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Victorian Mathematicians, War-time Psychologists and 70s Disco Dancers: Mary Boole Stott and Careers Advice in the BPS Archive
For this instalment of the History of Psychology Centre blog, we’re exploring the life of an exceptional, but largely forgotten former BPS member, Mary Boole Stott (1893–1962).
View resultMay you live until 120
It is a tradition when I was brought up to wish family and friends a long life - how long is long? "May you live to be 120" they would say.
View resultCharlotte Wolff – Pioneering Research
Who was Charlotte Wolff and why is her life and research something to remember during LGBTQ History Month?
View resultLearning from experiences – the pioneering Life of Marie Jahoda
Sophie O’Reilly, from our History of Psychology department, is back again with a fascinating look at the life of pioneering social psychologist, Marie Jahoda (1907-2001).
View resultBeginnings in occupational psychology: The National Institute of Industrial Psychology
This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP).
View resultBPS and Equality
The following article has been provided by Sophie O’Reilly, Assistant Archivist and part of the society’s History of Psychology Centre.
View result100 Years of Member Networks
The 24th of October marks the 118th anniversary of the formation of the British Psychological Society as well as 100 years since the first BPS Member Networks were formed.
View result'Restraint, power and fineness' - remembering W.H.R. Rivers
04 June 2022 marks the 100th anniversary since the death of one of the original BPS founders, W.H.R. Rivers.
View resultThe Personality of British Lawn Tennis Players
With Wimbledon now underway our Assistant Archivist, Lucy Parker, would like to use this opportunity to highlight the pioneering work of Barbara Knapp in tennis and psychology.
View resultLessons from history
It is difficult to write a blog at this time without reflecting on experiences over the past few corona virus filled months.
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New report into BPS archives and History of Psychology Centre published
03 February 2023
The BPS has published a new report into the BPS archives, with several recommendations made to ensure they are relevant, refreshed and useful to all who wish to use them.
- BPS updates
BPS to produce new resource on history of IQ testing
05 December 2023
The BPS History of Psychology Centre (HOPC) has been awarded funding to produce a resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system.
- BPS updates
Applications open for new History of Psychology Centre Advisory Committee
14 April 2023
We’re looking for talented individuals with the relevant expertise and passion to join the new History of Psychology Centre (HOPC) Advisory Committee.
- BPS updates
- History and philosophy
BPS seeks applications for a new research initiative which aims to shed light on history of marginalised groups in UK psychology
07 November 2022
The BPS has linked up with the University of Leicester to offer an Arts Humanities Research Council-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) for the first time.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Research
BPS seeking applications for PhD in challenging histories
14 November 2023
The BPS has linked up with the University of Leicester to offer an Arts Humanities Research Council-funded CDA focusing on the challenging history of UK psychology.
- BPS updates
PsychHub – a great resource for BPS members
08 October 2020
Today we launch PsychHub, our revamped gateway giving British Psychological Society members easy access to the latest psychological research and resources.
- Research
Exposing and challenging racism in the British education system, an oral history
15 May 2022
The BPS has published an oral history with Waveney Bushell, often regarded as the first Black female educational psychologist.
- Education
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
History of Psychology Centre call for donations of records relating to Black Psychology and Black Psychologists in the UK
14 October 2022
To coincide with Black History Month, the History of Psychology Centre (HoPC) is calling for donations of records relating to Black Psychology and Black Psychologists.
- Race, ethnicity and culture
Donating your kidney to a stranger can lead to better mental wellbeing, study reveals
23 July 2021
People who donate their kidney to strangers who would die without a transplant experience better mental wellbeing for up to six years after surgery, says a study published today in a British Psychological Society journal.
- Health
Congratulations to the winners of our Practice Board’s Distinguished Contribution to Practice Award
07 June 2023
Dr Dan O’Hare, Professor Leam A. Craig and Dr Kokkwang Lim have been confirmed as the 2023 winners of one of our most prestigious awards.
- BPS updates
New competence framework seeks to improve the care of mental health patients in hospitals
24 May 2022
A new competence framework, endorsed by the PBS, has been developed by psychologists in a bid to improve the care of mental health patients with complex needs in hospitals.
- Mental health
- NHS
Award-winning mental health service is a “game-changer”, say psychologists
22 December 2021
An award-winning mental health support service for children being treated for long-term physical health conditions is a "game-changer", according to the psychologists involved in it, including chartered BPS member Professor Roz Shafran.
