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Sue



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Sue Jamison-Powell

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Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group



http://www.psypag.co.uk









PhD Studentships | up to 10 Studentships Available



Our PhD research programmes have been designed to provide advanced training leading to a high degree of intellectual and professional competence.



The School of Social Work and Psychology deadline for potential Studentship applications in the following areas is 12th February 2010:



• Discursive and social constructionist approaches in psychology

• Biology in relation to psychological and sociological explanations of behaviour

• Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of personality: disorder, cognition,

behaviour, and workplace applications

• The schizophrenia spectrum and underlying predisposition of psychosis

proneness and schizotypy

• Psychological processes in Behavioural Economic games, heuristics,

biases and information framing effects on risk judgments

• Reproductive technologies and their impact on family planning

• Cognitive Bias Modification: developing a novel therapeutic tool

• Adult attachment and cognitive bias modification

• Family and peer influences on the development of morality and anti-social behaviour

• Children's understanding of science, the Earth and climate change

• Fatherhood applied to family policy, family support, and premature infants

• Young people's substance use and family life, substance use decision-making, professional decision-making processes

• Attachment relationships in adults, parental-foetal relationships



Further information about the School's research interests and details about how to apply are available from:

http://www.uea.ac.uk/swp/mphilphd/studentships





This FREE workshop will be a full day event with 4 seminars followed by Q&A, lead by academics from the two Northern Ireland Universities.



An overview of the seminars:



• Careers- Prof. Ronnie Wilson, Head of Psychology School (University of Ulster): The central focus of this topic will be on how to sell the skills acquired during postgraduate education to prospective employers.



• Publications- Prof. Richard Carson, Executive Editor, Journal of Motor Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast): This topic will provide an overview of the process for getting published: choice of journal, meaning of impact factors, peer-review, benefits of publishing during the postgraduate course, the H-index and benefits of publication for professional career.



• Statistics- Prof. Mark Shevlin, Psychology Research Institute (University of Ulster): This workshop will provide an overview of the structural equation/latent variable modelling approach to data analysis. The course will provide a guide in order to critically interpret results such analyses. A Q&A session will encourage thoughts and questions on applying modelling techniques in postgraduate research.



• Teaching- Prof. Carol McGuinness, Director of the Centre for Advancement of Learning and Teaching (Queen's University Belfast): The topic of teaching will aim to develop skills required by postgraduate tutors and demonstrators. The central aims of the topic will address how to lead effective small group teaching sessions, encouraging participation from the group, and how to deliver constructive feedback to students.



The workshop will be held on Thursday 22nd April 2010 at the Manor House Hotel, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, NI to coincide with the Northern Ireland Branch of the BPS Annual Conference. Delegates will also be welcome to present their work the day after the workshop where there will be prizes for best postgraduate poster and oral presentations. For conference costs and further information please contact Paul Wilson, Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>





THE SPECIAL GROUP IN COACHING PSYCHOLOGY



John Rowan presents

Transpersonal Coaching



A one day workshop to be held at the

BPS London Office, Tabernacle Street, London

16th March, 2010

11am-5pm

Registration from 10.30am



This workshop is based upon John Rowan’s chapter in the Complete Handbook of Coaching, published by Sage in November 2009.  The field of transpersonal coaching, pioneered by Sir John Whitmore and Hetty Einzig, is now developing fast.  It recognises, without becoming religious in any way, that we all have a soul, we all have a spirit, and that if we want to do coaching with the whole person, we have to respect that.  There is much more recognition of this nowadays, and in particular the ‘map’ of Ken Wilber has been found to be of great practical use.  In this workshop we shall also meet the U theory of Peter Senge and his co-workers, which can be used to open up the creativity of the coachee.



YOU WILL LEARN

This is an experiential workshop, and participants will be involved in a variety of exercises designed to bring out different aspects of the work.  These will include:

U-Theory,

Imagery,

Dreams,

Personification (based on John’s recent book of the same name),

Mindfulness (going rather deeper than much of the work being done at present in this area),

Stepping into the future,

Intuition and

The relational concept of Linking.

This means that participants will be able to take the insights offered in the workshop into their daily work and indeed into their everyday life.  This is an introductory workshop, and hence it is suitable for all levels of participants.  People will take from it whatever they are ready to take.  Most will find it of practical help in dealing with clients, and will also have a good idea of which clients would be suitable for this approach, and which not.  Booklists and other handouts will be provided.



John Rowan is a founder member of the SGCP and a member of the Association for Coaching,  He is a Fellow of the BPS, and has written a good deal on the transpersonal, especially in his book The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling (2nd edition) published by Routledge in 2005.  He has been leading workshops for many years in many different countries, and is on the editorial boards of the BPS Transpersonal Psychology  Review, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Self & Society.





        The registration for this event will be open 6-8 weeks before.  Please watch the

‘Events page’ of the SGCP website www.sgcp.org.uk or please contact

Tracy White, Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>



A conference fee of £90 for SGCP, BPS DOP and Association for Coaching Members /£120 for Non-Members /£65 for part-time students /£45 for full-time students, needs to be paid, in advance, to secure a place at the event (all prices inc. VAT).

Each attendee will receive a Workshop attendance certificate as evidence for CPD Logbooks or Practitioner-in-Training Logbooks.