Psychology News Winter 2010

Division of Health Psychology
Qualitative Interviewing Skills for Health Psychology
Facilitated by Dr Elizabeth Peel

19th March 2010
13.00 – 17.00
University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent

Qualitative methodologies are an important approach to the study of health and illness and the interview is a key tool in data generation
This half-day workshop explores the rationale for the qualitative research interview and the different forms in which interviews can take. Participants can expect to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of using interviews for qualitative health research
This workshop is for anyone wishing to learn how to effectively use interviews for qualitative research

Workshop fee (including VAT)
DHP members £40
Non DHP BPS members £47
Non-BPS members £68
For further information or to book a place contact the
BPS Learning Centre
www.bps.org.uk/bps-learning-centre/

Emily Buckley and Ceri Parsons have both been awarded distinctions on the Research Supervision module.

Ceri Parsons has been proposed by the British Psychological Society media and press committee as the next chair of the committee.  (The nomination is to be ratified in early March)

Dr Alison Tweed has been appointed to the post of Clinical Director as from May 2010 and Dr Helen Scott to the post of Academic/Research Tutor as from April 2010.

The Early Childhood Studies team staged two conferences for their ECS students on Wed 6th Jan and Thurs 7th Jan, also open to professionals in the vocational field.  Keynote speakers were Jools Page from Sheffield University and Professor Tony Bertram and Professor Christine Pascal OBE from the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in Birmingham. This Centre is a charitable trust dedicated to raising the quality of early childhood and family provision. The Centre has links with Birmingham University, Birmingham City University and Wolverhampton University.

Paul Jenkinson will be organising a symposium at the next meeting of the British Neuropsychological Society on 30th-31st March 2010 entitled 'The Great Deception(s): Anosognosia for hemiplegia and other disorders of motor awareness.

Also:

Oral presentation at the very prestigious European Stroke Conference in Barcelona, 25th – 28th May. Talk entitled: Experiments in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia: Theoretical insights and potential clinical implications.

Forshaw, M.J & Hansen, S. (2010).  Fools Rush In: The Undergraduate Research Project.  In Upton, D. and Trapp, A. (Eds.) Teaching Psychology in Higher Education.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Ayers, B., Forshaw, M. & Hunter, M.S. (2010).  The impact of attitudes towards the menopause on women’s symptom experience: A systematic review.  Maturitas, 65, 28-36. 

Forshaw, M. J. & Jones, S. J. (2010). A test of the properties of a proprietary complementary remedy in conditions of temporary,induced, cognitive stress. Perfusion.  22, 4 -7.

Roberts, P., &  Priest, H. (Eds). (2010). Healthcare research. A textbook for students and practitioners. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gibbs, M., Priest, H., & Read, S. (2010). Families and parents with intellectual disabilities. In V. Prasher (Ed).Contemporary issues in intellectual disabilities. Los Angeles: Nova Press

Scott, H. (2010). The medical model: the right approach to service provision? Mental Health Practice 13(5)

Stephen Gallagher has co-authored a review paper with Dr. Victoria Burns from the University of Birmingham. This has now been accepted for publication and is ‘in press’ in the journal Neuroscience Biobehavioral Review which is an esteemed journal with a high impact factor. The title of the article is “Antibody response to vaccination as a marker of in vivo immune function in psychophysiological research”. 

Papers recently accepted for publication:

Jenkinson, P. ‘So you think you can dance? An example of good intentions and poor awareness in the motor system’. (with co-author Katerina Fotopolou at UCL). (The Psychologist)

The Effects of Glucose Dose and Dual task Performance on Memory for Emotional Material in Behavioural Brain Research (Authors: Karen Brandt; Sandra Sünram-Lea; Paul Jenkinson; Emma Jones)

Sarah Krahenbuhl has received notice that the British Academy have awarded her a research grant to conduct the following study:

Title: An examination of 'ground rules' implementation and associated effects on children's responses to questions in forensic eyewitness interviews

The study, which will last for approximately 10 months is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. Mark Blades of Sheffield University and Dr. Julie Cherryman of the University of Portsmouth.

Professor Sarah Grogan carried out an interview with Emine Saner at the Guardian. The topic was Women and Ageing.

'On Saturday 5th December the Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society held its Annual Scientific Meeting at Staffordshire University.
It was chaired by David Clark-Carter.  The Keynote Speaker was Professor David Bartholomew of the London School of Economics. 
David Clark-Carter presented a paper - The teaching of quantitative methods to those studying psychology: Where to now? - as part of a discussion on the future of the statistics curriculum.