- Children, young people and families
History of IQ testing
02 February 2024
The BPS History of Psychology Centre will be creating a resource that explores the history and wider social implications of IQ testing.
- BPS updates
- Ethics and morality
- History and philosophy
Broadening the Society archive
07 November 2022
The BPS History of Psychology Centre is appealing for donations of records relating to Black Psychology and Black Psychologists in the UK.
- BPS updates
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Race, ethnicity and culture
- Teaching and learning
Society, February 2006
18 February 2006
Professional psychology award 2005 for Gill Aitken.
- BPS updates
Society, December 2010
18 December 2010
President’s column; new Community Psychology Section, and a call to support the formation of a Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Section; improving work–life balance; preserving our history; and psychology at the Science Museum
- BPS updates
The women who made psychology
10 November 2017
Ella Rhodes reports from the British Psychological Society's seventh annual Stories of Psychology event.
- History and philosophy
- Sex and gender
‘It’s taking women’s accounts seriously’
31 July 2024
Ella Rhodes on a project from Psychology’s Feminist Voices and the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES).
- History and philosophy
- Sex and gender
Mollie Hunte: Educational Psychologist, educator and activist
04 October 2023
An online exhibition in October, hosted by the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, will celebrate the life of Mollie Hunte. It's a collaboration with the London Metropolitan Archives, and their Archivist Rebecca Adams told us about Hunte.
- BPS updates
- Education
- Race, ethnicity and culture
Society, September 2009
18 September 2009
including President’s column; Research Board Lifetime Achievement Award; New curator of psychology.
- BPS updates
A mosaic of fragmented memories
22 July 2020
Mohamed Khougali on the therapeutic dimension of oral tradition.
Confronting eugenics
26 June 2023
Curator Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University) with panels from a travelling exhibition, ‘We are not alone: Legacies of eugenics’.
- Ethics and morality
- Race, ethnicity and culture
Society, November 2009
18 November 2009
President’s column; Presidents’ Award; accreditation; journals success; and more.
- BPS updates
The psychology of diversity and its implications for workplace (in)equality: Looking back at the last decade and forward to the next
21-03-2022
- Luke Fletcher
- T. Alexandra Beauregard
The psychology of diversity and its implications for workplace (in)equality: Looking back at the last decade and forward to the next
21-03-2022
- Luke Fletcher
- T. Alexandra Beauregard
Poverty, ACEs and stigmatised places: The application of psychology to the challenges of disadvantage
02-03-2023
- Rhiannon Corcoran
When open data closes the door: A critical examination of the past, present and the potential future for open data guidelines in journals
08-09-2022
- Annayah M. B. Prosser
- Richard J. T. Hamshaw
- Johanna Meyer
- Ralph Bagnall
- Leda Blackwood
- Monique Huysamen
- Abbie Jordan
- Konstantina Vasileiou
- Zoe Walter
Poverty, ACEs and stigmatised places: The application of psychology to the challenges of disadvantage
02-03-2023
- Rhiannon Corcoran
UK occupational/organizational psychology, applied science and applied humanism: Some further thoughts on what we have forgotten
24-12-2010
- Richard Kwiatkowski
- David C. Duncan
A systematic review of team formulation in clinical psychology practice: Definition, implementation, and outcomes
03-10-2017
- Nicole Geach
- Nima G. Moghaddam
- Danielle De Boos
Assessing ‘good’ qualitative research in the work psychology field: A narrative analysis
01-02-2011
- Catherine Cassell
- Gillian Symon
Conducting a consensus conference to design a psychology service model for acute mental health wards
17-06-2020
- Jessica Raphael
- Gillian Haddock
- Dawn Edge
- Karina Lovell
- Sandra Bucci
- Rachel Winter
- Richard Drake
- Owen Price
- Katherine Berry
The British Journal of Psychology centenary: A preliminary content survey and its problems
24-12-2010
- Graham Richards
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
07-03-2017
- Diana Smart
- George J. Youssef
- Ann Sanson
- Margot Prior
- John W. Toumbourou
- Craig A. Olsson
Training and disillusion in Counselling Psychology: A psychoanalytic perspective
24-12-2010
- Rizq Rosemary