BPS Social Psychology Section

We're thrilled to announce Stephen Gibson as our 2025 mid-career award winner!

Stephen has contributed significantly to the social psychology section through his innovative research and academic citizenship.

Huge congratulations to Stephen - we're looking forward to your keynote in September!!

We're pleased to announce that this year's early career award winner is Chloe Bracegirdle!

If her research strikes your interest, Chloe will deliver a keynote presentation at our annual conference in Oxford to commemorate her accomplishment.

Really enjoyed taking part in the panel discussion earlier today on Feminist Metascience at #Metascience2025! In the panel I spoke about epistemic diversity and intellectual humility. We need to be considering voices that are quieter in these discussions- it shouldn’t be a battle to be heard here.

Could NOT agree more! 👍

I wrote a Commentary at NPR, expressing concerns re student-based teaching evaluations

✳️ prejudicial bias
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ pedagogical concerns

Dr. Sharpe Commentary disagreed. See his new Commentary. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

See my reply to his objections. rdcu.be/era6h

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Psst! Fancy a cheeky early peek at #SPSConf2025? Click below to see the preliminary programme (subject to changes). Can't wait to see you there!

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Good morning! Jaysan from the social media team here -- looking forward to connecting with you this week :) What are you up to today?

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Social Psychology Annual Conference 2025 | BPS The BPS Social Psychology conference aims to unite diverse traditions, fostering dialogue across methods and perspectives to enhance understanding and collaboration in the field.

If your abstract was accepted for our annual conference in Oxford, please remember to register by **June 15th** to keep your registration slot.

We're excited to engage with your outstanding contributions to social psychology in September!

www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

#SPSconf2025 #socialpsych

Accelerator Awards | Grant funding | Wellcome Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani researchers in the UK to make successful career transitions.

An exciting funding opportunity for Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani Early Career Researchers (ECRs). Spread the word!

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SPSP - Board of Directors Applications Are Now Open! Apply before June 5!

👋Reminder: SPSP Board applications close June 5! We're looking for candidates across our membership spectrum for President, Board of Directors (2 spots), and Student Committee Chair. Help shape our field's future.

✍️Apply here before June 5: ow.ly/inLx50VXLZG

Understanding the socio-economic and wellbeing impacts of the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey on Syrian refugees On February 6, 2023, a significant earthquake struck Turkey, disproportionately impacting Syrian refugees already struggling with the lingering effect…

Our new paper is finally published (and open access)!
Lead by Abir Nasir, Ghada Alymany, Fatima Brimo, it was my first mentorship experience that I learned a lot from @profjohndrury.bsky.social

Please share and we are open to any feedback and suggestion!!

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The status of your abstracts for our upcoming annual conference in Oxford have been updated.

Thank you to everyone who submitted - we were impressed by the quality of the abstracts and we're eager to hear more about your latest contributions to social psychology in September

Harnessing group psychology to develop a lay person triage tool to facilitate life-saving actions in major incidents at UK Health Security Agency on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Harnessing group psychology to develop a lay person triage tool to facilitate life-saving actions in major incidents at UK Health Security Agency, listed on FindAPhD.com

Do a PhD with us! ('us' being @sussex.ac.uk and @ukhsa.bsky.social )

'Harnessing group psychology to develop a lay person triage tool to facilitate life-saving actions in major incidents'

Please share!

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Tomorrow is the deadline! Make sure your nominations for early and mid career social psychological researchers are ready to go by 5pm on May 2nd!

🌟New blog

Caroline demonstrates how EPs can use existing person-centred planning tools to unpick the complexity of climate education.

Read here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/ma...

#climate #edpsychs @climatepsychol.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social

Friendly reminder that the award nominations for early and mid career psychologists close this Friday on May 2nd!

Follow the link in the post to find out more about what makes a social psychological researcher eligible for this award!

Hi Annayah! That's right, 6pm is the deadline. I'm unsure about the extent to which flexibility can be offered, but I'll email the organisers to see if they can help accommodate your misunderstanding!

Don’t forget, the deadline for submissions for @bps-social-psych.bsky.social is today. We’d love to have you join us in Oxford in September.

Just a friendly reminder that you have until the 23rd to submit an abstract for our annual conference in Oxford!

Have a great weekend!

Just a friendly reminder that you have 3 WEEKS to nominate social psychological researchers for the early- and mid-career awards

Why GCSE Psychology deserves recognition as the fourth science | BPS Bhupinder Singh Kuwar, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, writes.

Why GCSE Psychology deserves recognition as the fourth science...
Bhupinder Singh Kuwar, Chartered Psychologist and @bpsofficial.bsky.social Associate Fellow, writes.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Contribute to the BPS qualifications consultation
Online survey open: 2 April Closing 12 May 2025
bps.org.uk/qualifications-consultation BPS logo on yellow background with one black corner.

We're looking for your contributions around our qualifications.

Our survey is now open and will give members, trainees and wider stakeholders the opportunity to provide evidence and share their experience of our qualifications.

Have your say: www.bps.org.uk/qualificatio...

Come join us @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
this September at the lovely LMH, Oxford. Submission deadline is the 23rd April.

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Collective action is functional! An example case study below!!
New preprint and my first single author paper:Functions of Post-Disaster Collective Action

I would like to thank @profjohndrury.bsky.social for his valuable feedback on this paper prior to submission.

www.authorea.com/users/907414...

Just a reminder that the latest edition of the monthly round-up is available to read through the link below 👇

Read about new members of our committee, upcoming deadlines for conference submissions, call for papers, grants, awards, and events

comms.bps.org.uk/cr/AQi68RIQh...

🚨 Only 4 days left to apply for the ISPP 2025 Early Career Scholars Travel Grants! 🚨

Early career researchers attending the meeting in Prague can apply for travel funding—don’t miss out on this opportunity!

🔗 Learn more & apply: ispp.org/funding/trav...

#PoliticalPsychology #ISPP2025

My lecture today for 2nd-year Psychology students @sussex.ac.uk

A key reading is Becker (2012): psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-...

🥳 New blog post from our own, Dr Simon Goodman (@drsimongoodman.bsky.social)

⌨️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...