EPs for Material Change

A group of educational psychologists united in support for a materialist understanding of psychology. Fighting for radical social change 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Educational Psychologists for Material Change- Manifesto drop- Join us! 🚨 (thread 1/6)
https://t.co/XgYAAgUFZd
Materialist psychology acknowledges the role our material environment has in shaping our subjective experiences... (continued below)

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

#OnThisDay in 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp was liberated.

[✨| Sarah B | ✨ @SarahB_EP_]

https://t.co/nURVaB8U8I hope our policy makers are listening ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩ ⁦@eps4change⁩

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Check out our Trans inclusion motion which was due to be discussed at the last AEP conference. Unfortunately there was not enough time on the agenda to do so. Keep your eyes peeled for the next AGM 🏳️‍⚧️👀

https://t.co/G9kWeZPjUr

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Happy new year from EPMC 🥳

We are going to have our first members meeting on Tuesday 28th January.
The purpose of the meeting is to introduce EPMC to new members, land also create a space for any questions.
If you’re interested in joining us, please give us an email or DM ‼️

[Sian Berry @sianberry]

Continuing the blanket ban on puberty blockers is a worrying decision.

The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this simply discrimination against our #trans youth? 👇 #TransKidsMatter

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Perhaps you should go back to school to get some critical thinking skills. You can Co-write rules whilst holding safe boundaries as an adult Tom.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Co-writing classroom rules with the kids sounds great until they decide they want cigarette breaks and the right to bear arms.

If there was a good rule that they thought of that you hadn’t thought of, then you have to ask why you hadn’t thought of it. They need to follow the culture of the class *you* build. They are not in charge.

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Any EPs (including AsEPs and TEPs) interested in joining EPMC then please get in touch!

#twittereps

[edpsy @edpsyuk]

It's coming back...!

edpsy's festival of educational psychology

Save the date - 19th September 2025

#epfest2025 #TwitterEPs #edutwitter

@BPSOfficial @AEPsychologists @CathLowther @DrChrisMooreEP @psychmag @TepVoices @UKDCP @BPS_PES @PsychBitesPod @EPHoughton @eps4change

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

@RedRoddy - sorry for not tagging you properly, I couldn’t find your account and guessed you might not be on twitter.

Amazing talks from all!

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Our very own @julievygot introducing a fantastic panel on changing systems at @AEPsychologists conference.

@elly_chapple

Roddy Slorach

@warwickmansell

Psychologists need to change systems not people!

[Elly Chapple Founder #FlipTheNarrative©💜 @elly_chapple]

Thank you @AEPsychologists what a powerfully human day. Grateful to meet the brilliant @warwickmansell and @RedRoddy, thank you for sharing the space 🙏 and thank you to Hannah for your kindness and Sean too 🙏

#FlipTheNarrative 💜

[Elly Chapple Founder #FlipTheNarrative©💜 @elly_chapple]

.@warwickmansell sharing why it is critical student voice is heard and collaborated with. The system is currently seeing the most significant levels of absenteeism and mental health issues. If we don't really listen to and validate students experiences, how will it improve?

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

Have an unusually busy couple of days coming up, in speaking terms. Off to the British Educational Suppliers Association's winter gathering in London this pm. Then up to Edinburgh for Association of Educational Pyschologists conference tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

£40bn has been cut from education since 2010.

This budget is an insult to those who voted for real change.

https://t.co/Ur2AielWyA

[British Psychological Society @BPSOfficial]

The SEND uplift in funding announced in the #Budget2024 is welcome.

We are pleased that this issue is gaining recognition, but we will await further detail to understand how this can help deliver children with additional needs the support they need.

[Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert]

No wealth tax and, apart from the NHS, spending uplifts that will barely slow decline across the public sector. It’s a change of direction; but moving at such slow speed that any actual destination remains wholly hypothetical.

[Collective @wearecollectiv_]

Don’t be fooled. This is not a Budget that meets the urgent needs of the people. After decades of crushing austerity, we deserve better than a meek Labour government in thrall to the oligarchs.

For all Labour’s promises to restore public finances and to invest, the reality for workers is they will feel continue to feel worse off. From income tax thresholds, to bus fares and winter fuel payments – the burden continues to fall on those who can least afford it.

An increase in minimum wage doesn’t change this reality – they give with one hand while taking with the other.

Bosses and Britain’s wealthiest will breathe a sigh of relief – on capital gains tax and inheritance tax, they have largely been let off the hook.

What you’re witnessing is the continuance of the UK’s political and economic status quo. You don’t have to accept it – together, let’s demand a society built on the needs of the many, not the greed of the few.

Join https://t.co/eDGp8Pxq7z

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

Labour’s ’tough decisions’ are created through arbitrary fiscal rules and an unwillingness to tax the rich.

No one should own a yacht in a country where children go hungry. (Also no one should own a yacht full stop…)

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

❗️ With the budget concluded, Reeves made no mention of the two-child benefit cap, so it's been kept.

This is despite Labour fans insisting that she would definitely scrap it in the budget.

[EPs for Material Change @eps4change]

#budget2024 is not good news!

It’s completely insufficient to solve societal problems caused by austerity, neoliberalism and climate breakdown…and it won’t generate growth!

Also important to note that cuts to welfare = austerity for the poorest in society!

#edpsychs

[End Child Poverty @EndChildPoverty]

We have now heard from @RachelReevesMP who has delivered the Budget announcement. Here is our response.

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

New: Questions asked about researchED’s governance, following furore about conference in Israel
https://t.co/BdOs4rP32n
A look at the weekend’s controversy, with background on previous reporting about the organisation’s set-up.