Tag Archives: colour

2020 wasn’t all bad

January 31, 2021newscolour, colour education, education, PhD in colours.westland@leeds.ac.uk

2020 was a depressing year in many ways for obvious reasons. However, I was still really proud of the four PhD students who graduated with me during this year.

Keith Findlater graduated with a PhD in high-dynamic range imaging, Sarah Hasbullah graduated with a PhD in colour for colour in fashion and body image, Jing Lin graduated with a PhD in the effect of coloured light on alertness and Jie Yang graduated with a PhD in colour and landscape images. It’s always exciting to see where graduated students go next. I already know that Sarah and Jie have academic positions and Keith has got a great job in medical imaging in the NHS.

You can see find publications from these students and others at my personal page at http://stephenwestland.co.uk/

Does Red Make the Heart Beat Faster?

January 30, 2021knowledge, news, podcast, psychologycolour, health, heart rate, sleeps.westland@leeds.ac.uk

We had a lot of fun with our third colour podcast. We started off talking about the colour vision of unicorns and my co-presenter Huw put forward a very entertaining suggestion of what their colour vision would be like if they existed. We then explored the effect of colour and light on health. The effect of colour on heart rate and blood pressure is still contentious which is extraordinary, I think after all of these years that the scientific community has been studying colour. We also spoke about the role of colour and light on sleep. Sleep is really really important. Watching this TED talk by Matthew Walker about sleep might be the most important thing that you watch this year.

When Did Humans First See Colour?

January 30, 2021knowledge, nature, news, podcastcolour, evolution, philosophys.westland@leeds.ac.uk

In our second colour podcast we chat about how long human colour vision has been the way it has. When did we first colour? How long have we even been human?

Can Dogs See Colour?

January 30, 2021fun, knowledge, nature, news, podcastcolour, colour vision, dogss.westland@leeds.ac.uk

Our first colour podcast was all about animal colour vision. Can dogs see colour? Are bulls enraged by the colour red? Can they even see it? And which animals have even better colour vision than we do. You can list to this short podcast here.