Ethics Committee

Dr Jasmine Hearn is an academic psychologist, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and Programme Director for MSc Health Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

She is a member of the Division of Health Psychology and her research focuses on the experience and communication of chronic pain in a range of long-term health conditions such as spinal cord injury and endometriosis.

Dr Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor in Organisational Psychology at Leeds University Business School.

Matthew has led a range of applied research projects and works with both public and private sector organisations to develop insights and strategies to support hybrid working, workplace design and sustainability.

He is an Expert Member of the UK Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee. 

Professor John Oates, Honorary BPS Fellow, is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Open University.

He has led two revisions of the BPS Code of Human Research Ethics, chairs the BPS Media Ethics Advisory Group and is a member of the BPS Challenging Histories group.

He is an advisor to the United Kingdom Research Integrity Office and an ethics reviewer for the European Commission.

Professor Jonathan Foster has worked internationally as a clinical neuropsychologist (UK, North America and Australia), including in a range of human ethics-related roles.

He has published extensively, with over 11,500 citations of his original works and an h-index of 49 (Google Scholar - February 2023).

He is especially interested in brain-related memory disorders and relevant clinical applications.

Dr Jasmine Hearn is an academic psychologist, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and Programme Director for MSc Health Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

She is a member of the Division of Health Psychology and her research focuses on the experience and communication of chronic pain in a range of long-term health conditions such as spinal cord injury and endometriosis.

Dr Rosalyn Collings is a chartered psychologist (academic) and consultant statistician (Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society). Roz is currently the Head of Psychology (Curriculum) at the University of Wolverhampton, and she has taught research methodology, statistics, and ethics for 20 years.

Roz has been involved in the design and inception of school/ departmental/ faculty ethics committees since 2010 and has served as a lay person on the UK Council for Psychotherapists ethics committee that involved the redesign and launch of their codes of ethics and conduct in 2018. Within her role of Head of Psychology Roz works on curriculum and assessment design and has received commendations for the integration of ethics teaching and assessment throughout the entire program at her previous institution.   

Roz has been passionate about ethics for all her academic career and spends her time generating discussion around ethical principles and encouraging others to see ethics as more than just a process. She is particularly interested in society learning from past mistakes, allowing a voice for "vulnerable groups" within research and the ethical academy. 

Professor Elizabeth Hurren is Chair of Modern History at the University of Leicester. Elizabeth is an international expert on a history of the body, sex and science, having published extensively on body disputes where the poorest in society have been discriminated in the past by the medical sciences.

Her recent research explores infringements of medical ethics and a lack of informed consent, for the socially disadvantaged discriminated against by age, ethnic origin, gender, and disability – findings available on Open Access in her latest Cambridge University book (2021).

Her publication profile includes 5 books, (one short-listed for the British Medical Association's Book of the Year Prize in 2015) and 30+ articles of an international standing featuring issues of race, sexuality and gender.   

Marius Turda is Professor and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University. He is the founding director of the Cantemir Institute at the University of Oxford (2012-13), founder of the Working Group in the History of Race and Eugenics (est. 2006), and founder of the Centre for the History of Eugenics and Racism in Cluj (est. 2020).

His most recent books include Teleology and Modernity (2019); Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2019); Historicizing Race (2018); The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1944: Texts and Commentaries (2016); Eugenics and Nation in Early Twentieth Century Hungary (2014); Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective, 1860-1940 (2014); Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and beyond (2013).

He is the General Editor of Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Race, published in 6 volumes in 2021.  Between 2018 and 2022, he curated three exhibitions on eugenics and was one of the main consultants for the acclaimed BBC documentary 'Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal' (2019).   

Anthony Pelosi is a consultant psychiatrist who currently specialises in the inpatient treatment of people with severe and extreme eating disorders.  He is an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow.

He has a longstanding interest in application of the principles and methods of epidemiology to the organisation of psychiatric services.

He also has an interest in how universities, professional regulators, and academic journals deal with situations where there is prima facie evidence of scientific misconduct within published research.  

Tony Wainwright is a clinical psychologist and deputy academic director at the University of Exeter Clinical Psychology training programme. He has recently co-edited a book on human rights education for psychologists and is a member of the steering group of the Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights.

He has a long-standing interest in the role psychology has played in protecting human rights and also the part they have played in human rights violations. He co-edited a special issue of the European Psychologist on psychology and human rights. 

He is the immediate past chair of the British Psychological Society Climate and Environmental Crisis Steering group and has been a long-standing campaigner to bring the issue of climate change to public and professional attention. He is a past chair of the BPS Ethics Committee and a recent past member of its steering group on psychology and human rights.  He teaches, among other things, on human rights, ethics, leadership, prevention and public health. 

John Hall trained as a clinical psychologist at Leeds, followed by a PhD there. From 1980 he was Head Clinical Psychologist for Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust, and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Oxford University.

From 2002 he was both part-time Professor of Mental Health at Oxford Brookes University, and part-time Research Director of the Health and Social Care Advisory Service, London, where he conducted independent reviews of mental health services.   

