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Inviting fresh perspectives
Following on from last month’s advert for a new Chair of the Board of Trustees, we are now in the process of recruiting the three appointed trustees into the positions that were created following the successful member vote earlier this year.
View resultElections 2025 - Shape the future of the BPS
The nomination and appointment period for three roles on our Board of Trustees is currently open, and we’re looking for people who can help us to shape the future of the BPS.
View resultThe importance of voting
Voting will soon be opening in our elections for 2024, and I want to encourage you to make sure you have your say on two important roles on our Board of Trustees.
View resultMinutes
Elections 2024: Elected Trustee role description and election process
Elections 2024: President role description
Elections 2024: President-Elect role description
Member Network Rules
Elections 2024: President-Elect application notes
Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022
BPS Code of Conduct for Members Undertaking Activities on behalf of the Society
This code is intended to guide those members who voluntarily give their time and expertise to support a wide range of society activities.
View resultFull steam ahead
Following an extensive co-production process involving members at every stage, we’re moving forward with the next phase of our review of the society’s member networks.
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New chair of Board of Trustees appointed
04 September 2024
The BPS has appointed Dr Carol Cole as the new Chair of the Society's Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
Applications open for new Chair of the Board of Trustees
27 September 2022
We are pleased to announce that applications for the new role of Chair of the Board of Trustees are now open.
- BPS updates
The BPS is looking for a new Chair of the Board of Trustees
28 June 2024
This is an exciting time to be joining the BPS. The successful candidate will possess the personal credibility, independence of thought, and experience to lead the Board of a major, high profile, national charity.
- BPS updates
Update on the progress of our consultation on BPS qualifications
17 October 2024
An update following the Board of Trustees meeting.
- BPS updates
Governance update
02 April 2024
Announcement relating to the Chair of the Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
Statement on qualifications
10 April 2024
Update following a meeting of the Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
BPS response to article in the Daily Telegraph
26 April 2021
Professor Carol McGuinness, Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees, responds to an article in the Daily Telegraph.
- BPS updates
Consultation on the future of society qualifications
01 July 2024
In April, the Board of Trustees discussed their previous decision to phase out three society qualifications. They decided to pause this work to consult more widely with members on the future of the BPS qualifications route.
- BPS updates
Proposal to form a new Environmental Psychology Section
05 June 2024
On 1 March 2024, the Board of Trustees considered a proposal under Rule 27(1) of the Society Rules to form a new section, the BPS Environmental Psychology Section.
- BPS updates
- Climate and environment
Applications now open for BPS strategy board chairs
23 January 2023
We’re looking for talented people to chair two of the BPS’s strategy boards.
- BPS updates
Time to vote for an Elected Trustee
10 June 2025
Following the recent call for nominations for this year’s BPS elections, six candidates have put themselves forward for the Elected Trustee role.
- BPS updates
Important news from The British Psychological Society
04 May 2021
Following a detailed process under our member conduct rules, the society has today confirmed that the President Elect of the BPS, Professor Nigel MacLennan, has been expelled from membership for repeatedly breaching our member conduct rules.
- BPS updates
‘The Society is at a crossroads’
11 May 2021
From Professor Carol McGuinness as Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
'We need to listen to that heartbeat'
08 October 2024
Dr Carol Cole is the new Chair of the British Psychological Society's Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
New chair appointed
25 January 2023
The BPS has appointed David Crundwell as the new chair of the Society’s Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
‘The golden thread throughout was applying psychology’
08 October 2024
We meet Dr Carol Cole, the new Chair of the British Psychological Society's Board of Trustees.
- BPS updates
‘It’s about providing meaningful services and ongoing value for members’
19 May 2025
We hear from Dr Carol Cole, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Board of Trustees, as she completes her first six months in the role.
- BPS updates
Meet the new Board Chairs
05 October 2023
The British Psychological Society’s Board of Trustees has recently welcomed new members – including incoming Chair of the Practice Board Clinical Psychologist and Emeritus Professor Tony Lavender, and new Chair of the Education and Training Board, Professor Patricia Hind. Ella Rhodes met them.
- BPS updates
Preparing for change
07 August 2018
A message from British Psychological Society Chief Executive Sarb Bajwa.
- BPS updates
‘I will always seek to nurture a culture of inclusion’
16 August 2022
The BPS has appointed Dr Adam Jowett as Chair of its new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Board.
- BPS updates
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- LGBTQ+
President’s column: May 2015
22 May 2015
The first offering from new Society President Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes.
- BPS updates
President’s letter
08 December 2015
Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, 'immersed in the membership and our issues'.
Trust in cervical screening and attributions of blame for interval cancers following a national controversy
17-05-2024
- Olga Poluektova
- Deirdre A. Robertson
- Alexandros Papadopoulos
- Peter D. Lunn
When the internet is wrong: Children’s trust in an inaccurate internet or human source
18-01-2022
- Yu Tong
- Fuxing Wang
- Judith Danovitch
- Weijun Wang
(Not) one of us: The overrepresentation of elites in politics erodes political trust
05-04-2025
- Rebekka Kesberg
- Matthew J. Easterbrook
Distributed situation awareness in complex collaborative systems: A field study of bridge operations on platform supply vessels
04-03-2015
- Hilde Sandhåland
- Helle A. Oltedal
- Sigurd W. Hystad
- Jarle Eid
BOOK REVIEWS
01-02-1935
“If there is a tension about something, I can solve it”: A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem-solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems in India
09-11-2022
- Kanika Malik
- Rachana Parikh
- Rooplata Sahu
- Paulomi Sudhir
- Christopher G. Fairburn
- Vikram Patel
- Daniel Michelson
Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs
23-05-2024
- Kai‐Tak Poon
- Rheal S. W. Chan
- Hill‐Son Lai
- Yufei Jiang
- Fei Teng
“If there is a tension about something, I can solve it”: A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem-solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems in India
09-11-2022
- Kanika Malik
- Rachana Parikh
- Rooplata Sahu
- Paulomi Sudhir
- Christopher G. Fairburn
- Vikram Patel
- Daniel Michelson
“If there is a tension about something, I can solve it”: A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem-solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems in India
09-11-2022
- Kanika Malik
- Rachana Parikh
- Rooplata Sahu
- Paulomi Sudhir
- Christopher G. Fairburn
- Vikram Patel
- Daniel Michelson
‘Just keep taking them, keep hoping they’ll work’: A qualitative study of adhering to medications for multimorbidity
31-10-2021
- Louise Foley
- Lisa Hynes
- Andrew W. Murphy
- Gerard J. Molloy
Gender quotas influence the appointment of women to precarious leadership positions: A signalling approach
04-11-2024
- Meir Shemla
- Anika Ihmels
- Juergen Wegge
Exploring patient experiences of participating in digital cardiac rehabilitation: A qualitative study
18-09-2023
- Eanna Kenny
- Molly Byrne
- John W. McEvoy
- Susan Connolly
- Jenny McSharry
Factor analysis of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale from a large cancer population
16-12-2010
- Adam B. Smith
- Peter J. Selby
- Galina Velikova
- Dan Stark
- E. Penny Wright
- Ann Gould
- Ann Cull
Book Reviews
01-12-1971
Organizational conflict and role stress among chief executives in state business enterprises
01-12-1977
- MIRIAM DORNSTEIN
“Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice-hearing in the family context
20-01-2022
- Claire Mayer
- Guy Dodgson
- Angela Woods
- Ben Alderson‐Day