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Guidance on the use of Society designations and titles
Members are encouraged to use their designations as an important benefit of membership.  They send out a powerful professional message about their status, experience and professionalism.
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Society announces 2011 Book Award shortlist
The shortlisted books for the Society's 2011 Book Award have been announced. The Award recognises major contributions to the advancement of psychology.
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Help our Careers Team for your chance to win an iTunes voucher
BPS Careers provides information on the
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Interested in a career in psychology? Psychology4Students is the event for you
Over 1000 students are expected to attend the flagship Society events Psychology4Students 2011 this autumn. There are still places available for the one on 1 December at Watford Colosseum. These popular events give A level and first year undergraduate students a glimpse into the world of psychology.
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Celebrating the 200th edition of the Research Digest
To celebrate the 200th edition of the
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Psychologists petition against DSM 5
Several divisions of the American Psychological Association have signed an open letter highly critical of DSM 5 – the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Sta
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The Resilient Brain: BA/BPS Lecture 2011
Which of us has not at some point wrestled to remember the name of a famous film star whose face we can quite clearly picture? Or walked into a room to fetch something, only to forget what it is we went there for?
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The Connected Baby DVD is now on sale
The Connected Baby, a DVD produced with the help of a public engagement grant from the Society, can now be purchased from the website dedicated to the film. Dr Suzanne Zeedyk from the University of Dundee, who wrote and produced the film with Jonathan Robertson, tells us:
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Mental Health Europe opposes funding cuts
The economic crisis will not last for ever, but cuts in social services, although seemingly cost efficient now, will have lasting negative effects, says Mental Health Europe (MHE) in a statement to mark World
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World Mental Health Day 2011
On 10 October the Society joined five other professional organisations to call for mental health funding to be maintained despite the economic down turn. The following letter was sent to a number of national newspapers Dear Sir
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For World Mental Health Day 2011
The British Psychological Society has joined a number of other major professional organisations to call for investment in mental health services despite the current economic downturn.
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How the Society helped the makers of Johnny English Reborn
One of the more unusual requests for help that the Society received last year came from the makers of Johnny English Reborn. They told us that one of the characters in the film was a psychologist and that they needed our help in making her office look authentic.
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Staffordshire University psychologist's outstanding contribution honoured
Dr Mark Forshaw, deputy director of the Centre for Health Psychology at Staffordshire University, has received an award from the Society’s Division of Health Psychology.
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BA/BPS Lecture 2011: The Resilient Brain
Yesterday evening Professor Lorraine Tyler FBA gave this year's British Association/British Psychological Society Lecture at the Royal Society in London. Her subject was “The Resilient Brain: Cognition and Ageing”.
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We fund a new film: The Connected Baby
The Society has funded a new film created by research psychologist Suzanne Zeedyk. Entitled The Connected Baby, the movie looks at how newborn babies are linked to other people from a very young age.
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Our 2011 public engagement grants
A collection of resources for elite athletes with learning disabilities and a project to communicate psychology to the public through expressive dance are among the schemes to receive a public engagement grant from the
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We support practical science lessons
The Society has submitted evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee for its
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See us at the British Science Festival
Children and families are learning about psychology and how it influences everyday life, thanks to a series of experiments and talks being staged at the British Science Festival in Bradford today (Wednesday) and tomorrow.
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The Society's oldest member celebrates her 100th birthday
Dr Gertrud Holmes, the Society’s oldest member, celebrated her 100th birthday at Greyfriars Court in Lewes on 8 June this year. For many years an educational psychologist in Chelmsford, Dr Holmes remembers mourning the death of Emperor Franz Josef when she was five years old.
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Society offers help to PM in riots aftermath
Dr Carole Allan, the new President of the British Psychological Society, has written to the prime minister offering the help of the Society and its members in the aftermath of the recent riots:
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Dr Carole Allan is new BPS President
Dr Carole Allan has been elected President of the British Psychological Society for 2011-12 in a ballot of members. Dr Allan is Professional Lead for Psychology in Glasgow, and has worked in various service posts in Adult Mental Health and Addictions, as well as in training at the University of Glasgow.
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Professor Sir Steve Field to speak at clinical psycholgy conference
The man who chaired the government’s ‘listening exercise’ on National Health Service reform is to speak at the Annual Conference of the Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology.
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Rosalind Franklin Medal
Psychologist and BPS member Professor Francesca Happé has been awarded this year's Rosalind Franklin Medal by the Royal Society for her outstanding contribution to science.
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Wiley Prize
The developmental psychologist Professor Michael Tomasello (Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig) is the recipient of this year's Wiley Prize in Psychology, awarded by the British Academy in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell.
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Dr Carole Allan is our new President
The members’ ballot for President of the Society (2011-12) has been won by Dr Carole Allan.
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