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NEW Psychology School Tours from NST

by Mark Holah on July 29, 2011

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NST was established in 1967 and is now the UK’s leading educational travel company for Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Colleges.

As the largest tour operator for schools, and colleges they offer the very best prices in the educational travel market, whilst providing the very highest levels of customer service, giving you the peace of mind you want, when organising travel for a group of young people.

NST are now offering tours for psychology students including trips to London, Vienna, Krakow and China.

For example, their tour to London is an ideal way to boost AO1 and AO2 grades. They can tailor an itinerary to your group’s exact requirements, including travel, accommodation, visits and meals. From the Freud Museum and Tavistock Centre, to health-related and crime and punishment visits, you can cover a wide range of key study topics in and around central London.

The tour of Vienna provides a visit that’s not to be missed in a tour of Freud’s apartment and office. The Nazi invasion in 1938, and the ensuing destruction of the city’s sizeable Jewish community, also enable consideration of the prejudices and conformity that took place in several key sites within this truly cultural city.

NST have worked closely with Jenny Toal to ensure that experiences match studying in the classroom and provide expert guide lectures as part of the itinerary.

For more information visit http://nstgroup.co.uk/?OBH=64&ID=41&OBT=6

And to download the new psychology brochure click here

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British Psychological Society (BPS) Lectures for A level Students

by Mark Holah on September 30, 2010

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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

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In and around Cambridge 20-31st October?

by Simon Knight on September 29, 2010

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Looked through the Cambridge festival of ideas list and all the events below seem relelvant to psychology teaching, with the most relevant ones highlighted.  Of interest to anyone around cambridge on those dates.

Cambridge festival of ideas

Green = psychology, blue = philosophy, none = interesting for one/both but not tightly tied to the subject.

Sanity?: Attitudes to mental health 

Wed 20 October

Discuss attitudes to mental health with The Open University. The Open University has recently co-produced two television programmes on mental health with the BBC, which aim to raise awareness of good mental health and to de-stigmatise mental illness. Doors open at 5pm.  BOOKING REQUIRED

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Between Brain and Mind

by Simon Knight on September 26, 2010

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This event might interest some people (thanks to MindNetwork), more likely the exhibition at the science museum on psychoanalysis which will run from October 13th to April 2011 will be of interest especially to anyone in London.

FULL DETAILS

DATE: 15 October 2010

TITLE: Between Brain and Mind?

TIME: 6.00pm, followed by drinks reception at 8.00pm

VENUE: Royal Geographical Society, London

TICKETS: £15/£12 including wine, book at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

DR RONALD BRITTON LAUNCHES SERIES OF SPECIAL EVENTS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH AN EXPLORATION OF MODELS OF THE BRAIN AND MIND…

Dr Britton says, “The neuroscientist’s view of mental function might be too simple and the psychoanalyst’s model of the brain too naïve - can the two models ever be conjoined? …
The event is part of an exciting one-off programme organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, covering a range of topics from murder, revenge and denial to identity formation, humour and dreams.

The events complement the Science Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life. Running from 13 October 2010 to April 2011, the exhibition focuses on a key concept of psychoanalysis – how the unconscious is manifest in everyday experiences. It will include a range of modern and historical objects, digital animation, audio interpretation and works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster.

Full details of the programme of events and the exhibition can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

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Who am I?

by Mark Holah on August 19, 2010

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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project the Science Museum is hosting a wonderfully interactive gallery named “Who am I?”

The Gallery will make for a great visit for psychology students visiting London and is certainly the best museum of interactive psychology currently available in the UK.

Students of psychology (especially AS and A level) will easily relate to the interactive content and it is free.  Many of the interactive installations are clearly mapped onto the content of A level psychology and there are some real gems here relating to memory, attraction and much more.

Although I found the web site to be OK it is no way as good as the real gallery experience.  I would suggest that A level students, with guidance, could easily enjoy and pass a full morning or afternoon learning about “Who am I?”     The Science Museum is open every day from 10:00 to 18:00.

Links

“Who am I” web site

Science Museum

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Kraków 2010 – southwestconferences.co.uk

by Mark Holah on November 22, 2009

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krakow

SouthWestConferences are offering an interesting  INSET opportunity for teachers.

  • Friday 24 Sept-Sunday 26 Sept 2010.
  • The theme will be Obedience and Resistance.
  • Manchester Met will give 20 CATS towards a masters in teaching and learning/education
    • All inclusive price £410 (plus VAT)
    • Return flight to Krakow from Bristol, Liverpool or Gatwick.
    • Transfer to and from the hotel.
    • Bed and breakfast in the Hotel Qubus (4 star hotel with sauna, swimming pool, free wireless), sharing a twin room.
    • Dinner Friday and Saturday (alcoholic drinks not included!).
    • Lunch on Saturday.
    • Guided tours of Auschwitz and the Schindler factory/Jewish district.
    • Lectures/workshops on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

    More details are here.

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