Academics

Academic prize

The Mind Gym is offering £10,000 in prize money for cutting edge research into how to use our minds more effectively.

Your research will have plausible and exciting implications for everyone. We will want to write about your findings in our books and use it in our workouts.

Are you excited yet? We are. Can you tell? Check out the Science bit and the Serious bit to find out if this is something you want to be a part of.

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Keeping the content up to date, rigorous and useful is The Mind Gym's lifeblood.

The Academic Board was created to guide The Mind Gym's in-house psychologists. These critical friends challenge and inform The Mind Gym's thinking on topics varying from personality profiles to measuring impact.

The role of the board is to:

Advise on the overall integrity of what The Mind Gym offers.
Highlight new thinking and fresh approaches that The Mind Gym should consider.
Adjudicate the annual prize for original psychological research.

The Academic Board is comprised of:

Professor Guy Claxton *

Visiting Professor of Psychology and Learning
Bristol University

Doctor Ilona Boniwell

Programme Leader - MSc Applied Positive Psychology
University of East London

Professor Janet Reibstein

Professor in the School of Psychology
University of Exeter

*: Fellow of the British Psychological Society