Podcast Episodes

Navigating Mental Health Issues in Schools: Strategies for Teachers and Students with Prof. Jess Deighton

Season 13 Episode 12

In this episode, Professor Jess Deighton, a leading children's mental health expert, discusses the growing mental health challenges facing young people today and what this means for educators and sch…

Published on 3 months ago

Exploring the Intersection of Psychology and Education: Insights for Teachers

Season 13 Episode 11

In this episode, Dr Andrew Holliman, Associate Professor at UCL's Institute of Education and chair of the BPS's Psychology of Education Section discusses the upcoming annual conference focused on psy…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Emotionally Based School Avoidance: A Personal Story

Season 13 Episode 10

In this deeply personal episode, I'm joined by Harriet Ennis, a psychology teacher from York and this year's winner of the British Psychological Society's Pre-Tertiary Education Psychology Teacher of…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Learning from Failure: The Biological Case for Embracing Mistakes

Season 13 Episode 9

In this episode of Psychology in the Classroom, Dr. Lauren Margulieux helps explore why failure isn't just a learning opportunity—but a biologically powerful one. Drawing on neuroscience, Lauren expl…

Published on 5 months ago

The Perils of Perfectionism: Understanding Its Impact on Mental Health in Education

Season 13 Episode 8

In this episode we explores the impact of perfectionism on exam anxiety, particularly among neurodivergent individuals. Dr. Tracey Donachie, a lecturer in sports and exercise psychology, discusses th…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools

Season 13 Episode 7

Summary

In this episode Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group menta…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Process of Learning is Uncomfortable

Season 13 Episode 6

This month Dr Katy Burgess, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University, talks about her research into students' learning - what they do and how effective they think this is - this is useful …

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Peer Support for Neurodivergent pupils

Season 13 Episode 4

The NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST) is a set of free resources for staff in mainstream secondary schools who wish to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people. The toolkit wa…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

RE-STAR - From Emotional Dysfunction to Emotional Burden

Season 13 Episode 4

This is the 7th podcast from the RE-STAR team and Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke and Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou share the findings from work package one. This episode explores how the RE-STAR team has col…

Published on 1 year ago

Improving Mental Fitness in Schools with Vi Gandhi

Season 13 Episode 2

In this week's episode Purvi (Vi) Gandhi shares her knowledge about implementing effective and evidence based strategies to improve mental health or mental fitness in schools.

Vi has recently publish…

Published on 1 year ago