| Description | British Psychological Society press releases, also includes some press cuttings
6 - 8 January 1998 BPS Annual Occupational Conference, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne
1. General release about the conference
2. The Differences Between Part-Time and Full-Time Employees (Neil Conway) - press release
3. Exercise Can Reduce Work Related Stress (Howard Taylor and James Bailey) - press release
4. Don't Tell Me to Have A Nice Day (Sandi Mann) - press release
5. Fighting Fire Under Stress (Lynne Millward and Clare Amos) - press release
[See BPS/002/3/03/02/05/03 BPS Occupational Section Conferences for programme, abstracts and summaries of papers of this conference]
17 February 1998 Daily Hassles Trigger Unhealthy Lifestyle (Andrew Steptoe and Zara Lipsey) - press release, correspondence, cutting and copy of article 'Stress Hassles and Variation in Alcohol Consumption' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology;
19 February 1998 Newspaper Readership shapes Perception of Crime (Mick O'Connell, Ferica Invernizzi and Ray Fuller) - press release, correspondence and copy of article 'Newspaper Readership and the Perception of Crime: Testing An Assumed Relationship Through A Triangulation of Methods' published in Legal and Criminological Psychology;
23 February 1998 Mothers Influence Young Girls Who diet (Andrew Hill) - press release, correspondence, cutting and copy of article 'Mothers, Daughter and Dieting: Investigating The Transmission of Weight Control' published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology
[See BPS/001/6/01/02/03/17 Annual Conference 1998 Press for British Psychological Society Annual Conference held 26 - 29 March 1998, The Brighton Centre. Division of Clinical Psychology Conference held in parallel. Press releases, abstracts, programme and summary of papers includes
General release about the conference also
1. New President for The British Psychological Society (Ingrid Lunt);
2. The Trouble With Rules (Chris Cullen);
3. Riddles and the Laughing PC Help Children's Reading (Nicola Yuill and John Bradwell);
4. When Foster Children Do Best (Deborah Browne)
5. Howzat! Improve Your Ball-Skills in the Dark (Simon Bennett);
6. Heart Bypass Operations Can Affect Intellectual Ability (Keith Millar)
7. The Caribbean Experience (Madeleine Grealy)
8. Education and Disadvantaged People (Tommy MacKay)
9. Green Cross Code Boosted by Interactive Learning (Hugh Foot)
10. The Effects of Team Results on Football Supporters' optimism (Helen Doneathy)
11. Mind Into Muscle - Or How To Life A Finger Without Lifting A Finger (Dave Smith)
12. Mummy I want That Food Advertising on Children's TV (Andrew Hill)
13. Boys and Girls Come Out To Play (Carol Burrows)
14. Improving Adherence to Medical Treatment (Lynn Myers)
15. Pleasures and Guilt Feelings Affects Our Health (Geoff Lowe)
16. Right-Handed From Conception (Glenda Mc Cartney)
Information Sheets
1. Is Our National Intelligence Declining? (Richard Lynn)
2. Mozart - Music For Maths? (Prisha Shah and Ann Dowker)
3. Foetal Hearing (Stephen Evans)
Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference 1998 Press Releases
1. New Psychological Treatment Offers Hope (Heidi Heard)
2. Paying The Piper? (Adrian Skinner)
3. Students Not Patients (Lorraine Bell)
4. Reaching the Parts Other Psychologists Don't Reach (June Brown)
5. Anorexia Nervosa: A Way of Coping With Life? (Eric Button)
6. Psychological Treatment Helps People With Schizophrenia (Gillian Haddock)]
25 April 1998 British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Annual Conference, Royal Society of Arts RSA - general release about the conference.
