Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
Is a London Black Cab driver smarter than AI? Ask Pablo Fernandez Velasco one of the talented postdoc researchers now at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory.
Centre director Professor John Sutton and advisory board member Professor Giovanna Colombetti co-editors with David Spurrett of "Scaffolding Bad" out now...
In the mutable environment of the Morehead District Papua New Guinea stability of external memory is given by ‘witness trees'. Join Professor Nicholas Evans talk at the Centre and online illustrating the mnemonic value of these planted memorials placememory.net/events-2/gro...
Jacqui Dillon and I are editing an International Routledge Handbook of Lived Experience in the Context of Madness and distress. There is still time to submit an abstract and so far we have received submissions from all over the world! Exciting! See below for where to submit 👇🙂
Agreed, thought it was a masterpiece.
I love reading this book at least once a year.
A first wave feminist classic about the distress inducing constraints felt by Victorian women. I still think it has enormous relevance not least for exposing the perils of gender inequalities and power dynamics in relationships and families. Wonderful
poor you. let me buy you a bun x
A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
Estimating adolescent mental health in the general population: current challenges and opportunities Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes. Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality measurement in this field.
For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)
In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?
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Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25
Our ‘Lived Experiences of Distress’ research group is advertising a 4.5 year long Senior Research Fellow post in Psychology and Mental Health. We are a passionate and dynamic bunch! looking for a senior team member to join and develop our work further.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW929/s...
Dear #philsky I think we need a starter pack for people who work on epistemic injustice. Can be philosophers, psychologists, lived experience researchers, the sky is the limit! Suggest yourselves or others for inclusion in the replies. Thanks 🤩 go.bsky.app/RMAoxiW
PhD scholarships available at the University of Stirling! linked to the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Share away and do give me a prod if you would like to discuss further.
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Don Letts came to Walthamstow last night to talk about his new book ‘There and Black Again’ and to show his documentary on reggae, punk and post punk. The footage of The Slits, Prince Far I, The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees was just incredible. And he gave me a wee cuddle, so
I’m very happy.
Current mood after submitting a grant application and book proposal on the same day….
Come and join our exciting new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, with up to 4 PhD studentships on offer and more to come next year!
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We have just started an Interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme at the University of Stirling. With Prof John Sutton as director and me as Deputy with academics from philosophy, psychology, heritage, anthropology, arts etc. we can’t wait to get stuck in!
