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@owenb5.bsky.social

Principal Educational Psychologist in 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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A good recording and planning session with @psychbites.bsky.social yesterday in readiness for this!

10.08.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He was blowing hard to be fair!

12.07.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Registration is LIVE! 🎟️πŸŽͺπŸŽ‰

Let's go! Delighted to open registration for our Festival of Educational Psychology on 19th September.

From now until we launch our programme you get a 10% Early Bird discount! Use code EARLYBIRD10

Book here: festival.edpsy.org.uk

#edpsychs #education - please reshare

05.06.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

I’m interested in how AI chose the outfit πŸ˜‚

05.06.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to see RMW there, been a big fan of his this season.

21.05.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“£ NEW EPISODE! πŸ“£

In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr Mary Stanley-Duke, we continue to chat about the key features of the Mediating Learning Support Approach @MeLSA_EP , and what the research shows so far.

Listen now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!
🎧

#edpsychs

21.05.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£NEW EPISODEπŸ“£

We were joined by the fantastic Dr Mary Stanley-Duke who chats to us about what mediating learning is, the Mediating Learning Support Approach and training @MeLSA_EP

Listen on Spotify & Apple 🎧

Part 2 coming soon!

#edpsychs

07.05.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like a phoenix from the flame… πŸ”₯

08.04.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! πŸ₯³

26.03.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s the new cover design for the mass market paperback edition of Unlocked, coming out 8th May!

07.03.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

I think this is one of my favourite gifs ever. Alongside the β€˜this is fine’ dog in the fire!

26.02.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to hear of those being offered interviews for DEdPsy programmes. Good luck to all. If you were looking for some lived experience of the process of becoming a Trainee EP you might be interested in this PsychBites episode!

24.02.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think one of my favourite parts of doing thesis research was the deep level of thinking, the exploration about a subject and where the research could take it. Doesn’t always make it easy, however πŸ™‚

24.01.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really enjoyed recording this episode with Dan. A lot of food for thought around what types of evidence we might be using in practice and what biases might exist…

I’ll ignore the confusion Star Wars and Star Trek @psychbites.bsky.social, but I will prepare some essential reading / watching for you!

22.01.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calling all families impacted by parental imprisonment!

I am recruiting children and young people to discuss their experiences of parental imprisonment as part of my doctoral thesis.

Please see the attached poster for more information and feel free to share.
#edpsych #parentalimprisonment #Edusky

07.12.2024 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh for sure! My wife tells me that style/cuteness sometimes overrides functionality haha. She’s often right about that, even if I bemoan it in the early hours of the am 🫠

08.12.2024 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoever thought of putting a copper coloured set of poppers on a baby grow, my baby thanks you!

06.12.2024 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Preparing for adulthood: educational psychologists’ reflections on using the personal skills profile This study sought to establish educational psychologists’ (EPs) views on their experiences of using a personal skills profile (PSP), created to support post-16 transition. Two focus groups were hel...

Preparation for Adulthood underpins everything I do, hence creating a transition tool to identify which areas may need a more targeted approach to support young people into a post 16 setting

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YPPZU...

16.11.2024 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes please!

15.11.2024 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His book, lost in a good game, is also very good!

14.11.2024 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Been a good day on Bluesky to see some of my favourite posters about rugby transferring over here! Just need some of my favourite sports teams here now and I can fully defect…

13.11.2024 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EEF blog: The House of Reading: An Interactive Tool The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

Spent some time unpacking some of the β€˜house of reading’ evidence from @theeef.bsky.social this morning.

educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-blo...

13.11.2024 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calling all PEPs and service leads - subscribe to our dedicated mailing list - edpsy.org.uk Although edpsy has a large mailing list, we recognise that there’s a need to communicate directly with PEPs and service...

πŸ“¨Our first service leads and PEPs mail goes out on Thursday

Sign up to not miss it: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2024/ca...

#edpsychs

12.11.2024 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel we need news/sports/professional organisations to start using it as well to really bring people across. It’s certainly why I am still on the platform that shall not be named.

08.11.2024 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is Phonological-Only Instruction Helpful for Reading?: A Meta-Analysis Phonological awareness (PA), the awareness of sounds in spoken words, is strongly linked to reading outcomes. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of PA instruction witho...

Phonological-only reading instruction works, but not as well as print-based approaches, isβ€”unsurprisinglyβ€”more effective for phonological awareness than word reading and, again perhaps unsurprisingly, works less well in preschool: bit.ly/4ffN4AJ ($)

28.10.2024 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fab morning being hosted by the @psychbites.bsky.social team!

We talked all things "evidence based practice"

#edpsychs

19.10.2024 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have long loved this - we talk about 'visuals' with schools & families alllll the time, but what do we mean, & why? #EdPsychs

15.09.2024 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always saw it as a foot... I think it's officially a claw!

27.08.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to share that PsychBites podcast is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow if interested in educational psychology and looking for relaxed, bite size listening you can get into on your commute.

27.08.2024 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hadn’t seen Rocketbooks before so thanks for sharing! The iPad does take some getting used to, I’m left handed too so that came with some different challenges writing on screen πŸ˜…

19.08.2024 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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