Category: Careers In Psychology
-
Postgraduate Research Degrees in Psychology
In this post, members of the departmental management team discuss what its like to complete a postgraduate research degree in the department, and how to find opportunities for funding
-
Funded PhD Opportunity: Developing a framework of community well-being in universities
In this post, Dr Alyson Dodd, Dr Libby Orme and Dr Lisa Thomas discuss their current vacancy for a PhD programme investigating community well-being in universities
-
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.
-
What do lecturers know about teaching?
In this blog, Dr Libby Orme talks about how academic staff are trained in learning and teaching
-
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 PhD Students’ Prize Winning Research
We spoke to of our current PhD students, Richard Brown, about his award winning MSc research project, his PhD research plans and asked him for advice for current students!
-
Spotlight on: Dr Tom Heffernan
Our ‘spotlight on’ series interviews academics in the department about their career. In this post, we interview Dr Tom Heffernan, who is the author of the students’ guide to studying psychology.
-
Graduate Bio: Joan Wong
In this post, we interviewed Joan Wong, one of our MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology graduates about her experience of the course and her career to date. Joan is now a Senior HR director in the financial technology industry
Northumbria University Psychology Department 