A Northampton University student has been awarded a $3,000 (£1,811)scholarship to complete his studies on telepathy and clairvoyance. Callum Cooper, from Mansfield, Notts, a final year BSc Psychology student, has been awarded the grant from the Parapsychology Foundation in the US.
He will be looking into the scientific study of the possible existence of psychic abilities and life after death. He hopes to do a PhD Research Degree on apparitions and hallucinations in 2010.
Mr Cooper said: ”My interest in the paranormal began growing up in Nottinghamshire where there is a vast amount of history of hauntings.
BBC (thanks Pandora)
coooooooool
Wooo repping the Northampton uni!!! Lol =D
I think we know what kind of spirits that scholarship money will be spent on.
What if he uses his powers to read the minds of over students during his final exam?
Callum Cooper, I’m thriller and very happy for you for the power of your mind, and your spooky and beyond the range of normal studies. Happy (daily) Halloween, alien encounters and ghosts-busting.
This will be an interesting one to follow.
I wonder if his psychic powers have told him that £1800 won’t cover his beer money ? I foresee in the future that he’ll be very unemployed (or popping up on most haunted) Isn’t Education great?
He’s obviously serious about all this so good luck to him.
Btw, he is a cutie-pie!
LC x
how D:
I would love to know how this is going to be reviewed for the viva and where any subsequent research can be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Mad, absolutely mad! Maybe i’ll do my PhD research into garden gnomes.
his punishment is that he is at university in northampton
Waste of money
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Good to see money flowing from a US parapsychology foundation to a student in the UK. Let us hope he he is a good scientist, and able to assess the his results for what they are.
However, a more productive line of research might be into why people believe paranormal stuff.
Should maybe listen to Susan Blackmore on
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/podcast-afternoon-tea-with-richard-wiseman/
and read
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/NS2000.html
I think this man is wasting his time, chasing ghosts that may are may not exist, I think he would do better to have something more useful, like civil engineering or do a trade and be a plumber or something like that. I have worked in a so called ‘haunted building’ and I have heard all the ghost stories, and I experienced nothing. He has wasted his time and energy on fuck all, but adolescent dreams.
ghosts via phone and texts … hm, not much heard of here.
I wonder how they do the research in haunted houses. Record stuff, vids etc? Check history of house etc.
Research team .. that I find sounds quite entertaining .. you have a technician and .. erm .. location scout … the interviewer … the culture/history person .. the fact tracker, the team leader ? Oh well, this type of research, however interesting I myself find it at times, makes me also grin a bit at times. Some things I myself would not really see to for research that is. Just for fun.
It’s not much, the money, but probably enough.
wow. Didnt see that coming.
For those saying waste of money, I envy your a priori knowledge of the complete workings of the universe. If you want to be clear about the existence or non-existence of these kind of things, you need to let them be investigated rationally and scientifically in laboratory settings with double blind experiments and then let those results be viewed without emotional or political bias by peer review. I doubt this will happen but it would be nice.
If he’s interested in that then – so be it!
If he’s a bright lad, he’ll recognise after some time that the only evidence for such things are based in the human mind and evolve into looking into that instead.
If he’s not he’ll be led into it until it defines him and will never find a way back……
God, I should not drink so much red wine on a sunday…….
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I’ll need to see more pictures of this very attractive young man before I can judge the academic merits of his research
He’s HOT! He can come check my house out for hauntings ; )
OMG he’s adorable!
I’d give him the $3000 just for looking that hot.
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What, so all you lot are against academic empirical research now? Blimey, the poor buggers can’t win – either their claims are shit because they’re not subject to the rigours of research, or someone shouldn’t be allowed to research paranormal claims because they’re shit. you people are HARSH.
He doing RESEARCH – do any of you have any idea what that means?
Well, I suppose it’s cheaper than dole money in the long run.