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In a world where our judgments of others are increasingly made on the basis of information produced through an expanding range of mediums—some lean, some rich, some single-channel, some multi-channel, and so on—the idea that rich contexts are not necessarily … Continue reading →

The Department is pleased to welcome two new Lecturers, Dr Joyce Humphries, and Dr Joanne Powell. Joyce’s main research focus has been on the theoretical and applied aspects of memory and cognition, and specifically the study of cognitive and social … Continue reading →

Dr Debbie Pope and Dr Dave Putwain, from the Department of Psychology, are to take part in an exciting international research study investigating the motivational-affective strategies of personal self-regulation and stress coping in university learning.  This collaborative project is based … Continue reading →

The success of British competitors at last year’s Olympics has given rise to concerns as to how this high level of success can be continued. Effective training strategies and the technology to support it are clearly important here. Collaborative research … Continue reading →

In a bid to promote the views of young people in education, Dave Putwain (Reader in Psychology), Sara Shaw (2nd year Educational Psychology student) and Wendy Symes (University of Manchester), spent a day at Sir John Deane’s college in Northwich … Continue reading →

The Department of Psychology is delighted to be hosting a Higher Education Academy Workshop due to take place on Tuesday 26th February 2013. This workshop aims to consider the way in which psychological principles can be applied to education and … Continue reading →

Psychology students at Edge Hill university came to classes in their pyjamas on Friday 16th November in an effort to raise money for Children in Need. Students also got involved in bake sales and a host of other fund raising … Continue reading →

Three members of our psychology department played an active role in the British Psychological Society (BPS) Education Section Annual Conference, held this year in Milton Keynes (Nov 9th – 12th, 2012). The conference theme of ‘Raising Attainment in Education: The … Continue reading →

Results of the National Student Survey were published towards the end of this September. It is the biggest survey of student opinion undertaken in the country. The Sunday Times University Guide compiled scores across questions relating to quality of teaching, … Continue reading →

I was fortunate to be offered a place on the exchange programme earlier this summer to Changsha Social Work College, Hunan Province, China. There were 19 of us from Edge Hill, with students from a variety of courses and disciplines. … Continue reading →