We humans – and no other species that currently shares the earth with us – are able to grasp that blindness relates to sight in much the same way as poverty relates to wealth (one is the lack of the ...

In the early stages of the Covid pandemic, there were increased numbers of reports of odd dreams, and interest arose as more and more people felt that they were recalling their dreams more frequently ...

The first time I stepped onto a film set in Türkiye as a psychologist and child protector, I knew I was entering a world vastly different from the clinical settings I was used to. I quickly realised ...

I first met Molly in 2007, having the great luck to supervise the final placement of her clinical psychology doctorate with University College London. She joined our team working with looked after ...

A survey from the Local Government Association (LGA) has shown that over half of councils that support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), have warned they are at risk of ...

Anyone with siblings has likely heard jokes about parental favouritism. True impartiality in parenting, though, is no laughing matter, with previous research showing that siblings who genuinely ...

My first encounter of Nancy was in 2008, when I was leading a workshop on a technique called 'feedforward' with my late colleague Lynne Millward for the British Psychological Society. Nancy came and ...

The Nuffield Trust has revealed growing rates of dissatisfaction among NHS staff who are aged 21 to 30. Responding to the news, President of the British Psychological Society Dr Roman Raczka said: "It ...

Changes in the cognitive and social capacity of young children since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic are often put down to the social impacts of lockdown — the closure of schools, lack of social ...

In 1997, I set out to interview the distinguished psychologist Jerome Bruner (1915-2016); my theme, psychology and anthropology (my own area). I was interested in what links and separates the ...

The messaging and advertising surrounding HIV/AIDS have undergone significant transformations since the epidemic first came to public awareness in the early 1980s. These shifts reflect changes in ...

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a new study, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which will analyse the effect of vaping in children and young people over the next ten ...