Environmental Psychology Award
Jonathan Sime Award
Dr. Jonathan Sime, a former MSc and PhD student, Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer worked in the area of environmental psychology in the department at Surrey. He specialised in the area of risk and people’s behaviour in fires and emergency situations. Tragically Jonathan died suddenly in January 2001, aged just 50. The Jonathan Sime Dissertation Award has recently been inaugurated and funded by a friend of Jonathan since his teenage years.
The Award is available to students who have completed an undergraduate degree and produced a dissertation in a subject area related to environmental psychology. It is open to students from any UK university and administered by David Uzzell, Birgitta Gatersleben and Gerda Speller. Gerda played a key role in securing this Award and ensuring it was associated with the Department. Dissertations will be considered if they describe a piece of empirical work in the field of people-environment studies. This includes subjects such as environmental perception and cognition, environmental stress, personal space, territoriality, crowding, work, learning or residential environments, the natural environment, sustainability, environmental risk and disasters, environmental problems and behavioural solutions, children and the environment, crime and the environment, architectural perceptions and preferences, etc. Both qualitative and quantitative pieces of work will be considered.
The Award Panel includes Sue Ann Lee (formerly of Kingston University and Secretary of IAPS)
Clinical and Forensic Psychology
Dr Dora Brown and Dr Vicky Vidalaki had been awarded funding by the Fund for Strategic Development of Learning and Teaching to study clinical trainees’ perceptions of the usefulness of different types of feedback during their training course.
The research aims to identify Clinical Psychology trainees’ perceptions of the impact of Case Discussion Group (CDG) on their training with a view to promote a reflective practice virtual module to aid the development of competence in clinical skills. Reflective practice has been described as something more than an examination of personal experience and has been located in the political and social structures which are increasingly hemming professionals in.
Trainees in the Clinical Psychology course produce a reflective account of their work on CDG which is assessed and included in their final portfolio. This research will explore the trainees’ understanding of the impact of CDG on their clinical work, and may be used to promote self assessment in future marked assignments. Dora and Vicky hope that the research will strengthen theory to practice links which will impact on staff and the delivery of the clinical curriculum.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Congratulations to Haya Al-Mannai and Amelia Wise who passed their PhD vivas recently.
Haya's thesis was titled 'Cognitive predictors in early Arabic literacy: Informing the Development of Dyslexia Assessment in Bahrain' and her supervisor was Dr John Everatt. The external examiner was Professor Tony Cline, Bedford University, the internal examiner was Professor Ian Davies, and the chair was Dr Chris Fife-Schaw.
Amelia's PhD was 'A study of the factors critical to successful career change and outcomes in 30 something's: A constructive perspective' and her supervisor was Dr Lynne Purvis. The external examiner was Dr Kate Mackenzie Davey from Birbeck College and the internal examiner was Dr Emma Williams.
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Newsletter May 2007
Congratulations to all the PhD, PsychD and MSc students who were awarded their degrees at the higher degree ceremony at the cathedral on March 30th 2007.
Following the ceremony the School of Human Sciences hosted a reception in the University Hall where Head of Department Professor Jennifer Brown congratulated our graduates and thanked all the staff who contributed to their success. She also presented the Clare Whelan Memorial Prize for the best MSc Forensic Psychology dissertation to Darius Cavina and Sarah Disspain.
2) Successful PhD viva
Carly was one of the PhD students funded by the Dovegate bursary scheme and her doctoral work focussed on the association between masculinity and progress within the therapeutic community.
3) Foyer improvement project
The Environmental Psychology MSc students recently undertook a project to redesign the departmental foyer. The project has been sponsored by Professor Jennifer Brown and is being led by Dr Birgitta Gatersleben. The decision to carry out the redesign follows research conducted last year that suggested that most students, staff and visitors felt that the foyer was not as welcoming as it could be and did not adequately reflect the prestige of the department.
The first stage of the redesign employed a number of environmental psychology theories and models that explain how people assess and evaluate their surroundings. On the basis of these conceptual frameworks, and an analysis of the earlier research, the group produced seven mood boards which were displayed in the foyer area (see photo attached. Each board visualised a different approach to creating a more welcoming, comfortable, legible and interactive space.
At the end of the first stage Birgitta commented
“Our research has shown that the foyer could do a far better job at projecting an image for the department that is welcoming, dynamic and creative. I hope this project provides the opportunity to design a space that far better reflects this image to visitors, staff and students alike.”
