Psychology News
WATE PGR winner is Lauren Wilkinson from Psychology. Congratulations!
Sleep videos and posters created by PS362 students
Students on the PS362 Sleep and Health module have created an impressive range of videos and infographic posters showcasing their knowledge of sleep science and their ability to communicate it to wider audiences. The overall quality of the work was outstanding, making it difficult to select just a couple examples to highlight.
Title: Weekend Catch-up Sleep [] [posterLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window]
Students: Flora Barros Azevedo, Ella Browne, Matilda Cutting, Edie Mellor, Ida Slavina
These outstanding submissions were selected for their depth of content, clarity of communication, high production quality, and their success in translating psychological research into engaging, accessible formats for wider audiences.
We warmly congratulate all of the students recognised here and extend our thanks to everyone who contributed such thoughtful and high-quality work.
PR Release: Mental defeat: the hidden experience fuelling daily suffering in chronic pain
In this study, researchers used an innovative real-time sampling method to capture these fluctuations, analysing data from 137 adults living with chronic non-cancer pain. Participants reported their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours three times a day over two separate weeks.
Professor Nicole Tang, Department of Psychology, University of 桃色视频 and first author, said: 鈥淧ain is not something that can simply be taken away, it is someone鈥檚 reality. But how people relate to their pain, and the meaning they attach to it, can add an extra layer of distress that we might be able target with the right interventions.鈥�
Professor Dieter Wolke and Dr Tanya Lereya's paper on bullying features as the most cited paper of the 2010s in Archives of Disease and Childhood 100th Anniversary list of most influential papers
The Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), the leading publication in Child Health in the UK by the British Medical Association celebrates the 100th Anniversary. As of 2025, ADC has published over 38000 documents. Celebrating this anniversary - they have looked back at the most influential papers over the decades by pointing out the most cited articles of the main ADC edition in every decade.
Dieter Wolke is pleased that the ADC paper, co-authored with then postdoc Dr Tanya Lereya was the most cited in the 2010s. The paper focussed on the long term effects of bullying and the implications for public health. Doctors need to ask about bullying and consider it in their practice!
The full citation is: . the paper is open access!
Furthermore, another research paper with Dieter's collaborators then in Basel made it in the top 5 most cited by ADC in the 2010s: . Since completing his PhD thesis Dieter has been researching and lecturing on the long term effects of crying, feeding and sleeping problems in infancy and toddlerhood and their treatment.