See BPS/002/
22 May 1998 Drinking Drugs and Gambling - release for scientific meeting of the South West of England Branch
4-6 June 1998 release for the Division of Occupational Psychology Test User Conference
[See BPS/002/2/05/06/01 for programme of this conference]
5 June 1998 Women With Caring Responsibilities Feel Under More Pressure At Work - press release, correspondence, copy of article by Susan Field and Ros Bramwell published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology;
21-22 July 1988 Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG) 1998 Annual Conference, University of Derby press releases
1. General release about the Conference
2. Blame for Sexual Assault (Michelle Davies) - press release
3. Where's That Siren Coming From? (Ken Catchpole) - press release
4. Coffee Breaks Count! (Caroline Brice and Andrew Smith) - press release
5. Teenage Girds and 'Girl Power' (Antoinette Hardy) - press release
6. Condom Use: Another Reason Why It's Good To Talk (Lester Coleman) - press release
7. Increasing Lie Detection Accuracy (Paul Seager, Ricard Wiseman and Chris Rowe) - press release
21 August 1998 Silence is Golden (Simon Banbury and Dianne Berry) - press release, correspondence, cuttings and copy of article 'Disruption of Office-Related Tasks By Speech and Office Noise' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
21 August 1998 Mystic Dog Fails To Give Scientists A Lead (Richard Wiseman and Matthew Smith) - press release, correspondence, cuttings and copy of article 'Can Animals Detect When Their Owners Are Returning Home? An Experimental Test of the 'Psychic Pet' Phenomenon' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
3 September 1998 Want to Get Fit? Get Realistic (Fiona Jones, Hilary Waller) - press release and copy of article 'Expectations of An Exercise Prescription Scheme: An Exploratory Study Using Repertory Grids' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology;
9-11 September 1998 Division of Criminological and Legal Psychology Eight Annual Conference, St Aidan's College, University of Durham
1. General release about the conference
2. Carry on Lying: How Acting Can Make You Good At Lying (Lynsey Gozna) - press release
3. Men Gossip As Much As Women (Jane Ireland) - press release
4. Are Joy Riders Driven To It? (Susan Kellett) - press release
5. Are Magistrates Inconsistent? (Mandeep Dhami) - press release
6. Rape Victims in Court (Mark Kebbell and Steve Deprez) - press release
7. Policing Sex Offenders: Registration and Response (Andrew Bates) - press release
8. Inside Upper-Middle Class Crime (Sara Willott) - press release
9. Prison Can Be The Last Straw for Women (Nancy Loucks) - press release;
9 September 1998 Family Doctors Under Stress - press release, cuttings and copy of article 'Occupational Stress and Family Life: A Comparison of Male and Female Doctors' published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology;
11-14 September 1998 BPS Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Lancaster.
1. General release about the conference
2. Boys Will Be Boys (Robin Benerjee) - press release
3. Causes and Effects of Bullying In Schools (Mike Eslea) - press release
4. How to Manager Pre Schoolers (Claire Hughes) - press release
5. Possible Benefits of Learning to Read in Letterland (Nick Bucknall) - press release
6. Can Medication Held Children With ADHD in the Classroom (Rebecca Shaw) - press release
7. What Counts in the Nursery (Penny Munn) - press release
8. Psychological Problems in Survivors of Childhood Leukaemia (Jacqui Rodgers) - press release
9. Grandparents Need Grandchildren (Linds Drew and Peter Smith) - press release
10. Autism and Integrated Education - What Teachers Think?: - press release
15 September 1998 Community Therapy Helps Prisoners (Margaret Newton) - press release and copy of article 'Changes in Measures of Personality, Hostility and Locus of Control During Residence in a Prison Therapeutic Community' published in Legal and Criminological Psychology'
