Evidence in favour of multiple-systems of category learning needs to be treated cautiously
Recently, Dr Charlotte Edmunds, a member of the Psychological Science Research Group (PSRG) at UWE Bristol, has recently published a ...
Collating a field: Inside the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health
By Nicola Holt From community choirs and dance programmes to arts in hospitals and museums, arts-based activities are increasingly being ...
Exploring university student perspectives of a challenge-based curriculum
Climate breakdown represents an existential threat - and is just one of the many challenges facing students, universities and the ...
PSRG member wins Mentoring Award
Dr Elizabeth Jenkinson, Associate Professor in Health Psychology at UWE Bristol and member of PSRG, has been awarded the British ...
Who is responsible for tackling our environmental and wider social challenges?
A new study explores who is responsible for tackling our environmental and wider social challenges - with the data suggesting ...
Arts on Prescription: Insights, Evidence and Future Directions
By Nicola Holt. Image above: "Tapestry" from a city-wide arts on referral project in Bristol led by CreativeShift, which was ...
Gaining prescription rights: a qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists
Dr Alice Horton, one of our counselling psychology alumni, has recently published the research she carried out for her Doctorate ...
Why do so few researchers examine actual encounters when trying to improve communication in healthcare?
By Maddie Tremblett, Jude McClellan, Charlotte Albury, Shoba Dawson, Brian McMillan, and Rebecca Goulding Communication is central to the delivery ...
Teaching students open science practices can contribute to their understanding of research
Dr Kait Clark, lead of the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience theme of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG) is the ...
It’s time to change how we think about families.
By Lucy Blake Growing up, I had always thought of my family as being different from other people’s families. In ...
Standards and profits in academic publishing – all publishers and open access arrangements are not the same.
By Miles Thompson and Kait Clark Below is an extended version of a piece first published on the UWE Bristol ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here be ‘cognitivism’
By Miltos Hadjiosif Psychology, like all disciplines, has a history. Like all histories, it is a contested one, and it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Intergenerational Contact: Connecting Generations and Connecting the Research
By Jennie Ferrell Photos courtesy of Acorns ‘n’ Oaks Playgroups Intergenerational activities and programmes have become a popular topic in ...
Who is sport psychology for?
By James Byron-Daniel and Manuela Teti (UWE MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology graduate) What is sport psychology? Sport psychology is ...
Shining the light on implicit bias: Do we really know what we believe?
By Charlotte R. Pennington In everyday life, you will be asked to report your attitudes and opinions towards a whole ...
The arts and wellbeing: A burgeoning research area
By Nicola Holt “I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” Frida Kahlo, artist “To write ...
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be… or is it? Exploring the psychological benefits of nostalgia for people with dementia
By Gary Christopher In this blog, I shall talk a little about my research on nostalgia, and in particular how ...
Promoting resilience and questioning resilience
By Miles Thompson Your 30-second summary. This blog is about resilience. A term that is now, seemingly, everywhere. Below I ...
Research Experience as an Undergrad: My summer internship and placement
By Josh Lee I’m a second-year psychology student at UWE, and throughout my first year I found myself developing a ...
Community psychology perspectives on student mental health
By Miles Thompson The 4th UK Community Psychology Festival is being held on the 23rd and 24th of September 2018 in ...
Introducing our new lecturer, Dr Gamze Arman!
By Gamze Arman My name is Gamze Arman, and I have recently joined the UWE Department of Health and Social ...
The Power of Yoga: Using yoga to promote psychological and physical health
By Emma Halliwell I was 21, living in Brighton, studying and partying when went to my first yoga class. I ...
Welcome to the Psychological Sciences Research Group blog!
Welcome to the Psychological Sciences Research Group blog! We are a team of researchers based at the University of the ...