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How can a Psychology Degree create career opportunities?

John Amaechi OBE

This week's, podcast special guest is John Amaechi OBE.

He is Britain’s most famous basketball players of all time.

During his basketball career, he has played for some of the top teams in the NBA, Europe and even played in the UK for the Sheffield Sharks.

Despite his impressive basketball career, John is a full-time Psychologist, where he applies his Psychology to support our community such as Grassroot sports, community centres and local schools.

In this episode you will learn:

To all those people studying psychology , you will receive tips, on how your work can be applied and support different people in our community.

From a sport perspective, you will learn how basketball coaches apply psychology to their players during a match and training.

John provides 'Time Management' tips to any young athletes, who are representing University/College teams with regards to balancing the workload of training and academic work.

John provides helpful advice for any professional athletes who are thinking about retirement and what they should do next!