| AdminHistory | In 1946 J C Raven proposed to the Council of the British Psychological Society that the Society create a new comprehensive journal rather than the existing British Journal of Psychology and specialist journals sent to section members, there were also calls for a 'non-technical expository' journal for members and non-members which was rejected as not a suitable activity for a scientific organisation. A committee was set up to consider the proposals.
The committee, headed by Frederick Laws reported in October 1947 suggesting that it would not be desirable to start a comprehensive journal to replace all the others as it would be too expensive but that some publication reporting the Society's activities and matters of professional interest and including psychological articles of a less technical nature than those in the Journals should be created . The Bulletin of the British Psychological Society initially quarterly [later monthly] Bulletin started in July 1948 to be distributed to all members. The Quarterly Bulletin was to give news of the activities of the Society and summarised papers which had not been published elsewhere as well as being a vehicle to improve contact and understanding between members of different specialist interests. It was agreed that from 1966 that the Bulletin could be on general sale but this was temporarily rescinded in 1974 when job advertising which had been in the separate appointments memoranda began to be included in the Bulletin. The appointments memoranda was again a loose insert sent to members only and the Bulletin was again available on subscription to libraries.
A new format for the Bulletin was introduced in 1968 part of a move towards a more general non specialised psychology magazine particularly after 1988 when the Bulletin was relaunched as The Psychologist. In the 1990s working parties considered whether The Psychologist could also be sold to the public.
Quarterly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society
Editor Frederick Laws 1948- 1952
Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 1953-1987 [monthly]
Editor Cecily De Monchaux 1954-1956; Hannah Steinberg 1956-1962; Thelma Veness 1962-1966; Peter Kelvin 1967-1971; Rodney Maliphant 1969-1971 [Assistant Editor]; Derek May (1936-2018), Fitz Taylor and John Versey 1971-1976; John Wilding and Norman Worrall 1976-1981; Mary Boyle and Ray Bull 1982-1987
The Psychologist was the in-house magazine for members of the British Psychological Society. The first issue was January 1988 - it was a successor to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society [previously Quarterly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society] 1948-1987.
Managing Editor Elizabeth Mapstone 1987-1993;
Assistant Editor Stephen White 1995-1998; Peter Dillon-Hooper 1998-2018; Annie Brookman-Byrne 2019-date
Editor Maryon Tysoe 1997-2000, Jon Sutton 2000-date
The Editorial Sub-Committee was a SubCommittee of the Standing Committee on Communications until December 1989. It acted as a policy making body on all issues regarding The Psychologist; act as an adviser to the Managing Editor and the Honorary Editors; act as a 'reviewer' of past issues of 'The Psychologist'
Chairman of Editorial SubCommittee Mary Boyle 1987, Glynis Breakwell June 1988 - January 1990
Honorary Editors The Bulletin Mary Boyle and Ray Bull1981-1987
Honorary Editors Glynis Breakwell and Graham Davey 1987-92. From this point onwards there was only one Honorary Editor
Honorary Editor Hugh Foot 1992-1997
The Psychologist Editorial Committee succeeded the Editorial Sub-Committee and reported to Council. Assistant Editors were responsible for ideas and some copy for features, reviews, art work etc. There was also a team of Associate Editors who were responsible for generating and reviewing academic articles.
Chairman of Psychologist Editorial Committee Graham Davey 1990-1992; Hugh Foot 1992-1995
The Psychologist Policy Committee PPC May 1995-date [2018] replaced the Psychologist Editorial Committee PEC
Chairman Hugh Foot 1995-1997; Mary Boyle 1997-
See also The Psychologist January 2013 'Looking Back: A Quarter of a Century of The Psychologist' |
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