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🎉 Another festive treat from the UH APRG team! 🎉 This month, Prof. Joanna R. Adler has been reflecting on the psychological benefits and challenges of AI in Higher Education. With the support of AI tools, she’s taken a creative approach to curate and craft an infographic, which is featured in our latest blog. 🌟 Explore the step-by-step process she followed and understand more on how AI can transform learning environments (for good or ill). 📖 Check out the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eVD7in5r Please let us know your thoughts on the roles of AI in Higher education—opportunity or challenge and what should psychologists have to say about it all? 💬👇

A 2021 research publication co-authored by a number of researchers within the Department of Psychology, Sport and Geography at University of Hertfordshire has formed part of the evidence base for the new: "Clinical practice guidelines on autism spectrum disorder in children and adolescents in Singapore" The original article, "Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people on the autism spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis", was co-authored by Professor Shivani Sharma (now at Aston University), Senior Lecturer Dr Abigail Hucker, MSc Clinical Psychology graduates Terry Matthews and Dominique Grohmann, and Senior Research Fellow Dr Keith Sullivan. Link to the new guidelines: https://lnkd.in/eAFBwXVg Link to the original publication: https://lnkd.in/eYZeztGW

See the video below for more info on Senior Lecturer in Sports Development Dr Dr Christopher Brown’s Disability Sport Info project ⬇️⬇️

This week, Senior Lecturer in Sports Development, Dr Christopher Brown, delivered a talk on the development and perceptions of the Paralympics for University of Hertfordshire staff and students as part of Disability History Month. Chris gave insight into the Paralympics' history, and how the Paralympics impacts advancing disability rights. You can read more about Chris' work in disability sport here: https://lnkd.in/e8Xse-sJ

📣 New APRG blog post: Empowering young people: improving mental health through physical activity This post considers the findings of APRG member Dr Han (Hannah) Newman and CRIPACC colleague Dr Louca-Mai Brady’s 2022 evaluation of Watford FC's Community Sports & Education Trust’s Empower programme. The Empower programme, funded by Comic Relief, is a free six-month project that aims to improve young people’s mental health using physical activity. 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/eNxe6BmY Watford Football Club UH Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports

📣 New publication in Nutritional Neuroscience: ‘Nutrient intake and food selectivity in children with Tourette syndrome’ Co-authored by CRePS members Dr Bobbie Smith & Dr Amanda Ludlow with Herts colleague Dr Katerina Vafeiadou, MSc PhD RNutr. Available open access here: https://lnkd.in/e3884YMe

Great to see the impact of former Herts PhD student Dr George Bountakis’ research in rhythm in Judo - being applied in Iceland! See the post below for details ⬇️⬇️

📣 Job vacancy: Policy & Community Engagement Officer (Public Health) - Research & Enterprise Services at University of Hertfordshire. This role will be focused on knowledge mobilisation of all the University's public health related work, including projects within our PHAB Lab such as PHIRST and Wrapped (see PHAB Lab info here: https://lnkd.in/e2j8cmWe). Closing date: 5th December 2024 🔗 Job details: https://lnkd.in/eBU6JWAe

📣 New publication: 'Exploring identity work of LGBT+ volunteers in sport through personas: the advocate, the community-minded and the sportsperson' Authored by Lecturer in Sports Business Management Dr Saara Lahti (PhD) and colleagues. Through topical life history interviews with sexually diverse sport volunteers, this work explored how LGBT+ volunteers construct, negotiate and manage their identities over time and through the use of personas. 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/eAdcwTXd

New APRG blog post! We asked OpenAI about objectivity and rigour, bringing together the APA and a constructivist stance. What did it have to say? Professor Joanna R. Adler asked a large language model to write something about rigour and objectivity using prompts that should make it draw on guidance and ideas from the American Psychological Association and the Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research, and on more than one notion of objectivity. We have deliberately not tweaked its output and we'd love to know what you think of the material it generated. 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/eupFzXqC Joanna also prompted Ideogram AI to produce the images accompanying this blog, which show a quote about the delusion of objectivity, by Heinz von Foerster, on a lecture theatre board.