Archive
September 2019
Schooling the good citizen
Our editor Jon Sutton introduces a special collection on psychological attempts to shift attitudes and behaviour amongst the next generation.
A recipe for taste connoisseurs
Can schools teach children lessons in healthy eating? Helen Coulthard looks at the evidence…
Imagine all the people
Siân Jones considers contact interventions and prejudice towards immigrants in schools.
Civic and political engagement in young people
Martyn Barrett and Dimitra Pachi look beyond voting, at what schools can do to encourage active citizenship.
‘It’s a real critical period around gender’
Sarah Davidson is Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Our editor Jon Sutton poses the questions.
‘It’s a film about choice and dignity and capacity as human beings’
Ella Rhodes attends a screening and discussion around '55 Steps', directed by Bille August.
Why we need to make birth better
To mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week, Dr Emma Svanberg outlines a model of birth trauma and efforts to raise awareness and share stories.
Queer approaches to depathologisation
In this 'long read' chapter from her new book 'Queer Ink: A Blotted History Towards Liberation', Katherine Hubbard considers the contributions of Evelyn Hooker and June Hopkins.
Breaking down barriers
Pooky Knightsmith on school-based approaches to mental health.
Teaching individuals gender equality and respect
Dan O’Hare is a Chartered Educational Psychologist working for an English Local Authority and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol. He currently volunteers with TIGER, a Bristol-based cooperative, mostly delivering workshops in schools.
A history of stigma
Kellye McBride on how Foucault’s ideas around confinement and civilisation can help to change views of mental illness.
One on one... with Dr Martina Gerada
We dip into the Society member database and pick…Dr Martina Gerada counselling psychologist in private practice & lecturer at City University of London.
Building resilience to radicalisation
Lynn Davies on efforts to create a world where ‘everyone is an insider’.
‘I feel I can make a positive contribution at what is a critical time’
David Murphy took over as President of the British Psychological Society at the AGM in July. Here, Dr Roman Raczka (the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology England Lead) interviewed him for the DCP London newsletter, with additional question [starred] for The Psychologist.
August 2019
‘It doesn’t have to be this way’
Michael West, Professor of Organisational Psychology (Lancaster University Management School) and Visiting Fellow with the King’s Fund, spoke with Ella Rhodes to outline three major projects he is involved with for one of the largest employers in the world – the NHS.
July 2019
‘Everyone has something to add to this conversation'
Within this special collection, a range of articles explore different elements of alcohol use.
June 2019
Big data in the big city
Catherine Lido on using novel technology to explore inclusion in Learning Cities.
May 2019
How do we ‘other’?
Peter Hegarty on asymmetries of reasoning for lay and professional psychologists alike.
April 2019
Experiencing the impossible
Gustav Kuhn considers the science of magic, and what it reveals about the human mind.
March 2019
Why do we need psychology? And what does psychology need?
The winning entries in our first 'Voices In Psychology' programme.
February 2019
The new hidden persuaders?
Ella Rhodes considers whether shadowy influencers are really pulling our strings.
January 2019
More than a gut feeling
John F. Cryan addressed the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Psychobiology Section.
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