| Description | British Psychological Society press releases includes some cuttings-
7-9 January 1997 British Psychological Society Annual Occupational Conference, Blackpool
1. General release about the conference
2. Displaying the Right Emotions At Work (Sandi Mann) - press release
3. The Skills A GP Needs (Eamonn Ferguson) - press release
4. Being Disciplined May Not Work (Derek Rollinson) - press release
5. The Stress of Teaching in the UK (Cheryl Travers) - press release
6. Worldwide Selection and Assessment on the Internet (Phil Leather)- press release
7. Drivers At Risk of Assault On The Buses - press release
[See BPS/002/3/03/02/05/03 for programme, abstracts and summaries of papers at this conference)
20 March 1997 Careers in Psychology - draft press release for careers open day at Manchester Metropolitan University organised by the British Psychological Society North of England Branch
24 March 1997 Humour Gene Discovered - press release from STEM Media Services concerning research by Dr Ian Phoul at the Applied Psychology Research in Linguistics at Maine University
3-6 April 1997 British Psychological Society Annual Conference and Division of Clinical Psychology Conference at, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh
General press release about the conference also
1. Psychology in Context (Margaret McAllister) - press release
2. Can Your Idol Make You Ill? (Tony Cassidy) - press release
3. Adolescent Girls' Dieting Misery (Wendy Roncolato and Gail Huon) - press release
4. Caught Between Two Cultures (Dev Sharma) - press release
5. The British Psychological Society Award for Challenging Inequality 1997 (Zenobia Nadirshaw) - press release.
6. Pets As Cuckoos in the Nest (John Archer) - press release
7. Coping With Being Sexually Abused As A Child (Jane Ussher) - press release
8. You don't Have to be Paranoid to Think That The Whole World Is Against You... (Ed Miller, Polly Karoni) - press release
9. Babes in the Womb (Nicola Doherty) - press release
10. The Truth About False Memories (Bernice Andrews) - press release
11. Hidden Grief: Men's Experiences of Miscarriage (Martin Johnson) press release;
12. The Drivers Who Have Most Accidents (Steve Stradling)- press release;
13. Tell Me The Way You See It ... People With Dementia Speak for Themselves (Judith Horrocks, Mike Bender) -press release;
14. Young People Are Actively Concerned for Others (Debi Roker) - press release;
15. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Progress in Treatment (Michael Sharp) - press release
16. Politicians Personalities (Mark Pancer) - press release
17. New President for The British Psychological Society (Chris Cullen) - press release
Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference 1997 Press Releases
1. Talking Treatments Work for Psychiatric Illness (Tony Roth) - press release;
2. Alternatives to Smacking (Philip Dutton) - press release;
3. Making Clinical Psychology Services More Available (June Brown and Ray Cochrane) - press release;
4. A New Way to Help Troubled Children (Peter Appleton) - press release;
5. Dealing With Inner-City Family Distress (Hilton Davis) - press release;
6. Computers Treat Anxiety (Jim White) - press release;
7. Psychologists Rule Out Malingering in Compensations (Robert Edelmann) - press release
[See BPS/001/6/01/02/03/16 for programme, abstracts and summaries of papers at these conferences]
16 April 1997 ADHD Perspectives From Educational Psychology - press release for special edition of Division of Educational and Child Psychology journal ADHD: Perspectives from Educational Psychology
14 May 1997 Statutory Control of Psychologists - press release for letter to the Health Secretary, Frank Dobson, asking the Government to introduce legislation to bring psychologists under statutory control
1 July 1997 British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section and /alliance of Women in Psychology Annual Women and Psychology Conference, Loughborough University
1. General release about the conference
2. Exporting Abortion: Northern Irish Women's Experience of Abortion (Jaen McEvoy, Mary Boyle) - press release
3. Mourning The Lost Self: Women and Post-Natal Depression (Ruth Paradise) - press release
4. Menopause - A New Lease of Life (Pam Jacobs, Michael Hyland, Ann Ley) - press release
5. Are Working Fathers New Men (Sarah Lewis) - press release
6. Girls Still Worry About Their Reputations, Boys Still Brag About Their Conquests - press release