Since 2002 he has developed research interests in the histories of both applied psychology and mental health, and completed a MA in Medical History, and was (with David Pilgrim and Graham Turpin) the lead editor for the first history of clinical psychology in Britain, published in 2015.

He has been a committee member of the BPS History and Philosophy of Psychology Section, and has recently joined the committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists History of Psychiatry Section. He has a particular interest in critical history, and in the changing functions and roles of different mental health practitioners. 

Professor John Oates is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology, Open University. Member of British Psychological Society Ethics Committee, lead for BPS Code of Human Research Ethics, Media Ethics Advisory Group and BPS guidelines Psychology in Media Productions.

He established Open University Research Ethics Committee, chairing it for seven years, and was Council Trustee of the Association for Research Ethics. Lead for Research Ethics Support and Review national guidance on ethics review with United Kingdom Integrity Office and ARMA.

With colleagues from the Academy of Social Sciences Research Ethics Group of Fellows, co-organised a symposia and conferences series with UK learned societies towards universal ethics principles now adopted by the Academy. Member of the Economic and Social Research Council ethics advisory group for the Framework for Research Ethics launched in 2016. Advisor to the United Kingdom Research Integrity Office, ethics reviewer for the European Research Council. http://www.open.ac.uk/people/jmo2 

Simon Goodson is a principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. He has been actively involved with the development of psychology teaching and learning for a number of years.

He is currently the Chair of the Undergraduate Education Committee for the BPS, which is responsible for providing the standards of accreditation of Undergraduate and Master's Conversion courses, both national and international. He is the current chair of the QAA review panel for the psychology Benchmark Statement and has contributed to previous revisions.  

He is a past chair of the Division of Teachers and Researchers in Psychology and the BPS Ethics committee and contributed to the BPS Code of Human Research Ethics. 

Jolel is a Health Psychologist and currently a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. 

He is a British-born Bangladeshi and a follower of Islam who left high school with 3C's from his secondary education but later embarked on a journey to become a first-generation student with a BSc in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, MSc in Health Psychology, and a PhD in Applied Psychology from the University of Bedfordshire. 

In 2014 he co-founded a mental health charity 'Our Minds Matter which provides psycho-education to faith communities and helps shape local health services. In 2019 he started a podcast 'Psychology Cast' and won 'I'm a scientist get me out of here' sponsored by the British Psychological Society. 

He completed his second Doctorate qualification in Health Psychology and completed his Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2022. He has worked in a range of settings such as; voluntary, statutory, public and private sectors and settings; prison service, public health commissioning, sexual health screening, weight management, and NHS Health Checks to name a few.

He likes to speak and learn from people who are seeking the truth of this complex and fascinating world. Jolel believes there are many lenses through which the world can be looked upon and this is well documented in the diverse field of Psychology. He now spends his time sharing his knowledge, experience and skills with the students he teaches and the peers he works with.

Jolel is a board member of the BPS for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and continues his effort in the industry by advocating for access to health and education.

Philip Botterill is a retired practitioner psychologist and teacher. His most recent post was that of a Senior Educational Psychologist in Birmingham. As a mainstream school teacher and as a psychologist his practice has emphasised working preventatively with systems that are universally used i.e., early years, primary and secondary education.

He has managed and worked in services provided by multi-cultural and multi-ethnic to multi-cultural and multi-ethnic populations. As a teacher, he was in the vanguard of the local implementation of the 1981 Education Act, challenging the separation of children from their peers when separated on the basis of early headline diagnoses/labelling.

As an Educational Psychologist, he gave formal individual case psychological advice in a variety of local settings. Philip was also seconded to develop a multi-professional team as part of a local DFE B.E.S.T project. He has had a post in a Community Forensic Psychology Service, providing expert witness testimony to the courts and consulting to family centres. He has been a member of a regional children's hospital ethics group and a local health authority CAMHS steering group.

He led a service project to revisit and formulate approaches to inclusion and equal opportunities and led local developments of professional peer supervision and reference/review of ethics.

In the early 2000s, as an honorary lecturer to the University of Birmingham, Philip pioneered LGBT+ needs training to an EP training course as part of a 'vulnerable young people, theme. Through times of personal challenge, as a gay man before, during and after Clause 28, he has navigated a professional route. 

In the 1990s he contributed to a lively open correspondence in 'The Psychologist' on the beginnings of what is now the Psychology of Sexualities section as well as direct correspondence with the BPS on the barriers to the inclusion of sexual orientation in the BPS Equal Opportunities Statements. 

In 1997 Philip provided, to a large local authority, an internal paper 'Minority Sexuality and Education'. This detailed the emerging evidence of poor mental health and poor educational outcomes for such young people and led to awareness training across services.

In addition to those of a Practitioner Psychologist, Dr Chamarette's specialisms span several areas.

An MA in history was followed by a PhD in history of science at The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King's College, London.

As a post-doc researcher, his interests are the history of psychology in Britain from the late nineteenth century onwards, with publications so far emphasising Francis Galton, Cyril Burt and the intersection of eugenics and psychometrics.

Serving on the committee of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the BPS since 2016, he represents this section on the Challenging Histories Group.

Other experience includes management (Member Chartered Management Institute), and teaching in higher and secondary education.