PsyPAG has organised a workshop for Postgraduates who teach on Tuesday 13th March 2012 at the University of Birmingham. This is a FREE workshop supporting students with exciting study tips and essential teaching skills including…
• Problem Based Learning
• Advice on teaching qualitative research methods
• Managing your PhD
• Small group teaching
For more information and to register please e-mail k.solowiej@worc.ac.uk.
The Midlands Health Psychology Network committee invites you to attend our annual conference to be held at the Coventry University Techno Centre on 16th February 2012. This state of the art facility will host two fantastic keynote speakers, oral presentations and poster presentations. A few highlights from last year’s conference are:
The call for abstracts is now open with this year’s theme being “Improving Health in the Olympic Year”. The MHPN is growing and with the conference open to members and non-members alike, this is a great opportunity for researchers in the Midlands to showcase their work to a varied and friendly audience. Please see attached flyer for submission details or go to www.mhpn.co.uk . Deadline for submission is November 14th.
The 2nd Chance Project and the University of Southampton are pleased to invite you to the launch of the evaluation report of an innovative two-year programme that has used rugby and football to engage with young men in prison, with the ultimate aim of reducing reoffending.
The event will take place at Twickenham Stadium
on Friday 20th January 2012 between 11am and 2pm
and will include presentations from project partners and participants.
Please register your attendance by emailing r.meek@soton.ac.uk
by Tuesday 10th January.
Include the name of your organisation and your full contact details, including daytime contact number.
The evaluation research, led by Dr Rosie Meek, Chartered Psychologist at the University of Southampton, has assessed the effectiveness of sport in seeking to meet the resettlement needs of young men in prison custody and after returning to the community. The research describes the benefits of a sports-based intervention in engaging with individuals with challenging and complex needs, and outlines a series of recommendations that have been identified during the course of the research.
Previous interim evaluation reports can be found here.
This year, for the first time the DOP and postgraduate occupational psychology (POP) conferences will be held together. This is a great opportunity to present your work to fellow academics and practitioners.
You can submit your work online at – http://www.bps.org.uk/dop-conference/dop-conference_home.cfm
- the submission deadline is 31st August 2011.
Early bird registration rates are available until 22nd November 2011
For more information, please see the conference website
Coffee from 10.30am, Meeting begins at 11am (AGM at 3.30pm)
Keynote Speaker:
Prof Zoltan Dienes: Using Bayes to make the most of null results.
Registration
To register for this free event, please email name, institution, contact details to the Secretary of the Maths, Stats & Computing Section:
Dr Collette Corry cv.corry_at_ulster.ac.uk
Call for papers
The closing date for submissions is Wednesday 26th November 2011
Presentations on both theoretical and substantive applications are welcome in the area of Mathematics, Statistics or Computing in Psychology. We welcome submissions from postgraduate students. Abstracts should be submitted (no more than 200 words) with your name, institution and contact details to: Dr Collette Corry, cv.corry_at_ulster.ac.uk
A one-day workshop
This workshop aims to introduce participants to the use of participant generated textual data, and particularly qualitative surveys, story completion tasks and vignettes, in qualitative research. Surveys, story completion tasks and vignettes are widely used in quantitative research but hold exciting possibilities for qualitative research, and particularly for student projects and other forms of ‘resource-lite’ qualitative research.
The workshop will cover all the basics of using qualitative surveys, story completion tasks and vignettes in qualitative research, including when and why to use surveys and stories, designing effective surveys and stories, and the pitfalls and possibilities of surveys and stories for qualitative researchers, and will provide participants with a number of opportunities for designing and ‘trying out’ qualitative surveys, story completion tasks and vignettes.
For further information, please see the website.
Motivation and Resilience in Education
Keynote Address (Friday):
Professor Neil Humphrey, School of Education,
University of Manchester
Vernon Wall Lecture (Saturday)
Professor Julian (Joe) Elliott, Director of Research,
School of Education, Durham University
The main focus of the conference this year is Motivation and Resilience in Education although all contributions (papers, posters, workshops or seminars) that cover aspects of psychological enquiry relating to education will be considered.
Bursaries available for PhD students.
For further information, please see the conference website.
A one-day workshop
This workshop aims to introduce participants to virtual interviews and focus groups as data collection tools for qualitative research and equip them with practical skills in designing and conducting virtual interviews and focus groups. It will cover all the basics of virtual interview and focus group research in psychology and the social sciences, including when and why to use virtual interviews and focus groups, what makes a good virtual interview and virtual focus group, designing virtual interview and focus group schedules, and asking appropriate questions. Relevant software will be identified and demonstrated and participants will be provided with a number of opportunities for conducting virtual interviews and focus groups. The workshop aims to ‘get beyond’ a textbook approach to teaching and learning about virtual interviews and focus groups and will emphasise the ‘messy’ reality of virtual interviews and focus groups in qualitative research.
For further information, please see the website.
Handling the administrative side of private practice can raise many questions and be a daunting prospect for many of us. This event will consist of a short presentation on accountancy and bookkeeping principles and their relevance to tax returns for independent practitioners. This will be followed by an interactive workshop, using worked-out examples tailored to psychological practice and offering ample opportunities for discussion. The event aims to provide important information for both those considering and those already working in private practice.
