On Mo
nday 12th April, Ross Bartels gave an invited virtual talk entitled “Indirect Measures of Deviant Sexual Interest‘ at the 2021 ‘New Directions in Sex Offender Practice’ online conference (run by Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd).
Hannah Lena Merdian (along with Mark Gresswell and Kirsten McKenzie) and won £37k from Health Education England (HEE) for their Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) bid.
The project aims to support BAME and disadvantaged students / recent graduates gain experience and build the CVs to get into Clinical Psychology training.
Michelle
Smith facilitated the BPS’ ‘DFP Reflective Space’ online event on Friday 8th Feb.
This was a new, monthly, free CPD event for DFP members where they can come together as a peer network and reflect on professional issues and share experience and learning.
Congratulations to Todd Hogue, Tochs Onwuegbusi, and Lauren Smith who (in Feb 2021) were successful in securing £20k funding from the National Probation Service via Lincolnshire Police for research into the Lincolnshire Assisting Rehabilitation through Collaboration (ARC) Service.
This includes evaluating the local delivery of ARC and developing and implementing the revised national Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Scheme.
I
n early 2021, Amanda Roberts published the following papers with her colleagues:
Roberts, A., Rogers, J., Sharman, S., Melendez-Torres, G.J., Cowlishaw, S (2021). Gambling problems in primary care: A systematic review and synthesis. Addiction Research & Theory, 29, 454-468.
Sharman, S., Roberts, Bowden-Jones, H., & Strang, J,. (2021). Gambling, COVID-19, and Lockdown: Depression, Stress and Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Addictive Disorders. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.621497
This article can be accessed at: Frontiers | Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety | Psychiatry (frontiersin.org)