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Obituaries
It is with great sadness that we record the following deaths:
Anne Treisman, February 2018. Anne was a recipient of the EPS Frederic Bartlett Prize award in 1987. Her Bartlett lecture can be found here:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724988843000104
Peter Venables, April 2017. Peter was elected and served as Honorary Secretary of the EPS in 1965-1967 and President of the EPS in 1969-1970.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, December 2016. Annette was a recipient of the EPS Frederic Bartlett Prize award in 2012.
Anyone interested in writing an obituary in respect of any of the above, for the website/newsletter is welcome to contact the Hon Secretary for more details.
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
If you want to join the mailing list for the Society for Improving Psychological Science (SIPS) you can follow this link: http://improvingpsych.org/ by copying and pasting into your browser.
Online resource for speakers
A new outreach/public engagement initiative that can be accessed by, and for, psychologists www.speakezee.org. The resource allows researchers to identify their areas of expertise and background.
Update to journal format
QJEP has made changes to the existing format of two types of journal article – comments and book reviews.
First, comments will be allowed to alleviate the problem that readers have few options to raise their concerns (or support) about an article published in QJEP. Comments are short (1000 words at most), deal with articles published in QJEP or with general issues faced by psychological researchers, and will be published at the end of an issue. Normally they will not go to reviewers but be decided upon at the Editorial level. Given our experiences at the Meetings of the Experimental Psychology Society, it is our conviction that such commentaries can become a vital and very informative part of the journal.
We also discovered that many readers miss the Book Reviews section, which had to be dropped a few years ago because the publication lag was becoming too long. Now that the journal has many more pages (and could further extend if needed), there is an opportunity to revitalise that part. Philip Quinlan kindly accepted to be the new Book Review Editor of the journal and readers are invited to send him suggestion of must-be-reviewed books. More importantly, readers who want to help making this section a success, are invited to send in their names as possible reviewers (please also include your subjects of expertise/interest).
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