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Claudia Hammond
Claudia Hammond, BBC broadcaster and psychology lecturer, helps organisations improve wellbeing with research on rest, overwhelm, and kindness. A workplace wellbeing and mental health speaker, she presents All in the Mind and won the British Academy President's Medal.
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, author, and psychology lecturer who shows how psychological and medical research can help people in everyday life. She's known for making complex science clear, practical, and entertaining for general audiences.
Claudia presents All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4, covering psychology, neuroscience, and mental health, and the weekly global health programme Health Check on BBC World Service. She's Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex and the author of books including The Art of Rest, The Keys to Kindness, and her latest, Overwhelmed.
Her talks draw on years of interviewing researchers and translating their work for the public. She's spoken at the Royal Institution, the Royal Society, Wellcome Collection, the Francis Crick Institute, and Cheltenham Science Festival, and was invited to Apple's headquarters in California to speak about time perception during the early design stage of the Apple Watch.
Audiences come away with evidence-based ways to rest well, ease the pressure of feeling overwhelmed, and understand how emotions, money, and time shape their decisions. She also chairs panels and public events on psychology, medicine, and science.
For organisations focused on wellbeing, mental health, or how people think and decide, Claudia brings rigorous research and a broadcaster's ease with an audience.
Topics, sessions and talks
Many people feel they never get enough rest, yet few treat it as a skill worth working on. Drawing on the research behind her book The Art of Rest, Claudia Hammond explores which activities people find most restful, why rest so often comes with guilt attached, and how small breaks across the day add up. She makes the case for valuing rest as part of good work, leaving audiences with practical ways to build more of it into busy lives.
Bonuses, rewards, and pay rises are the standard tools for motivating people, and the psychology behind them holds some surprises. Claudia Hammond, author of Mind over Money, examines what research reveals about how money shapes behaviour, when financial incentives help, and when they can backfire. Clear examples from studies make the evidence easy to follow, giving leaders and HR teams a sharper basis for designing rewards that change behaviour in the way they intend.
Time can race by on holiday and crawl in a waiting room, and the reasons say a lot about how the mind works. Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped, explains why time seems to speed up with age, how memory shapes our sense of duration, and what the research means for planning and deadlines. It's a topic she was invited to present at Apple's California headquarters, and audiences leave with fresh ways to make time feel more manageable.
Emotions drive decisions, relationships, and wellbeing, and understanding where they come from helps people handle them well. Claudia Hammond, author of Emotional Rollercoaster, explores the science of feelings such as fear, happiness, anger, and grief, drawing on psychology and neuroscience research she has covered on BBC Radio 4. She explains what happens in the brain and body during strong emotions, giving audiences a clearer understanding of their own reactions and practical insight into managing them at work and at home.
Many people want to help a colleague, friend, or family member who is struggling with their mental health, but worry about saying the wrong thing. Claudia Hammond, presenter of BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind, draws on research and the experiences shared through her programme to explain what helps, what to avoid, and how supporters can look after themselves along the way. Audiences leave more confident about starting supportive conversations.
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