| Description | British Psychological Society press releases, also includes some press cuttings
[For 5 - 7 January 1999 BPS Annual Occupational Conference, Stakis Hotel, Blackpool
1. General Release about the Conference
2. 90's New Man Won't Make Millennium Manager (Tuvia Melamed)
3. Physically Disable High Flyers Are More Likely (Sonali Shah)
4. Landslide Syndrome Politicals and Executives Surf the Waves of Change (Dai Williams)
5. Something of the Dark - New Test Reveals All (Geoff Trickey)
6. Computer Test for Would Be Key Hole Surgeons (Martin Crawshaw)
7. Poverty Traps Intelligent People (Mark Cook)
8. Success in Medical Training (Eamonn Ferguson)
9. Changes in the Public Section - For Better or For Worse (Diane Van Ruitenbeek)
see BPS/002/3/03/02/05 Occupational Psychology Conferences - includes programme, abstracts, press release and copy of some papers];
6 February 1999 Stress at Work: Can and Does Stress Management Work? - South West Branch Scientific Meeting 'Stress in the Workplace the need for initial assessments, the use of empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks (Robert Briner and Jan Pye) - press release
9 February 1999 Statutory Registration of Psychologists - press release on BPS statement on the second reading of Health Bill
10 February 1999 Why Do People Gesture When They Talk (Geoffrey Beattie and Jane Coughlan) - press release, cuttings, correspondence and copy of article 'An Experimental Investigation of the Role of iconic Gestures in Lexical Access Using the Tip-Of-The Tongue Phenomenon' published in the British Journal of Psychology.
10 February 1999 Please Please Me (Adrian North and Jennifer McKendrick) - press release, correspondence, cuttings and copy of paper 'Music and On-Hold Waiting Time' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
10 February 1999 Smell That Memory (John Aggleton and Louise Waskett) - press release, cuttings and copy of paper 'The Ability of Odours To Serve As State Dependent Cues for Real-World Memories: Can Vikings Smells Aid the Recall of Viking Experiences?' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
8 March 1999 The Professional Practice of Educational Psychology - press release of BPS booklet by Robe Stoker and Liz Malcolm;
8-11 April 1999 British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Hilton Hotel Belfast
General Release about the conference
1. Psychology has a Key Role to Play in World Peace (Ed Cairns)- press release,
2. New President for The British Psychological Society (Pat Frankish) - press release
3. The Promise of New Tests for Fetal Abnormality (Peter Hepper) - press release
4. Drug Users Unaware of Memory Problems (Jacqui Rodgers and Dave Sanders)
5. Adolescents on Adult Psychiatric Wards (David Scott, Sinead McGilloaw and Michael Donnelly) - press release,
6. The High Incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in A Student Population (David G Purves) - - press release,
7. Chimpanzees With Real Personality (Lindsay Murray) - press release,
8. Violent Women - Reality or Media Hype (Susannah Chappel) - press release;
9. Premature Babies At Risk For Later Social Problems (Elizabeth Hoy) - press release,
10. Reading Experience Matters When It Comes to Writing Skills (Annette Daly) - press release,
11. Fear of Crime in Northern Ireland Is Not Irrational (Pamela Larmour) - press release';
12. The Colour of your Hair May Leave You Open To Stereotypes and Prejudice (Tony Cassidy) - press release,
13. Does Head Injury Protect People From PTSD (Graham Powell) - press release
14. Musicians Don't Need To Be Experts (John Sloboda) - Presidents Award Lecture - press release,
15. How To Save Dogs By Environmental Enrichment (Ian Sneddon) - press release
16. Physical Exercise For Life in Prison (John Kremer) - press release
17. The Puzzle of Seat Belts Explained (Tony Reinhardt-Rutland) - press release
18 Stand by Your Man and Get Blamed (Irina Anderson) - information sheet
19 Dreaming of Diana - Information sheet
For programme, delegates, presenters, abstracts and summaries of some papers see BPS/001/6/01/02/0319 BPS Annual Conference 1999 - Press
8-11 April 1999 British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, Hilton Hotel Belfast
General Press Release about the Conference
1. Helping Depressed Mothers Reduced Reports of Problem Behaviour in Children (Mair Edwards) - press release;
2. Feeling Anxious? Talk To A Computer (Jim White) - press release
For programme, delegates, presenters, abstracts and summaries of some papers see BPS/001/6/01/02/0319 BPS Annual Conference 1999 - Press which includes DCP conference programme]
