A quick reminder that there is just one week left to submit your abstracts for posters, oral and symposium presentations to the BPS Developmental Section conference which will take place at the University of Strathclyde
5th-7th September 2012 in Glasgow. Deadline for all abstracts is May 25th.

Confirmed keynotes: Judy DeLoache, Marinus van IJzendoorn, David Coghill, Koichi Negayama. There will be an invited symposium on eye-tracking with Tim Smith and Sam Wass featuring a Tobii demonstration.

There will be 2 pre-conference workshops at the University of Strathclyde on 4th September: 1) structural equation modelling and 2) a free PsyPAG workshop for PostGrads covering viva preparation, preparing publications etc

See http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/research/bps2012/introduction/
for detailed information about the conference. Registration for the conference, pre-conference workshops, accommodation and dinner now open.

Please submit all abstracts by Friday May 25th! Follow the section on Facebook or Twitter (#dev2012) for regular conference news updates!

The seminar will be held from 12:30 till 4:30pm on 4th September 2012 in the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde.
Registration is free for all psychology postgraduates and the session will include:
General postgrad support with writing for publication, managing workload, viva preparation and developing your teaching career…..
For more information and to register please visit:

http://sites.google.com/site/phdworkshop2012/home

The workshop will run prior to the BPS Developmental Section Conference 2012. Further information about the conference can be found at:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/research/bps2012/

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.

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 16^th 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:

• Children’s diet and exercise behaviours
• Determinants of physical activity participation following traumatic brain injury
• Enhancing health behaviour change interventions in primary care

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 2012 BPS Developmental Section Conference will be hosted by the University of Strathclyde and will take place at Strathclyde University, Glasgow from 5th-7th September.

The conference will take place in the John Anderson Building within the John Anderson Campus and is right in the heart of the centre of Glasgow.

Pre-conference workshops are planned for Tuesday 4th September. Further information will be posted here soon.

We present you with three days of full academic programme (5th-7th Sept.) as well as opportunities to network at a wine reception at the Glasgow City Chambers George Square (evening of Wednesday 5th) and our Annual Conference Dinner which will take place at the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow (evening of Thursday 6th).

Please follow the links on the left of this page to take you to all the information you need on the conference.

You can also visit http://www.bps.org.uk/dev2012 for further information and registration and abstract submission forms.

This year’s conference will be held from 5-7 September 2012 at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. The conference will be hosted by the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at Strathclyde University.

Further information about registration and call for submissions will be posted soon.

Programme

Confirmed Keynotes

We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers at the conference:

Professor Marinus Van IJzendoorn, Leiden University
Professor Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia
Dr. David Coghill, University of Dundee
Professor Kouichi Negayama, Waseda University, Tokyo

Awards

We will be presenting the following awards at the conference:

Winner of the 2012 Neil O’Connor Award

Winner of the 2012 Margaret Donaldson Early Career Prize
Booking Information

Booking information will be posted here shortly, to register your interest contact Stephanie Kyte.

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

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.

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