Psychology News 2012

The schedule for the Visiting Speaker Series for semester 2 has now been finalised and details are below:

ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF WELCOME

Date: Thursday 26th of January  Time: 4-5pm 

Room: Mellor S415 

Neil Coulson - University of Nottingham

“Does participation in online support groups empower patients?"

Host: Centre for Health Psychology

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Date: Thursday 2nd of February - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415

Susan Sherman - Keele University

"Exploring false memories for advertisements and other stimuli"

Host: Sarah Dean

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Date: Thursday 9th of February - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415

Dorothy Faulkner - Open University

“Angels, tooth fairies and ghosts: exploring creative thinking in an early years classroom”

Host: Richard Jolley

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Date: Thursday 16th of February - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415 

Richard Jolley - Staffordshire University

“The development of expressive drawing in children: effects of education, culture and autism”

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Date: Thursday 23rd of February - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415

Claire Lane - Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham & Black Country Partnership Foundation Trust

“Motivational Interviewing in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An action research project”

Host: Centre for Health Psychology

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Date: Thursday 1st of March - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415 

Annette Karmiloff-Smith - Birkbeck, University of London

“Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders”

Host: Mani Das Gupta

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Date: Thursday 8th of March - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415 

 Sarah Beck  - (Current holder of the BPS Margaret Donaldson Early Career Award) - University of Birmingham

'Making tools isn't child's play'

Host: Richard Jolley

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Date: Thursday 15th of March - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415

Crystal Haskell - Northumbria University

“Neurocognitive and mood effects of nutritional interventions”

Host: Jade Elliot

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 Date: Thursday 22nd of March - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415 

Andrew Turner - Coventry University

“Participants’ experiences of attending group-based self-management programmes: the role of hope and other curative factors”

Host: Centre for Health Psychology

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Date: Thursday 26th of April - Time: 4-5pm

Room: Mellor S415

Harbinder Sandhu - University of Warwick

“An in-depth look at ‘clinician-patient communication’ where, why and how?”

Host: Centre for Health Psychology

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Sarah Grogan will be a keynote speaker at the Appearance Matters conference in Bristol in July 2012 more information can be found here.

Mark Forshaw has just been elected to serve as Chair of the Membership Standards Board of the BPS, from June 2012, when the current Chair, Peter Banister of Manchester Metropolitan University, steps down.  Mark, who is currently Chair of the BPS Qualifications Standards Committee and the Health Psychology Qualifications Board will be leaving these roles to take on this overarching committee and serve on the BPS Board of Trustees as a result.  Mark says "I'm delighted to take on this new challenge, and look forward to serving MSB and Trustees, but it means that I do have to give up my health psychology work for the BPS, which is going to be the end of an era for me!"

An additional collaboration is proposed between Staffordshire and Derby Universities and Newcastle under Lyme college beginning in January 2012.

Professor Sarah Grogan and colleagues are proposing to pilot a study to investigate the impact of a dance movement therapy intervention on young people’s body image and experiences of embodiment. There is some evidence from previous work that aerobic dance interventions can improve body image in young women.

The proposed study will focus on creative dance instead of aerobic dance and will look at impact on young men as well as young women. There is growing evidence that young men are becoming more concerned with the appearance of their bodies than formerly and it is important to know whether dance interventions impact on body image and embodiment in young men as well as in young women.

Young women and men will take part in a dance movement therapy intervention and will then take part in focus groups and interviews where they discuss the experience. We will use these accounts to provide process information that will help us to design a dance intervention that can be rolled out to a larger sample of young people in Staffordshire and Derbyshire.

At present our key aim is to see whether a dance movement therapy intervention impacts on participants’ subjective experiences of body image and embodiment and to see whether there are things that we can do to ensure that dance movement therapy interventions are delivered in ways that ensure have a positive impact on young people’s body image. We will also aim to see whether there are aspects that can be built in to maximize positive impact on both young men and young women, as impact of exercise interventions can be gender-inked.

Update 28.11.11 : Further information about this research project can now be found in this (PDF, file size: 183.4KB) attached pdf

Dr Mark Forshaw has been elected as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.  This is the highest grade of membership, and involves demonstrating at least ten years of contribution to the Society of an outstanding nature to a panel of senior referees.  It is generally awarded to fewer than 2% of the membership, most of whom are established Professors.

Some recent publications from members of staff:

Gallagher, S. Randall, J. Buckley, E. Punnett, G. Li, E & Grogan, S.  (2011): Experiences of adolescent participation in a four-week community-based workshop designed to improve psychosocial skills: what are the key benefits?, Community, Work &
Family, DOI:10.1080/13668803.2011.609660

Jenny Hallam, Mani Das Gupta & Helen Lee (2011): Shaping children's artwork in English primary classes: insights from teacher–child interaction during art activities, International Journal of Early Years Education, DOI:10.1080/09669760.2011.629489

Jeffries, M. & Grogan, S. (2011). "Oh, I'm just, you know, a little bit weak because I'm going to the doctor's": Young men's talk of self-referral to primary healthcare services. Psychology and Health. Available online  12th December 2011.

Please click here for recent news from Clinical Psychology (PDF, file size: 131.8KB) including amongst other things :

• Recent Trainee and Staff publications

• News on HPC Approval and BPS Accreditation