The feedback from the questionnaires were used to inform the final design work which is currently on display in the foyer. It is expected that some of the work will be carried out over the summer.
4) News from the Developmental Psychology research group
Professor Martyn Barrett participated in a briefing seminar for Tessa Jowell (Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Minister for the Olympics) recently. The seminar focused on “Young People, Britishness and the Olympics 2012”, and was aimed at exploring how the Olympics and other sporting events may be harnessed to foster a greater sense of Britishness amongst British children and young people.
Martyn also participated in a briefing seminar for the Commission for Racial Equality. This day long event focused on “Identity, Young People and Integration”, and explored the extent to which identity perspectives can be used in policy making on racial and ethnic inclusion, social and national cohesion, and the formulation of anti-discrimination measures.
5) News from the Environmental Psychology research group
Professor David Uzzell has recently been appointed Visiting Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Umeå in Sweden.
David Uzzell also gave a talk to BPS London and Home Counties Branch on Changing Behaviours for Sustainable Communities earlier this year. This was followed in February and March by papers at the Sustainable Cities Conference, at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford on Environmental Psychology for a Sustainable City. He has also taken part in seminars at the University of La Coruña on The Contribution of Environmental Psychology to Social Education and Health, and in the Geography Department at UCL on Environmental Psychology, Sustainable Development and Place.
Dr Birgitta Gatersleben was quoted in the Sunday Times (April 15th 2007) in an article titled New economy seats ‘invade personal space’. The newspaper reported that if personal space is invaded, it provokes a stress reaction and quoted Birgitta as saying “Airline seating already places passengers within each other’s intimate personal space, but sitting side by side allows them to avoid eye contact and so control their environment. Placing them in a face-to-face situation for many hours removes that control and is bound to cause insecurity. They’ll feel like sardines packed in a box.”
Friday, 27 April 2007
Research Group news
News from the Research Groups
Forensic
Baroness Bottomley, Pro-Chancellor, quoted Professor Jennifer Brown in a recent House of Lords debate regarding the regulation of psychologists by the Health Professions Council.
She stated that the University of Surrey does a lot of work in training psychologists and counsellors and quoted Jennifer’s statement that: ‘The HPC procedures are designed to encompass a very broad range of health and allied professions and as such are neither rigorous enough nor are their standards sufficient to regulate the professional practice of psychology effectively”.
She also pointed out that ‘60 per cent of psychologists do not work in the NHS, but in other settings. Some work for charities ..... and on helplines. It is not appropriate to regulate these people in that way. What is more, the perverse aspect of this is that in many cases there is a degree of co-payment, so if the Minister effectively nationalises all these therapists, with that he will pick up a considerable hidden cost. Regrettable as it may be, many charities work through contributions made by patients. That is a further argument. Many work in education and the Prison Service, which is much debated in this House. For them, the sensitivities required in their field of engagement are extremely important.’’
Perception and Cognition
Successful research proposal
In response to an EPSRC Cognitive Systems Call. Bart De Bruyn, Francis Rumsey (Institute of Sound Recording) and Adrian Hilton (Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences) teamed up and submitted a 5 year research proposal on Audio-Visual Action and Interaction, budgeted at £1.3M.
After evaluation by a Group of Funders of the Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, and MRC) and the Wellcome Trust, Bart and co-applicants have been invited to submit for the full amount. The high quality of the research proposal and the suitability for across council funding were highlighted.
Work and Organisational Psychology
The group has generated a great deal of press interest recently with coverage of Lynne Purvis’ work on women’s experiences of taking maternity leave and Almuth McDowall’s study of age and gender effects on the availability of training, featuring in both the local and national press.
Lynne’s paper, ‘The transition to motherhood in an organizational context: An interpretative phenomenological analysis’ prompted requests for interviews with Radio 5 live, Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show Eve Magazine and the Sunday telegraph to name just a few.
Lynne: The study was prompted by friends and colleagues experiences of returning to work after maternity leave though I must say that my own experience was very different.
The eight women that she interviewed were working full-time and in each case were due to take maternity leave prior to the birth of their first child. All of the women felt that as their pregnancy continued they became invisible to the organisation that they worked for and felt alienated by colleagues attempts to organise cover for their leave period without consulting them. They also reported difficulty in integrating back into the organisation when they returned and establishing themselves as both a mother and employee. Those who had kept in touch with work either socially or psychologically found the return to work less daunting and less problematic.
