Weekday Worldviews: The Patrons, Promise and Payoff of Psychic Nights in England. The first sociological investigation of public psychic events and well-being.
Can the supernatural offer comfort in times of loss?
Research involving @powell_adamj from our @DurhamImh showed that psychic nights can help with grief, even for sceptics.
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Episode 130 is out this week! Dr. Josh Bullock returns to share some findings of the Weekday Worldviews project from people who attending pub psychic nights and discuss what they seem to indicate about our relationship with the weird and unknown.Available Wednesday! @PubPsychic
Can pub psychic nights help people connect with communities and cope with grief? 🤔 Senior lecturer in sociology at #KingstonUni Dr @JoshBullock explains the findings from his latest research about the events and why they’re growing in popularity 👇
The study is the first of its kind to explore the growing cultural phenomenon of psychic nights in England’s pubs 🍺
The study was led by Leeds' Dr @caro_starkey as well as academics from @durham_uni and @KingstonUni.
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https://t.co/nAn5VzBjpl
The findings of a collaborative research project have revealed that attending psychic nights eases people’s grief over the loss of a loved one, regardless of whether they believe in the authenticity of the event 🔮
And that's a wrap on our @PubPsychic conference! Thank you to everyone who presented and attended. Also thanks to @bethanjuliet for all the hard work organising the event. It was a fascinating array of discussions, all with unifying themes...an interdisciplinary success.
New episode of @Spherical_Pod! A really interesting conversation with Dr Josh Bullock, part of the team behind the @PubPsychic project. If you see this and can share the original post it'd be much appreciated! #Podcast#Paranormal#NewEpisode
Update from Sphere HQ: Episode 114 is out next week! My guest is @JoshBullock. Josh is part of the team behind Weekday Worldviews (@PubPsychic). We discuss the aims of the project, investigation methods, and the insights that can be gained from its findings. Available Wednesday!
"My local pub in London, just 100 yards down the road, hosts a psychic night four times a year..." From our @PubPsychic research hosted by @anntheato on Psychic Matters: https://t.co/tGMbwm9qf6
Really enjoyed speaking to @powell_adamj about @PubPsychic - fascinating new study of the popularity of ‘psychic nights’ at pubs. What draws people & what is it they get out of them? His previous research was with mediums https://t.co/kb5xBREcAi