Lancaster Lockdown Psychology Seminar Series

Lancaster University, a place where, coincidentally, I spent 3 years of my life studying, have announced a series of “interactive live talks from experts in the Department of Psychology” that are open to anyone. All you need is the Microsoft Teams app or you can view – and interact if you want – using a […]

Discovering Psychology

Discovering Psychology was “A video instructional series on introductory psychology for college and high school classrooms and adult learners” consisting of 26 30-minute TV programs narrated by Philip Zimbardo and produced in association with the American Psychological Association. The programs were originally aired in 1990 and a set of “updated resources” to accompany the programs […]

Psychology: Aspects of Sleep

Four short teaching films, now available On Demand, covering different aspects of sleep research: 1. Why Do We Sleep? [4.20] We’ll spend about a third of our lives asleep. But why?  Why do we need to sleep? Filmed at a University Sleep Laboratory, this short film demonstrates the effect of lack of sleep and why […]

Make A Pitch: selling sociological sausages

In response to the silent clamour (that only I could hear apparently) for something a little more substantial and pdfeffy, I’ve created a short booklet based around the “Selling Sociological Sausages” Lesson Outline I’ve previously posted. It’s basically a pdf version of the post, although it both clarifies the different versions and changes a few […]

Lend Your Mind To Science

Testable Minds seems to be an off-shoot of Testable – a web site that provides a relatively simple way to create behavioural experiments and surveys (there’s a free option if you want to give it a try. Alternatively, if you’re merely curious about what the site can do there are a few examples to explore, […]

Teaching Timelines

A free, easy-to-use online Timeline creator that allows you to incorporate text, images and video. Back-in-the-day, when I was still classroom teaching, one of the techniques I occasionally used was the Teaching Timeline, something I found particularly useful for Introductory Sociology (back when a “History of Sociological Thought” was mandatory) and, for some reason, Crime […]

Introduction to Psychology: The Noba Collection

The simplest way to describe The Noba Project is that it’s a collection of free Introductory Psychology (Psychology 101) modules designed to fulfil, in the words of its creators, three main aims: 1. To reduce the financial burden on students by providing access to free educational content. 2. To provide instructors with a platform to […]

Free Psychology Textbooks

Following soft on the heels of the open-source Psychology textbook comes a brief selection of additional psychology texts you and your students may or may not find useful. The list includes 4 complete textbooks, either released under a Creative Commons license or as an out-of-print edition a of current textbook. You need to be aware, […]

Psychology Learning Tables | 5

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any Psychology Learning Tables (Knowledge Organisers by any other name) so I thought I’d make a start on the backlog I’ve collected so far (if you want to see the previous Tables you can find them here). If you’re unfamiliar with the format, Learning Tables are used to […]

Issues & Debates in Psychology

Issues & Debates in Psychology with Dr Steve Taylor, University of London & ShortCutstv Issues & Debates is a key topic on both AQA & OCR & it’s also a great ‘transferable skill’. This workshop uses an approach, developed over several years, that helps students’ with understanding, comparing, applying & evaluating Issues & Debates. Clarifies […]