Author: northumbriapsy
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Why do we dream?
Have you ever wondered why we dream? Professor Jason Ellis explores it in this blog
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The Big 5 podcast: Chantelle Francis “There is a bigger picture to academic attainment.”
On this episode, on Child Health Day, Chantelle tells us about her experience on the MSc Conversion course which led her to a PhD on pupil well-being. We discuss some of her work on children’s, teachers’, and parents’ views on schooling during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
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COVID smell loss can have profound effects on your life, from weight change to intimacy barriers
In this post, Professor Vincent Deary and Dr Duika Burges Watson discuss how COVID smell loss can have profound effects on life, from weight change to intimacy barriers
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Mark Moss: “There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”
Dr. Mark Moss, Head of the Psychology Department at Northumbria University, tells us about his research into rosemary’s benefits for memory. We also get to learn about how the nose is connected to the brain and why smells are so powerful. “Because we’re always breathing, wherever we go, whatever we’re doing, there’s always an opportunity…
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What do lecturers know about teaching?
In this blog, Dr Libby Orme talks about how academic staff are trained in learning and teaching
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Why do you feel like you’re falling when you go to sleep?
In this blog, Professor Jason Ellis explains the ‘hypnic jerk’ – the startled sensation we get when we feel like we’re ‘falling’ as we drift off to sleep
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Spotlight on: Professor Nick Neave
Our ‘spotlight on’ series interviews academics in the department about their career. In this post, we interview Prof Nick Neave, who is the lead of our Hoarding Research Group.
Northumbria University Psychology Department 