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…
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How can sustainable behaviours be encouraged?
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…
Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.
by Prof Pete Harris and Ian Hadden, from the Self-Affirmation Research Group. Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat too often or your…
Tagged with: Kindness, motivation, Self-affirmation, Social Psychology, Therapy
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
New term, new you
By Susie Ballentyne Over half of us make a new year’s resolution to change something about our behaviour, yet very few of us stick to our intentions. So why, with all the right sign-posting to a new decade, the fresh…
Tackling hate – from parliament to campus
By Carina Hoerst Two weeks ago was National Hate Crime Awareness Week. What started in 1999 as a reaction to attacks on the Black and LGBT community has become a big event and takes place every year since. Today, it…
There are no rioters in Hong Kong
By Patricio Saavedra Morales In June this year, thousands of Hongkongers hit the streets to protest against a controversial extradition bill promoted by the Chief Executive of the former British colony, Carrie Lam. During those days, Hongkongers, as well as…
Green exercise and wellbeing: make the most of campus!
By Dr Megan Hurst As part of the Psychology Student Experience team’s wellbeing events during the assessment period, we’ve had several nature walks, exploring the many walking routes on the beautiful University of Sussex campus. In case you missed them,…
Breaking down the psychological barriers to success at school
Looking into how carefully-targeted low-cost interventions can reduce the psychological barriers to success of some groups of school students and help them prepare for a happy and productive life. by Ian Hadden It only takes a quick glance at GCSE…
Grouping by attainment in schools: can psychological interventions help turbo-charge poor students’ performance?
By Ian Hadden Last month I attended the impressive – and buzzy – sell-out researchED 2018 annual conference in London. The highlight for me was a fascinating piece of research presented by Becky Francis and Jeremy Hodgen of the UCL Institute…
Tagged with: Conference, Education, PhD students, Research, Social Psychology
Posted in PhD research, Research
Posted in PhD research, Research
What is the role of shared identities in the aftermath of floods?
By Evangelos Ntontis As a PhD student at the School of Psychology of Sussex University, I recently had the honour of winning the 2016 PhD poster conference. Of course winning is accompanied with writing a blog for the School’s website,…
Tagged with: Academic Writing, Award, International Student, PhD students, Poster Presentations, Research, Social Psychology, Student Experience
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