This coming Thursday we are celebrating the career of Professor Rupert Brown with a special colloquium. Rupert joined the recently unified department of Psychology at Sussex in 2004 and has since been an essential figure for the School both in terms of…
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Time flies…
By Tom Ormerod So, after five years as Head of the School of Psychology, I come to the end of my term. It has (mostly) been a genuine pleasure to hold the role, and there cannot be a better School…
The Psychology of Driving
By Dr Graham Hole My recently-published book,”The Psychology of Everything: Driving” is one in a series of short books by Routledge that show how psychology can provide insights into every aspect of our daily lives. My book deals with a…
Psychology’s Ingenious Bar
We work hard to provide a great student experience for our students. We also want to make sure that there is always a place where you can tell us how to make your time at Sussex even better. That place…
Tagged with: Faculty, Masters, PhD students, Student Experience, Undergrad
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Posted in Student Experience
The social psychology of the Hajj
By John Drury Last week, the annual Hajj took place in Mecca (Makkah) and the other holy places nearby. This Muslim pilgrimage is one of the world’s largest crowd events – the official figure for those attending last year was…
Tagged with: Crowd Behaviour, Faculty, PhD students, Research
Posted in PhD research, Research, Uncategorized
Posted in PhD research, Research, Uncategorized
How do street actions strengthen social movements?
By Dr John Drury There is evidence that recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, which saw a mass mobilization of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan, and Nazis have served to embolden and strengthen these groups, who are now ‘bursting with confidence’.…
Surviving or Thriving? Lifelong mental health in children with chronic physical illness
By Ekin Secinti Chronic physical illness affects large numbers of children and families. Worldwide, 1 in 5 children has a chronic physical illness, including arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic renal failure, congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, type-1 diabetes, and epilepsy. With…
Behavioural Genetics for Education
by Darya Gaysina I am a co-editor (with Yulia Kovas and Sergei Malykh) of the book ‘Behavioural Genetics for Education’, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan last month (http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137437310). This book is dedicated to the role of nature (genetics) and…
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