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WRIHW Newsletter 104, the last of 2022, should be in your inboxes now!

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter (and the final one this year) should be arriving in your inbox this morning.

Three reasons why strong perfumes give you a headache

Humans can smell over 1 trillion odours. But no two people will react in quite the same way to the same smell. Professor Amanda Ellison from our Department of Psychology explains why.
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The first ECR Networking Event - A Thank you

On 8th December the WRIHW Early Career Researcher’s (ECR) Committee held a networking event for ECRs. 
WRIHW Networking Event

Wolfson Co-Director Book Launch 14th December 2022, 2.30 - 3.30

Join Jonathan Wistow and Luke Telford (University of York) for a fascinating discussion of their new book, Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change
Levelling Up

New WRIHW Fellow Publication! What’s really going on when a child is ‘overtired’ – and how to help them go to sleep

Anyone who’s cared for a young child will recognise the signs. They’ve had too little sleep or missed a nap, they’re cranky, tearful, and stroppy, and they can’t or won’t fall sleep. They are “overtired”. But is such a thing really possible – to be more tired than tired?
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The latest Wolfson Newsletter (Issue 103) is out now

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter should be arriving in your inbox this morning.
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