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The BPS secured a place in London Pride on July 2 for the first time in the event’s 50-year history. Rob Agnew, a member of the Sexualities Section who worked on the bid, looks back on the day and reflects and on why it was so significant.
View resultThe following article has been produced by the BPS Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Workstream.
View resultThe BPS Early Career Conference Bursary Scheme is designed to support the work of early career psychologists by helping to fund their attendance at relevant academic conferences,
View resultJonathan Calder of the BPS Press Team, lays out some of the reasons and rationale behind the use of the society twitter account(s).
View resultThe following article has been produced by Rosie Horne, who recently joined our Policy Team here at The British Psychological Society.
View resultThe new Stage 2 Qualification in Occupational Psychology is currently undergoing an overhaul designed to bring it into line with the new Stage 1 MSc, and the BPS is looking for input from its members on how this should proceed.
View resultThis article is published on behalf of Dr Lisa Morrison-Coulthard (Acting Director of Policy) and Dr Jon Sutton (Acting Director of Communications).
View resultAfter the surprise result of last week’s election, the Society’s Kathryn Scott, Director of Policy & Communications, and Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, Lead Policy Advisor, look at how changes in policies, personalities, and power dynamics in Parliament could affect our discipline.
View result05 August 2022
The coalition, led by the BPS has written to the Crown Prosecution Service to warn of the potentially ‘devastating impact’ of new rape victim guidance, which could prevent victims from accessing vital therapy.
05 August 2022
The BPS is pleased to see the Health and Social Care Select Committee has used its evidence to underpin important proposals in its report on body image.
28 July 2022
A new mentoring initiative launched by the BPS and publishers Wiley aims to help early career researchers build their reviewing skills.
28 July 2022
Today NHS England has announced a new regional model for gender identity services for children and young people.
25 July 2022
The BPS, which provided written evidence to both reports, says they highlight the stark workforce gaps and the need for immediate action on staff wellbeing, retention and recruitment.
21 July 2022
The changes our members voted in favour of earlier this year have now received formal approval from the Privy Council, and we can now begin putting them into practice.
21 July 2022
In the week the UK experienced record-breaking temperatures, the BPS’ Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) explores the issue of climate breakdown for Educational Psychologists.
21 July 2022
The BPS is gravely concerned about the damaging mental health impacts of the detention, treatment and eventual deportation of asylum seekers.
20 July 2022
The #Makeit10 campaign aims to make social class a protected characteristic to 'level up' and tackle discrimination.
08 July 2022
The BPS has called the use of unregulated experts in family courts ‘damaging and dangerous' as it launches its updated Expert Witness guidance.
30 June 2022
As part of a coalition of mental health organisations across the UK, the BPS has cautiously welcomed the new NICE depression guidelines.
23 June 2022
The BPS is delighted to partner with Routledge to offer its members an exclusive discount on all Routledge books and titles.
18 September 2014
THE BPS celebrates its centenary this year, a fitting juncture at which to explore the relationship between psychology and the public. The history of this relationship is longer than a hundred years: at the beginning of the last century, psychology had already come a long way from its roots. In its ‘long past’ (Farr, 1996) psychology had been entwined with philosophy. Yet by the late 1800s psychology had met a crossroads, one fork leading to the spiritual psyche, the other to scientific methods and aims of debunking (Burnham, 1987). Henceforth psychology was not only concerned with communicating the substance of research, but also with secularisation: severing ‘spiritual’ psychology from the canon of scientific activity. The First World War boosted the popularity of psychology (Burnham, 1987); the public were turning to psychology as a substitute for superstitious dissections of the soul (Rapp, 1988). From the 1920s psychology has, with peaks and troughs, remained in the public sphere. It has been conceived of as science, but also as quackery, as an expression of common sense, and as the antipathy of common sense (Harré et al., 1985). This article will consider what an analysis of press coverage of psychology says about our public image. The content of popularised psychology may not always be what psychologists would wish, but does it reflect society’s needs?
18 September 2014
What do you find newsworthy about psychology? Psychology and journalism are natural bedfellows, because psychologists seem to need publicity in a way that solid-state physicists don’t. We are the single biggest greedy audience for ‘pop’ psychology that you could imagine. Some of the stories that I’ve been most pleased with have been achieved with the help of the BPS. When the Hillsborough disaster happened I rang up Stephen White [Publications and Communications Directorate Manager] in a panic and he gave me three names. Two were out but the third one I rang was a man whose expertise was not only in the psychology of crowd movement and flow, he was actually a Sheffield Wednesday fan. It was wonderful, I got more useful information about how these things are in some way inevitable in certain conditions… I couldn’t have made it up. The great thing about talking to the most media-savvy psychologists is that you not only couldn’t make it up, you get better stuff than if you made it up.
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