21-23 May 1999 British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology Conference, The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton
General release about the conference
1. After the Knock on the Door; the Hidden Pain of Road Crash victims (Noreen Tehrani) - press release;
2. Treating Chronic Pain (Own Hughes) - press release;
3. A Role For Counselling Psychologists in the Promotion of Parent Skills (Sandy Gaskins) - press release;
4. Improving Psychological Health Within An Acute NHS Hospital Trust (Sandy Gaskins) - press release
For programme, delegates, abstracts see BPS/002/2/02/06/02 BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Conferences
17 June 1999 South West Psychologists Meet to Learn About the Treatment of Offenders - press release concerning South West Branch scientific meeting 'Personality Disorders, Accredited Treatment Programmes and Risk Assessment of Offenders'
1-3 July 1999 British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section and Alliance of Women in Psychology Annual Women and Psychology Conference
General release
1. Psychology of Women Section Launch A New Academic Journal - press release for Psychology of Women Review
2. Women's Bodybuilding (Sarah Grogan) - press release
3. Evolutionary Psychology Is Not The Answer To Everything (Paula Nicholson) - press release;
4. My Tender Heart and Everything About Me (Petra Boynton, Sue Philpott and Harry Hemingway) - press release
5. False Memories (Lindsay O'Dell) - press release;
6. Post-Abortion Syndrome (Elie Lee) - press release
1 July 1999 A Poor Education - Prejudice, Abuse of Power and Unjust Allocation of Funding (Tommy Mackay) - press release, drafts, cuttings and copy of article 'Education and the Disadvantaged: Is there Any Justice?' published in The Psychologist
1-3 September 1999 British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference, University of Leeds
General release about the conference
1.Children Delighted with Toe to Hand Surgery (Simon Kay) - press release
2. Men Need to Know More About Cancer (Clare Moynihan) - press release
3.Pass Me The Chocolate, I'm Pre-Menstrual (Louise Dye) - press release
4. Tell Me Why (Kim Conway) - press release
5. Fertile Emotion (Keith Hurst) - press release
6. Retaining Our Nurses (Martyn Jones and Derek Johnston) - press release
7. How To Get Off That Couch and Into The Gym (Frank Eves) - press release
For programme of this conference see BPS/002/04/02/06/03 Division of Health Psychology Conferences
6-9 September 1999 British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Nottingham University
General release about the conference
1. Problems of Deaf Children - press release for symposium 'The Development and Education of Deaf Children';
2. Successful Foster Care Placements (Deborah Browne) - press release
3. bully Tactics In Infant Classes (Claire Monks and Peter Smith) - press release
4. Disabled in The Nursery (Nikki Lewis) - press release
5. Computer Use At Home and At School (Charles Crook) - press release
6. It's A Boys' mouse (Richard Joiner) - press release
7. Pre-School Care-Givers - press release
[For programme and abstracts of this conferences see BPS/002/3/12/06/01 Developmental Section Annual Conference];
13-15 September 1999 British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Lancaster University
General release about the conference
1. Lack of Inhibition and the Internet (Adam Joinson) - press release,
2. Mistimed Applause in Political Speeches (Peter Bull) - press release,
3. Violence in Couples (Niki Graham-Kevan) - press release
27-29 September 1999 British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Ninth Annual Conference, Churchill College Cambridge
General release about the conference
1. Police Officers Who Pose As Hitmen: do they go too Far (Ian McKenzie) - information sheet
2. Positive Influences for Offenders (Linda Gast and Philip Taylor) - press release
3. Lawyers Abuse The Abused (Mark Kebbell) - press release
4. The PC's PC (Michael Wilbert and Brian Ewart) - press release
5. 2CV Man - Phantom Menace (Graham Davies) - press release
6. Police Ability to Detect Lies (Albert Vrij and Samantha Mann) - press release
7. Is Justice Blind (Roger Highfield) - press release
4 October 1999 The British Psychological Society Welcomes The National Service Framework for Mental Health - press release
