Our success and esteem has been recognised in a number of awards and honours for our staff, including:
- Dr Matthew Apps was the recipient of the of the Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award in 2018 and the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Early Career Award in 2020
- Professor Jessica Woodhams and colleagues were awarded the College of Social Sciences' Outstanding Impact Prize 2019
- Dr Clayton Hickey and Dr Patricia Lockwood were awarded the APS Rising Star Award in 2015 and 2019 respectively
- Professor Jessica Woodhams was awarded A Real Impact Award 2019 for research with Real World Positive Change
- BACN (British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience) Mid-career award, Chris Miall, 2018
- University of Birmingham Founders’ Award. The Joseph Chamberlain Award for Academic Advancement, Professor Ole Jensen, 2018
- Times Higher Education Research Project of the Year, Dr Heather Flow, 2018
- In 2018 the Early-career award of British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience award to Dr Joseph Galea
- In 2018 Professor Ole Jensen received The Joseph Chamberlain Award for Academic Advancement at University of Birmingham
- ASSC 22 Conference Krakow, Poland - Student poster competition - Prize in Psychology, Consuelo Vidal Gran, 2018
- Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Awards for Educational Innovation, Dr Fay Julal Cnossen, 2017
- Research Impact Award at the University of Bath, Hermine Graham, 2017
- International Thesis Award from the American-Psychology Law Society, Melissa Colloff, 2017
- Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, Chris Miall, 2017
- Datablitz prize at 14th Conference of the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation-Special Interest Group –World Federation of Neurorehabilitation, Gerry Riley, 2017
- Society for Mental Health Research Oration Award, Stephen Wood, 2017
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Simon Hanslmayr, 2017
- International Networking Award from Women in Cognitive Science, Melissa Colloff, 2017
- Junior Award in Forensic Psychology for Work of Outstanding Quality and Innovation, Juliane Kloess, 2016
- Young Investigator Award, International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG), Hyojin Park, 2016
- BPS Fellowship, John Rose, 2016
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Ole Jensen, 2016
- Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science, Ole Jensen, 2016
- Margaret Donaldson Early Career Prize, awarded by the developmental psychology section of the BPS, Andy Bremner, 2013, Sarah Beck, 2011, Ian Apperly, 2008.
- Dr Heather Flowe was shortlisted in the category of Outstanding Emerging Impact for the University Impact Awards
- Professor Ole Jensen received Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards in 2016
- Professor Rachel Upthegrove and Professor Matthew Broome are elected Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Dr Suzanne Higgs was awarded the Hoebel research prize from the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
- The 2016 Young Investigator Award from the International Conference on Biomagnetism was awarded to Dr Hyojin Park
- APS Rising Star Award, Clayton Hickey, 2015