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📢 Research Participants Wanted | For a PhD study exploring service co-design with, and for, women who are justice experienced. Interested in participating, or know someone who might be? Please get in touch and share this opportunity with your networks. All details & contact below 👇
🚓 Research funding news | Driver safety research
A new project led by Gemma Briggs and Devon & Cornwall Police has received funding from The Road Safety Trust to investigate drivers’ cognitive workload in complex driving situations.
🔗 www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/a...
@gemmabriggs.bsky.social
📖 Publication spotlight | The Social Psychology of Citizenship: Critical Advances and Interdisciplinary Insights
Exploring how citizenship is performed, contested, and reimagined...
Editors: Eleni Andreouli, Lia Figgou, Irini Kadianaki.
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Social-P...
🎥 “Dark listening” | OPRC recap
What does it mean to really listen? Dr Johanna Motzkau introduces dark listening—an art-based method exploring listening in crisis contexts.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCrH...
#Psychology #socialwork
@catrionahavard.bsky.social
🎥 How Research Shaped NICE Depression Treatment Guidelines and impacted care | OPRC Public Lecture re-cap
Dr Felicitas Rost explores how evidence shaped NICE guidelines—impacting practice across the UK.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4lx...
@thundercauldron.bsky.social
🎥 The Psychology of our Relationship with Fictional Villains | OPRC Lecture re-cap
Why do villains keep us hooked? Zoe Walkington explores the psychology behind our relationship with them—and what this means in the real world.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8Z...
#Psychology #PublicLectures
🎥 Face off: Insights into first impressions in real, computer-generate and AI faces | OPRC lecture recap
💡Louise Newbigging explores how we judge others, focusing on facial perception and rapid social judgements.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgBc...
🎥 Accents in the courtroom | OPRC lecture recap
How much does the way we speak shape decisions about us?
Lara Frumkin explores how accents influence perceptions of credibility, judgement, and fairness in courtroom settings.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yx...
#Psychology #PublicLectures
🎥 When face recognition goes wrong | OPRC recap
How reliable is face recognition—and what happens when it fails?
Catriona Havard explores why humans and machines make errors, from everyday perception to policing and tech.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKFU...
@catrionahavard.bsky.social
🎥 Supporting mothers in pregnancy & the post-natal period | OPRC recap
Prof. Gini Harrison explores maternal wellbeing, anxiety, and the support mothers need during this time.
📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-WL...
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
The Open Psychology Research Centre
Future Voices Friday 5th June 2026. Can you help? I’m looking to get lived and practitioner voices heard. If you would like to help, please get in contact at: [email protected] @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #servicedesign #codesign #designingjustice
