Shelley McKeown Jones

📢New Publication alert!

💡Youth with higher average intergroup contact levels show stronger social cohesion indicators.

💻Read the whole Article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Last week I was at the BPS Social Psych Conference @bps-social-psych.bsky.social in Oxford @ox.ac.uk The theme was Beyond Tribalism—bringing different traditions together organised by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @nascherme.bsky.social
Some reflections in a thread 👇

Thank you to everyone who supported and attended- it was great to have so many social psychologists hanging out in Oxford at the lovely LMH.

Its with great pleasure that we present Chloe Bracegirdle as this year's early career award winner! 🏆

Her keynote talk explores the ties that bind and divide in terms of intergroup relations in school social networks.

At @bps-social-psych.bsky.social, section chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social congratulates Prof Stephen Gibson on the mid-career award @bpsofficial.bsky.social

We're pleased to kick off the 2025 BPS Social Psychology Section Conference with a welcoming speech by our chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social and organisers @shelleymckeown.bsky.social & @nascherme.bsky.social

So wonderful to connect with colleagues (and friends!) after the #ISPP2025 sessions

Thanks for bringing us all together @polpsyispp.bsky.social

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Helping Kids! at International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 2025 Annual Meeting

Dr. Vivian Liu, postdoctoral researcher at UCD. Presentation: GENERATION PEACE: Measuring Youth Peacebuilding. When: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 8:30-9:45 AM. Where: RB 101

Isabelle Nic Craith, PhD researcher at UCD. Presentation: A systematic review of the relationship between national identity content and attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants among child, adolescents, and young adults. When: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM. Where: RB 107

This weekend, we are excited to have our team presenting at #ISPP2025 ! See here for where to catch these incredible presentations by Dr. Vivian Liu and @iniccraith.bsky.social

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Delighted to have made it to this year's #ISPP2025 and to present this paper from our Shared Spaces project authored with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social and @pierlucdupont.bsky.social

Finally, Chloe Bracegirdle from @ox.ac.uk ‬ looks at ethnically segregated social networks in UK schools.

🔹82% of bullying ties were same-ethnic

🔹18% were cross-ethnic

Stefania Paolini from @durhampsych.bsky.social explains work showing that positive intergroup contact improves social cohesion, but the disproportionate effect of negative contact is larger when people feel able to self-select out of contact situations.

@aaronltbh.bsky.social ‬ from @westernsydneyu.bsky.social‬ describes how GPS-based movement patterns may reveal who seeks or avoids outgroup spaces in Greater Sydney.

Jack Klein discusses identity-fusion - a powerful form of group alignment that can motivate extreme pro-group behaviour.

Final day of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference...

Tjitske de Groot from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reviews the different effects of intergroup contact interventions on minority and majority groups.

Helen Neville discusses the different processes of peacebuilding for White people and People of Colour within systems of oppression.

#SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky

Aishath Nasheeda introduces life skills education in the Maldives.

Alex O’Donnell discusses positive intergroup contact and youth development. For more see: issr.uq.edu.au/profile/4885...

Patrick Kotzur from @durhampsych.bsky.social presents longitudinal data showing intergroup “contact does its magic across the board,” including target outgroups (primary transfer effect), other outgroups (secondary transfer effect), and cognition more broadly (tertiary transfer effect).

Day 2 of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference

@shelleymckeown.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk explaining that empathy is associated with more positive attitudes toward out‐groups in Northern Ireland, which in turn, is related to higher out‐group prosocial behaviors.

Kicking off the SASP-SPSSI 2025 “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference
in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand.

sasp.org.au/events/sasp-...

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I am incredibly lucky to be working closely with the wonderful @emilykubin.bsky.social over the coming, watch this space!

Very excited to share I have been awarded the Walter Benjamin Post-Doc Fellowship from the DFG for my project on healing conflict through understanding victimhood narratives.

Will be conducting this work @University of Oxford w/ the wonderful @shelleymckeown.bsky.social starting in September 25

If you know potential PhD candidates who'd be interested, please link them to Studentships currently advertised on our ERC ID-Compression project (one social psychology; one applied maths/computational social science): @markrubin.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mike...

It was great to work on this one together.

Led by the brilliant @shelleymckeown.bsky.social we present a Perspectives article on why and how #IntergroupContact can be a valuable tool in educational settings. We hope this can facilitate a fruitful dialogue between researchers and teachers bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Explore the new May special issue of @pacjournal.bsky.social on peace psychology and #global challenges across a broad range of applications, including changing attitudes toward religious others. bit.ly/4mbdZRS @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

International Contact Research Network Network Founder and Colloquium Organizer — Associate Professor of Social Clinical Psychology

For more info, check out the ICRN website...

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📢 Special Issue Alert!

We’re excited to share the #PAC Special Issue:
Peace Psychology and Global Challenges

Co-edited by Nikola Balvin, Reeshma Haji, & @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

🔗 psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

#AcademicSky #SocialPsych #PeacePsychology @apajournals.bsky.social

🌍 From the 2022 Symposium of International Network for Peace Psychology, the #PAC Special Issue tackles global #social, #environmental & #geopolitical challenges after COVID-19.

🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pac0...

#AcademicSky #SocialPsych

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