"This imperfect part of truth:" The Godwits Fly, Childhood Memory and Fiction.

Having completed the final version of The Godwits Fly and sent it away to be published, Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde)[i] wrote to John A. Lee that she had finished “the camouflaged autobiographical novel and posted it—It will have to go as fiction and it’s only twenty-one years of a life […] But I’ve got a good deal into it that I really wanted to.”[ii]The Godwits Fly had its origins in the therapeutic autobiographical writing that she was encouraged to undertake at the Auckland Mental Hospital, where she was a voluntary patient from June 1933 until early 1937. She recorded in her journal her decision to write a “faintly autobiographical novel called ‘The Godwits Fly’” on March 2nd, 1935.[iii] Over the two years and several drafts that intercede between this journal entry and her letter to John A. Lee, the novel became rather more than “faintly autobiographical.”[iv] [i] As much as possible, I have tried to use “Robin Hyde” to refer to Iris Wilkinson in her authorial persona. This distinction is sometimes difficult, and may seem artificial, but is important for a paper where a life that was lived is being compared with its fictionalised equivalent and the process of achieving that end. [ii] Letter from Iris Wilkinson to John A. Lee, 2 April, 1937, Lee Collection, Auckland Public Library (quoted in Patrick Sandbrook, “Robin Hyde: A Writer at Work,” (Ph.D. thesis, Massey University, 1985), 13). [iii] Mary Edmond-Paul, Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2011), 217. [iv] See Sandbrook’s introduction to The Godwits Fly, pp. xvii–xxii, for an account of Hyde’s work on the novel and the conditions under which it was produced

Undergraduate research training and employability

Formal opportunities for Psychology undergraduates to carry out research training are starting to emerge. In spite of the fact that such training programmes would have a high authentic learning component little is known of undergraduate expectations and attitudes towards such programmes. Here 108 undergraduate participants were surveyed in two experiments that recorded both the prospective and retrospective attitudes towards research training participation. Questionnaires and focus groups were employed and the data were triangulated together to converge on an understanding of student expectations towards authentic learning programmes. It was found that while Psychology undergraduates expect to be trained in contemporary research techniques it is the sense of community development that is the prime motivator for participation. These findings are placed within the context of increasing the employability profile of the undergraduate cohort

"This imperfect part of truth:" The Godwits Fly, Childhood Memory and Fiction.

Having completed the final version of The Godwits Fly and sent it away to be published, Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde)[i] wrote to John A. Lee that she had finished “the camouflaged autobiographical novel and posted it—It will have to go as fiction and it’s only twenty-one years of a life […] But I’ve got a good deal into it that I really wanted to.”[ii]The Godwits Fly had its origins in the therapeutic autobiographical writing that she was encouraged to undertake at the Auckland Mental Hospital, where she was a voluntary patient from June 1933 until early 1937. She recorded in her journal her decision to write a “faintly autobiographical novel called ‘The Godwits Fly’” on March 2nd, 1935.[iii] Over the two years and several drafts that intercede between this journal entry and her letter to John A. Lee, the novel became rather more than “faintly autobiographical.”[iv] [i] As much as possible, I have tried to use “Robin Hyde” to refer to Iris Wilkinson in her authorial persona. This distinction is sometimes difficult, and may seem artificial, but is important for a paper where a life that was lived is being compared with its fictionalised equivalent and the process of achieving that end. [ii] Letter from Iris Wilkinson to John A. Lee, 2 April, 1937, Lee Collection, Auckland Public Library (quoted in Patrick Sandbrook, “Robin Hyde: A Writer at Work,” (Ph.D. thesis, Massey University, 1985), 13). [iii] Mary Edmond-Paul, Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2011), 217. [iv] See Sandbrook’s introduction to The Godwits Fly, pp. xvii–xxii, for an account of Hyde’s work on the novel and the conditions under which it was produced

Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University

Widening participation, through diversity and inclusion, has become a major goal to achieve in UK Higher Education, with the potential of the most able, rather than simply the socially advantaged, attending university. Addressing challenges of racism and religiously motivated hate incidents in universities is important if we are to provide an educational environment in which all can feel safe to learn. The current study is a survey investigation and one of the very largest of its kind in the UK. The focus is on the extent of hate crime incidents and patterns of reporting the incidents by students and staff at a university in the North East of England. All staff and students were invited to take part in the anonymous survey, generating a sample of 2,265 respondents. Of those who responded, 27% indicated that they had experienced a hate incident, and only 20% of those who had experienced an incident also reported it. The survey results, counterintuitively, and for some no doubt controversially, showed relatively small differences in the patterns of experiencing hate incidents motivated by race or religion across different subgroups in the sample. Students and staff with disabilities were the group most likely to report experiencing hate crime, both within and outside the university. The findings have research and policy implications. There is a need for establishing clear institutional policies on reporting pathways and procedures, maintaining an effective system for information, help, support, and advice

The Subset View of Realization: Five Problems

The Subset View of realization, though it has some attractive advantages, also has several problems. In particular, there are five main problems that have emerged in the literature: Double-Counting, The Part/Whole Problem, The “No Addition of Being” Problem, The Problem of Projectibility, and the Problem of Spurious Kinds. Each is reviewed here, along with solutions (or partial solutions) to them. Taking these problems seriously constrains the form that a Subset view can take, and thus limits the kinds of relations that can fulfill the realization relation on this view

Measuring IPDE-SQ personality disorder prevalence in pre-sentence and early-stage prison populations, with sub-type estimates

Understanding the prevalence and type of personality disorder within prison systems allows for the effective targeting of resources to implement strategies to alleviate symptoms, manage behaviour and attempt to reduce re-offending. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of personality disorder (PD) traits within a local urban high-turnover adult male prison with a remand/recently sentenced population in London, UK. The International Personality Disorder Examination–Screening Questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) self-administered questionnaire (ICD-10 version) was completed by 283 prisoners (42% completion rate). 77% of respondents reached the threshold for one or more PDs. The most common PD types were Paranoid PD (44.5%), Anankastic PD (40.3%), Schizoid PD (35%) and Dissocial PD (25.8%). These results confirm and extend existing knowledge regarding the prevalence of PD in prison populations into a high-turnover, urban, remand population. The stark comparison with community samples indicates that a more equitable standard of service delivery within the criminal justice system, focussing on preventive and early intervention services, is now required

Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated with Child-to-Parent Aggression

This study examined the relations between callous-unemotional traits and perpetration of aggression toward parents in two separate studies, while also considering motivation for aggression and parenting styles experienced among young people. Study 1 involved 60 parents of children aged between 11 and 17 years old. The online study found high callous-unemotional traits, as reported by parents, to be associated with aggression toward both parents. Both types of motivation (proactive and reactive, as reported by parents) were associated with aggression toward parents. Study 2 involved 42 youths from an alternative education sample (between 11 and 16 years old). Youths with higher self-reported callous-unemotional traits reported more aggression toward both parents. Both studies, which had different reporters and different samples, showed youths with higher callous-unemotional traits were more aggressive toward their parents. In discussing the results, we note the importance of including callous-unemotional traits in future research on parentdirected aggression and in studies on domestic violence more broadly