Sep 27, 2021

This week Dr Eleanor Leigh talks about how, for some adolescents, social situations create such feelings of anxiety that it interfere with learning and education as well as other aspects of their day to day lives. Eleanor is principal Clinical Psychologist and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow at the...

Sep 20, 2021

At what point do people accept the label 'Disabled'?  What are the barriers to acceptance?  Why do students fail to tell educational establishments about disabilities when it may be in their interests to do so?  Dr. Julie Hulme, Reader of Psychology at Keele discusses all these question and introduces us to Social...

Sep 13, 2021

Ever been in the situation where you feel you should do one thing but it goes against the 'rules' in some way?  Chris researches the phenomenon of Constructive Deviance and what makes us stick to the 'rules' even when we feel we shouldn't and what makes us break them and whether or not this is a good thing in...

Sep 6, 2021

Dr. Malik Boykin is the first Black professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (CLPS) at Brown University.  In this conversation we discuss how student-teacher relationships affect learning, and the importance of being vulnerable in front of our students.  We then consider how...