Barry Hymer is Emeritus Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Cumbria, and he was the first Chief of Science for the leading online chess learning platform, Chessable. Barry has written 11 books and numerous papers on the subject of teaching and learning, and he is one of the UK's foremost authorities on the educational applications of mindset theory.

Articles and interviews available

Barry is available for interview, expert comment or bylined articles on a range of topics, such as:

• Mindset and chess
• Motivation: the gift that keeps on giving
• The role of challenge and feedback
• The right kind of effort: making practice purposeful
• Failure: why it’s needed and how to deal with it
• Metacognition: there’s nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so
• Cooperation: the social reality of chess improvement 

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