Resources
Audio Feedback Project:
Laura Murdoch, Paul Gardner and David Donaldson
General Stuff (scroll down for summer reading)
Become a student member of the British Psychological Society
What clinical psychologists do: Dr Katrina Johnston, Clinical Psychologist and Local Area Tutor, Dept of Clinical Psychology, Lynebank Hospital, Dunfermline
Summer reading
These are recommendations from staff and are links to Amazon because I’m guessing if you aren’t in a university town you won’t get them second hand any other way.
Paul Gardner recommends
The Body: A guide for occupants
Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability (New Scientist)
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Professor David Donaldson recommends
Dr Manon Schweinfurth recommends:
“Babies”
The Social Instinct – How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
The Animal Mind – an introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition by Kirstin Andrews
Dr Justin Ales recommends:
Dr Eric Bowman recommends:
More or Less: Science & Nature Edition – How Good Is Your Judgement? The Outlandish Guesstimation Quiz Game – Launched in 2021
Dr Gillian Brown recommends:
Superior: the Return of Race Science (2019, Fourth Estate)
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (2011, Oxford University Press)
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences (2011, Icon Books)
Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future You will need a library account here for this or an ATHENS login
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892), short story; 2015, Penguin Classics: open access: )
Sebastian Faulkes – Human Traces (2006, Vintage)
Dr Daniela Balslev recommends:
The Great Pretender by Susan Cahalan and here is a review
Prof. Steve Reicher recommends his free to download book on Covid-19 (free).
Dr Sam Pehrson recommends
‘Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudices that shape our lives’ by Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2020, Windmill Books)
Dr Paula Miles suggests:
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
Dr Akira O’Connor recommends
For Adults
Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
The Tyranny of Merit – Michael Sandel
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – The Sunday Times Bestseller (book; also serialised on Radio 4) – Akala
Other: Mixed Race in America (podcast) – The Washington Post
Nice White Parents (podcast) – The New York Times
Finding Drago (podcast – funny) – ABC Radio
For Children
The Paper Dolls (picture book) – Julia Donaldson
Here We Are (picture book) – Oliver Jeffers
Don’t Let Go (picture book) – Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross
No Country (graphic novel) – Joe Brady & Patrice Aggs
The Arrival (graphic novel) – Shaun Tan
Dr Anna Smith suggests’)…
Behave: the Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert Sapolsky
Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
Incognito: the Secret Lives of the Brain – David Eagleman
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist – Ben Barres
The BBC Radio 4 series The Digital Human (28min episodes, archive available for free on BBC Sounds). They’re all great but Shadow (series 20), Lab Rats (series 19) and Snake Oil (series 16) are particularly relevant.