18 September 1998 Education Section Conference, Held at the University of Exeter
The Pros and Cons of Homework (Susan Hallam and Richard Cowan) - press release
21-23 September 1988 Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury
1. General release about the conference
2. Tony Blair's Equivocation in Interviews (Peter Bull) - press release
3 Older Women's Attitute to Body Size and Eating (Jillian Tunaley) - press release
4. New Developments in Happiness Research (Michael Argyle) - press release
5. Marital Food Interaction and Diet (Elisabeth Scarfer and Martin Dunbar) - press release
6. Sexism and Women's Football (Lindsey Patterson) - press release.
[See BPS/002/3/06/06/02 BPS Social Section Conferences for more information including programme for this conference]
9 October 1998 Invitation to a media briefing on a BPS report 'The Psychological Aspects of Food Risk' to be held on 21 October at the Novartis Foundation
9 November 1998 Pregnant Mums Quit Smoking If Partners Do (Peter Appleton) - press release, cuttings and copy of article 'Partner Smoking Behaviour Is Associated with Women's Smoking Reduction and Cessation During Pregnancy' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology;
9 November 1998 Ecstasy Users Believe Bad Effects Unlikely (Mark Connor and Kellie Sherlock) - press release, cuttings and copy of article 'Psychosocial Determinant of Ecstasy Use in Young People in the USA' published in the British Journal of Psychology
11 November 1998 Younger Motorcyclists Acknowledge Greater Risk (Derek Rutter, Lyn Quine and Ian Albery) - press release and copy of article 'Perceptions of Risk in Motorcyclists: Unrealistic Optimism, Relative Realism and Predictions of Behaviour' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
16 November 1998 Depressed Mothers Blame Their Difficult Kids (Christine Barrowclough and Caroline White) - press release, cuttings and copy of paper 'Depressed and Non-Depressed Mothers With Problematic Preschoolers: Attributions for Child Behaviours' published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology;
16 November 1998 Muslim Mothers Face Stress Living in Extended Families (Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Minal Mistry and Shazia Quireshi) - press release, cuttings and copy of paper 'The Mental Health of Muslim Mothers in Extended Families Living in Britain: The Impact of Intergenerational Disagreement on Anxiety and Depression' published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology;
27-29 November 1998 BPS Scottish Branch Annual Conference, Scotland's Hotel, Pitlochry
1. General release about the conference
2. Developing the Long Term Unemployed (Heather Byre) - press release
3. Doing Time: Psychology in the Scottish Prison Service (Roisin Hall) - press release
4. Improving Children's Road Sense (Hugh Foot) - press release
5. The Awkward Age: Why Are Adolescents Clumsy? (Dorothy Hefferman) - press release
6. Sleepless in Pitlochry (Colin Espie) - press release
7. Dispute Reveal Children's Linguistic Competence (Christine Howe) - press release
8. Sight and Smell of Alcohol Increase Craving (Daniela Schulze) - press release
9. Memory for Emotional Material (Ronan O'Carroll) - press release
[See BPS/002/1/03/06/01 BPS Scottish Branch Conferences for programme and cuttings from this conference]
[See BPS/991/6/01/03/03/16 press releases (and summaries) from the 17-18 December BPS London Conference at City University
includes
general press release about the conference
1. Computers in the Classroom: Girls Lose Out in the Boy Zone (Margaret Hardman) - press release,
2. Broken Homes Affect Boys More Than Girls (Tony Cassidy) - press release
3. Risk Perception and Decision Making in high Risk Group (Lorraine Sherr) press release
4. Caught in the Web: A Study of Internet 'Addiction' and its effects (Helen Petrie) - press release
5. Struggles With School Life: Listening to Chronically ill Children (Suzanne Wright) - press release
6. Grandparents Help Out in Family Life - But Should Not 'Interfere' (Jillian Tunaley) - press release
7. In the Mood for Cricket (Peter Totterdell) - press release
8. The Voice of Fear (Judy Edworth) -press release
9. Lesbians, Gay Man and Family Life (Adrian Coyle) - press release
10. Caring For Patients Is Important (Rani Elwy) - press release
11. Gulf War Syndrome Triggered by Smells of War (Eamon Ferguson) - press release
12. Pheromones - An Evolutionary Trick (Karl Grammer) - press release
13. The Family: Whose Family? (Anne Woolett) - press release
14. The Bails in Their Court: Evaluating Magistrates Bail Decisions - press release
15. Worriers Even Worry About What Makes Them Happy (Graham Davey) - press release
16. Students in Debt Have Poor Health (Ron Roberts) - press release
17. Does Every Camera Tell The Whole Truth (Carl Senior) - press release
18. Students with Unattractive Names Get Better Grades (Phil Erwin) - information sheet
19. The Effect of Body Image and Self Esteems on Women's Interpersonal Relationships - Information sheet
20. The Terms People Use to Describe Female Genitalia (Virginia Braun) - information sheet]
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| 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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