By Prof Nicola Yuill Covid-19 restrictions haven’t just stopped us meeting in person – instead, they have nudged us into new ways of connecting. Humans are the ultimate social species: evolutionary biologists regard the human tendency towards cooperation as having…
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“They don’t know we’ve got legs”: meeting online and in-person
Tagged with: COVID-19, Developmental Psychology, Interaction, Therapy, Video Interaction Guidance
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Do you know what I’m thinking? – a Journey from Mozambique to Sussex
Paloma Manguele is a PhD student in the Attention Lab. She studies mind wandering, a concept she is cautious to translate into her first language, Portuguese. “I guess the word could be ‘divagaçao’ – digression – but not exactly,” she…
Celebrating the 25 Black women making history in UK’s Professoriate
By Dr Varuni Wimalasiri Overall there were 85 Black Professors in the UK’s Professoriate of 21,000 in 2019 (Rollock, 2019). Whilst 11.2% of White faculty occupy the senior role of Professor, at 4.6%, Black faculty are two and a half…
Tagged with: BAME, Black History Month, Decolonising the curriculum, Higher Education, Organisational Psychology, Psychology
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
The psychology of youth empowerment through music
by Maruša Levstek For the past two years, I have been researching young people’s experiences of inclusive music-making and the psychology behind it. I have worked closely with a variety of inclusive music projects also known as the Our Future…
Tagged with: Creativity, Developmental Psychology, Music, PhD students, Wellbeing
Posted in PhD research
Posted in PhD research
Neighbours support each other during COVID-19
By Selin Tekin Guven Since the beginning of March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic related news has been the main topic in the media. Medical experts have explained different methods to prevent the spread, and authorities in each country have implemented various…
Tagged with: COVID-19, Crowd Behaviour, social identity, social norms, Social Psychology
Posted in PhD research
Posted in PhD research
Why does civil unrest spread between cities?
By Prof John Drury Protests and riots that began in Minneapolis after police killed an unarmed African American have now spread to over 23 states. I recently led a large-scale programme of research on the wave of riots in England…
Be kind to your mind
By Pattie Gonsalves “Be kind to your mind and your body, especially during these times.” This is one of the encouraging things my yoga teacher says every evening via our Zoom class. While there is a small part of me…
Tagged with: COVID-19, Global Mental Health, Kindness, Mental Health, Wellbeing
Posted in PhD research
Posted in PhD research
Looking Back: The Role of the General Election in Satisfaction with UK Response to COVID-19
By Carina Hoerst Recently, a group of people with controversial stances protested against lockdown restrictions in the US – a particularly concerning move since the protest action was carried out against the ban of public assembly and could increase the infection…
Tagged with: collective empowerment, COVID-19, social identity, Social Psychology
Posted in PhD research
Posted in PhD research
How can sustainable behaviours be encouraged?
By Alaa Aldoh Climate change is a pressing global issue with devastating effects on human life, animals, and the environment. On average, every year in the last 5 years has been the warmest year on record as a result of…
Tagged with: climate change, Green, PhD students, social norms, Social Psychology, Sustainability, sustainable behaviour
Posted in PhD research
Posted in PhD research
Can Culture Beat the Coronavirus?
By Rotem Perach How can we beat the coronavirus? It seems that culture is already developing its own prescriptions, specifically, against the psychological effects of the coronavirus outbreak. In recent fashion week catwalks in New York and Paris, designers re-imagined face masks as…
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