On this episode of The Big 5, Dr. Lisa Thomas tells us about her path to becoming a university lecturer and the strong women role models who supported her journey. Show notes: You can stay up to date with Lisa's research on Twitter @drlthomas If you're interested in continuing your academic career you can look … Continue reading The Big 5 S2 Ep 6: Dr. Lisa Thomas on Career Paths in Academia

On this episode, Dominik Polasek tells us about his summer as a visiting research assistant at Harvard University's Sleep Lab. We also discuss how to get involved in research in the department and find your own international internship. Show notes: If you'd like to learn more about sleep research at Harvard you can check out … Continue reading The Big 5 Season 2 Episode 5: Dominik Polasek on Studying Sleep at Harvard University

On this special Halloween episode, Claire Murphy-Morgan tells us about the links between art and psychology, treating eating disorders remotely, and the online communities that are discussing parapsychology. We talk all things parapsychology: ghosts, near-death experiences, and spooky Wikipedia editors. Show notes: If you'd like to keep up with the Remote Healthcare for Eating Disorders … Continue reading The Big 5 Season 2 Episode 5: Eating disorder and parapsychology communities online with Claire Murphy-Morgan

On this episode, Anna Maughan tells us about her work on conspiracy theories and how emotions may play a role in who is susceptible to them. We also discuss the possible negative effects of medical conspiracy theories. Show notes: You can follow Anna's work on Twitter @annafmaughan. You can read one of Anna's papers on … Continue reading The Big 5 with Anna Maughan on Medical Conspiracy Theories

On this episode Connor Leslie tells us about her work on agression detection from both an evolutionary and forensic psychology perspective. Connor discusses the importance of detecting agression for preventing violence. Look out for those aggressive behaviors and try to avoid them on the International Day of Non-violence! #internationaldayofnonviolence Show notes: To follow Connor's research … Continue reading The Big 5 Season 2 Episode 2 with Connor Leslie

On this episode Charl Emmerson, PhD student at Northumbria, tells us about her research on workplace bullying. Charl will be attending the 13th Internation Association of Workplace Bullying Conference in San Diego, California to share her work with fellow researchers, but you can get a sneak peak in this episode Charl discusses what can cause … Continue reading The Big 5 Season 2 Episode 1: Charl Emmerson on Workplace Bullying

On this episode of The Big 5, Dr. Micheal Smith tells us about a simple way to reduce stress: writing about a positive event in our lives. This episode is our second installment in honor of Stress Awareness Month. Show notes: Want to read more about Micheal's research? You can find more about him on … Continue reading The Big 5 Episode 16: Dr. Micheal Smith "I sometimes feel stressed in my day to day life. What can I do about it?"

On this episode of the Big 5, Professor Mark Wetherell takes us on a freefalling tour de stress through bears, skydiving, multitasking, and helicopter rescue! We discuss how stress enters the body, the benefits and drawbacks of stress, and how worrying about jumping out of a plane is worse than actually jumping out of one. … Continue reading The Big 5 Episode 15: Dr. Mark Wetherell "We know that we all get stressed, but actually understanding how and when it happens is really important"

On this episode of The Big 5, Dr. Jenny Paterson tells us about how Harry and Meghan are changing attitudes about interracial couples! From the royal wedding to baby Archie and Megxit, Jenny takes us through the ways in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reduced prejudice. We also discuss the importance of … Continue reading The Big 5 Episode 14: Dr. Jenny Paterson " Meghan and Harry being in the media had the power to reduce prejudice"

In this episode, student Annabelle Noble, tells us about what it was like to do a paid internship. We talk about the skills she developed and the final work she produced which is currently influencing research practice at Northumbria University. She also gives some great advice to other students about how to make the most … Continue reading The Big 5 Episode 13: Annabelle Noble "[an internship] just gives you some really good employability skills." (paid internships)