🎥 The Psychology of our Relationship with Fictional Villains | OPRC Lecture re-cap Why do villains keep us hooked? Zoe Walkington explores the psychology behind our relationship with them—and what this means in the real world. 📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8Z... #Psychology #PublicLectures

There's still time to register for @sarahcrafter.bsky.social fascinating online lecture on 15th April 7pm. @oprc.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

🎧 Research in Practice podcast for #WorldSocialWorkDay Sarah Crafter & Kirstie Baughan explore what ‘care’ means for unaccompanied minors, drawing on research to support social care practice. 🖇️ tinyurl.com/5h763d4d 🎓 Free CPD: uni.open.ac.uk/practisingcare @sarahcrafter.bsky.social

“Road safety should be treated as a major public health issue—and a priority for policymakers.” – Prof Gemma Briggs Explore her research via Driving Change 👉 drivingchange.webflow.io Follow @gemmabriggs.bsky.social Latest OPRC lecture🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzH... @catrionahavard.bsky.social

🎧 Introducing Dark Listening - Join our OPRC Lecture exploring Dark Listening — a participatory, arts-based research method developed to examine cultures of listening in UK child protection practice. 📅 11 March | 7-8PM | online 🔗 tinyurl.com/2edn2edb

Automatic face recognition is meant to reduce human bias, but when it’s trained on narrow datasets—like mostly white male faces—it can reproduce those same biases and even lead to wrongful arrests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKm...

The Open Psychology Research Centre Public Lecture will be delivered online by my fantastic colleague Professor Gemma Briggs on 11th February from 7- 8pm. The talk is entitled Why do we tolerate road deaths? Implications for policy and practice. Registration link in the comments

The next Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture will be delivered by the OPRC’s Prof Gini Harrison on the 12th November from 7pm to 8pm. If you want to find out more and attend please register here events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a67b94...

I'm giving a talk about her book as part of The Open Psychology Research Centre online public lecture series on 8th October 7pm. If you want to find out more about When Face Recognition Goes Wrong, please do come along and register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/656278...

Dear all, you are invited to the Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) FREE online lecture "Accents in the courtroom" delivered by Prof Lara Frumkin on 14th May from 7pm to 8pm @OU_Psychology @OU_FASS @OU_Law events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fb5534...

Dear all The Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture delivered by Zoe Walkington is on our relationship with fictional villains. Taking place on 12th March from 7pm to 8pm. Please register here events.teams.microsoft.com/event/112e72...

Dear all The first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Louise Newbigging on the 12th from 7pm to 8pm. Details of the talk are below, if you want to find out more and attend please register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f0b696...

Cat appears to be a fan of my book. You can get your own copy from here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Our project made the BBC News - Face blindness will be examined as part of new project - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you interested in face recognition? You might like my new book 'When face recognition goes wrong' You can also get a discount code www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...