Early Career Hallucinations Research Group

Want to join @echrgroup? Simply complete this form if you’re an #ECR or junior researcher with an interest in #hallucinations #HearingVoices or other #unusualexperiences bit.ly/ECHRregistrati…

Want fairer academic publishing? Support not-for-profit & Diamond Open Access journals — our latest blog post from @davidesmailes explores why it matters. read it here 👉 echr.group/2025/11/05/why… #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #ResearchForAll

Thinking about using pre-prints but not sure if it’s worth it? In our latest post, @davidesmailes explores how sharing your research early boosts visibility, accelerates impact, and keeps you in control. Read it here 👉 echr.group/2025/10/31/why… #OpenScience #Preprints

Why share your data? It strengthens transparency, reduces research waste, and boosts accountability—while respecting ethics and privacy. Read more 👉 echr.group/2025/10/23/why… #OpenScience #DataSharing #ResearchTips

Ever feel like your study’s results don’t really “hit home”? That might be a measurement problem. Our new blog dives into why good measurement is critical (and how to get there). Read it 👉 echr.group/2025/10/17/why… #ResearchTips #ScienceTwitter #OpenScience

In this week’s Open Science Series, @davidesmailes explores why open-source software makes research more robust, collaborative, and impactful. Read more 👉 echr.group/2025/10/03/why… #OpenScience #OpenSource #Research #researchreproducibility

Our new blog dives into 40 years of research linking childhood adversity and psychosis - showing increased risk, emotional abuse as a key factor, and implications for care and prevention. Read it here: echr.group/2025/09/30/chi… #Psychosis #MentalHealth #Research #EarlyIntervention

Why share your research materials? 🧪 @DaveSmailes explains the benefits for transparency, reproducibility & scientific progress in his latest Open Science blog post. echr.group/2025/09/26/why… #OpenScience #ECR #ResearchTransparency

And that’s a wrap for #echr2024 Thank you to all our amazing members for presenting their research and helping to build our community. echr.group

@davidesmailes @HaydnJFarrelly A final presentation from our co-chair @CatherineBorto1 about the link between shame, voice hearing in dissociative identity disorder in a phenomenological exploration.

@davidesmailes And our last presenter of the conference is @HaydnJFarrelly presenting his novel multisensory method for examining hallucinations and perceptual aberrations in the lab.

The wonderful Sohee Park kicked off our second day of #echr2024 with a talk on the psychopathology of self disorders ‘Schizophrenia in the flesh’

Finally we have Elisabeth Sterner on investigating predictive language processing and task-induced auditory verbal hallucinations in individuals with psychotic-like experiences!

Helen Olawole-Scott talks about expected precision, speech perception and unusual experiences

This afternoon session starts with Luka Jelić talking about air- and bone-conducted self-other voice discrimination in patients with auditory-verbal hallucinations. #echr2024