29 October 1999 New Report on Dyslexia - Press release launching DECP [Division of Educational and Child Psychology Report] 'Dyslexia, Literacy and Psychological Assessment' includes summary of report;
12 November 1999 Pocket Money for 6 Year Olds (Adrian Furnham) - press release for article 'Economic Socialization: A Study of Adults' Perceptions and Use of Allowances to Educate Children' published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology;
12 November 1999 Pray More Often and Feel Better (John Maltby) - press release for article 'Religious Orientation and Psychological Well-Being' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology;
15 November 1999 Gulf War Syndrome Triggered By Smells of War (Eammon Fergusson and Helen Cassidy) - press release for article 'The Gulf War and Illness By Association' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
15 November 1999 Looking Forward to Better Travel (Michael Griffith) - press release for article 'Motion Sickness in Public Road Transport' published in the British Journal of Psychology;
26-28 November 1999 British Psychological Society Scottish and Northern Ireland Branches Annual Conference, 'Psychology In the New Millennium: the Way Forward', Jarvis Caledonian Hotel, Ayr
General press release about the conference
1. Sight and Smell of Alcohol Changes Expectations About The Effects of Alcohol (Daniela Schulze) - press release
2. Nurses Suffer From Workplace Bullying (Conor McGuckin) - press release
3. More Vodka than Beer (Jonathan Smallwood and Pramod Jauhar) - press release
4. A Millennium Without Illiteracy (Tommy MacKay) - press release
5 The Employment Needs of Disabled People (Pauline Lightbody and Mary Gilhooly) - press release
6. Confidential Reporting in the UK Railway Industry (Eleanor Courtney) - press release
[see BPS/002/1/03/06/01 Scottish Branch Conferences for programme for this conference]
4 December 1999 Developmental Disorders: From Diagnosis to Intervention - press release concerning South West Branch scientific meeting 'Autism, Down's syndrome, Deafness and Asperger's Syndrome' held at Treliske Hospital, Truro - press release;
10 December 1999 Letter Sound Training in Reception Class Improvers Reading and Spelling in Second Language Learners (Morag Stuart) - press release for article 'Getting Ready for Reading: Early Phoneme Awareness and Phonics Teaching Improves Reading and Spelling in Inner-City Second Language Learners' published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology;
10 December 1999 Parents' Expectations Important for Learning In School (Brahm Norwich) - press release for article 'Pupils' Reasons for Learning and Behaving and For Not Learning and Behaving in English and Maths Lessons in A Secondary School - published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology';
13 December 1999 How Women Use Pregnancy to Prepare for Motherhood (Jonathan Smith) - press release for article 'Towards a relational self: Social engagement during pregnancy and psychological preparation for motherhood' published in the British Journal of Social Psychology
20-21 December 1999 British Psychological Society London Conference, Institute of Education
General press release about the conference
1. John Bully? Bullying in UK and German Primary Schoolchildren (Dieke Wolke and Sarah Woods) - press release;
2. Time Really Does Fly As We Get Older (Susan Crawley) - press release;
3. Time and the Germans (Peter Collett) -press release;
4.Time is Money...and Why Managers Should Emulate the Royal Family (Sarah Lewis) - press release,
5. Well-Being in Later Life - press release
6. Asian School Children Bullied by White Children and Other Asian Children from Different Ethnic Groups (Mike Eslea)';
7. Mothers-in-Law - No Joke for Daughters in Law (Terri Apter) - press release';
8. Wintertime, and the Thinking Is Easy (Tim Brennan) - press release';
9. Parenting and Behaviour Problems in Children - press release;
10. Helping the Police by Improving E-Fit (Jim Turner) - press release;
11. Caught on Camera: The Effectiveness of Police Video Identification Parades (Graham Pike) press release;
12. Still White Coated - But Less Weird and More Wealthy; Adolescents' Images of Scientists' (Helen Haste) press release;
13. Children of Alcoholics Have More Problems (Andrew Guppy) - press release;
14. You have to Work At It (Carla Willig) press release;
15. Why Giving Up is Hard To Do (Lynne Dakins) - press release;
For programme, abstracts and summaries of papers see BPS/001/6/01/03/03/17 BPS London Conference 1999 Press |
| 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. |