Dr Corrie Meesters completed her doctorate in Psychology in the Netherlands in 1979 with an emphasis on Clinical as well as Organisational psychology. After further studies in medicine and psychotherapy she set up in private practice and then relocated to the UK where she worked in the NHS in Cumbria, Kent and Sussex. In 2007 she returned to private practice and was faced with the decision of whether to manage her own business administration or, given that she was unfamiliar with UK legal and tax requirements, to hire others to do this for her. She opted for the former and began her studies in bookkeeping. Corrie is now completing her studies and has used her knowledge to deliver a workshop on tax regulations to small businesses. She currently continues to run her private practice in Hove offering a mix of specialist psychological assessment, psychotherapy, organisational consultancy and supervision.
The workshop will be £7 for BPS members and £10 for non-members.
Tea & Coffee will be available at 4pm after the workshop to provide an opportunity for members to get to know each other. Independent practitioners who do not want to attend the workshop but would like to meet with colleagues are welcome to come just for tea at £4.
Please book for the workshop or for tea/coffeeby contacting Sheila Simons, the Branch Administrator, at Wessex@bps.org.uk.
A one-day workshop
This workshop aims to introduce participants to focus groups as a data collection tool for qualitative research and equip them with practical skills in designing and conducting focus groups.
It will cover all the basics of focus group research in psychology and the social sciences, including when and why to use focus groups, what makes a good focus group and focus group moderator, designing focus group schedules, asking appropriate questions, getting people to talk, and will provide participants with a number of opportunities for observing and conducting focus groups and receiving peer and tutor feedback on their practice focus groups.
For further information, please see the website.
This annual one-day meeting is organised by users of SPSS for other SPSS users and is in its 25th year.
Come along to hear the latest product news and applications from SPSS, see software demonstrations and case studies using both SPSS and R (we have even more this year!), view posters, talk to other SPSS users and plan for future meetings. Three coffee breaks and lunch are included.
For further details and registration, please see the ASSESS website.
This course will provide you with a thorough and practical understanding of Correlation, Simple Linear,
Multiple Regression and Logistic Regression. You will be guided on how to generate Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rho, and Kendall’s tau-b with their significance levels and how to explain the results. You will gain knowledge and competence that will enable you to screen your data for linear relationships prior to analysis. Health and medical examples are used to enhance understanding of
the concepts of correlation and regression. A workbook and memory stick of examples are provided together with refreshments. Lunch is also included (if attending both a morning AND afternoon workshop) otherwise is available on request.
For further information and registration, please see the workshops’ website.
This course covers the analysis of multi-dimensional contingency tables which crop up when handling categorical data.
The course covers many examples from the literature and introduces some new material.
There is an R script for participants to work through and a pdf file with some notes on the theory.
A workbook and memory stick of examples are provided together with refreshments.
Lunch is also included (if attending both a morning AND afternoon workshop) otherwise is available on
request.
For further details and registration, please see the workshops’ website.
This half-day workshop introduces applications and uses of syntax
in SPSS (all versions). It is aimed at SPSS users who are familiar with the menu toolbar but have limited knowledge of syntax.
A workbook and memory stick of examples are provided together with refreshments.
Lunch is also included (if attending both a morning AND afternoon workshop) otherwise is available on
request.
For further details and registration, please see the workshops’ website.
This intensive introductory workshop introduces participants to HES data and how to handle
and manipulate this large data set using computer software such as SPSS. This workshop addresses
general issues associated with handling messy data and is of interest to anyone who has to analyse
untidy data sets. Participants will engage in some problem-solving exercises, analysing the data in interactive sessions.
A workbook and memory stick of examples are provided together with refreshments.
Lunch is also included (if attending both a morning AND afternoon workshop) otherwise is available on
request.
For further details and registration, please see the workshops’ website
A one-day workshop
This workshop aims to introduce participants to interviewing as a data collection tool for qualitative research and equip them with practical skills in designing and conducting interviews.
It will cover all the basics of qualitative interviewing in psychology and the social sciences, including when and why to use interviews, what makes a good interview and interviewer, designing interview schedules, asking appropriate questions, getting people to talk, and will provide participants with a number of opportunities for conducting practice interviews and receiving peer and tutor feedback on their interview technique.
For further information, please see the website.
Work, Life, Happiness, Deviance
Linking Occupational and Forensic Psychology
Submissions are invited for workshops, research papers, posters, symposiums and skill-based sessions.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by email to Roxane Gervais
Deadline for submissions is 31st August 2011.
A one-day workshop
This workshop provides an introduction to Thematic Analysis (TA) as a method for analysing qualitative data. Participants will be guided through Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-phase approach to TA, using qualitative data drawn from research conducted within the Department of Psychology at UWE. We will locate TA in relation to other methods of qualitative data analysis such as Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Discourse Analysis (DA) and highlight its accessibility and theoretical flexibility.
For further information, please see the website.
A One-day workshop
his workshop aims to introduce participants to the basic principles of designing and conducting social surveys online. The workshop will cover both theoretical and practical issues, to enable participants to get to grips with, and feel confident in, designing and conducting their own surveys.
In addition, the focus of the workshop will be deliberately broad, to enable participants to transfer and implement key skills learnt during the workshop to their own organisational or research context.
| Start: | October 11, 2011 |
| End: | October 11, 2011 |
| Venue: | University of the West of England |
| Address: Google Map |
Bristol, United Kingdom, BS16 1QY |
This one day conference will critically explore the ways in which loss and bereavement is understood and experienced by individuals and groups from various cultures and backgrounds. All of the great world religions provide us with solutions to the universal problem of death.
The conference will bring together clinicians who have experience in providing therapeutic and social care interventions in the bereavement sector and across cultures. Learning points and good practice will be shared. The challenges experienced and possible limitations will also discussed via anonymised case vignettes.
For a programme, further information, and registration, please see the conference website.
