An updated welcome to the APRG blog
Welcome to the University of Hertfordshire's Applied Psychology Research Group (APRG) blog!
We recently reflected on the first 18 months of our blog, and wanted to make sure our welcome post, originally published last year, was still reflective of what the blog is all about. With the help of Claude AI to critique our original launch post, we developed this updated welcome to the APRG blog that we feel is more representative of the content and direction of the last 18 months.
Psychology can be applied to almost every aspect of human experience. That's not a claim we make lightly, it's something we've spent our careers testing out, one study, one collaboration, one problem at a time.
The Applied Psychology Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire brings together researchers working across occupational and organisational psychology, forensic psychology, health and wellbeing, sport and exercise, cyberpsychology, cognitive psychology, EDI, and more. What we share isn't a single topic but a common commitment: to research that starts with real questions and tries, rigorously, honestly and carefully, to be useful.
This blog is part of how we make our work more visible and more accessible. We publish a new post each month, written by members of the group and, occasionally, by colleagues and collaborators from further afield. You'll find reflections on our research, honest appraisals of evidence you might have seen reported elsewhere, and perspectives on what applied psychology looks like across the many different contexts our work touches.
We also genuinely want to hear from you. If a post raises a question, challenges something you thought you knew, or resonates with something in your own work or life, please contact us via our staff profiles to let us know. This was always meant to be a two-way conversation.
If you're new here, please start wherever your curiosity takes you, browse our previous posts, and see what catches your eye.
See our blog listing page for all our previous posts.
Author
APRG Research Fellow, Dr Han Newman
APRG Lead and Professor of Forensic Psychology, Joanna R Adler