Reflecting on higher education through a psychological lens
In the UK, new professors are usually expected to give what is known as an 'inaugural professorial lecture', a public lecture that offers some insight into how the person became a professor, drawing to different extents on the personal and professional stories that intertwine to bring them to the current day. When I was appointed… Continue reading Giving psychology away: Making a difference in higher education
Summary of a keynote talk given at the Association for the Teaching of Psychology Annual International Conference, University of Lincoln, July 2024. First published as a blog by EFPTA (the European Federation of Psychology Teachers' Associations). Within the UK, there has been an increasingly noisy rhetoric about “low quality” university courses, which has focused on… Continue reading Psychology? It’s a Mickey Mouse subject…is it?
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