Hello, here is a BBC article where my partner Matt is raising awareness about the plight of curlews. On Sunday 19th April we’ll be doing the Yorkshire 3 peaks dressed in full curlew costume!
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#curlewconservation
#worldcurlewday
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Very pleased that my paper with Manuel Heckel, 'Norm Circles and Critical Realism' is out in the JTSB, part of a special issue on norm circles in social research: dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtsb...
Very grateful to @crnetwork.bsky.social and specifically Gareth Wiltshire for this podcast, which @jpelonga.bsky.social and I really enjoyed recording. Some things emerge in this conversation that aren't in the book!
Vol 25 #1 of Journal of Critical Realism is now online! Including papers by Stine Harboe, Marc Bosward, Zeynep Ceren Henriques Correia, reviews of Ash's book on ethics and Slade-Cafferel's on Cambridge social ontology, and part 2 of Jamie Morgan's interview with Ted Benton ...
An ethnographic study on the replication crisis suggests psychological phenomena are ‘enacted’ in practice, shaped by emotions & relational dynamics. But does this overlook the independent reality of phenomena? Thought-provoking take on the replication debate.
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Our Special Issue on Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences & Consciousness through Qualitative Research, edited by @donnamthomas.bsky.social and me. We welcome qualitative studies exploring this under-researched area for an understanding of consciousness think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
The background image is ‘SPELLING’ written using cubes on an orange background. This is overlaid with the ‘Educational Review’ journal title at the top. In the middle is the article title and author name(s): ‘“It’s just about printing the list, getting children to copy them”: some teachers’ experiences of the Key Stage 2 national curriculum for spelling in English primary schools’ by Kathryn Cawley, Sarah Critten, Helen L. Breadmore & Julia M. Carroll. The words “Open Access” appear in a red circle.
📘 Cawley et al. argue there are significant gaps & inconsistencies in the national curriculum guidance on the teaching of #spelling, which in turn leads to a lack of teacher confidence in spelling tuition and non-optimal teaching strategies.
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The Unbearable Fear of Psi: When Skepticism Shifts to Denial: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyo...
"Pulling new signal out of old noise."
Fascinating discussion of the importance of theory and theory change in science, and not just parapsychology... 🧵
Educational Review now also has a LinkedIn page! You can follow us at www.linkedin.com/company/educ...
Event information for the Association for Psychosocial Studies 2026 Annual Conference. The top features a blue and red abstract ink-style banner and an infinity symbol logo. The title is "Trust, Mistrust and Community: Call for Papers," taking place 12-13th June 2026 at St Mary’s University, London. The text describes the psychosocial dynamics of trust, digital infrastructures, and "dystopian imaginaries." It invites submissions from clinicians and academics for papers and creative productions. A QR code is in the bottom right, and a dark blue banner at the bottom highlights the submission deadline: 8th March 2026.
The Association for Psychosocial Studies is extending the submission deadline for the 2026 Annual Conference, titled "Trust, Mistrust and Community."
The new deadline for all abstracts is now 8th March 2026.
Book cover of "State formation, globalization, and universities: exploring the internationalization of higher education in China" by Jie Zheng
📙 Click the link to read Mingzheng Hu's #BookReview of "State formation, globalization, and universities: exploring the internationalization of higher education in China" by Jie Zheng 👇
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📃 Call for Papers 📃
“How conceptual analysis, philosophical argument, and theoretical modelling can inform and reshape psychological inquiry across cognitive, developmental, and social domains”
Summary Due: 24/05/26
Submission Due: 11/09/26
Editor: @kennycoventry.bsky.social
#PsycSci #PhilSci
From the legacy of 1968 to today’s challenges, Gerhard Mayer, Research Fellow at IGPP, reflects on tradition, openness, and the future of #parapsychology where #consciousness #research meets new perspectives and global horizons.
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Brilliant 🤩 It’s fascinating how reality itself is often ignored in order to maintain materialist ontology.
Great conversation with Darren from the Seeking I podcast. We discuss children's strange experiences, the social world and what reality might be
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We've all heard about the replication crisis in psychology. But psychologists have been calling "crisis" for as long as the discipline has been around. Ali Teymoori and I look at this history and what it means for today's crisis. #philsky doi.org/10.1177/1089...
📣 Call for Papers: (Re-)Theorizing the Psyche
New Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic. Using the replication crisis as a lens on theory, ontology, methodology & epistemology in psychology.
#ReplicationCrisis #Psychology #Reproducibility #Replication
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I am worth every $ Jim… extraordinary pricing
"The dance of managerialism and professionalism" by Xingyuan Gao
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"an engaging and timely contribution to the fields of educational management, leadership, administration, and policy."
Read Robert Archer's full #BookReview of "The dance of managerialism and professionalism" by Xingyuan Gao 👇
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Sociology + psychoanalysis: Mark Carrigan’s “My Psychoanalytical Turn” shows how Lacan, Margaret Archer, and Winnicott shaped his thinking. A reflective & unusually candid read. Highly recommend!
#ObjectRelations #Lacan #CriticalRealism #Winnicott #Bollas
markcarrigan.net/2026/01/28/m...
A similar tension has emerged in the current discussions surrounding the replication crisis. Reformers in the open science movement emphasize reproducible and stable effects, such that experimental outcomes support drawing inferences about psychological phenomena. In contrast, challengers of direct replication argue that a lack of consistent experimental effects signifies either underdevelopment in the theoretical framework or variability across time, context, setting, and procedure, hinting at a flexible construction of the object of psychological investigation (cf. Feest, 2024; Morawski, 2022). Hence, the disagreement goes deeper than research practices and stems at least in part from different understandings of the ontological status of the psychic object (stable vs. flexible object).
"The disagreement goes deeper than research practices and stems at least in part from different understandings of the ontological status of the psychic object (stable vs. flexible object)."
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Consider joining us at Durham University - UK Times 2026 University of the Year - for a one-year MSc Psychology (Conversion).
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📜 ...another paper assigned to an issue now in @edreview.bsky.social, jointly with Meryem Betül YASDIMAN and Jenny Norris doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England
Very grateful for Prof Richard Niesche's review of Educational Leadership and Critical Realism (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) in REAL dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/real/...
Register free for online book launch 5 Feb www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... @jpelonga.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social
#Leadership
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Prof Priscilla Alderson and A level student Harry Hubbard have made a series of 4 short videos introducing Critical Realism for A level students: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🔶️ Call for Papers 🔶️
"(Re-)Theorizing the Psyche: Exploring Foundational Shifts in Psychological Science"
Topic Editor: @drrobarcher.bsky.social
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