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Project: EP’s views supporting children and young people with chronic and / or life limiting health conditions.

24 June 2024 by

This project aims to explore EPs’ views about their role supporting Children and Young People with chronic and / or…

Action planning to support school attendance: using the SPIRAL framework

17 June 2024 by

Currently, we find ourselves in an ‘attendance crisis’ (Children’s commissioner, 2023) with more children than ever feeling unable to attend…

Why young people with SEND love Fortnite

The simple answer: Fortnite is awesome. In this article, I give a psychologically informed account of Fortnite so that educational…

Educational Psychology for Material Change: A call for EPs to join our collective

Educational Psychologists for Material Change (EPMC) are building a coalition of progressive and radical Educational Psychologists (EPs) to make real…

Project: the use of solution focused techniques by UK educational psychologists

23 April 2024 by

This project aims to explore the use of solution focused techniques by UK educational psychologists. Project Focus Previous surveys (e.g….

Book review: The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people with learning difficulties

16 April 2024 by

Book author: Dr Kirstie Rees. Coffee rating: ☕☕ (2/3) – not too challenging. You might have to stop and think in…

Happy Pi Day! Celebrating maths

13 March 2024 by

Happy International Pi Day – and no I’m not spelling the word incorrectly as today is all about the mathematical…

Introducing PsychBites Podcast

PsychBites is a new podcast for all education professionals that aims to help bridge the gap between educational psychology research…

Enhancing staff wellbeing: the pivotal role of Educational Psychologists in schools

19 February 2024 by

The Teacher Wellbeing Index 2023 (Education Support, 2023) paints a concerning picture of the current state of wellbeing among education staff. According…

Building a motivational interviewing learning community for EPs

8 February 2024 by and

The Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers defines a learning community as a network of practitioners interested in the same topic,…