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Dr Rosalyn Collings, the new Chair of the BPS Ethics Committee sets out her vision and hopes for the future.
View resultPlease welcome Roger Paxton, Chair of the BPS Ethics Committee, with this guest article on the developing role of ethics in psychology.
View resultThis Code of Ethics is designed to guide all members of the British Psychological Society in their day-to-day professional conduct.
View resultThis document has been designed to provide a framework for good practice in the teaching and assessment of ethical competence in psychology education.
View resultGuidance on how to proceed if the researcher is seeking an ethics review.
View resultThis code lays out a set of general principles that are applicable to all research contexts and which are intended to cover all research with human participants.
View resultThis document presents guidance on how the code may be interpreted in the context of Internet-mediated research (IMR) and what special considerations may apply.
View resultThe following article has been put together by Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, Lead Policy Advisor for the British Psychological Society.
View resultThe first edition of these guidelines was produced in response to the rapidly changing pattern of service delivery for educational psychology services (EPSs). Until this time the vast majority of educational psychologists (EPs) were employed by local authorities to deliver psychological services to all children and young people within a geographical area.
View resultIan MacRae, a member of the BPS’s Division of Occupational Psychology and Research Board, offers a practical guide for psychologists using or considering generative AI.
View resultThe purpose of this guidance is to support members to use social media appropriately.
View result25 October 2022
The BPS is pleased to announce Dr Roz Collings as the new chair of the Ethics Committee.
01 November 2024
The BPS Student Committee is currently recruiting new members to join the committee in November 2024!
05 October 2023
The BPS Student Committee is currently recruiting new members to join the committee in November 2023.
25 June 2021
We have begun a review of our member conduct rules and processes for managing complaints.
26 February 2025
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Member Board acts as a strategic advisory board, focussing on member strategies and initiatives to enhance the society’s member value proposition and ensure the membership benefits and services are attractive to all membership grades.
25 July 2024
The public consultation period for feedback on the draft Undergraduate, Conversion and Integrated Masters Accreditation Standards is now open.
04 May 2021
Following a detailed process under our member conduct rules, the society has today confirmed that the President Elect of the BPS, Professor Nigel MacLennan, has been expelled from membership for repeatedly breaching our member conduct rules.
18 December 2024
Recognising the amazing work that BPS members have done in 2024.
31 January 2024
Check out the latest newsletter from the Division of Neuropsychology.
30 September 2024
Welcome to the September edition of DCP In Focus.
30 January 2025
The Practice Board is looking to appoint a new member.
04 November 2016
In their 'Opinion' piece, Sergio Della Sala and Roberto Cubelli argue that NHS ethics committees hamper ethics.
04 October 2022
Ella Rhodes speaks with Dr Roz Collings, who recently took up the helm of the British Psychological Society’s Ethics Committee.
09 January 2017
A selection of letters in response to 'Entangled in an ethical maze'.
24 April 2019
An appreciation from Richard Kwiatkowski, a former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Ethics Committee, of the role she played in the Code of Ethics and Conduct.
11 May 2021
Ella Rhodes reports on Ethics Committee developments.
07 May 2020
New eLearning course from the British Psychological Society.
18 July 2002
Sue Gardner (Ethics Committee), Pam Briggs and Camilla Herbert (Press Committee) seek your views on new challenges facing psychologists in the media.
24 January 2012
The first of a new series inviting discussion and debate on an ethical dilemma.
17 August 2015
Ella Rhodes reports from a discussion at the British Psychological Society’s Ethics Committee.
18 November 2000
Stephen E. G. Lea introduces the Society’s new guidelines for psychologists working with animals.
09 August 2017
Helen Cassaday poses an ethical dilemma, provides her view and seeks responses.
Series: Social Psychological Review Volume: 25 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-07-2023
Author(s): Tadeusz Jones
View Getting through the NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC) reviewSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 234
Date of Publication: 01-06-2012
Author(s): Catherine Dooley, David Pilgrim
View DCP Update Implications of the HPC for professional issues within clinical psychology: Updates from the PSU and the Ethics CommitteeSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 212
Date of Publication: 01-08-2010
Author(s): Paul Moloney, Biza Stenfert Kroese, Simon Russon, Chris Jones
View The ethics of ethical research committees: Clinical psychology trainees’ experiences of seeking ethical approval for their researchSeries: Health Psychology Update Volume: 17 Issue: 3
Date of Publication: 01-01-2008
Author(s): Tony Wainwright
View On the Ethics CommitteeSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 5
Date of Publication: 01-10-1986
Author(s): Fraser Watts
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