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Asked by anon-215665 to Laura, Kathryn, Ian, Chris, Bogdana, Alex on 18 Jun 2019.
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Laura Fisk answered on 18 Jun 2019:
Over the past frew years I’ve realised that it can often be the really subtle hard-to-notice things that make some of the biggest differences. In my current role, anyone and everyone can book in to see me, when they want, for whatever reason they want. I think of it as being massively democratic – it’s not me as a clinician deciding what the person does and doesn;t need and what they do and don’t get to have – it’s them. That’s unusual, and, I think, awesome.
I terestingly, one of the weird (paradoxical) benefits of this is that people have the freedom not to come to seek help. Because they can come, they often dont need to – because it’s not like it’s rationed, or they’re being told that ‘if you don’t take this now you’ll never get it’… So people get to decide for themselves, and so they have a bigger sense of ‘agency’ (the sense of being able to make meaningful decisions, choices, actions). That’s actually a really important part of mental wellbeing – and a bit that we massively overlook all the time.
So probably that – call it ’empowering’ (not a massive fan of that word), but it’s definitely there!
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Ian Cookson answered on 18 Jun 2019:
Getting more people to walk, cycle or use public transport. This would remove cars from the roads, meaning less pollution.
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Chris Fullwood answered on 18 Jun 2019:
It’s hard to say, but probably some of the work we’ve been doing on using Virtual Reality to help people overcome their phobias. Phobias can be pretty crippling for people and can have such a negative impact on how they live their day to day lives, so if we can find ways to use technology to help cure them then that would be really amazing
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Alex Lloyd answered on 18 Jun 2019:
I hope that in the future I will be able to work to change how we work with young people who commit crime to help them make better choices. I would like to use psychology to help us create interventions to rehabilitate young people into the community, rather than sending them to prison which can make things worse for them. So, I hope the part of my work that will make the most difference hasn’t even happened yet!
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Bogdana Huma answered on 19 Jun 2019:
I think (hope) it will be the research that I’m doing on ‘cold’ calling in which I examine the strategies salespeople use to convert potential clients into actual clients. I’m hoping this research will shed light on how we understand persuasion and its relationship with resistance.
Most of what we know about persuasion comes from experimental laboratory research which is often criticised for being artificial. Experimental tasks (for example asking participants to read a persuasive message and then fill out a questionnaire) are performed in a setting which only partly simulates real life (the participants reading the message might not be given an opportunity to argue back, the way we get in ‘cold’ calls). So, by examining ‘cold’ calls, we can study how persuader and target (here salesperson and potential client) interact – which gives us a different picture of persuasion, one in which the target of persuasion also plays an active role.
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