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Rowing gold medallist to speak at Cheltenham Science Festival
The Olympic gold medallist Greg Searle will be taking part in one of the sessions we are sponsoring at next month’s Cheltenham Science Festival. Searle, who won the coxed pairs at the 1992 Barcelona Games with his brother Jonny and cox Garry Herbert, will be taking part in a session on “The mind of an Olympic champion”.
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Vacancies for Journal editors
Vacancies for the post of Editor in the following journals are available:
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Psychology to play a full part at Cheltenham Science Festival
Using touchscreen technology to help people living with dementia and the latest developments in sport psychology will both be discussed in sessions we are sponsoring at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival next month.
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Society statement on DWP jobseekers' test
Recently there has been controversy over a psychological test that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been using with jobseekers.
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Annual Conference discussion on obesity
Three experts are taking part in a discussion on obesity at our Annual Conference next week.
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Society makes two equalities awards
Dr Martin Milton and Professor Mark Burton have each received a Society Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity for 2012.
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Public Engagement Grants
The Society’s public engagement grants aim to support members promoting psychology to wider audiences either through direct public engagement or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities.
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Professor Uta Frith on BBC Radio 4's desert island
An Honorary Fellow of the Society was a castaway on Desert Island Discs last week. Listen again to Professor Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at University College London, talking to Kirsty Young on Radio 4.
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Susan Van Scoyoc wins Society award
The Professional Practice Board’s Practitioner of the Year Award 2012 has gone to Susan Van Scoyoc for her outstanding commitment to professional practice in court and family work, as a researcher, teacher and supervisor, and to the Society and pr
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BPS/POST Postgraduate Award
Congratulations to Faye Smith for her appointment to the joint 2013 BPS and Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Postgraduate Fellowship.
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New milestones for our Research Digest
The Society’s Research Digest blog, edited by Dr Christian Jarrett, now broke the 25,000-follower barrier on Twitter this week and is also ju
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Society issues new guidance on diagnosis
Practitioner psychologists should recognise the benefits some clients may derive from receiving a diagnosis, but should also be mindful of the harm that can result from labelling – particularly the risk of pathologising an individual.
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Marking a century of psychology in schools
In 1913 the first applied psychologist took up his post with the London County Council. His job was to assess children for special educational programmes and develop tools to indentify children who might need alternative kinds of education.
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Tributes to Professor Malcolm Adams
All those connected with the Society were shocked and saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor Malcolm Adams, Co-Director of the Clinical Psychology Programme at the University of East Anglia.
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Psychologists honoured in New Year list
Professor David Clark, Professor of Experimental Psychology and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of the Society, has been made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours list for services to mental health.
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Society members can claim a seasonal discount on John Wiley books
As a way of saying “Happy Holidays” the publisher John Wiley & Sons is offering Society members a 40 per cent discount on almost all its printed books. This offer will be open until 11 January 2013. For full details visit PsychSource, log in and click 'my book discount code' on the top menu to reveal your discount code.
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The scientific status of social psychology
Stephen Gibson, Honorary Secretary of the Society's Social Psychology Section, has a letter in this week's Times Higher Education defending social psychology.
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The Hobbit - a philosophical review
Starting with its January 2013 issue, our monthly magazine The Psychologist will feature an expanded review section. Here we offer a preview in the shape of a review of
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Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) training programmes
Handbook (2012/13) Accreditation handbook - PWP
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Winterbourne View review: Society signs joint concordat
The Society has today, Monday 10 December, welcomed the publication of the Department of Health's review of the abuse at Winterbourne View and of the Joint Concordat that sets out the key actions that will deliver change.
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1st Supervision Conference
The Conference aims to promote excellence in supervision by providing a CPD opportunity
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DSM5 approved but controversy continues
The revised fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM5) was approved on 1 December by the APA’s trustees and is due to be published in May 2013
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New stalking laws come into operation
New laws have been introduced to tackle stalking in England and Wales.
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Tell us what you think of PsychSource and win one of nine new psychology textbooks
To celebrate the launch of Psychsource, the online gateway to BPS journals, books and other key psychology literature, we shall be giving away the latest edition of an attractive psychology textbook for the next nine working days.
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Bringing evidence-based psychology to the workplace and Westminster
Poor mental health in the workplace costs UK employers an estimated £26bn, according to a new briefing published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).
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