We’re delighted to launch our brand new NTU Psychology department blog, which gives us a chance to share some of the great research our colleagues are doing. It will also let us give you an insight into some of the work and activities that take place at NTU Psych throughout the academic year.
We’re kicking the blog off as most of us a confined to our homes during lockdown, so it seems appropriate that one of our first articles provides some psychology-related reading recommendations. Whether you’re looking for inspiration to help you while away the hours indoors, or to take your mind off the challenges of managing work and studies during lockdown, we’ve got lots of ideas.
Our second article, by Juliet Wakefield, explores Juliet and NTU colleagues’ recent research on family relationships, depression, loneliness, and sleep quality. The research took place well before COVID-19 but given the current situation, with so many people either confined with families or kept from them, the factors discussed by the study all seem especially relevant right now.
Finally, as we come to the end of an academic year, with so many of our students working hard on their final assignments and projects before graduation and beyond, our third new post talks careers. Or more specifically, career paths. Last term, Sarah McDonald invited some NTU colleagues to share their often long and winding roads to NTU with our students, and Sarah’s post summarises some of the highlights. For anyone thinking that they could never be a lecturer or researcher, the reassuring theme of the session was that in many cases, neither did we! There is no one-size-fits-all path and a bit of persistence, and a genuine interest can take you a long way.
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