BPS Associate Fellow Dr Sarah Halliday has contributed to a new documentary entitled Silent Men from BAFTA Scotland Award winning documentary filmmaker Duncan Cowles. Dr Halliday is featured as one of ...

Growing up with a sibling who suffered a brain injury, a goal of mine became to understand how the brain works and how its workings can result in mental health problems. It played a part in me ...

Moving to London to study Psychology at UCL two years ago was a wake-up call when it came to seeing so many people living on the streets. What now shocks me, is how quickly I have become immune to the ...

The way we communicate the existential threat of climate change is crucial to spurring action. Which approach to take, however, is often less clear. Do we try to decrease people's sense of distance ...

The fascinating, and growing, variety of psychological careers was on show at the third British Psychological Society Careers Festival. A week-long online event across four stages, featuring 77 ...

I have just finished reading The Power of Virtual Reality in the November issue and have enjoyed it very much. Specifically, the research about the use of VR for pain management is very intriguing, as ...

What happens to us when we walk past someone living rough on the streets? Well firstly, I'll explain how our brains react when we meet someone who isn't homeless. When we come across another person, ...

In an earlier brief interview about a job advertisement in the Psychologist, Karen Howell mentioned the growth of parity between mental and physical health in the organisation she works for, Elysium ...

With this year's UK Disability History Month (14 November – 20 December) seeking to highlight how the employment of disabled people can be made more equitable, this piece explores what can be done to ...

All members who had an active subscription to the Section on Thursday 14 November, will receive an email directly to their inbox from [email protected] providing instructions on how to submit their ...

It is important to understand the context of the assessment. The solicitor or Will writer/maker is responsible for assessing and determining testamentary capacity as part of the will-writing process.

When and why did you become interested in fairness? When I was four-years-old, the two toughest guys in Kindergarden were blocking me and the other children from the sandbox, our preferred leisure ...