Congratulations to Dr Heather Ferguson and Dr David Williams who have been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for £225,482. The project will start in September … Read more
Category: Research
Workshop in honour of Professor Jon Driver and his influence in mentoring others
Congratulations to Dr Joseph Brooks, who has been awarded £3,500 by the Experimental Psychology Society for a project entitled “Workshop in honour of Professor Jon Driver … Read more
Grounds for discovery
Congratulations to Dr Hannah Swift (PI) and Ann Marie Towers (Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Co-I), who have been awarded £7,913 by The Learning … Read more
Psychologists help create world’s biggest teen diary
The Anne Frank Trust UK is creating a Generation Diary, 70 years after Anne Frank’s final diary entry, which aims to highlight how teenagers today … Read more
Music helps neuro-rehabilitation patients
Reader in Psychology Dr David Wilkinson is working with hospital clinicians and ward staff on a project to find a new way of helping patients … Read more
Students motivated to reduce their energy use
Senior Lecturer in Psychology Dr Tim Hopthrow collaborated on the research with Dr Jim Ang of the University’s School of Engineering and Digital Arts alongside … Read more
O2 Workshop
Congratulations to Dr Mario Weick (PI) and Professor Yannis Georgellis and Dr Madeleine Wyatt (Kent Business School, University of Kent, Co-Is), who have been awarded £582.80 by … Read more
Feeling your age in different societies
New research carried out by psychologists at the University, titled ‘Being old and ill’ across different countries: social status, age identification and older people’s subjective … Read more
New Political Psychology Research Lab
The Political Psychology Lab brings together researchers from the School of Psychology and the School of Politics and International Relations. It fosters interdisciplinary research on … Read more
Challenging gender stereotypes in people selecting leaders may stimulate greater fairness
Research by University of Kent psychologist Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura and psychologists from the universities of Coventry and Sheffield considered how exposure to counter-stereotypic … Read more