Pat Harvey (on behalf of Peter Harvey and Dave Pilgrim) posts…
At this stage in the life of the BPSWatch blog it has more than 80 posts with a primary focus on the governance, policy and ideological bias of the regime which runs the British Psychological Society. It remains our view, as three members with more than 150 years of shared membership of the society and lifelong careers in psychology, that the abject failings of the BPS as a professional body and learned society remain. The BPS remains a captured poor resource for psychologists
All that we can have claimed to do via this blog is to have raised the awareness of some members. Beyond that, we have extended our own networks in different directions and come into contact with ardently engaged people we did not know before. One of us is now lead for psychological support and research in Whistleblowers UK which is a political campaign for the Office of the Whistleblower. Another has engaged with people and issues of concern around gender services, complaints procedures, Family Courts and the effects of questionable expert witness testimony. The third has edited yet another of his many published books and is in the process of authoring a further critical examination of a subject on which the BPS has a parlous record.
This blog contains much information for the record and we want it to continue in an effective way. One of our concerns has been that the many discussions we now have with our extended networks about psychologically relevant issues produces ideas that need to be “out there”. They are currently suppressed due to what I have called “stifling and censorious latter-day orthodoxy of public and professional bodies on issues such as gender, EDI and diagnostic self-ID”. These are issues to which psychology is central, but where research and debate has become vigorously curtailed, policed and censored. That this problem is insidious and pervasive in organisations way beyond the BPS is evident from the UCL report (published 2 July 2025) Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender Report 2: Barriers to research on sex and gender https://www.sullivanreview.uk/barriers.pdf
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