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2018
Awarded by the British Psychological Society

BPS undergraduate research assistantship award winner

2017
Voted for by Students. Awarded by the Students Union, University of Greenwich

Inspirational Teacher of the Year. Winner. Student Led Teaching Awards

2016
Awarded by the Students Union, University of Greenwich

Supervisor of the Year Shortlist. Student Led Teaching Awards

Research Communicator of the Year Award

2010
School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich (prize of £3000 invested in research trip to University of Texas and University of Houston)

Early Career Research Award

2009
Award of £1000 for investment in course to develop field trips

Teaching innovation award for ‘Controversies in Mental Health and Mental Testing’

Wellbeing, developmental crisis and residential status in the year after graduating from higher education: a 12-month longitudinal study

Rethinking adult development: Introduction to the special issue

Personality change goals and plans as predictors of longitudinal trait change in young adults: A replication with an Iranian sample

Examining the phenomenon of quarter-life crisis through artificial intelligence and the language of Twitter

A dialectical approach to understanding the relationship between science and spirituality: The MODI model

Dr Oliver Robinson is a specialist in adult development psychology, based in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich. His research focuses on the relation between life transitions, crises and changes in personality and mental health. He has especially explored early-life crisis, mid-life crisis, later-life crisis and how people cope with transitioning at major periods of life changes. This includes those entering retirement and graduates entering employment for the first time.
  
Oliver’s other work includes the causes and extent of wellbeing, flourishing and authenticity in different adult age groups and cultures; and the developmental challenges of the first decade of adult life, often referred to as emerging adulthood. He is President of the European Society for Research and Adult Development. He is the author of Development through Adulthood, a textbook that is used across the UK, Europe and the USA.

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In search of the quarter-life crisis

More than half of millennials going through 'quarter-life crisis', research finds

More than half of millennials aged 25 to 35 claim to be suffering from a 'quarter-life crisis' over job and money woes

Six in ten young adults are suffering from a 'quarter-life crisis' as they struggle to make ends meet

Why a mid-life crisis may be good for you

Associate Professor in Psychology

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Despite the dominance of science and technology as forces that shape our lives, and the decline in religious attendance and affiliation in many Western countries, spirituality is becoming increasingly popular. Why is it that “spirituality-beyond-religion” is thriving in our time of science?

This talk presents an answer; it argues that science and spirituality have both separated from institutionalised religion over the modern era, to become independent yet overlapping domains of enquiry. The relationship between science and spirituality can be conceived dialectically via seven polarities. To embrace these polarities, and thus to integrate science and spirituality, brings about a “complex harmony” of head and heart, that is the basis for wisdom.

Dr Oliver Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, and the course coordinator for Adult Development and Mental Health. His research focuses on how identity, wellbeing and mental health are affected by major life transitions, crises and ageing processes during adulthood. Dr Robinson’s work has gained attention from the New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph and The Times.

Dr Oliver Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, and the course coordinator for Adult Development and Mental Health. His research focuses on how identity, wellbeing and mental health are affected by major life transitions, crises and ageing processes during adulthood. Dr Robinson’s work has gained attention from the New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph and The Times.

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Science and Spirituality - Dr Oliver Robinson, PhD

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If you log onto Facebook, you will see reams of photos of your friends doing happy and fulfilling things, and seemingly cruising through life. Yet below this surface of carefully-staged online impression management, life is a far rougher ride for many adults that they would be likely to admit. Indeed, in a nationwide survey, participants were asked to evaluate whether their life was in a major crisis. 22% said yes, 33% said maybe, and 45% said no.

So why is crisis so prevalent in adult life? Does it have a function, or are humans just inherently fragile? In this talk, Dr Oliver Robinson explores how crises can help you unlock new potential that would otherwise remain dormant, that they have a clear function in acting as a stimulus for seeking new information, making positive changes, and making new (sometimes hard) discoveries about ourselves and the reality around us.

Dr Oliver Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, and the course coordinator for Adult Development and Mental Health. His research focuses on how identity, wellbeing and mental health are affected by major life transitions, crises and ageing processes during adulthood. Dr Robinson’s work has gained attention from the New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph and The Times.

Links: 

Get our latest psychology lectures emailed to your inbox: http://bit.ly/new-talks  

Check out our next event: http://theweekenduniversity.com/events/  

Oliver’s books: https://amzn.to/2GWtb54 

Oliver’s website & newsletter: https://www.oliverrobinson.info/

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