Spotlight on Nottingham

Next stop on our 'Spotlight' tour of the UK is Nottingham. I've always found psychologists working at the two universities there to be welcoming and nicely 'applied', so I took the short hop on the train from Leicester to meet new and old faces.

As a reminder, the idea of this series is to say something about place and community through the work of psychologists based there. It can only ever be a snapshot, so if you're based in a city, etc, that we cover, don't think you've missed your opportunity to contribute to the magazine! And if you think there might be interesting stories of Psychology to tell around where you are, do drop us a line.

Dr Jon Sutton, Editor
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Conversations

• 'You have to know your community'
  With Dr Niamh McNamara, Associate Professor in Social Psychology and Groups, Identities and Health Research Group lead at Nottingham Trent University.
• 'There's greater recognition of the therapeutic power of online communities'
  With Neil Coulson, Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Nottingham
• 'Trauma is not in a vacuum, it's always in relation to other people'
  With Blerina Kellezi, Associate Professor in Social and Trauma Psychology and Lead of the Trauma, Social Isolation and Mental Health research group at Nottingham Trent University.
• 'People really want to support neurodivergent people – they just sometimes  don't know how'
  With Danielle Ropar, Professor of Psychology at the University of Nottingham
• 'Our assumption of a lack of empathy in dark traits was blown out of the water'
  With Dr Nadja Heym, Associate Professor in Personality Psychology and Psychopathology at Nottingham Trent University
• 'Background will shape how we view, assess and relate to people'
  With forensic psychologist and chartered member, Dr Palwinder Athwal-Kooner