14-17 July 1997 Welsh Branch Conference on the Psychology of Shyness
General press release about the conference
17 July 1997 Keith Reed-Jones - Statutory Registration of Psychologists - press release about Keith Reed Jones being removed from the Register of Chartered Psychologists
28 July 1997 An Appeal for Recognition of Falklands War Veterans' Problems (Roderick Orner) - press release about an article 'Falklands War Veterans: What Lies Ahead As They Emerge from Obscurity' published in The Psychologist
1 September 1997 Dieters' Thoughts Reduce Mental Power (Mike Green, Peter Rogers and Nicola Elliman) - press release for article 'Impaired cognitive processing in dieters: Failure of attention focus or resource capacity limitation?' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology
1 September 1997 British Psychological Society 1997 Cognitive Psychology Award - draft and final copies of press release about winners of 1997 award to be awarded at Cognitive Psychology Annual Conference 4 September, Bristol University
12-15 September 1997 British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Loughborough University
1. General release about the conference
2. Violent Video Scenes Which Haunt Children (Glenn Cupit) press release;
3. Road Safety: Getting The Message Across (Andy Tolmie, Hugh Foot, Jimmie Thomson, Brian McLaren, Kirstie Whelan) - press release;
4. Teenagers Develop National Prejudice (Adam Rutland) - press release
5. Keeping Secrets (Jayne Morris and Robin Campbell) - press release
6. Children of Single Mothers Are Physically Punished Less (Gavin Nobes) - press release
7. Ringleaders Bullies Cold Social Manipulators (Jon Sutton and Peter Smith) - press release
8. Making Sense of Children: What Do Parents Think (Iris Levein and Ofra Korat) - press release
9. Premature Babies: Does Excessive Intensive Care Have Negative Long-Term Effects (Dieter Wolke) - press release
17-19 September 1997 British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton
1. General release about the conference and covering letter
2. Adolescents' Perceptions of Their Family and Their Moral Thinking (Fiona White) - press release
3. Girls' and Boys' Body Image Concerns (Barbara Lloyd, Helga Dittmar, Neil Jacobs, Helen Cramer) - press release;
4. Applaud the Claptrap (Peter Bull) - press release
5. Being Uninhibited on the Internet: It's Not Just The Anonymity (Adam Joinson) - press release
6. Parents More Important Than Partners (Sandra Wheatley) - press release
7. Sexual Victimisation (Barbara Krahe) - press release
29 September - 1 October 1997 British Psychological Society Division of Criminological and Legal Psychology Annual Conference, Churchill College Cambridge
1. General release about the conference
2. Aggressive, Touch and In Touch With Their Inner Self (Allison Tennant) - press release
3. Feminine Women and Masculine Crimes (Victoria Herrington) - press release
4. Do Brummies Talk Themselves into Trouble? (Berenice Mahoney) - press release
5. Lurid Interests Are Normal? (Vincent Egan) - press release
6. Stalking: More Common Then We'd Like To Think? (Lorraine Sheridan) - press release
7. Offender Profiling: Only A Dramatic Success (Gary Copson) - press release
8. I Won't Take Orders From A Woman (Jennifer Brown) - press release
9. Women Words (Malcolm Young) - press release
10. A Double Dose of Prejudice For Black and Asian WPCs (Kerry-Ann Holder) - press release
11. Women and Sentencing: Making Sense of Magistrates' Decisions (Loraine Gelsthorpe) - press release
12. Special Hospitals Should Be Closed (David Pilgrim) - press release
15 October 1997 Ministerial Meeting - Statutory Registration - press release for meeting of British Psychological Society representative and Junior Health Minister Paul Boateng
14-16 November 1997 British Psychological Society Education Section Annual Conference, GEC Management College, Dunchurch Rugby - General release about the conference
[ see BPS/002/3/02/07/01 for programme and abstracts for this conference]
19 November 1997 The X-Files Factor (Susan Blackmore) - press release, cuttings and copy of article 'Probability Misjudge and Belief in the paranormal: a newspaper survey' published in the British Journal of Psychology
21 November 1997 Longer Working Hours Linked To Ill-Health (Kate Sparks, Cary Cooper, Yitzhak Fried), press release, cuttings and copy of article 'The Effects of Hours of Work on Health: A Meta-Analytic Review' published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Health;
