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Welcome to our new PSRG Members!

Dr Amelia Baldwin I am a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology and a BPS Chartered and HCPC registered counselling psychologist ...
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Establishing the test-retest reliability of perception and attention measures is important for exploring individual differences

Dr Kait Clark, lead of the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience theme of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG), has published ...
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Dr Lindsay Woodford explores Strategies for Coping With Stress in Athletes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr Lindsay Woodford published her doctoral thesis with her supervisor Dr Lauren Bussey from Teesside University. Their research explored the ...
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Welcome to our new lecturers, Dr Scott Jones and Dr Cody Porter!

We're delighted to welcome Drs Jones and Porter to UWE and to PSRG - both have joined our Applied Cognition ...
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Welcome to our new lecturers, Lucy Blake and Iris Holzleitner!

Lucy Blake I have recently joined the UWE Department of Health and Social Sciences as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology ...
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Promoting good psychological health and well-being during Covid-19

By Elizabeth Jenkinson with contributions from Richard Cheston, Christine Ramsey-Wade, Catherine Warner, and Adam Kishtainy Covid-19 has presented challenges in ...
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Welcome to our new PSRG members!

This past autumn, we were fortunate to welcome five new lecturers to our Department who have joined PSRG. We are ...
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Sexual Health and Well-being is about civil and reproductive rights, health inequalities, criminal justice, education, community and how we live together.

By Jane Meyrick The Sexual Health and Well Being Interest Group #SHWIG @SHWIG is a group of researchers planning and ...
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A PhD FAQ

By Miles Thompson and Alex Saunders* Embarking on a PhD can be one of the most rewarding, frustrating, liberating, challenging ...
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Welcome to our new social psychologists, Dr Matt Wood and Dr Emily LeRoux-Rutledge!

We are excited to welcome two new social psychologists to PSRG! Matt and Emily joined UWE in January 2020 and ...
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PSRG Videos: About us

Thanks to Matt at Housecat Productions, we have videos about PSRG and each of our themes (footage recorded pre-pandemic). Check ...
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Learning from the client: The challenges of psychotherapy research and the contribution of qualitative methodologies

By Eva Fragkiadaki The implications of nomothetic psychotherapy research Psychotherapy research has made significant progress in providing strong evidence for ...
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Dry January: A reflective account of a participating alcohol researcher

By Charlotte Pennington This blog post provides a reflective account of my own experiences participating in Dry January – an ...
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Here be ‘cognitivism’

By Miltos Hadjiosif Psychology, like all disciplines, has a history. Like all histories, it is a contested one, and it ...
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Maintaining the “entente cordiale” in the era of Brexit

By Tony Ward If you read the higher education press, you will be aware of the concerns of many British ...
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Introducing our new lecturer, Dr Eva Fragkiadaki!

By Eva Fragkiadaki My name is Eva Fragkiadaki, and I have recently joined the UWE Department of Health and Social ...
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A need for science to ‘slow down’? Experiences from the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience

By Alice Stephenson (PhD Student) BNA 2019 Festival of Neuroscience, Dublin In April, I was fortunate to attend the annual ...
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A dormouse, a t-shirt made from bin liners and a jar of Nutella: Applying creative methodologies to understand athletes’ experiences of overtraining syndrome

By Lindsay Woodford Exceptional physical features, together with high commitment and motivation, are important attributes of high-performance athletes. However, when ...
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