Research and care under lockdown

Professor Sarah Crafter has published a short blog for her project ‘Children Caring on the Move’ (CCoM). In her blog she offers some personal reflections on the challenges of researching at the point of coronavirus lockdown and how ‘care’ was never more important. You can read Sarah's reflections here https://ccomstudy.com/index.php/2020/04/17/researching-during-coronavirus-lockdown/    

Practicing therapy online – a training course

As Covid-19 has forced counsellors and psychotherapists to transfer their practices on line, the Open University has produced a training course to assist them, authored by Dr Naomi Moller and Dr Andreas Vossler from the School. Therapists wanting to keep offering support to clients have had to swiftly transfer their practice online – yet few…

Covid stories? Participate in online research about lockdown

Psychologists are looking for participants in an online study on lockdown. You are invited to volunteer: We (Naomi Moller, Open University, UK and Virginia Braun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand) are conducting an online COVID-19 related story completion study. We are recruiting ‘general public’ participants resident in New Zealand and the UK, and would…

How to keep your plates spinning during lockdown

Why is working from home especially demanding? Dr Gemma Briggs from the School exposes the myth of multitasking and explains the cognitive processing involved when we try to combine different life activities. As I write this, I can hear my kids in the background speaking to their friends on Skype. In this strange time of…

Maintaining wellbeing while working from home: some practical strategies

In this post, Dr Hannah Evans, an Associate Lecturer in the School, offers timely advice on how to manage boundaries when you're using home as a workplace. Her suggestions are based on her PhD research on wellbeing and working from home. Working and living in the same space can merge the boundary between work and…