Category: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and Fairness

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What does good recruitment look like?

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…
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Why the reframing of personal statements on UCAS applications needs to go further

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…

Work Psychology Group widens access for 2021 work experience cohort

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…