are, what you know, and how you connect with others? Explore identity and recovery after stroke, test yourself with interactive brain games, and discover how language influences how we share and understand information. A fun, thought-provoking evening revealing how we think, learn and make sense of ourselves and the world.

The part of stroke recovery we don't talk about: Identity and connection

Lauren Lucas (Honorary Research Associate, Division of Psychology & Mental Health at the University of Manchester; licensed physiotherapist)

What happens to your sense of self after a stroke? Discover how changes to identity can shape recovery, confidence and long-term health. Lauren Lucas, a post-doctoral researcher in psychology and physiotherapist specialising in stroke rehabilitation, explores how relationships and support can influence how we think, adapt and rebuild after stroke.

Brain Games

Ben Ambridge (Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Manchester and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development)

Put your mind to the test with Professor Ben Ambridge, author of Psy-Q and Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee?, through interactive quizzes, puzzles and experiments exploring how we think.

Do children know how they know what they know?

Birsu Kandemirci (Lecturer in Psychology, Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience at the University of Manchester)

Do you gossip? (Of course you do!) But do you gossip linguistically accurately? What if I told you we gossip differently in different languages? Some languages use specific grammatical structures to show where information comes from, while others take a more relaxed approach. My research explores whether this affects how young children track information sources at a cognitive level. (Don’t worry—we didn’t actually ask children to gossip!)

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