Role
Julie Hulme is Professor of Psychology Education in NTU Psychology, within the School of Social Sciences. A Professor on the Teaching and Scholarship career pathway, Julie leads the Psychology Scholarship Research in Higher Education Group, and champions and supports evidence-based education and scholarship across the University.
Julie is a National Teaching Fellow, a Principal Fellow of the HEA, a Chartered Psychologist, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has an international profile around psychology education and is expert around inclusion in higher education.
Career overview
Julie joined NTU Psychology in September 2022, and has over 20 years of experience working in higher education. In addition to holding substantive positions in various UK universities, Julie also worked as the UK Discipline Lead for Psychology at the Higher Education Academy from 2011 to 2015, where she engaged with most psychology and counselling departments in the UK, and some internationally.
She was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in 2016, in recognition of her outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession. She was awarded a Principal Fellowship of the HEA in 2013, in recognition of a sustained record of effectiveness in strategic leadership of high-quality learning and extensive impact in higher education.
Julie was awarded a BSc (Hons) Biology and Psychology (First Class) and a PhD in Auditory Neuroscience, both from Keele University, in 1996 and 2003 respectively. She also gained a PG Cert (Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) from Keele in 2003.
Research areas
Julie undertakes scholarship and research in two main areas: Psychology Education and Inclusion in Higher Education.
Julie's expertise in Psychology Education focuses on the concept of Psychological Literacy, which is defined as the ways in which students can apply their psychological skills and knowledge to achieve their personal, professional, and community (local to global) goals. In this area of her work, Julie has focused on student wellbeing, employability in psychology, and global citizenship for psychology students.
Julie's work on inclusion applies a social psychological lens to research around marginalised students' transitions into university, access to learning, and sense of belonging. She is committed to working with students as partners in this research, in the spirit of "nothing about us without us", and is particularly engaged in qualitative research with disabled and neurodivergent students into their experiences of higher education.
External activity
Julie is Deputy Chair of the Association of National Teaching Fellows.
Julie holds a Visiting Fellowship in the Institute for Learning and Teaching at the University of Manchester, and is External Advisor for the Open University's Board of Studies for Psychology and Counselling.
She is a member of the Society for Research in Higher Education, and of the Society for Teaching Psychology (APA). Internationally, she is a member of the International Council for Undergraduate Psychology Outcomes (ICUPO), a global collaboration to identify a framework of shared competences achieved by students of psychology wherever they study. She is also on the steering group for the Student Space website, created by Student Minds.
Julie is a founding member of the Professors in Preparation network, a community network which supports education-focused and scholarly staff to gain reward and recognition within their careers in higher education.
Julie is on the editorial board for the BPS Psychology Teaching Review, and is an associate editor for Psychology Learning and Teaching and Frontiers in Education.
She is Past Chair (2016-19) and Past Vice Chair Teaching (2012-2016) of the BPS Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology. Julie was a member of the QAA Subject Benchmark for Psychology working group in 2016.
Publications
Selected Recent Publications
Journal articles:
- Hamilton, P., Hulme, J.A. & Harrison, E.D. (2023). Experiences of higher education students with chronic illnesses. Disability and Society. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1907549.
- Cranney, J., Dunn, D.S., Hulme, J.A., Nolan, S.A., Morris, S. & Norris, K. (2022). Psychological literacy and undergraduate psychology education: An international provocation. Frontiers in Education, 7, 790600. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.790600.
- Harrison, E.D., Hulme, J.A. & Fox, C.L. (2022). A thematic analysis of students’ perceptions and experiences of bullying in UK higher education. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 18, 1, 53-69. DOI: 10.5964/ejop.3669.
- Harrison, E.D., Fox, C.L., & Hulme, J.A. (2020). Student anti-bullying and harassment policies at UK universities. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2020.1767353.
Book chapters:
- Hulme, J.A. (2022). Supporting and developing teaching-focused individuals to professorial level – career progression across boundaries. The impact of the integrated practitioner in higher education: Studies in the third space. Abingdon, Ox: Routledge.
- Hulme, J.A. & Cranney, J. (Online, 2020; hard copy, 2022). Psychological literacy and learning for life. In: J. Zumbach, D. Bernstein, S. Narciss & G. Marsico (Eds). International handbook of psychology learning and teaching. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_42-1. Available here: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_42-2.
- Hulme, J.A. (2019). Psychology. In S. Marshall (Ed). A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education. 5th Edition. Abingdon, Ox: Routledge.
- Winstone, N. & Hulme, J.A. (2019). ‘Duck to water’ or ‘fish out of water’? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university. In S. Lygo-Baker et al. (Eds). Engaging student voices in higher education. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-timeCOURSE
Psychology - BSc (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/social-sciences/ug/bsc-hons-psychology