Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG)

By Nicola Holt. Image above: “Tapestry” from a city-wide arts on referral project in Bristol led by CreativeShift, which was exhibited at Arnolfini gallery Arts on prescription is expanding, with policy recommendations and schemes spreading globally, along with expectations of its positive impact on individual and community wellbeing. But what is art on prescription and … Continue reading "Arts on Prescription: Insights, Evidence and Future Directions"

Dr Alice Horton, one of our counselling psychology alumni, has recently published the research she carried out for her Doctorate in the journal: Advances in Mental Health. The research was supervised by PSRG members: Miltos Hadjiosif and Miles Thompson. The research is titled: Gaining prescription rights: a qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling … Continue reading "Gaining prescription rights: a qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists"

By Maddie Tremblett, Jude McClellan, Charlotte Albury, Shoba Dawson, Brian McMillan, and Rebecca Goulding  Communication is central to the delivery of healthcare. From patients requesting an appointment, explaining what symptoms they have been experiencing and what they are concerned about, to staff asking for more information, delivering diagnoses and prognoses, and explaining different treatment options, … Continue reading "Why do so few researchers examine actual encounters when trying to improve communication in healthcare?"

Dr Kait Clark, lead of the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience theme of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG) is the senior author of an Registered Report in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science: “Evaluating the pedagogical effectiveness of study preregistration in the undergraduate dissertation.” The lead team includes external collaborators Dr Madeleine Pownall, Dr Charlotte … Continue reading "Teaching students open science practices can contribute to their understanding of research"

By Lucy Blake Growing up, I had always thought of my family as being different from other people’s families. In comparison to other people’s family trees, which I imagined to be strong, tall and wide, I felt like my own small, family shrub was inferior. Thankfully, my job has changed the way that I think … Continue reading "It’s time to change how we think about families."

By Miles Thompson and Kait Clark Below is an extended version of a piece first published on the UWE Bristol Library Research Blog. It explores issues around publishing academic articles and books, different open access arrangements, maintaining academic standards and the profit levels of academic publishers. In short, in terms of journal articles, UK universities, … Continue reading "Standards and profits in academic publishing – all publishers and open access arrangements are not the same."

Dr Amelia Baldwin I am a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology and a BPS Chartered and HCPC registered counselling psychologist.  I have worked in various capacities including the voluntary sector, advocacy, NHS services, academia and private practice. My first degree was in Computer Science and I completed a second BSc Honours degree in Psychology whilst … Continue reading "Welcome to our new PSRG Members!"

Dr Kait Clark, lead of the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience theme of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG), has published a new open-access paper in the Journal of Vision: “Test-retest reliability for common tasks in vision science.” The paper is co-authored by UWE PhD student Kayley Birch-Hurst, collaborators Dr Craig Hedge and Dr Charlotte Pennington … Continue reading "Establishing the test-retest reliability of perception and attention measures is important for exploring individual differences"