User:Nickyhayes

b. 19.06.1953

Nicky Hayes is  best known for opening up academic psychology to the lay reader. She was influential in establishing school-level psychology in the UK, helping to develop the Association for the Teaching of Psychology as a support organisation for teachers, and later working with the British Psychological Society in the development of what eventually became their Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers of Psychology. In 1997 she was awarded the BPS Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Teaching of Psychology. As the author of over 25 books on psychology and related topics, her career as a writer began with the publication of her first book in 1983, and continues to the present. She is a member of the Society of Authors, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an Honorary Life Member of the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.