Professor Julie Hulme

@juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology Education at Nottingham Trent University; Chartered Psychologist; National Teaching Fellow; fascinated by all things inclusive in higher education. Find me at https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/julie-hulme

I've been working on #Decolonising for years; like many #Psychology academics I learned a lot from Henrich et al's concept of WEIRDness (Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic). But language moves on & this is a great article on rethinking WEIRD: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/one-...

Rethinking 'WEIRD': It's Time for a Change

If we want to reduce Western bias in psychology, we should stop labeling people as WEIRD or non-WEIRD.

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"Rather than the myriad ‘social skills’ interventions that encourage autistic people to learn non-autistic social norms, it is time to consider how non-autistic people can meet autistic people half-way." #ActuallyAutistic #autism #disability

Professor Julie Hulme@juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry tells us everything we need to know about current thinking in #autism research. Concise, accessible & powerful. Read it if you think autism = social deficits! #DoubleEmpathyProblem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An excellent letter from @cjcrompton.bsky.social on the profound challenge that the double empathy problem poses to how autism is described and researched.

Professor Julie Hulme@juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry tells us everything we need to know about current thinking in #autism research. Concise, accessible & powerful. Read it if you think autism = social deficits! #DoubleEmpathyProblem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Episode 8 of Mempathy is out! We explore why people with memory loss frequently repeat the same stories and how best to respond. We also look at ways to harness this tendency to boost old and new memories. Find it here or on usual podcast platforms: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-494xk-...

Episode 8: Repeating the same stories

What do you do when someone tells the same story over and over again, and why does it happen? This episode discusses the tendency for repetition in people with memory loss, how it can get difficult, b...

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