Judith Johnson PhD

Thalidomide: Nine things you didn’t know about the ‘poisonous pill’

Thalidomide: Nine things you didn’t know about the ‘poisonous pill’
Thalidomide was marketed to pregnant women as an antidote for morning sickness in the late 1950s, but the results were calamitous. An epidemic of babies born with various disabilities including limb, organ and neural damage… View Post

How to start a journal and beat the academic publishing racket

How to start a journal and beat the academic publishing racket
Academic publishing is a multi-billion pound industry, with profit margins reportedly higher than those of Apple, Google and Amazon. It has always struck me as a racket: academics sign over their work to private businesses… View Post

Ten tips for aspiring Clinical Psychologists

Ten tips for aspiring Clinical Psychologists
The competition to become a Clinical Psychologist is fierce. In the UK, the constituent parts of the training are a three-year undergraduate degree which is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a three-year… View Post

Seven ways to spot academic spam

Seven ways to spot academic spam
This week I read an editorial by Becker and colleagues (2019) which warned against the dangers of “online solicited content journals”. These predatory journals use academic spam emails to elicit contributions from researchers and are… View Post

Reflective practice groups for liaison psychiatry nurses: are they helpful? Our study

Reflective practice groups for liaison psychiatry nurses: are they helpful? Our study

Are reflective practice groups useful for liaison psychiatry nurses? We asked some nurses who had participated in them to find out.

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