| Level | File |
| Ref No | BPS/001/17/02/02 |
| Title | Psychology Award for Schools and Colleges 1984-1988 |
| Date | 1984-1988 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
| Description | Material relating to the British Psychological Society Psychology Project award for Schools and Colleges includes
1985 Award - Information booklet Autumn 1984 (Introduction, What Constitutes a Psychology Project, Choosing a Project, Treatment of Participents in the Project, Project Advisers, Registration of the Project, Reporting the Project, Rules, Prize, Arrangements for Selecting Award Winners, Useful books, About the British Psychological Society, Careers in Psychology) press release and draft, media distribution list, text for publication of winners, abstract and highly commended applicants for publication in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society;British Association Annual Meeting programme 26-30 August 1985,
1986 Award - Information Booklet Autumn 1985, draft adverts and final advert, lists of local advisers, press release, drafts, media distribution lists, letters of support
1987 Award - advert proof press release, draft, certificate of authenticity, correspondence on future of the award
1988 Award - press release and draft, application, correspondence |
| Format | File |
| Notes | The History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society. |
| File of Stephen White BPS Director of Information |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | BPS/001/4/02/02 BPS Scientific Affairs Board Meeting Papers |
| AccessConditions | Registered Users by Appointment Only.Personal data removed. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 13 BPS History of Psychology Centre, London |
| AdminHistory | The Schools Psychology awards was presented by the British Psychological Society for an empiral project in psychology carried out by students in sixth forms or colleges of further education. The winners school or college was given a certificate and books to the value of £1000 for their library to be chosen from a list of psychology texts provided by the British Psychological Society and to each experimenter a certificate and equal share of £100 to be spend on books of their choice. These were awarded at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting after the British Association of YOung Scientists (BAYS) Psychology lecture. After questions about the quality of entries in 1987 which was administered by a subcommitee the British Psychological Society Scientific Affairs Board - the final iteration of the award was 1988.
1985 Nicola Blamire, Diana Redwood 'Attitudtes towards smoking of 16 to 17 year old girls at a Grammar School'
1986 Nichola Smethurst and Janette Lathem "A Study to Investigate Animism in Children' and Sharon Mayer and Linda Cooper 'Slicers, Balancers, Gaugers and Spreaders: the use of verbal quantifiers by mentally handicapped adults and primary school children'
1987 Alison Goodingham and Karen Hulme 'Handedness and Laterization of Linguistic Functions'
1988 Many Fowler, Kathie McCarthy and Debbie Peers 'An Experiemnt to Establish If the Level of Belief has an Effect on the Acceptance of Horoscopes as Being Personally Applicable' |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre. |