Lynne: Recently, the Government have introduced a ‘keeping in the loop’ addendum to the law on maternity leave so women can legitimately keep in touch and not risking losing their maternity leave through an unwitting declaration that they are officially returning to work. This was influenced by my work so I’m delighted that it has informed such a major decision.
Almuth, who is currently on maternity leave herself, was fielding press enquiries just hours after her daughter’s birth as her paper ‘How age and gender affect the allocation of training and development budgets’was presented at the BPS’s Division of Occupational Psychology Conference on Friday 12th January 2007, caught the media’s attention.
Almuth: Unfair discrimination on grounds of age, gender or other demographics is illegal in the UK. However,there is no doubt that this continues to happen, with many published court cases and big compensation payouts providing the evidence. Surprisingly, the area of training and development has received little attention in this context. Whilst many theorists proclaim that training and development are now self-led, with workers and not employers taking charge, in reality time and budgets have to be made available to employees to engage in related activities. In other words, if your manager and organisation do not support you, how can you make life-long skill development happen?
We did a ‘vignette study’ using hypothetical but realistic scenarios detailing requests for training and development budgets from employees. Nearly 50 managers from all over the UK took part, it was their task to allocate budgets across our fictitious employees, and justify their decisions. Our findings support our hypothesis clearly – older women were given significantly lower budgets. Of particular interest were the justifications for these decisions – a couple of managers commented that ‘they did not want to be ageist’ and that we ‘seemed to want to force a choice between younger and older employees’. So why did the differences occur nevertheless? Justifications were largely based on return on investment – older women are simply not perceived as offering a good return.
I am hoping to follow up on this initial study within our occupational psychology research group, by doing some more experimental work on managerial decision making in training and development to replicate the effects observed here, and to determine the reasons for existing bias more clearly.
Niamh Murtagh presented a paper at the 1st International Coaching Psychology Conference 18-19 December 2006. called "What barriers? Women's experience in changing careers" (N.Murtagh, E.Lyons, P.N.Lopes) and a poster at The British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 10-12 January 2007 entitled: "What makes a career barrier a barrier? Women's experience of changing careers" (N. Murtagh, P.N. Lopes, E.Lyons).
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Surrey University Psychology Department
What's new at the department?
Marco Vassallo who visited the department for a month during November as part of an exchange scheme operating between the partners in the Healthgrain research programme. Marco is a statistician with interests in consumer behaviour and is usually based at INRAN (National Institute of Research in Food and Nutrition) in Rome. The Institute advises the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on human nutrition and consumer policy. In addition to Healthgrain, which is concerned with improving wellbeing by increasing the intake of protective compounds in whole grains, Marco also worked with colleagues at Surrey on the Condor project which looked at consumers’ decisions about organic foods.
Marco: Being here has been an amazing experience. The department is so well organised. INRAN is a small institute (with a scientific and technical research staff of 150 employees) so in comparison Surrey is like a golden
land! The library is fantastic you have access to so many electronic journals and I’ve had such a great time here. It’s not just the work that’s well organised, there’s the sports centre on campus and everything that you need during a typical working day. I’m so enthusiastic about this place!
My colleagues (in the Centre for Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health) have been organising social events, taking me out to the countryside to have dinner in local pubs. They have all been so kind and I’m so glad to be here. When I go home I’ll tell my colleagues about the University and the ambience. One thing that has surprised me is the close relationships between the researchers here. It’s not just work, they are so close and they have strong friendships. I think it’s crucial that you find a friendly atmosphere because we spend so much of our time at work. I went to the PhD party too and that was fun and I met a lot more people.
Guildford is a small town but I like it - it has the river and the castle and it amazed me that you can be inthe hustle and bustle of the town centre and then the castle grounds are so peaceful. In general in my country there’s chaos in the gardens too! I would say that you are lucky to have the opportunity to work here, but I love my country so I look forward to going home but I would like to take some things back with me. The experience here has been very positive for me and for the project and I hope that I’ll have the opportunity to come again.
