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Community Psychology Section: Chair's message
Community Psychology Section
Guidance for psychologists on working with community organisations
There is widespread agreement on the need for community engagement to improve health outcomes.
View resultUsing Community Psychology approaches to reduce the impact of inequality through the Community Mental Health Framework
This document is intended to support commissioners and service leads to invest effectively in the transformation of mental health services.
View resultInequalities and mental health: Overview of evidence
This paper summarises the evidence for informed recommendations to commissioners and providers of mental health services committed to the genuine improvement of community mental health.
View resultChampioning the rights of the LGBTQ+ community
For the second time in BPS history members and staff were proud to march at Pride in London earlier this month.
View resultBPS seen as strong ally by the LGBTQIA+ communities – but involvement in Pride long overdue
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 resultDefence, Security, Psychology
The following article has been provided by Darren Doyle BSc, GMBPsS, RSci on behalf of the newly approved Defence and Security Section.
View resultShould local communities be empowered to look after themselves?
As the bitterly-contested election of the new leader of the Conservative party nears its end, Steve Flatt, director of the Working Conversations Group and a member of the BPS’s Political Psychology Section, turns his thoughts to leadership and argues that, in these turbulent times, there is a desperate need for a change in the nature of leadership.
View resultCelebrating the LGBT+ community
We start our coverage of LGBT+ History Month with an interview with Rob Agnew, chair of the BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section
View resultSix reasons
The member ballot for our proposed new sections will go out in April. In this blog post Martin Seager lays out six reasons to vote for a Male Psychology Section.
View resultIntersections of space and identity: a personal history of LGBT+ History Month
To continue our ongoing coverage of LGBT+ History Month we present this timely piece by Zyra Evangelista from the Psychology of Sexualities Section.
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Online workshopEnvironmental Psychology SectionConnecting People, Place & Practice in Environmental Psychology
02 Jul 2025
•10:00am-2:30pm
This event by the Environmental Psychology section will appeal to both BPS members and the wider community interested in the intersection between people, places, and psychology.
- Climate and environment
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New Environmental Psychology Section approved
31 July 2024
Following a successful member vote at the recent AGM, members are now able to join the new Environmental Psychology Section.
- BPS updates
Putting the spotlight on the healthcare experiences of the LGBT+ community
27 February 2024
To mark LGBT+ History Month, the BPS is holding a roundtable event to explore the unique challenges in accessing healthcare faced by members of the LGBT+ community.
- LGBTQ+
Supporting communities to tackle inequalities can improve wellbeing, says new BPS guidance
20 May 2022
Working with the community is the best way to help tackle the impact of mental health and social inequalities says new BPS guidance.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Mental health
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
BPS part of new coalition seeking to address psychological impacts of climate crises
10 October 2024
A coalition of organisations and professional bodies which aims to raise the profile of the mental health sector in addressing the impacts of climate change is being launched today.
- Climate and environment
- Health and wellbeing
- Mental health
Join us for Pride in London
08 May 2025
The BPS is calling for members to take part in this year’s Pride in London Parade in July.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- LGBTQ+
Supporting schools and children after a crisis or disaster – a psychological perspective
02 August 2021
Psychologists have shared their first-hand experiences of supporting schools and children following a disaster, including those from the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire, in a new resource from the BPS.
- Crisis, disaster and trauma
BPS members work alongside Public Affairs team to call for key changes in the Mental Health Bill
28 January 2025
The BPS Public Affairs team have worked closely with BPS members on what policies to call for in the Mental Health Bill.
- Mental health
- Psychology Matters
BPS Senate Policy Campaign shortlist announced
05 October 2021
The three shortlisted campaign proposals for the 2022 Senate Policy Campaign have been announced.
- BPS updates
Call for members to take part in London Pride
28 April 2023
Expressions of interest for members to take part in this year’s London Pride are now open.
- BPS updates
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- LGBTQ+
New BPS briefing paper on practising therapy with men
18 November 2022
The BPS has published a new briefing paper that seeks to highlight ways in which men and boys may better engage with therapy.
