Welcome back to our 2025 ‘Showcase’ series, where we explain how occupational psychology can help you tackle a range of business or HR challenges. We started by thinking about the value of career planning tools. In this instalment, we’re moving onto recruitment. Good recruitment can boost productivity, create effective and…
This week, it’s Global Education Week 2024 – a chance for everyone to come together and engage in activities or reflection about how their work can contribute to #sustainability and #inclusion. Global Education Week is organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, together with the Global Education Network. …
If you saw this post back in August 2023, you’ll know WPG have been working hard to get things right for neurodivergent candidates and employees. With the right support and working conditions in place, organisations can help everyone to bring their unique strengths to work. So, what can be done…
As a team, we love to come together for learning and development. We regularly invite experts for informal “wine and wisdom” sessions to enhance our wider understanding of psychology in the workplace. Recently, welcomed Professor Nancy Doyle, Founder of Genius Within and Co-Director of the Centre for Neurodiversity at Work…
UCAS has announced that, from 2024, the personal statement element of the university application process will be reframed into structured questions with six key areas of focus: motivation for the course preparedness for the course preparation through other experiences extenuating circumstance preparedness for study preferred learning style Professor Fiona Patterson…
October marks Black History Month in the UK. A whole 31-days of learning and celebrating Black contributions to British society, while reflecting upon the history and culture. The event has been observed in the UK since 1987, with this year’s theme being Time for Change: Action Not Words. Black…
After two years of presenting via a virtual screen, it was good to be back taking part in symposiums, presenting our findings and networking face-to-face at this year’s 50th Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference. The milestone conference promotes excellence in education in the healthcare profession and in…
June marked Pride Month. But we’re sure you don’t need us to tell you this. You probably could have guessed from the cascade of rainbow-inspired art installations popping up all over the country, or from the plethora of business logos that received a multi-coloured makeover on social media.
The future of the workplace is more agile, more mobile and more diverse. But is the future workplace fair? Fairness in the workplace is paramount. Along with contributing towards employees’ feeling safe and engaged in the work they are doing, having a fair workplace helps to create a productive…
It’s been an unprecedented 365 days, to say the least. And we wanted our annual studentships to reflect that. Which is why, here at Work Psychology Group (WPG), we are running our work experience programme slightly differently in 2021. Casting our net wider Studentships are an important part of WPG. In past years, we would offer two Occupational Psychology (OP) Masters students from either the University of Nottingham, Loughborough University and/or City, University of…












