John McMullen

One of our year 2 trainee educational psychologists would love to hear from you if you teach in SPiM provision in NI. Complete the survey at this link below

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📢 “Beat the Traffic; improving air quality to help children learn”.

We are hosting a free, online ESRC Festival of Social Science event, exploring links between traffic-related air pollution and child cognitive development. Details below-

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A statement from our CEO Moazzam Malik on the news that the government is cutting the UK aid budget to fund an increase in defence spending:

📢 Call for #edpsychs for a DECAP study on the knowledge of EPs on preterm birth & its impact on assessing children born pre-term (a repeated measures intervention study). Details below
Pre-questionnaire:
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Post-questionnaire:
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A ceasefire at last. The exact same agreement could have happened over a year ago. 18,000 children dead. Every school, every hospital, every university destroyed.
What was the point? What was achieved? Why did so many of our societies, public figures, churches etc refuse to call for a ceasefire?

414 full classrooms of school-aged children, more than 11,000, have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023.

As children go back to school this week a Save the Children volunteer went to Westminster to take a stand against the war on children in Gaza.

From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced Carter signed treaties to hand over the Panama Canal and criticized Israel, drawing respect and fury past his one term

If there had been more US presidents like Carter we wouldn’t have spent the past year witnessing a genocide

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Absolutely thrilled for this one… thank you @uel-eprap.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my work.

I don’t know of specific proactivity in this sense, though we (and other courses) are doing our best to encourage more applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. recruitment activities, contact with EPs/TEPs)

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people

‘For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men’
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Such an interesting and important keynote by @joniholmes.bsky.social
at our @decap_qub CPD day, focussing on neurodiversity and ‘learning beyond the label’. 180 EPs, AEPs and TEPs in attendance!

Graduation day. Lovely to celebrate with our new #edpsychs 🥂

‘If you see something that’s not right, we need to challenge it.’ A critical review and qualitative exploration of Educational Psychologists’ perceptions of social justice and practice in local authority services in the West Midlands AimsThere has been relatively little research into social justice in educational psychology in the UK. A qualitative exploration of Educational Psychologists (EPs’) views of social justice in educational psychology practice in England was undertaken, aiming to comprehend how EPs understand and define the term in relation to their role; and what EPs can do to work towards social justice, noting perceived barriers to working towards social justice in EP practice.Method11 EPs employed in four West Midlands Local Authorities (LAs) took part in semi-structured interviews, analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis.LimitationsThis was a small-scale exploratory case study design. It was likely to have recruited participants who were already attuned to social justice agendas. Thus, responses were relatively uniform in their orientation. The study also did not capture the voices of EPs working outside of local authority settings, or privately, or outside of the West Midlands who also may have significant contributions to how best to facilitate social justice work.ConclusionsThe final psychological framework presented may inform EP reflection, to develop and further refine cycles of EPs’ own social justice praxis.

My thesis article on social justice in EP practice has now been published in the Journal of Educational and Child Psychology (BPS) in a special edition on Intersectional Identities, Education, Psychology and Social Justice:
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🌟New blog post

Esther writes about her work developing an educational resilience programme - the RESTA programme.

Lots here about strengths-based and relational approaches, moving from research to practice, and professional collaboration.

Read here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2024/wo...

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Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it | Rachel Clarke Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients

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Would love to be added. Cheers 🍻

Thanks for this list. Can I be added to second please?

‘The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses’

Great book 👇

‘The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is […] an essential component of wholesome child development.

“You need two flames burning in the human heart: the flame of anger against injustice, and the flame of hope you can build a better world” #TonyBenn

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I’ve only spent about 15mins on here but already randomly came across two interesting papers. It’s like what Twitter used to be before it was putrefied

Interested in training to become an Educational Psychologist? We are holding our online open event on Monday 2 December at 4.30pm 👇
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Hi all, Programme Director of Ed Psych doctorate at Queen’s uni, Belfast. Taking tentative steps over here 👍