Psychology consultancy
Consultancy, short courses and contract research
- Investigating and understanding human behaviour, thinking and development
- Facilitating change in behaviour and attitudes
- Data analysis and methods of enquiry
Key expertise
- Questionnaire and survey design, including piloting and, if required, administration
- Statistical analysis of data
- Evaluation of attitudes, behaviour, new working practices, etc.
- Occupational psychology
- Organisational psychology
- Recruitment procedures
- Training in the use and administration of psychometric testing
- Reducing stress in the workplace
- Managing change
- Personal Construct Psychology
- Ergonomics and product design for human interaction
- FIT Science - personal and organisational development
- Mass participation experiments and research
- Positive psychology and luck
- Decision making
- Increasing creativity
- Television advertising on children
- Understanding child development
- Coping with bullying in schools
- Psychology applied to dieting and weight loss
- Psychology of performance
Delivering our expertise
We can share our expertise and offer our services to your company in a number of ways:
- Consultancy (from one-off projects to long-term consultancy)
- Short courses
- In-house training courses (bespoke or general)
- Contract research
- Coaching
- MSc business-related psychology programmes
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Examples of our customer profile
Heales Medical
Heales Medical, a leading provider of a range of occupational health services, needed to develop a sound approach to the analysis, documentation and proving of diagnosis of stress and, subsequently, the correct treatment procedures.
The outcomes needed to be available for use by human resource officers, managers, occupational health professionals, counsellors and psychologists. Working through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, the School of Psychology provided the expertise necessary to deliver this.
As a result, procedures were developed to assist in directing clinical help to those who need it, to isolate a best cause of action for each case and to provide an evidence trail for instances where an external tribunal might be needed to resolve a dispute between a Heales client and their employees.
British Music Rights Society
In collaboration with the School of Film, Music and Media we are currently advising on the design of a questionnaire for the British Music Rights Society relating to music purchase, downloading behaviour and attitudes to copyright.
This will be used for one of the largest surveys of its kind with young people.
Intuitive Media Ltd
Created by Intuitive Media Ltd as an educational website and forum, The Gold Star Café is a sheltered online learning community aimed at the 11-14 year age group. The School of Psychology is involved in an on-going evaluation of the One World Zone within this website.
This Zone provides an informative and interactive means of communicating with young people about issues of global development such as poverty, environmental sustainability, fair trade, natural disasters and world summits.
By providing information in an accessible, interesting and attractive way, the Zone aims to raise awareness and increase understanding of global mutual interdependence.
The project is supported by the Development Education Centre (South Yorkshire), including funds from Oxfam and Christian Aid, and by the Department for International Development.
Evaluation will include assessment of extent and type of young people’s usage and online polling to assess the popularity of individual items. It will also give consideration to the effectiveness of the site in raising awareness of global development issues among young people and in engaging their interest.
The findings will contribute to on-going changes to the site to improve accessibility and interest, and will represent a major evaluation of the educational and social impacts of children’s engagement with online communities.
Where it can contribute to the overall success of a project, we collaborate with other schools at the University, e.g. Computer Science, health-related departments, Life Sciences, the Business School, Education, etc.
For further information please contact:
Dr Mike Page
tel +44 (0) 1707 286465
Dr Avril Nash
tel +44(0) 1707 285072
The Centre for Personal Construct Psychology
The Centre for Personal Construct Psychology is part of the School of Psychology. The Centre runs courses and workshops in personal construct psychology. It also offers personal construct based staff training workshops, coaching and organisational development consultancy.
For more details please visit the CPCP web site
The Director of the Centre is Nick Reed
National Centre for Tactile Diagrams (NCTD)
Based in the UK, NCTD provide tactile diagrams, maps and pictures for blind and partially sighted people of all ages and all walks of life.
The NCTD has relocation to RNIB in Birmingham. Please email/post items to them at their new address.
National Centre for Tactile Diagrams RNIB 58-72 John Bright Street Birmingham B1 1BNGeneral tel +44 (0) 845 257 2587
fax +44 (0) 845 257 2588
Direct telephone and email contacts:
Dr. Sarah Morley Wilkins
tel +44 (0) 121 665 4252
sarah.morleywilkins@rnib.org.uk
Dave Gunn
tel +44 (0) 121 665 4246
Alan Waller
tel +44 (0) 121 665 4227
alan.waller@rnib.org.uk