West Midlands Branch Newsletter Issue 6 Spring 2017

Contents

Editor's column
Martin Turner

Message from the Branch Chair
Emma McDonald

Meet the West Midlands Branch committee

'Psychologist in the Pub'

• What to expect from Psychologist in the Pub this year...
  Robert Dempsey
• Are conspiracy theories harmless?
  Daniel Jolley
• The why of the buy: A reflection on delivering a Psychologist in the Pub talk
  Jenny Parfitt-Bowman
• Summary of the Oxford Hub Psychologist in the Pub
  Amy Garden
• Psychologists Against Austerity Midlands: Mobilising psychology for social change
  Emma Bridger

Book review

• The Idiot Brain
  By Dean Burnett
  Reviewed by Stephanie Chua

'Let's make America great again': Donald Trump and social identity leadership
Matthew Slater & Andrew Evans

'Those who have a why can withstand almost any how': The psychology of why we run
Andrew Wood

Sometime ago in a sport psychology consulting room far, far, away...
Jamie Barker

Inside the mind of... James Adie
Interviewed by Martin Turner

BPS West Midlands Branch Annual Conference review
Jamie Gillman & Nanaki J. Chadha

2017 BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference review 'The Future is Now': Pre-Qualification Group Stream
Eleanor Chatburn

The British Psychological Society West Midlands Branch Bursaries

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