- Mental health
- Professional Practice
Make sure you vote for our next President-Elect and Elected Trustee
15 May 2024
We’ve spoken to a number of BPS members about the importance of society elections, and why you should have your say on who becomes our next President-Elect and Elected Trustee.
- BPS updates
Psychology in the community
21 May 2018
What can psychology do in communities? And what are psychologists doing? Kate Brennan-Rhodes reports from the Society's Annual Conference.
- BPS updates
A festival of community psychology
01 August 2022
We mark the Community Psychology Festival with some archive links [now updated for 2024].
- Community
Psychology for social change
10 January 2018
Ella Rhodes talks to Sally Zlotowitz, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Community Psychology Section.
- Community
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
Forum, October 2009
18 October 2009
The narrowing focus of UK psychology; US healthcare reform; bias in testing; clinical terminology; proposal for a Community Psychology Section; and more
- BPS updates
Getting involved, with a creative spirit
24 November 2017
Two perspectives on the annual festival of the British Psychological Society's Community Psychology Section; first from Dr Helen Molden, then Iain MacLeod.
- Community
Restoring and honouring community
11 June 2020
Sally Zlotowitz, with thanks to Ebinehita Iyere and Rachel McKail from MAC-UK.
- Community
Building partnerships with the voluntary and community sectors
18 March 2006
Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Jim McManus, Craig Hutchison and Meg Barker with some recommendations.
- Community
Community, connection… challenges?
17 December 2020
The Covid-19 Select Committee explored how digital technology could be used in mental health service delivery, as well as the mental health impact of spending more time online. Ella Rhodes reports.
- Covid
Building empowering research communities
03 January 2023
ECRs as leaders can create the academia we want to work in, argue Vera Maren Straßburger and Klara Jurstakova.
- Leadership and teamwork
- Trainees and training
- Work and occupational
‘We stand proudly with the global LGBTQ+ community’
30 May 2022
The BPS has been given a place in the London Pride parade later this year. Diversity and Inclusion Manager Neil Baker explained what it means to the Society.
- LGBTQ+
New voices: Researching loyalist communities
11 January 2016
Patrick Flack outlines his research in Northern Ireland in the latest in our series for budding writers.
- Social and behavioural
- Violence and trauma
- Periodicals
Where are the women gamers? On gender and community in digital games
Series: Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review Volume: 1 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2018
Author(s): Celine A.J. Frohn
View Where are the women gamers? On gender and community in digital gamesPoverty, ACEs and stigmatised places: The application of psychology to the challenges of disadvantage
02-03-2023
- Rhiannon Corcoran
Community identification, social support, and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well-being
04-05-2021
- Niamh McNamara
- Clifford Stevenson
- Sebastiano Costa
- Mhairi Bowe
- Juliet Wakefield
- Blerina Kellezi
- Iain Wilson
- Moon Halder
- Elizabeth Mair
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology
31-01-2023
- Madeleine Pownall
- Catherine V. Talbot
- Laura Kilby
- Peter Branney
Advancing the social psychology of rapid societal change
20-11-2018
- Laura G. E. Smith
- Andrew G. Livingstone
- Emma F. Thomas
Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic
10-05-2021
- Clifford Stevenson
- Juliet R. H. Wakefield
- Isabelle Felsner
- John Drury
- Sebastiano Costa
Poverty, ACEs and stigmatised places: The application of psychology to the challenges of disadvantage
02-03-2023
- Rhiannon Corcoran
Responses from the Lesbian & Gay Psychology Section to Crossley's Making sense of barebacking
24-12-2010
- Meg Barker
- Gareth Hagger‐Johnson
- Peter Hegarty
- Craig Hutchison
- Damien Riggs
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
Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology
20-12-2022
- Geetha Reddy
- Amena Amer
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities
30-04-2023
- Anastasia Zisakou
- Lia Figgou
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
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review
10-01-2025
- Anahita Mehrpour
- Eric D. Widmer
- Christian Staerklé
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
Feeling for and as a group member: Understanding LGBT victimization via group-based empathy and intergroup emotions
24-07-2018
- Jenny L. Paterson
- Rupert Brown
- Mark A. Walters