The Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group

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!

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.

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.

The Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Psychology Section is pleased to invite considerations for the
2011 Ranald Macdonald Postgraduate Research Award.
Deadline for applications 30th March 2012

https://mailfront.ad.ulster.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://bps-msc.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-ranald-macdonald-postgraduate.html

This will be awarded to the best UK Postgraduate thesis (MSc, MRes, MPhil, Professional Doctorate, DPhil or PhD) using mathematics or statistics in a novel way to investigate an aspect of Psychology (awarded between 1st August 2010 and 31st December 2011).

The prize consists of £150.00 and expenses up to £200 to attend the section’s annual conference this year at Nottingham Trent University. As a condition of accepting the prize, the winner will be expected to present an aspect of their winning work at this years Annual conference (dates below).

Details about eligibility and the (simple) application process can be found below or by contacting the Section Secretary Dr Collette Corry.

cv.corry@ulster.ac.uk

Please note the deadline for submissions will be 30th March 2012 at 5pm.

How to apply:
Please send the following to the section secretary Gillian Smith via email to gillian.smith@ntu.ac.uk

1. Your full contact details including Name, Institution, Degree Title and Date Qualification was awarded, Address, Email, Telephone number and the Name (s) of Supervisors

2. The extended abstract from your thesis, which outlines the findings of your work

3. A supporting statement from one of your supervisory team outlining the importance and contribution of your thesis and suitability for the award (no more than 300 words) and listing any peer-reviewed publications associated with the work.

Procedure: Your application will be considered by a panel of Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Section Committee members, and the panel’s decision will be final. One or more submissions will be short-listed and their authors may be invited to submit the complete thesis to the panel for final consideration via PDF. The panel reserves the right not to short-list any candidates if the panel does not deem the quality of submissions to be sufficiently high. From time to time the panel may also seek the views of expert reviewers on the quality of a submission prior to short-listing or to making an award. The panel may, in exceptional circumstances, make a split award between two equally deserving candidates.

Criteria for making the award: Emphasis will be placed on the following criteria:

- use of novel mathematics or statistics

- reference to substantive issues in psychology or related disciplines

- clarity of exposition of the mathematical or statistical concepts

- potential or actual contribution to the field, via peer-reviewed publication

Congratulations to our Forum Competition Winners; Fleur-Michelle and Jacqui have both won a £20 Amazon Voucher with our two runners-up, Bex and Michael, winning a £5 voucher. Check out the Discussion Forum to see their entries!

Just to let you know, due to essential maintenance work, the PsyPAG website may experience some downtime during this weekend. This is temporary, and the website will be back up and running as normal by Monday. Apologies for any inconvenience!

A new postgraduate diploma course in the Psychology of Conflict will be taking place in the near future (directed by Dr. Masi Noor – Canterbury Christ Church University):

The course will draw mainly on social psychological theories and empirical work. The first part of the course will cover insights into the causes and impact of conflict, critically discussing the processes involved in issues around identity, emotions, cognitions/perceptions, conflict-spurring behaviours, prejudice, discrimination, etc. The second part will focus on the recent psychological models of conflict resolution and reconciliation. Issues discussed here will range from the psychological understanding of trust, empathy, communication, power, resentment, forgiveness, victimhood and ‘perpetratorhood’. Additionally, in each session students will be introduced to opportunities to learn practical skills in conflict mediation and dispute resolution.

To gauge the public interest in such a course, it would be greatly appreciated if you could take 2 minutes to read through the link here and forward it to anyone to whom it may also be of interest.

Our Discussion Forum has been relaunched, and we’re celebrating with a couple of competitions. Take a look, and you could win a £20 Amazon Voucher!

A new studentship is being advertised within the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter (located in the School of Psychology, on the Streatham campus in Exeter).  The studentship is for 5 years, and is expected to allow a student to complete a PhD under part-time registration, while at the same time working 2 days per weeks assisting Professor Stephen Lea in the editing of a major international journal in the area of animal cognition.  The financial package is worth £11,500 per year, and some assistance with university fees may also be available.  The studentship is specifically intended for research work in animal visual cognition, at least initially involving complex visual learning in pigeons.  Further details, including the application procedure, can be found at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=846.  The closing date for applications is 30^th August 2011; informal enquiries should be sent to Stephen Lea at s.e.g.lea@exeter.ac.uk, by 23^rd August.

The call for papers deadline for this years Psychology of Education Section Conference has been extended till Friday 16th September.
Please see the conference website for further details.

We currently have two vacancies on the PsyPAG committee;

-Psychology of Women Section

-Psychology of Sexualities Section

If you are interested in either of these positions, please Posted in News | Leave a comment

The deadline for submissions for the Rising Researcher Award is April 21st, 2011.
For details on the criteria for nomination, please see our Awards page.

Workshop for psychologists to promote resilience and support creative responses to change – The Hundred Flowers Workshop

“Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
(from a Chinese verse misused by Chairman Mao)

Never has there been a:

* greater need for psychologically aware services and care,
* more urgent need for psychologists to respond to changes in public services,
* better time for a new dawn to rise across psychology

Registration is now open for this one-day workshop which will take place on May 20th, in York. Please see the website for more details.

The BPS Innovations in Neuropsychology Symposium will be held on March 23rd 2-5.30 in F21, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh. The symposium showcases postgraduate neuropsychology research at Edinburgh

To attend please book a place via the following weblink

http://www.bpsshop.org.uk/Innovations-in-Neuropsychology-P1410.aspx
The attendance fees are
All students £5.00 per person,
(non-student) BPS members £9.00,
(non-student) non-BPS members £15.00

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an experiential qualitative approach to research in psychology and the human, health and social sciences. Birkbeck is a world centre for IPA, where it was developed by Jonathan Smith, Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck. We are pleased to offer three workshops for those wishing to learn more about IPA and how to make use of IPA in their own work.

For details, please see the site here.

British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section (POWS) is now accepting entries for the POWS Student Prize, 2011. The prize is £200 plus various other benefits, so get your entry in now! For more information, see this document.

Abstracts are now being accepted for the Young Communication Researchers Cnference 2011.

Young Communication Researchers Conference is an attempt to bring together PhD students to discuss relevant topics. The sub-topic for this year is decision making in context.

The conference takes place at UCL, 12-13th of May 2011. There is no conference fee, so please submit an abstract if your research is applicable to the specific topic or just turn up to listen to the talks.

Registration is now open for PsyPAG’s 2011 Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of Bangor, June 6th – 8th. Book before March 18th to take advantage of the Early Bird rates. For details, see the conference’s official site; we’ll see you there!

Nominations are being accepted from now until 28 February 2011.

The National Psychology Postgraduate Teaching Award is a joint award given by the PGwT and PsyPAG and supported by The Psychology Network. The award recognises a postgraduate psychology student who has made a significant impact through teaching. It is open to all psychology postgraduates who teach on undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education courses in UK institutions of higher or further education. The 2011 recipient will be awarded £250 and will be sponsored to attend the 2011 PsyPAG Conference. Nominations for this award will be accepted until Monday 28 February 2011. You can download award details and nomination form here.