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Alexandra Kirby
Psychology

Psychology Lecturer publishes article in Psychological Reports

Alexandra Kirby, Lecturer in Psychology, has recently published an article in Psychological Reports. The article, ‘Attentional Biases Towards Body Related Stimuli in Healthy Males: A Systematic Review’ explores existing research surrounding the effects of body-related media (e.g., images, words) on

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Working with Children

What is gender?

The very recent transphobic moral panic has become the subject of fierce political debate. One which has inevitably fed its way into questions about how those working with children and young people respond when young people request that we refer

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Working with Children

Risk Assessing the Wild Man of the Woods

Photograph courtesy of Spencer Means About this time last year, the Woodcraft Folk went on camp again, for the first time since lockdown, and the leaders had to do a risk assessment for the Wild Man of the Woods game.

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Elaine Moore – CPCAB Counselling Research Award Winner
Counselling

Newman student wins CPCAB Counselling Research Award

The Counselling and Psychotherapy team is celebrating the achievements of their MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling student Elaine Moore who recently won the CPCAB Counselling Research Award. Elaine tells the story of her research journey and fantastic achievements: ‘Talk

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Policing

Professional Policing student do flat searches

As part of the professional Policing course students student a module on investigations. Students have been working on a case of a knife-point robbery. They have received information about a potential suspect that has led them to address (an apartment)

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