It would be great to have someone come to INRAN. I think these kinds of projects are very important for young people. After you finish your degree you still have so much to learn and working on a European project, meeting people, comparing yourself to others, both in work and social situations, isn’t easy but it’s such a good way to learn and you can create links which lead to other projects in the future. At INRAN we have students from Spain, Russia, Sweden, Yugoslavia and sometimes there are language difficulties but the bigger problems are the habits that you used to. You need to be versatile and flexible. I think that trying new things keeps you young and makes you eager to do more.
Course and Student News
Plans to change the MSc Environmental Psychology course
Plans are underway to make several changes to the MSc Environmental Psychology starting the academic year 2007/2008. The new course format will allow for more flexibility and will make the course or parts of it more accessible for a wider audience and therefore help increase student numbers. The new course also aims to better reflect the research interests of the Environmental Psychology Research Group.
Four types of changes are proposed.
1. Restructuring the course into one week modules rather than 10 week modules. This format is already being used in other departments of the University such as EIHMS and CES and in othe Universities. The main advantage of such a structure is that it makes the course much more accessible to students who work. It also makes it possible to sell individual modules for CPD. Moreover, for small groups this intensive structure may be more suitable then the usually 10 week lecture arrangement.
2. Better reflection of the research activities in the research group.
Much of the research that is now being conducted by the Environmental Psychology Research Group and by Environmental Psychology researchers world wide involves the study of issues around sustainability, such as environmental values, attitudes and behaviours, household energy use, transport and waste. We would like to strengthen the link between our research expertise and the training we offer.
3. Providing two MSc options
At the moment our course attracts students with two different interests, which overlap in
part but are also very distinct. The new course aims to address these two different
interests by providing two MSc options.
A. Psychology and the Environment
The first involves the more classical Environmental Psychology which is related to the design and planning disciplines. We are the only course in the UK and one of the very few courses in the world which provide this kind of training.
B. Psychology, Environment and Sustainability
This option will specifically be designed to better reflect the research work conducted in the Research Group and will has strong links with the 5-year RESOLVE research programme which started in June 2006, and has strong cognate links with research and teaching on lifestyles, consumption and sustainability by researchers in different departments of the University -CES, Economics, Sociology and Psychology. PsychD Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology Open Afternoon - 8th January We will be holding our annual Open Afternoon for prospective applicants on Monday 8th January from 2.00 -5.00 pm and will be using the foyer from about 3.45-5.00 pm. As we have had a particularly good response this year we will also need to use Room 30 AD 02 during the same period. Please accept my apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the additional noise. Marion Steed Department of Psychology
4. Providing links with other Master programmes at University of Surrey
With the start of the RESOLVE project we have strengthened the links between different departments in the University (CES, Sociology, Economics and Psychology) and we believe it would be useful to build on these links by offering optional CES modules to our students, and open up some of our modules to students from CES. Moreover, we would like to develop a link between our Masters course and the new MSc in Transport Planning and Practice in the School of Engineering by providing a specific module on transport psychology.
At the moment we are going through all the appropriate channels to get approval for our plans. So far we have had very positive responses both from colleagues as well as from existing and prospective students.
Birgitta Gatersleben and David Uzzell
Eighty MSc students were awarded their degrees in November and we are looking forward to celebrating with them at the graduation ceremony on March 30t 2007. Several students are staying in the department to work towards PhDs; Katie Herron (MSc Applied), Cristina Ruscitto and Katarzyna Chapman (MSc Health) Lucy Arnold and Sebastian Teicher (MSc Forensic), Patrick Martens and Rasmus Martensen (Social).
BPS Award for MSc Occupational Psychology Student
Each year the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology makestthree awards to students who have produced projects which in the view of a panel of academic and practitioner judges, have made the most valuable contribution to the field of Occupational Psychology.
We are delighted to report that Kathryn Taylor, who completed her MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology earlier this year submitted a summary of her project and was awarded first prize. Kathryn’s project, supervised by Adrian Banks, was titled ‘How can we maximise the transfer of training? Effects of goal orientation, achievement motivation and climate for transfer’. Through quantitative and qualitative research Kathryn established that people who transfer the most knowledge and skills from training courses to the work place are those who work in environments where the climate for transfer is positive. She also identified differences in transfer rates between public and private sector workers.
Kathryn’s prize of £750 will be presented at the Division’s annual conference in January and she will also receive free daily admission to the conference plus £150 towards travel and accommodation costs.
