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Prestigious fellowship £50k fund award goes to Dr David Kaposi to “solve” the Milgram enigma and extend work into the theory of implicit violence

What lies behind the enigma of human destructiveness? Psychotherapist and social psychologist, David Kaposi proposes to understand it as the outcome of violent acts that fall outside the awareness of perpetrators, bystanders and victims alike.

You’re invited to the launch of the Open Psychology Research Centre

Open Psychology for changing times. Join us for a series of events to launch the Open Psychology Research Centre.

Psychology research cited by a motion in the Scottish Parliament on the Scots law

A motion in the Scottish Parliament on the Scots law, three verdict system (guilty, not guilty, not proven) cited recent research from the School of Psychology and Counselling.

Bad people or people who do bad things?

FASS academics Dr Camilla Elphick and Dr Zoë Walkington consult on a new series of the popular Bad People podcast.

Professor Sarah Crafter to co-lead UK activity on new Horizon-funded project

Professor Sarah Crafter joins ‘Networking the educational world – Across boundaries for community-building’, a research project seeking to address significant educational inequalities, discrimination and barriers to integration faced by children and young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.

£50k funding to Dr Lara Frumkin for digital technologies, power and control project

Dr Lara Frumkin, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and has secured funding of almost £50k to lead a 2-year project looking at digital technologies, power and control.

Research grant to Dr Lee Curley and colleagues to focus on bias in ‘super-recognisers’

Dr Lee Curley and colleagues have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme small grant for a research project ‘Super-recognisers: Is bias their kryptonite?’