What we are doing
Organisation and culture
The Psychology Department is a supportive place and a sense of community for both staff and students is fostered in a number of ways:
NEW:
- Ethnic Minorities Researcher Careers Forum: Contact: Sotaro Kita
- Informal networking events
- Recognition and celebrating success
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion and the ED&I Network
- Welfare and Communications Committee
- Guest Seminar Series
Professorial presentations 2019
Career development
Celebrating promotion success in 2022. Congratulations to:
Gitit Kadar-Satat and Luke Hodson - Assistant Professors on a teaching focused pathway
Claudie Fox and Elisabeth Blagrove - Associate Professor on a teaching focused pathway
Alice Mason – Assistant Professor on a research focused pathway
Adrian von Mühlenen - Reader
Find out about the ways we seek to support our staff progress their careers and achieve their goals.
- Academic staff
- Early Year Research Fellows
- Professional and Support Services staff
- Student development
- Psychology Research Skills Development Programme
Personal Development Programme for Female Students (UG and PG programmes available)
Flexible working and career break support
We support both formal and informal flexible working arrangements to accommodate staff work-life balance. Learn more about:
Informal RA Mentor pioneer Leone Buckle
Support for new starters
- Informal mentor scheme for new Researchers. Informal buddy to help make informal contacts in the research community *New 2020*
Support from Psychology:
- Introduced to the Department at all staff Council Meeting
- Schedule of welcome meetings and Department tour
- Receive Information for new starters
- Links to University induction
Outreach event at the NEC, Birmingham promoting engagement in the work of the Psychology Baby Lab 2019
Public engagement and outreach
Our staff and students are actively engaged in a diverse range of outreach and engagement activities with local schools and the public, increasing interest and activity in STEMM areas. Learn about:
- Engaging young people
- Community engagement
- Providing work experience
Health and wellbeing
The health and wellbeing of our staff and students is a priority, with regular wellbeing activities taking place on site. Find out more about:
- Wellbeing and environmental events
- Staff/student sports events
- Professional and support staff Climbing away day
- Wellbeing and sports facilities on campus
- Employee Assistance Programme
Events
All our events are promoted on the Events page of the website.
Next steps
We're proud of our Athena SWAN achievements so far but are committed to doing more. Find out about what we've got planned by looking at our Action Plan (coming soon).
Staff and student information and resources
More information about our Athena SWAN activities is available for staff and students here.
News
"It takes a village: the support needed for early child development" Watch the webinar for alumni hosted by Social Inclusion and including expertise from Psychology.
Read about 2023 graduate Lily Guant’s URSS research project (supervised by Kirsty Lee) into Sibling and peer bullying victimization in adolescence here.
Events
Guest Speaker: Atheism as a Testing Ground For Theories of Religion - Dr. Will Gervais, Brunel University
Internal Seminar: Prerika Sharma, Monash University
Guest Speaker: Cognitive limitations in Decision Making - Dr. Janina Hoffman, University of Bath
Internal Seminar: First Year PhD Students - Jenny Zhou, Xiaomu Guo, Katie Cunneen, Kehan Mei, Tom White
Guest Speaker: Mental health states, not types: Hidden Markov models for identification and monitoring of mental health trajectories. - Pro. Marteen Speekenbrink, UCL
ARCHIVE OF EVENTS:
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BPS Psychology of Women and Equalities UG and PG student prizes.
Nominate dissertations of students who submitted within 3 years. Details here.
POWES particularly welcomes applications from the following groups of people who are often under-represented: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, people with disabilities and people who identify as LGBTQ+ (deadline 15 April 2022)
July 2020
- Psychology survey of Coronavirus impact on staff working - Academic, Teaching and Research staff
- Psychology survey of Coronavirus impact on staff working - Professional and support staff
April 2020
- Maternity/paternity/parental and adoption leave Focus Group
Postponed due to Covid-19 lockdown:
- PSS Focus Group event
- EYCF Focus Group event
March 2020
3 Qualtrics Athena SWAN surveys for:
- Academic, teaching and research staff
- PhD students
- Professional and Support staff
Early Years Professional Development event for EYCF and PhDs with mentoring from newly recruited academics including tips on successful interview techniques, career progression.
February 2020
Athena SWAN Networking event for the University organised by the Department in collaboration with the EDandI team. Speakers from Warwick Medical School and Queen's University Belfast.
November 2020
Nottingham University Psychology Department hosted a Midlands AS Psychology network with Warwick, Nottingham Trent, Birmingham and Aston
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