Thank you to everyone who has bought books from the Book People this year. Julie was able to collect two large boxes of children’s books as a result of your orders and delivered them to St Christopher's Children's Hospice just outside Guildford early in December.
Student News
Following their successful vivas, Jane Palmer and Oliver Wright send us the following updates:
Jane, who’s thesis was titled ‘An exploration of sadistic sex offending: phenomenology & measurement’, writes:
I'd like to thank my supervisors Professor Jennifer Brown and Professor Derek Perkins (Broadmoor Hospital), and also givethanks to the National Programme in Forensic Mental Health, who funded my research. One of the best bits of working in the department was the support I received from everyone and especially from others doing PhDs - feeling supported is so important when you have the inevitable ups and downs that come with undertaking a PhD.
Oliver, who is lecturing in Turkey says:
I've been working abroad since submitting my thesis a few months ago, so it was good to come back to the psychology department - it felt almost like returning home. I found studying for a PhD to be a very satisfying experience, and feel very lucky, both to have been given the opportunity to undertake such studies and to have received such excellent supervision. I was funded by a Psychology Department bursary for the first year and for the remaining time by the ESRC. For me, the most interesting part of the experience were the two summers I spent doing fieldwork with Himba people in the Kaokoveld in Namibia. These trips were also the hardest part of my studies due to the extreme remoteness of the location and attendant lack of comforts.
Miranda Horvath’s viva was held on 27th November, with Dr Arlene Vetere acting as internal examiner, Dr Julian Boon (University of Leicester) as external examiner and Dr John Everatt as Chair. Miranda’s thesis was titled ‘Drug assisted rape: An investigation’ and her supervisor was Jennifer Brown.
I would like to thank everyone at Surrey for putting up with me and providing me with so much support over the years. Jennifer has been the most wonderful supervisor, I am sograteful for all her support, she's a truly amazing woman. I'veenjoyed my time here so much and I’ll really miss everyone.
As for the future, Miranda is working as a research fellow atthe child and women abuse studies unit at LondonMetropolitan
On
Don’s Diary from Oregon Research Institute (ORI)
by Sarah Hampson
Monday
The Scientist Council meeting takes place on the secondMonday of each month at
I ponder the pros and cons of Surrey-style hierarchicalconsultative management vs. ORI-style non-hierarchical participatory management. It maybe that ORI’s size and common purpose (roughly comparable to one large
Food incentives help. A hot lunch is served at Scientist Council. Today it was classicEugene cuisine: a tasty brown rice and vegetable casserole catered by nearby Café Yumm.
Tuesday
The sun is shining, so my 10-minute bicycle ride to work was particularly pleasant. Not onlydo I get exercise, but ORI pays me to not use the car park. If you park every day of theweek you owe ORI; if you use alternative transportation or car pool at least one day a week,you pay nothing, and for every additional day of ‘alt-trans’, ORI owes you. It took a while tohammer out this policy - car parking is a sensitive issue at ORI, as it is at
I log onto the website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) known as ‘the Commons’. Itcontains a complete record of my grant applications for the past several years, including thereviews and the funding decisions. The research teams I work with currently have threeproposals under review, each at different branches of NIH and reviewed by different expertpanels. I check daily to see if the outcomes have been posted. Each application representsa substantial amount of work, consisting of a 25-page description of the proposed researchand about 80 pages of supporting material (budget justification, CVs, Human Subjects,etc.). And then there the appendices.
I learn that one proposal shared the fate of about 50% of NIH applications: it was rejectedwithout even being discussed by the review committee. The second proposal did getdiscussed and received a priority score that puts it just out of range of funding. The third,however, has a very good chance of being funded. One nice feature not typical in the
Wednesday
There is much rejoicing at ORI over the news of the Democratic success in the mid-termelections held yesterday. Politics affect my pay cheque at ORI in a much more direct waythan at
President Bush’s spending priorities. ORI even belongs to an organization that lobbies in Washingtonon behalf of research institutes. An email from this organization today warns that it willtake a year or two for positive effects of the shift in the power balance to trickle down. True, but today we celebrate.
Thursday
I must take a moment to fill out my enrollment forms for ORI’s health insurance for 2007.There has been a small increase in the premium for next year. ORI pays the bulk of it,leaving me to pay about $200 (just over £100) a month to cover myself and my husband.ORI offers health insurance to employees who work at least half-time. A growing number ofworking Americans are not part of an employer-supported insurance scheme such as thisand, of course, there is no national health care. The NHS is far from perfect, but it has tobe better than nothing.
