Solent University Psychology

Summer 2024 graduates, the graduate outcomes survey finishes at the end of November. Graduate outcomes try and get in touch via email or phone call, you can complete it online and it takes around 10 minutes! Remember to check your junk emails

Summer 2024 graduates, it's your chance to shape the future by taking part in the graduate outcomes survey. it's open to you now, and graduate outcomes may be in touch via email or phone call, however you can complete it online yourselves and it should take around 10 minutes!

Hosted in The Spark at Southampton Solent University and is focusing on the importance of lived experience stories in recovery from trauma, in personal growth and in connecting communities. As well as talks, there are workshops and a looking after yourself reflection space.

Join us for the Storytelling Conference (with DClinPsych Southampton and Touch Network) on the 22nd October 2025!

Our colleagues in the Nursing department are looking to recruit a Senior Lecturer in Nursing. Find more details in the link below! recruitment.solent.ac.uk/vacancy/senior…

Come along, and if you're presenting bring friends and family and celebrate the hardworking our student have put in this year!

Check out what Sports and Exercise Psychology student Olivia Venditto has been up to! Supporting the British Army womens team. dailyecho.co.uk/news/25120566.…

This year we're proud to team up with @YellowDoorSol to celebrate IWD . This organisation has helped our students excel in their placements over the years giving them experience working with a charity doing very important work! #yellowdoorsupport #internationalwomensday #IWD

We have no shortage of inspirational women in our department both staff and students, some of whom are in this photo!

A huge thank you to @SFC_Foundation for hosting our first field trip for the new BSc Psychology (Level 5) Community Psychology module.

This weeks Psych reads is 'Consciousness and the Social Brain' by Michael Graziano, it looks consciousness and how the brain creates it.

As the Christmas break approaches, we'd like to take the chance to wish all of our students, staff, colleagues, alumni and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you all in 2025! 🙂

Our next Psych Screen is 'happy', which takes an in depth look at what makes people happy across different cultures and demographics, as well as interviews with leading scientists in happiness research!

This weeks Psych Reads is 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone' and offers an insight into the world of working within counselling/therapy.

Another year, another round of Rhod's Psychology biscuits, would I be lying If I said there were any left? 👀

December is overrated, come to RM141 for the student christmas social!

Toby is also currently working on his second publication that looks at the relationship between emotion and reward processing using a novel cognitive task. This is a follow on from his first publication that looked at the neural networks between emotion and reward processing.

Toby is a Demonstrator here at Solent having recently completed his MRes degree in 2023, he works within the psychology department, supporting teaching and supervising students! His background is in cognitive neuropsychology and looks forward to bringing this knowledge to Solent!

It's time for another Solent Psychology Spotlight, and today it's the turn of Toby Denholm-Smith!