Editorial, Summer 2024
Editor Jon Sutton introduces the issue.
02 July 2024
This isn't one of the huge, themed July/August issues we've had in recent years… but that means you get variety (albeit with an Olympic thread).
It's a showcase of how Psychology matters, in contexts from the topical (the General Election, the Blood Inquiry, Gaza) to the everyday (secrets, the weather, failure, sport etc).
Psychologists are being recognised for that work (see p.9), including Professor Rowena Hill. She was the National Collaborative Lead for the COVID-19 Foresight Group, and we spoke for our website three times during the pandemic.
She told me those conversations 'allowed me to pause, reflect, understand what and how we were doing things, and check in with my profession. These punctuated that time and gave me a guardrail…' She praised the 'hard work you and others have done to craft and start conversations about how psychology looks when it walks off the paper/book/report'.
That's a recurring theme for us; in this issue, but much more on it to come in September.
Dr Jon Sutton
Managing Editor @psychmag