While on the subject of paperwork, our fiscal people provide scientists with a monthly 3-page budget report for each of their grants to enable timely and accurate tracking of all detailsof expenditure. Yes, it can be done. On the down side, each month I have to fill out anelectronic timesheet, apportioning my time appropriately across different grants. I am notsure I will ever get used to this.
Friday
No meetings today. At the beginning of the week I have several research meetings or conferencecalls each day, but Thursday and Friday are usually clear to make headway onthose proposals and papers. Just before
Time flies, so it won’t be long before I will be packing for my next trip to
Sarah Hampson will next be in the Department for two weeks starting April 23. Meanwhile,she can be reached at sarah@ori.org or s.hampson@surrey.ac.uk.
News from the Research Groups
Developmental
Martyn Barrett’s new book ‘Children’s Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nationsand National Groups’ was published by Psychology Press on
Martyn Barrett attended the second meeting of expert advisors on children's interculturalcompetences and experiences at the Council of Europe in
On October 31st, Stephanie Davis had her PhD viva, with a successful outcome. Her thesiswas entitled "Children's Implicit and Explicit Ethnic Group Attitudes", and she was supervisedby Martyn Barrett and Patrick Leman (Royal Holloway University of London). Her examinerswere Peter Hegarty and Kevin Durkin. She has since taken up a job as a postdoctoral researcherworking with Patrick Leman and Alison Woodcock at Royal Holloway.
Clinical
Tushna Vandrevala presented the following paper recently:Vandrevala, T. (2006) Role of religion in advance care planning: a multi-methodologicalapproach. International Symposium of the European Behavioral and Social ScienceResearch Section of the International Association of Gerontology,
Environmental
David Uzzell was invited to a conference entitled ‘Imagined Landscapes’ organised jointly bythe Cumbria Institute of the Arts and the
‘I found Char Davies’s work fascinating, opening up completely new ways of thinking aboutand relating to the environment and which have potentially exciting research implications’.
David Uzzell was invited to give the opening Keynote paper at the Swedish EnvironmentalPsychology Conference in
David was also invited to give a seminar in the Department of Sociology at the University ofUmeå on 8th December where he spoke on the subject of “Conflict on the Route toSustainable Development”. While in Umeå he worked with staff on developing a researchproposal which is to be submitted to FORMAS, one of the Swedish Research Councils, toexamine the impact of the relocation of the commercial and residential areas in the miningtown of
David: We know from previous research that the psychosocial and environmental impact ofrelocation operations such as these can be traumatic for local people as place and homesare destroyed. We have considerable research expertise in this area which hopefully can bedrawn upon. Kiruna is an extraordinary place. As I write this the temperature is about -10C,and the sun rose at 11.08 this morning and promptly set at 11.53!
Birgitta Gatersleben and David Uzzell hosted a meeting with environmental psychology colleagues from the
Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health
The following paper, stemming from the EuroFIR project was published recently:
Egan, M. B; Fragodt, A.; Raats, M.M. "The importance of harmonising and sustaining food composition dataacross
Two further publications, from a project that Monique Raats and Bernadette Egan have beeninvolved in, are detailed below. The project was funded by the Food Standards Agency andled by Dr Anita Eves in the
Eves
Bielby, G; Egan, B; Eves, A; Lumbers, M; Raats, M;
SPERI
The following have been accepted for publication:
Finlay, W.M.L., Antaki, C. & Walton, C. (in press) Saying no to the staff: an analysis of refusalsin a care home for people with intellectual disabilities. Sociology of Health and Illness
Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L. & Walton, C. (in press). Identity issues in proposing activities topersons with a learning disability. Discourse and Society
Toni Brennan presented a paper on ‘Minority Stress’ avant la lettre in Magnus Hirschfeld’s
Social Psychology Video Sessions
A big thanks to all those who came along to the video sessions this semester. We watched awide range of films and had even more wide-ranging discussions, always in a collegiate andstimulating fashion. Some of the topics we argued about were: the nazis, animal experimentation,the culture of the NHS,
Mick Finlay
If you have any news items for the next issue please email Sam Boyles (s.boyles@surrey.ac.uk).