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Free course: Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Free course: Childhood in the digital age

...psychology and development...Resources and preparation for your free course [Mother and daughter using tablet to do homework] Whether you're a technophobe or you champion all things digital, you can find out more about how technology has shaped the development and experience of the children of today with our free course 'Childhood in the Digital Age'. Whether you are...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...psychological perspective and social need perspective come to make sense of mental ill-health...Over the past century there has been a radical shift in responses to people who experience mental health problems. In this free course, Making sense of mental health problems, you will learn about how key perspectives in the field have made sense of mental health problems. By...
Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...psychology, is interesting - but it can and should go further, believes Claire Hewson...[A paper cow] The experimental philosophy movement, or ‘XPhi’, has recently emerged as an approach within philosophy that sets out to borrow experimental methods from psychology. It aims to diversify the methodological toolkit of traditional philosophy, and is very relevant to my...
Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you make sense of change. ...Anxiety and change Since the start of 2020, every individual in the world has been impacted by change to some extent. For many people the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a different way of doing things, whether that was simply by washing your hands for longer, not shaking...
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...psychological dimension to the program that is integral to its success and suspense. Intelligent, desirable, yet psychologically unstable women characters are a common feature of thrillers. In fact they are a staple of the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood film noir genre. Take for instance the extraordinarily glamorous yet unhinged character of Gene Tierney in Leave Her to...
Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...Psychology Dr Meg-John Barker challenges the 'gender is binary and fixed at birth' narrative...[Girl and boy sitting down and being affectionate. ] In my last blog for Methods in Motion I outlined my whole project of creating psychosocially informed self-help, and the various methods involved: reviewing existing theory and research; analysing existing self-help;...
Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer
Society, Politics & Law

Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer

...Psychology, Teesside University Emma Turley, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, CQUniversity Australia Lisa Lazard, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Lois Catrin Donnelly, Associate Lecturer in Psychology, University of Worcester Lucy Thompson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University This article is republished from The Conversation...
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...psychologically – to wear England’s emblem, the Red Rose...The psychology of rugby shapes every performance. Behind the scenes lie early mornings, lonely and punishing rehab sessions, playing through pain, brutal setbacks, private doubts and personal sacrifices. Before the whistle blows and the crowd roars, players stretch aching muscles, re-tape old injuries and...