Welcome to SO-PSYCHED!
This is the online version of the newsletter for the Psychology team at the University of Northampton.
Editions
- July 2025 (1)
- June 2025 (3)
- May 2025 (1)
- April 2025 (1)
- March 2025 (2)
- November 2024 (3)
- October 2024 (2)
- December 2022 (26)
- November 2021 (10)
Article categories
- Course Spotlights (1)
- Editorial (2)
- In Memoriam (2)
- News (10)
- Opportunities (1)
- Publication (3)
- Staff Achievements (21)
- Student Achievements (8)
- Student Voice (2)
Congratulations to Charlotte Dann on her New Book
Congratulations to Dr Charlotte Dann has just released a co-authored Feminist Companion to Developmental Psychology! This companion equips y [...]
News ...
Psych staff contributions to UON Annual Research Conference 2025
Once again, the UON annual research conference has come and gone, and once again we’ve had fascinating contributions from Psychology s [...]
NILE site success – two awards for Psychology
Each year, the Learning Development Team invite submission for the NILE Ultra Course Awards, and we’re pleased to announce that two of [...]
Sharing best teaching practice at the UON Learning & Teaching Conference
Each year, UON runs a two-day Learning & Teaching conference where staff from across the institution come together to present to colleag [...]
Bingo! An lighter evening for staff & students
Thanks to all staff and students who came and supported the UON Psychology “Bingo Bash” on 21st May. Loads of fun, much sugar in [...]
Student Voice In Action! – Strengths and Changes from Mid-Module Evaluations (Semester 2)
Student feedback on our courses is incredibly valued by us and listened to seriously. Here we provide a snapshot of some of the feedb [...]
Congratulations to Charlotte Dann!
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Charlotte Dann, who has recently had two chapter accepted. The first is entitled ’On bei [...]
Congratulations to Dr Furlong on Achieving his PhD.
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Rhys Furlong, who successfully defended his thesis for his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Psychol [...]
UON Psychologists win prestigious international award!
We are delighted to announce two of our researchers Prof. Chris Roe and Dr. Mike Daw have recently won the prestigious Linda G. O’Bryant N [...]
Ghouls & Ghosts – Halloween Celebrated in Psychology
This year we embraced the Halloween spirit with a festive celebration that blended fun and charity support. Staff and students transformed t [...]
Student Voice in Action!
Student feedback on our courses is incredibly valued by us and listened to seriously. Here we provide a snapshot of some of the feedback you [...]
Congratulations on your new book!
Dear Psychology students! We are pleased to announce that Mr. Rick Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling, has recently publi [...]
In Focus— BSc Forensic Psychology
In this article, we explore one of our courses and the experiences or motivations of our students studying it. We are very proud of our Fore [...]
Editorial: Winter 2022-23
Welcome to the Autumn 2022 Edition of the So-Psyched! newsletter. The Psychology and Sociology team have been delighted to welcome new cohor [...]
Introducing Sociology (and the now SO-PSYCHED! Newsletter)
To start with, the Sociology Team thanks Psychology for such a warm welcome to the new Psychology and Sociology Subject Group. In the past, [...]
Thank you to Chris Roe
After 5 successful years, our Centre for Psychology & Social Sciences (CPSS) would like to say a big thank you to Prof Chris Roe who has [...]
Louise Spiers was awarded her PhD!
Dr Louise Spiers, a member of the EECS Research Group, was recently awarded her PhD in Psychology. Louise’s thesis examines spiritual [...]
‘Who am I to be teaching at a university?’
Tia Rodrigues has just graduated from MSc Counselling at UON. This year, Tia began teaching some of the third year ‘Counselling in Tex [...]
Volunteering in Ghana
One of our 3rd year students, Lara Asabi from BSc (Hons) Psychology (Developmental and Educational) who has just graduated this summer, rece [...]
Supporting autistic people and their families
Dr Lauren McAllister, the Programme Lead for MSc CAMH at UON, is also a Trustee for a local autism charity, En-Fold. En-Fold support autisti [...]
Liz Gulliford at Association for Moral Education (AME) Conference in Manchester
Dr Liz Gulliford, Associate Professor in Psychology, chaired a symposium on ‘The Pedagogical Potential of Exemplar Narratives for Moral Ed [...]
Exceptional Experience and Consciousness Research Group update
On 13th and 14th May 2022, members of the Exceptional Experience and Consciousness (EECS) Research Group attended the 6th Internationa [...]
Children’s right of self-determination & teachers’ representation of migrant children in the classroom
Prof Federico Farini, Sociology, has had two articles published with Dr Angela Scollan from Middlesex University. The first article presents [...]
Aspirations vs Reality: What Adulting Tells us About the Politics of Linearity
In April, Isaac Hoff, Associate Lecturer in Sociology, published ‘Aspirations vs Reality – What Adulting Tells us About the Poli [...]
Social Psychology conference
In her role on the Social Psychology Section Committee of the British Psychological Society, Dr Kimberley Hill helped to run their Annual Co [...]
Connecting through Dance: New Paper
Dr Kimberley Hill has just published a paper with international collaborators in the journal Qualitative Health Research. This research focu [...]
Transitional Politics from Fatsa to Dersim: Past and Present Socialist Governance in Turkey
In July, Onur Acaroglu participated in the panel ‘Utopia and Anti-Utopia: Political and Theoretical Forms’ at the 22nd Utopian Studies S [...]
Safe Teaching Spaces and Sensitive Topics – MSc CAMH Team Finalise their Research
Lauren Young, Lauren McAllister and Luke Ward from the MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health team are finalising the findings of their fund [...]
UON Psychology Conference blows expectations out of the water
On the 4th of May, the University of Northampton held its Psychology Research Conference where both students and academics at the university [...]
Reading for Wellbeing
Hayley Barton recently secured community funding from Persimmon Community Champion Fund in order to secure a base for a new intergenerationa [...]