Absent Minds with Dr. Madeleine Pownall

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Wed 27 May 2026

Dr Madeleine Pownall will take you on a bit of a cabinet-of-curiosities tour through psychology's past, hunting down the women whose ideas quietly reshaped how we think about being human. If you imagine the history of the subject as a small cast of famous men in leather chairs, expect a few surprises and a fair bit of reassigning of credit.

She spotlights figures like Mary Whiton Calkins, who did the work but was denied a doctorate because she was a woman, and Mamie Phipps Clark, whose research helped topple legal segregation in the United States. She also looks at scholars such as Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, who set up the journal Feminism and Psychology and campaigned for marriage equality in England. Absent Minds is less about replacing the old heroes and more about remembering the people who have always belonged in the story.

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