New Frontiers in Psychometrics

Wendy Lord, Chief Psychologist at Hogrefe, will be presenting a situational judgement test, the Leadership Judgement Indicator at the New Frontiers in Psychometrics event hosted by The Psychometrics Forum. The event will also feature Hogrefe’s new implicit association test Implicitly, presented by Pete Jones, Research Director at Shire Professional Business Consultants and author of Implicitly. Pete will outline the nature of IATs and talk about their use in exploring prejudice and assessing leaders.

This event, to be held on 3rd December, is the first annual review of innovations in the nature and use of psychometrics and will be led by The Psychometrics Forum Vice Chair, Dr Hugh McCredie. If you want to find out more about this event please contact Caro Leitzell on 01962 880920 or admin@leitzell.com.


Diversity beyond debate: fresh challenges & new solutions

Thursday 25th June, 10.00 - 13.30, Mayfair Conference Centre, London

Diversity has prompted major financial investment by government and industry, lots of research, many hours of debate. But what happens after the debate?

This seminar looked at the current issues for those working in diversity and featured the launch of a new assessment tool for identifying prejudice in the workplace.

Prof Binna Kandola, OBE, diversity expert; Dr Pete Jones, test author; Leigh Lafever-Ayer, corporate HR, Enterprise Rent-A-Car; Linbert Spencer, consultant and diversity specialist


Previous events

  • Hannah Markson (Resident Psychologist, Hogrefe Oxford) presented a poster at EAWOP 2009, the 14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from 13th-16th May 2009. The theme of the congress was Developing people in 21st century organizations: global and local perspective. Hannah presented a research study into the effects of rewards and recognition on employee engagement.
  • Implicit Association Theory in detecting subconscious attitudes. A presentation relevant to everyone working or advising in difficult environments. Wed 19th November 2008, London Metropolitan University. Speaker: Dr Pete Jones.

  • The Big Five Event, 8th October 2008, The Naval Club, London. A discussion of the impact of the Big Five model on personality measures in use today. Speakers included Wendy Lord, Chief Psychologist, Hogrefe Ltd.

    our stand at CIPD 2006

    recruitment exhibition 2008

  • CIPD Recruitment & Retention, London 18-19 June — we exhibited established tools like NEO-PI-R, and we launched the Business-focused Inventory of Personality (BIP), a fresh approach to identifying the personality of people at work.
  • HRD (London, 15-17 April 2008) — we previewed the Business-focused Inventory of Personality (BIP), to be launched soon.
  • the Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference (Stratford-upon-Avon, January 2008)
  • the Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference (London, December 2007)
  • the Fleet Safety Forum conference in Birmingham (21st November 2007); we described how the d2 Test of Attention can help identify high- and low-risk drivers
  • At CIPD in September 2007, we presented a range of cutting edge instruments, including the brand new CompACT suite of attention and concentration tests operated by touch panel. If you are interested in collecting data for UK norm groups, be sure to contact us!
  • BACCH - British Association for Community Child Health - Annual Scientific Meeting, Reading (25th and 26th September 2007). We featured for the first time a brand new instrument authored by Dr Jacqueline Collier and Dr Dorothy McKinlay from the University of Nottingham - The Generic Children's Quality of Life Measure. Our stand also featured the Griffiths Child Mental Development Scales, the ADOS/ADI-R Autism diagnostic and observation tools, and our full range of clinical and child development assessments.


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