21-23 November 1997 British Psychological Society Scottish Branch Annual Conference, Pitlochry Hydro Hotel
1. General release about the conference
2. Life's Better With Art (Halla Beloff) - press release
3. Depressed, Anxious and Hostile - and At Risk from Heart Disease (Elke Rotheiler) - press release
4. Fear of the Knife - press release
5. Managing the Aftermath of Traumatic Incidents (Douglas Paton and Leigh Smith) - press release
1 December 1997 Eating Disorders Triggered By Stress (Nicholas Troop) - press release, cuttings and copy of article 'Psychosocial Factors in the Onset of Eating Disorders: Responses to Life-Events and Difficulties
16-17 December 1997 British Psychological Society Annual London Conference, Institute of Education
General press release about the conference
1. Trapped in the Lottery By Fear of Leaving (Pam Briggs) - press release
2. I'll Name That Face in ...' (Rick Hanley) - press release
3. Stress At The Wheel (David Woodhouse) - press release
4.Why Adults Become Estranged from Their Parents (Robert Bringle) - press release
5. Media Messages Can Influence Children's Attitudes To Alcohol (Tracy Guild, Geoff Lowe) - press release
6. Distorted Thinking Keeps Addicts Hooked (Chris McCusker) press release
7. Why Can't I have A Wheelchair for Christmas (Annette Hames) - press release
8. HRT and Educational Level (Rona Rubin) - press release
9. Worry Reduces Dieters' Working Memory (Mike Green) - press release
10. Giving Women A Better Sense of Their Risk of Cervical Cancer (Rachel Holloway) - press release, 11. When The Morning Last 16 Hours (Stuart Anderson) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Neuropsychological Correlates of Alcoholic Hangover';
12. Predicting Emergence from Vegetative State (Helen Gill-Thwaites) press release
13. Smokers Are Always ill (Tony Ward) - press release
14. It's How You think, Not How Keen You Are (Philip Adey) - press release
15. Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder May Make Things Worse (Katharine Mair) - press release
16. Women Have More Staying Power (Alan Durndell) - press release
17. To Burn or Not to Burn - That is The Question (Nicola Moss) - information release
18 Are the Eyes Windows To the Soul? The Perception of Gaze (Martin Doherty and James Anderson) - information release
19. Can Teaching Psychology Transform Popular Culture (Nicky Hayes) - abstract and summary of paper;
For programme, summaries and abstracts of papers see BPS/001/6/01/03/03/17] |
| AdminHistory | The first report on public relations was in 1946 by T H Pear [see BPS Council Papers 25 May 1946]. A public relations committee was founded in 1955 and was a short lived working party.
The first press releases was for the BPS Occupational Psychology Section Conference in Cambridge, held 3-4 January 1970.
In 1971 Nicholas Georgiades and Professor Arthur Summerfield arranged a press conference at Brown's Hotel to draw attention to the BPS response to Sir John Foster's report on Scientology [See BPS/001/4/01/03/01]. After advice from Mr Christopher Hall, Barbara Castle's Information officer on setting up a press function - a Standing Press Committee was formed in October 1971 under the Chairmanship of Dr Georgiades - they produced press releases and started recruiting spokespeople and setting up a media training courses for them - the first of which was held in June 1972. Early press efforts were concentrated on promoting the conferences and journal articles but later encompassed promoting BPS policy, positions, activities and the profession of psychology.
In 1973 Susan Best PA to the Secretary General took on the additional role of 'Public Relations Secretary', this was later held by Mrs M Clark, the post existed until 1976. A dedicated press officer was recruited in 1991.
Stephen White joined the BPS staff as Director of Communications in 1985 and started organising regular media training from 1986 onwards. Press releases were regularly issued from this time.
By October 1991 the Press Committee was no longer a standing committee but a subcommittee of the Information Committee (which itself took over from the Standing Committee on Communications SCCOMS 1984-1990). The Information Committee became the Communications Committee in 1998 as part of the Society's strategic plan. This became the Publications and Communications Board in 2000. |
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