British Psychological Society (BPS) Lectures for A level Students

Psychology 4 Students

The BPS has announced that they are to offer two interesting one day events in Nottingham and London for psychology students.   The cost is £15 which includes a packed lunch and one free tutor place per ten student bookings.

Nottingham Lectures: 17 November 2010

Lectures will include.

Mark Griffiths, Professor of Gambling Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Slots of fun: The psychology of gambling addiction.

Brett Smith, Lecturer, School of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Loughborough
The narrative shaping of lives: A qualitative study of traumatic spinal cord injury “Imagine breaking your neck whilst playing the sport you love and being told you’ll never walk again. Imagine that. How would you cope? How would you live?” (Mark, age 19, former rugby club captain)

Carol Ireland, Forensic Psychology Course Director at the University of Central Lancashire
Crisis Negotiation and the role of the Crisis Negotiation Advisor

Catriona Morrison, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, University of Leeds
Beyond Words and Images in Memory: Using Other Senses to Unlock Our Past and Plan Our Future

Alison Lee, Neuropsychologist, Bath Spa University
How small changes in the visual world can make a big difference to the lives of Parkinson’s patients.

London Lectures: 7 December 2010

Lectures will include.

Paul Gardner, Principal Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of St Andrews
What makes other people attractive to us and what mechanisms might underpin falling in love.

John Oates, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at The Open University
How our genes and environments interact as our attachments develop.

Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge
The foetal testosterone theory of autism: Autism affects males much more often than females. Why?

Rhiannon Turner, Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Leeds
Using different forms of intergroup contact to reduce prejudice

Peter Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of York
Visual Illusions in the Real World