Resources

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

An excellent series of podcasts on understanding statistics in the real world

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 BBC Primates series

The Animal Mind – an introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition by Kirstin Andrews

Dr Eric Bowman recommends:
More or Less: Science & Nature Edition – How Good Is Your Judgement? The Outlandish Guesstimation Quiz Game – Launched in 2021

Professor 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)

Dr Daniela Balslev recommends:
The Great Pretender by Susan Cahalan and here is a review

Dr Paula Miles suggests:

Elephants on Acid

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

Dr Akira O’Connor recommends
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)