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Over on the BBC website there are a collection of annual lectures called the Reith Lectures.  Each year specialists in their field give lectures on their area.  Back in 2003 the lectures were called ‘The Emerging Mind‘ and were lead by the noted neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (who I’ve talked about here a few times in relation to his work [...]

This is a quick ‘heads-up’ to all. 
Sage Journals are offering free access to a massive number of Psychology, Counselling and Psycharity journals until the 30th September.  
Might come in useful to students writing assignments or coursework; or just for those who’d like to do a little extra reading.  Well worth a look.
Get over to Sage [...]

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Now I’m back from the ATP Conference and recovered it’s time to announce our new project which actually formed the basis of one of the workshops we did.  Also, a big hi to all those who saw me at the conference and commented on our work on-line. Thanks :)
For the past [...]

I’ve mentioned the ATP conference a few times before – but for the uninitiated it’s a yearly conference held by the ATP – and this year it’s in Lincoln and being organised by Phil Banyard (that chap who writes all the books and ex-Chief Examiner).
The conference, this year titled ‘the wonder of psychology: inspiring teachers [...]

With all my efforts being put into teaching and getting my little darlings ready for their exams it’s been a quiet time around here recently. To add to that loosing this weekend to a marking meeting (at least it was in the beautiful Cambridge) has meant that I haven’t had time to write; but I [...]

Following the success of our file sharing site for psychology teachers (PsychExchange.co.uk if you didn’t already know) we now release to the masses a video clip sharing site. PsychClips is a great new web site for psychology teachers to share video and audio clips that are hosted on youtube-type sites.
There are already almost 100 [...]

With the popularity of YouTube many people are turning to it to make their own little videos for revision and other classroom activities. So, we’re (Mark and I) putting a competition together for all our readers. We want you to get those cameras out and start to make your own video. It [...]

It was exactly a year ago today that I made that first tentative post wondering if the only people to read this blog would be Mark, my students, and, well … me. That hasn’t been the case and it’s been a fab year – although I didn’t realise exactly how much time and work [...]

[Update 2nd April] Health Warning: If reading this on a day other than April 1st be warned. There was a vicious ulterior motive for this post. Happy April Fools and thanks for all your comments and links.
As of September 2008 UK Universities will no longer be accepting Psychology A levels as an acceptable A [...]

Here is the next PSYlent, the weekly overview of those stories that I think are pretty interesting in psychology but don’t really apply to OCR. Seems a shame to miss out on them just because I can’t get them to fit into the specifications. So, here are those studies that would have been [...]