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  • Oxford Brookes University Postgraduate Symposium

    Oxford Brookes University’s Faculty of Health and Life Sciences held a Post Graduate Research Symposium in January 2019, offering second- and third-year PhD students the chance to showcase their work and receive feedback from Faculty members and invited guests.

  • Q-interactive on iPad

    Plenty of tests to choose from on Q-interactive

    As an active user of a revolutionary digital system Q-interactive™ you are able to access the world’s most advanced assessment tools anywhere, anytime. When we were creating Q-interactive we wanted to give you a simple and interactive system which would make the test administration process more engaging and personal, adding flexibility and efficiency to the way you approach specific tests and do reporting, as well as to help you save your precious time.

  • Why Q-interactive is the way to go

    Today’s educational (as well as clinical, neuro and forensic) psychologists are under pressure to deliver high quality assessments to parents, schools and professionals, and need to plan their consultations and interventions with schools, young people, parents and other adults very carefully. They also need a good mix of assessment tools, interviews and observations to carry out their work and help them administer the assessments, score and interpret reports with ease. Q-interactive is a tool designed to help Psychologists do exactly that ensuring their work is of a high quality. 

  • A day in the life of a Chartered Psychologist by Richard Pierson

    Richard Pierson is a freelance psychologist based in Yorkshire. He primarily works in schools and is an Associate Fellow of the BPS and Chartered Psychologist.  Richard worked in the computer industry, the Police Force and teaching before becoming a psychologist. In this article he describes a typical day working as a freelance Chartered Psychologist.

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    A Day in the life of a Forensic Psychologist

    I am a Forensic Psychologist and I work in private practice, with a team of psychologists across the country. We deliver training, provide assessment and psychological treatment, and consultancy to organisations.

  • What we love about the COT Conference

    Martin Reid of the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) tells the story of Conference 2016, revealing that it was the biggest ever conference delivered by the OT, and that it trended on Twitter each day (in spite of the major news stories in the UK at the end of June).

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    COT Pearson Award winner champions a ‘do with’ culture to improve outcomes for patients with personality disorders

    Keir Harding was the recipient of this year’s COT Pearson Award for education, research or continuing professional development, an award which funded Keir’s attendance at the British and Irish Group for Study of Personality Disorders annual conference (BIGSPD). Here, Keir talks about applying for this award and the impact that ‘healing through doing’ can have on an individual's life.