Hello, my name is Katie and I’m a working-class academic. Being working-class is something I mention relatively often and think about even more so. It’s a salient part of my identity. It never used to be. I never thought I…
I first came across the idea of imposter syndrome early on during my PhD research when I recognised a lot of the symptoms in my own thinking and behaviour. This week I was inspired to write this blog post about…
Tonight at the London School of Ecomonics, Lord Layard and Andrew Marr will discuss Layard and colleagues’ latest book ‘The Origins of Happiness’. This post is a comment on the British Psychological Society Community Psychology Section response to ‘The Origin’s…
Leon Bernicoff had starred in Channel Four’s Gogglebox, along side wife June, since the show first aired in 2013. It was on Twitter yesterday evening that I spotted the headline stating that Leon had sadly passed away aged 83.…
This is a brief review of the 3rd BPS Community Psychology Festival held in Bristol from 15th – 16th September 2017. A longer review of the event will appear in the next QMiP bulletin. From the minute I arrived…
Time management skills are a byproduct of being an academic. Juggling research, teaching, admin and other and having done a PhD over four to five years lead you to acquire ways of managing your time more efficiently. If you’re a…
This post is similar to the previous one in that it is my attempt to pass on nuggets of wisdom gained through trial and error. The last post was very broad whereas this one will only be of interest to…
A few months ago I gave a keynote talk at my department’s 4th annual postgraduate psychology conference. This was a real pleasure (and a little surreal) as it was Jenny Taylor and I who set up the first of…
This week I attended my second International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference – a good time for a first blog post! It had been four years since my last ISCHP. Back then I was in the early days of…