The IE Dissertation Support Project (IDSP) Competition is a recent promising competition under IDSP for UCL IOE postgraduate taught (PGT) dissertations in educational, psychological, or social research.
Want to get involved or watch the upcoming call? Click here for more information.
MSc Psychology of Education student Marina is looking for participants with and without dyslexia. Participants must be native English speakers aged 18-35.
The experiment lasts around 7 minutes and you are advised to use Google Chrome and a laptop/pc. Please wait 30 seconds at the end of the experiment until you get a message in your screen. The experiment requires completing a lexical decision task.
All information will be kept anonymous and there is an opportunity to win two £25 Amazon gift cards. To be included, you can email Marina your initials and age at marina.chrysikopoulou.19@ucl.ac.uk
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A Masters student in the MSc Psychological Sciences course is recruiting participants for her study on young adult bystanders and cyberbullying. Click here for the link to the study!
The Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) Lab is recruiting adolescents aged 13-18 and their caregivers for the Oxford ARC Study—an ongoing study investigating the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on mental health. Participants are to complete a survey each week for about three months and then monthly for nine months. The first one takes about 20 minutes and each follow up takes 10-15 minutes. There is also an optional task you can complete if you like. Every participant (adolescents and their caregivers) completing the surveys and optional tasks will have a chance to win a prize of an Amazon voucher.
The Global Covid Study has begun a series of blogs to comment on how various aspects of human and societal functioning have changed since the outbreak of COVID-19. Topics so far have included:
Click here to read the blog!
Thank you for all of your involvement in Mental Health Awareness Week! We’ve generated three word clouds of the responses we’ve gotten to our three questions. Words that were used the most appear larger in size. We hope they give you an interesting representation of your thoughts surrounding mental health and kindness towards yourselves and others.
Question 1: What do you think of when you see or hear the words “mental health”?
Question 2: How do you show kindness to yourself?
Question 3: How do you show kindness to others?
“How to Build a Life” is a new column in The Atlantic , an international online magazine. Check out this interesting article, The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic, for some psychological theories and tips on happiness and how we can lead meaningful lives post-lockdown.
Year 3 BSc Psychology with Education student Irina and PhD student Myrto have conducted their first interviews with PHD students and staff!
Dr. Keri Wong is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Principal Investigator in the Global Covid Study.
Linda Larbi is a MSc Child Development student and our Lead Departmental Rep.
