Events

What's coming up...

Events are listed in date order, soonest first.

British Psychological Society Annual Conference 2010

The 2010 British Psychological Society Annual Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Stratford-upon-Avon on 14-16 April 2010.

A number of representatives from PsyPAG will be attending (some of us are presenting too!), please come and say hello and find out more about how to get involved in the organisation.

For more details, please see the BPS website here.

1st Social Networking in Cyberspace Conference

April, 2010

The Wolverhampton  Internet and Technology Society together with the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group are hosting the 1st Social Networking in Cyberspace conference in April, 2010. We welcome contributions from scholars in the social and behavioural sciences and media and information disciplines, regardless of theoretical orientation.

Keynote speakers at the conference:

Professor Mike Thelwall: University of Wolverhampton

Doctor Monica Whitty: Nottingham Trent University.

We invite potential presenters to submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words) for peer-review. The deadline for submission of the abstract is October 30th, 2009. A decision on this abstract will be made by November 20th, 2009 and authors will be notified via email soon after. We will also be running a postgraduate poster competition on the day of the conference.  Prizes will be awarded for the best posters on the day.  We invite postgraduate students to submit an abstract by October 30th 2009 for consideration.

Please see the website here.

Northern Ireland PGwT in association with PsyPAG Skills Workshop

This FREE workshop will be a full day event with 4 seminars followed by Q&A, lead by academics from the two Northern Ireland Universities.

An overview of the seminars:

• Careers- Prof. Ronnie Wilson, Head of Psychology School (University of Ulster): The central focus of this topic will be on how to sell the skills acquired during postgraduate education to prospective employers.

• Publications- Prof. Richard Carson, Executive Editor, Journal of Motor Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast): This topic will provide an overview of the process for getting published: choice of journal, meaning of impact factors, peer-review, benefits of publishing during the postgraduate course, the H-index and benefits of publication for professional career.

• Statistics- Prof. Mark Shevlin, Psychology Research Institute (University of Ulster): This workshop will provide an overview of the structural equation/latent variable modelling approach to data analysis. The course will provide a guide in order to critically interpret results such analyses. A Q&A session will encourage thoughts and questions on applying modelling techniques in postgraduate research.

• Teaching- Prof. Carol McGuinness, Director of the Centre for Advancement of Learning and Teaching (Queen's University Belfast): The topic of teaching will aim to develop skills required by postgraduate tutors and demonstrators. The central aims of the topic will address how to lead effective small group teaching sessions, encouraging participation from the group, and how to deliver constructive feedback to students.

The workshop will be held on Thursday 22nd April 2010 at the Manor House Hotel, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, NI to coincide with the Northern Ireland Branch of the BPS Annual Conference. Delegates will also be welcome to present their work the day after the workshop where there will be prizes for best postgraduate poster and oral presentations. For conference costs and further information please contact Paul Wilson, Email: pwilson23@qub.ac.uk

PsyPAG 25th Annual Conference

The Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group's own conference will be held in Sheffield between 21st and 23rd July 2010. For more details, please see our conference site here.