This project has sort of run its course, I’ve been neglecting it for too long now and can only apologise to anyone that has messaged me that I’ve not got back to. I still think it was a good idea but it was a lot of work and I wasn’t getting enough out of this to be worth my while. If you feel that this would be a useful group to exist here in London and you would like to take it over let me know and I’d be happy to meet with you and discuss this further.
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What is the London Psychology Collective? The London Psychology Collective is an internet and face to face community of professional psychologists, students and psychology enthusiasts. Our aim is to publicise academic research, events and news within the field of psychology. We’re based in London so we’re able to place a great deal of emphasis on making the community as socially interactive as possible. The group is free to join and exists here on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thelondonpsychologycollective . We try to keep all events as free as possible (although occasionally tickets will be required for guest speakers and seminars but these we try to keep cheap and sometime are able to get a group discount on) and many of the collaborative efforts we’re involved with will be available online for free after completions. Collaboration
Collaboration is an important aspect of our community, currently we are in the process of filming a series of interviews on the application of philosophy in therapy and have another series on positive psychology lined up. Later this year we’ll be looking for counselling psychologists to interview for a short series we’re hoping to make that will show how therapist work out in the real world. We are always happy to accept contributions to our page (and soon associated blog) we currently have three content creators that report on various aspects of psychology (Rich Clarke: Cognitive and Neurobiological Psychology, Terry Georgiou: Therapy and Applied Psychology and Fiona Malpass: Mental health). If there is anything you feel we should cover or any interesting research you are involved in please get in touch and we’ll happily share it. Events
If you’re London based keep an eye out for the events we organise. We run a pub social on the last Friday of the month, these are a great and highly informal way to meet others working in psychology and also ideal for those of you that aren’t necessarily psychologists but are interested in learning more. We have good relation with many of the organisers of psychology related events in London and often get a group of us together and go to various seminars and guest speakers. Some of the events even offer CPD certificates for attendance. Informal Student Mentoring
One of the aims we have at the moment in the group is to connect passionate students to professionals currently working in the student’s desired field. Often these days just having a psychology degree is not enough, this interaction with mentors can prove invaluable for the student and guide them in their expectations of the job and the steps needed along the way. If you’d like to be involved in this project and are available to meet up for a coffee in London every so often please get in touch. How can you reach us? If you have any quires about any of our activities feel free to message our page (www.facebook.com/thelondonpsychologycollective ), leave a post on our wall or e-mail me directly on Richard.clarke@regents.ac.uk and I’ll get back to you. Yours sincerely,
Rich Clarke
