PsychBites

About PsychBites

PsychBites is the podcast for education professionals that aims to bridge the gap between educational psychology research and day-to-day practice with children and young people. Hosted by trainee educational psychologists Laura Chapman, Ellyn Berman-Jones and Lauren Bratton, each episode features a guest educational psychologist discussing their specialist area of research in a bite-size, digestible way that offers food for thought for all professionals working in education. You can find us at: Instagram: psychbitespod (https://instagram.com/psychbitespod?igshid=MXE0cm01NHFneWVlMA==) X / Twitter: @psychbitespod (https://twitter.com/PsychBitesPod) LinkedIn: psychbites-podcast (https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychbites-podcast) Bluesky: @psychbites.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/psychbites.bsky.social)

Publisher

Laura Chapman, Ellyn Berman-Jones and Lauren Bratton

Category

education · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Oct 2023

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Ep.34 The Experiences of Education for Adolescents with Narcolepsy - Dr Ellyn Berman-Jones

   This week we are joined by Dr Ellyn Berman-Jones; Ellyn talks to us about how adolescents living with narcolepsy experience and make sense of their education. She discusses how her research explored the hidden efforts of working against tiredness to stay engaged in school, navigating misunderstanding from others, and finding moments of relational safety and support. Ellyn reflects on how these experiences shape young people’s sense of identity and their thoughts about the future, ...

2. 

   11 Feb 2026

   Ep.33 Co-Creating Comprehensive Sex Education in Youth Justice - Dr Daisy Bloor and Dr Rai Fayette

   This week we are joined by Dr Daisy Bloor and her research supervisor, Dr Rai Fayatte. Daisy and Rai talk to us about Daisy’s work, which aimed to collaboratively develop a guidebook to support young people displaying sexually harmful behaviours within a youth justice setting. Daisy explores the possible underpinnings of these behaviours and shares how she co-created a guidebook with a Youth Justice Service (YJS) to help caregivers deliver comprehensive sex education both within the YJS...

3. 

   14 Jan 2026

   Ep.32 Video Games and Dyslexia - Dr Hannah Lewis

   This week we are joined by Dr Hannah Lewis; Hannah talks to us about the innovative use of video game technology in the classroom for children aged 7–11 with dyslexia. Hannah discusses how her mixed methods research examined video games both as a tool to develop cognitive skills involved in reading and as a potential educational resource in schools. Her work highlights how interactive technologies can support learning, engagement, and wellbeing for children and young people with diverse...

Who has been a guest on PsychBites

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alex Brownhill
• Dr Jessica Pritchard
• Daisy Bloor
• Dr Mary Stanley-Duke
• Dr Catherine Jones

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

43 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

19

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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Does not typically book guests

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