{"id":5051,"date":"2023-01-31T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:37:15","slug":"january-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2023\/01\/31\/january-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We welcomed the New Year by celebrating an OBE, raising awareness for human rights, and beating Blue Monday (by listening to New Order&#8217;s song on repeat).<\/p>\n<h2>A Kings Honour for New Year!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We are so proud that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/4984\/psychology-professor-recognised-in-the-new-year-honours-list\">Dominic Abrams<\/a> has been acknowledged in the first of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.org.uk\/news\/psychologists-recognised-new-year-honours-list\"><strong>King&#8217;s Honours Lists<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kent Stars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This month, Psychology&#8217;s Tobias and Nicolette were recognised for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/news\/33681\/kent-stars-motivational-mentors\"><strong>outstanding achievements<\/strong><\/a> in creating workshops to connect fellow Psychology students.<\/li>\n<li>Eleftherios Baltzidis studied an MSc in Development Psychology and is now a Humanitarian Worker. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5023\/after-kent-humanitarian-worker-eleftherios-baltzidis\"><strong>Find out their career steps<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">How does it feel?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Did January&#8217;s gloomy days get you down? We conjured up some tips to help shift our mindset on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5008\/a-psychology-experts-step-by-step-guide-to-beating-blue-monday\"><strong>Blue Monday<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>You shared, we listened<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We looked back at academic year highlights so far and changes that were implemented as a direct result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/4994\/we-are-listening\"><strong>student feedback<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fancy a PhD?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Study inequality and immigration Public Policy with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/1920\/sengupta-nikhil\">Dr Nikhil Sengupta<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/4969\/erc-funded-phd-studentship-in-psychology-the-psychological-causes-and-consequences-of-social-inequality-2\"><strong>Applications close 10th February 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Examine the consequences of adopting and sharing conspiracy theories with <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/221\/douglas-karen\">Professor Karen Douglas<\/a>. <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/4990\/erc-funded-phd-studentship-opportunity-consequences-of-conspiracy-theories\"><strong>Applications close 28th February 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Your Division Needs You!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you spare 15 minutes for a survey? Share your views and help our students&#8217; project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5002\/your-division-needs-you\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research news&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Abrams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/1952\/lalot-fanny\">Dr Fanny Lalot<\/a> tested a COVID-19 theory. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/4998\/low-concern-and-political-distrust-behind-vaccine-resistance\"><strong>more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jocelyn Chalmers&#8217; article about libertarianism and abortion <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5063\/the-research-that-went-viral\">went viral<\/a>, <\/strong>with 42k &#8216;Upvotes&#8217; and counting&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The first of our HSS Inaugural Lecture Series! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/219\/cichocka-aleksandra\">Aleksandra Cichocka<\/a> kicks it off with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5013\/hss-inaugural-lecture-series\"><strong><em>Making the Personal Political<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcomed the New Year by celebrating an OBE, raising awareness for human rights, and beating Blue Monday (by listening to New Order&#8217;s song on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2023\/01\/31\/january-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":5083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}