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Category Archives: Academic Life
TURNING THE TIDE – LEADING PEOPLE THROUGH CHANGE
By Georgina Randsley de Moura @GeorginaRdeM This post is based on a talk I gave on 7th July 2017 at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (@LF4HE) Leading Change Network Leadership does not just happen, it develops. To some extent the same is … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life, Group Processes, Leadership, Opinion, Research
Tagged change, Leadership, Research, social influence, Social Psychology
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A Letter to The Guardian by Prof Dominic Abrams
By @Dominic_Abrams To: guardian.letters@theguardian.com Re: ‘60% of psychology research ‘cannot be replicated‘ (Ian Sample, Guardian 27th August)’** Ian Sample’s account of Nosek et al’s reproducibility studies seriously misrepresents the quality and value of social psychological research. It uncritically reports the conclusions … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life, Group Processes, Research, Social Psychology
Tagged Opinion, Psychology, Replication, Research, Social Psychology, The Guardian
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GroupLab featured in the British Society of Gerontology’s Generation Review
Two of our GroupLab members Ruth Lamont (@RuthALamont) and Hannah Swift (@hanaswift) have contributed to the British Society of Gerontology’s Generation Review magazine, (which is available online here http://www.britishgerontology.org/generations-review/gr-issues-2007-to-present.html). Hannah wrote about Swift and Abrams work with the European Research … Continue reading
Posted in About GroupLab, Academic Life, Ageism, Opinion
Tagged EURAGE, internships, publications, writing
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Workshop: engaging end users in research
Last week Dominic Abrams and Hannah Swift were invited by Research Services to talk about their experiences of engaging end users in research. Phil Ward (@frootle), Deputy Director of Research Services summarises the lessons learnt and issues that were highlighted … Continue reading
Posted in About GroupLab, Academic Life, Ageism, Group Processes, Opinion, Research, Social Psychology
Tagged case study, engagement, GroupLab, Research, workshop
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Group Lab Members Launch Active Ageing Survey with Canterbury City Council
By Dr. Hannah Swift @hanaswift In partnership the community development team at Canterbury City Council, Group Lab members, Dr. Hannah Swift, Ruth Lamont and Professor Dominic Abrams have launched a survey seeking the views of older people living in Canterbury, … Continue reading
Posted in About GroupLab, Academic Life, Ageism, Group Processes, Opinion, Research
Tagged Age, Canterbury Council, community, questionnaire, survey
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Theory Action & Impact of Social Protest – An Interdiscilinary Conference 2014
TAISP II, University of Kent, Canterbury UK 28th-29th March. Submission Deadline: 14th February 2014 Updates, further details and full submission details: http://contentionjournal.org/taisp2/ or http://taispconference.wordpress.com/ We are pleased to announce the 2nd Interdisciplinary Social Movements Conference at the University of Kent, … Continue reading
The War on Writing: Retreat to the Yurt
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write” – Terry Pratchett “If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life, Research, Uncategorized
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The Kerrmudgeon Blog: Pet Peeves of a Social Psychological Greybeard
by Norbert L. Kerr (kerr@msu.edu & nlk4@kent.ac.uk) Reflections on the “Fourth Drawback” The publication of Baron & Kenny’s (1986) seminal paper on mediation brought about a significant change in the way social psychological (and … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life, Group Processes, Opinion, Research, Social Psychology
Tagged Mediation, Mediational analyses, Statistics
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Public opinion: Is it all lies, damned lies and statistics?
By Dominic Abrams @GL_Csgp Why are we so fascinated by public opinion? Anyone who followed coverage of the US Presidential election could not fail to have noticed that BBC and ITV’s coverage rather desperately tried to inject some uncertainty (and … Continue reading
“I told you the mirror was important!”
By Georgina Randsley de Moura (@GeorginaRdeM) Last week my colleague Tim Hopthrow (@TImHopthrow) and I were teaching a new cohort of final year psychology undergraduates about group dynamics. We have taught the course “Groups in Action” for several years and … Continue reading
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