Really great talk today within our seminar series. Thanks to prof. Cathy Creswell from Oxford University for sharing her research on interventions for childhood anxiety problems.

Hot job offer! Department of Psychology at Aston is looking for an Industrial Fellow in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Info ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW469/i...

Our staff member Dr Carl Senior is sharing his views on higher education, student learning and AI potential in a new article in Frontiers in Education journal. Do you agree with his views? www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-t...

Want to shape the voice of our postgraduate community? We’re looking for 2 editors to lead PsyPag Quarterly, managing peer review, building an editorial board, & bringing fresh research & ideas to life. Apply by 30 April '26: https://www.bps.org.uk/news/editor-vacancy-psypag-quarterly

Research Associate needed! Join Aston 🍑 team and help with Appetite in Preschoolers: Producing Evidence for Tailoring Interventions Effectively project. See more details ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU262/r...

Read about the work of our Dr Laura Shapiro and its contribution to understanding of children reading and gaining pleasure out of it! #bookworm

People 20+ needed for research on brain health. If you are able to help see more details ⬇️ Help us understand how brains can give us early signs of dementia risk.

✨️Preprint: Awareness & Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines 📝We surveyed >3,000 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines) 📌We show variation in open research adoption across regions, disciplines, methodology, & career level🌎 lnkd.in/e6Ddw-UT

Ever needed a motivation to come to a session? It seems that sometimes you can meet a childhood friend if you do! Y1 Psychology students had that luck today 😊

Yesterday at Aston we had a workshop for the International Women’s Day that happens this Sunday (8th of March). This summarises that workshop extremely well! Thanks to the speaker Hannah Knowles LinkedIn.com/in/hannah-knowles2988

Do you know that today is World Obesity Day? A chance to raise awareness of this health condition that by 2035 will affect approximately 50% of global population! This year’s theme is 8billion reasons to act on obesity.

Research assistant needed! Work in the area of food allergy interventions, 12 months, at Aston. Interested? See more ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP279/r...

Thinking about a career in educational psychology- those professionals will be in demand. Start your psychology journey with us at Aston!

It’s the children mental health week - a great opportunity to learn about this topic and know where to find support! Some great resources ⬇️

It’s the children mental health week - a great opportunity to learn about this topic and know where to find support! Some great resources ⬇️

It’s the children mental health week - a great opportunity to learn about this topic and know where to find support! Some great resources ⬇️ www.healthwatch.co.uk/advice-and-i...

We are glad to hear about great engagement with a Power Skills session on Empathy-based Leadership delivered today by our Dr Stanulewicz-Buckley. Let’s try to make empathy a key feature of Aston experience!

Another great publication by our own Dr Pennington! Can’t wait to read it!

Today’s psychology seminar on individualised mHealth interventions! Join us if you have not yet!

Aston Psychology Student Society is running a movie event today! Join in if you’re around! pbs.twimg.com/media/HATj-O...

RA needed for a project on intervention for food allergy management at Aston! Apply and join our great team! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ443/r...

Looking for a post-doc position? Check this offer at Aston ⬇️ Project on factors that affect people’s support for public policies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ571/p...

Final year Psychology undergraduate? Now is your time to share your views! Complete the NSS by 30th April and shape the future of psychology at Aston! www.thestudentsurvey.com

Yesterday we listened to a talk on gaming and its links to positive experiences from our guest speaker Prof Lukasz Kaczmarek from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Thank you for coming Lukasz! It was a pleasure hosting you! 🌻🕹️

Some amazing PhD projects looking for students! See a selection of projects below 👇 from gambling behaviour, aphasia intervention to children’s health and wellbeing. Applications closing Feb-March.

Happy beginning of TP2 to all our students and staff! Happy Monday as well!

Some exciting news from our department: Our Dr Charlotte Pennington has been appointed to the American Psychological Association’s Expert Panel on Open Science and Methodology.

Passionate about healthcare and its improvement? We are looking for a KTP associate to help design & evaluate an evaluation framework to aid decision-making. More info ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC467/i...

The Govt will be reviewing mental health conditions, ADHD & autism in England. To make sure the voice of psychologists are heard, we're hosting a workshop so our members can contribute evidence to support this review. Date: 5 Feb '26 12pm Register your interest: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

We want to wish our Psychology students the very best luck for their January exams!

Happy Holidays/ Merry Christmas to all! Aston University is closed now and will reopen on 5th of January. See you all in 2026!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… break! Our Aston campus in its festive attire ⬇️

Calling all PGRs! Join the Psychology PGR away day this Thursday! Make new connections and have some pre-holiday fun!

Congratulations to our Prof. Rachel Shaw, Dr Megan Jarman, Prof. Ian Wong, and Prof. Aoife McDermott (Aston Business School) have won a management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Birmingham Community Health Care Trust.

Our psychology staff and PGR students had a very festive time yesterday! Starting with a quiz and finishing with a meal and Christmas crackers! We even learnt some new words: flamboyance, Decapoda or discombobulated! Same time next year everyone? #Christmas

Some useful tips on managing festive break from University for students from the Mental Health Foundation. t.co/loBJNQ772o

Very important talk today by our Michael Larkin on whether resilience research has got resilience all wrong. It’s time to make systems resilience-enabling rather than the individual.

Aston’s Psychology Society is running this lovely crafty event tomorrow ⬇️ Join if you need a pause!

Free BPS membership for psychology students! Sign up and enjoy all the perks!

Research assistant needed! Join the project aimed at obtaining knowledge to inform the development of meaningful, effective and sustainable mental health interventions for children attending special educational needs (SEN) schools. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS448/r...

Happy 1st of December to all our students and staff! Have you spotted our festive beasts of Aston on our campus yet? They are a lovely sight 😊

So lovely news! Congratulations to our newest Dr and the supervising team!

Another successful grant! Drs Luc Boutsen & Martin Jüttner were awarded £10k from the British Academy 2025 Small Grant Scheme to conduct a research on “Does a facial difference determine how we see faces? A comparison of holistic and analytic perception of facial disfigurements.”

We welcome the government's new Men's Health Strategy. "This is an important first step to improving the mental health & wellbeing of men & boys throughout the country." Chair of the Male Psychology Section. Full response: https://www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-welcomes-new-mens-health-strategy-england

We are pleased to announce that Dr Matt Buckley had been awarded a British Academy Leverhulme small research grant to study spatial and event memory. Congratulations Matt!

Happy it’s almost the weekend time! We have finished our Reading week and will be back with classes on Monday!

Really inspiring talk about moral injury among various occupations! Thank you for sharing this with us Victoria!

Why not join us today at 1pm to listen to a talk on Psychological adjustment after trauma by Dr Vicki Williamson from King’s College London? See all of those interested in the Sumpner Lecture Theatre!

Research away day for our staff today with a middle break for exploring the new Aston Remembrance garden 🪴

Free this Thursday lunchtime? Join online and learn about what determines people’s food choices! Our Dr Angel Tan in partnership with BBC Women in STEM and Think Through Nutrition will be presenting.