Archive

March 2019

Why do we need psychology? And what does psychology need?

The winning entries in our first 'Voices In Psychology' programme.

‘Educational psychologists need to be real change agents’

Dr Juliet Whitehead is Assistant Principal Educational Psychologist in Coventry and Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP). As told to Ian Florance.

‘Connection with another human being is at the heart of the job’

Trevor Powell, winner of the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2017, recalls his journey in a changing landscape.

One on one… with Alma Au

We dip into the Society member database and pick out… Alma Au, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Mass observation – ‘the science of ourselves’

Graham M. Davies and Alan Costall on a forgotten precursor of today’s applied psychology.

Embrace the unknown

Chris Ferguson washes his hands of ‘science laundering’: cleaning up messy data for public consumption.

Children’s friendships

Elian Fink and Claire Hughes review the evidence.

Shining a light on the dark side

Adrian Furnham on the importance of personality at work, and how to select the right stuff.

‘There is nothing I’d rather be doing than fighting the corner for people with psychosis’

Dr Emmanuelle Peters is director of the Psychology Interventions Clinic for Outpatients with Psychosis (PICuP) at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a Reader in the Psychology Department of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She is a winner of the BPS Professional Practice Board’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Practice. Jon Sutton poses the questions.

‘The psychological will always be there… it’s like my skeleton’

Hussain Manawer is a poet, and Honorary Fellow of King’s College London for his work in mental health. Debbie Gordon (Assistant to the Managing Editor) went along to meet him.