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Past events
The list below gives an idea of the range of topics we've covered in recent years.
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Criminology Seminar | |
| Angels of Death: Serial killers in caring professions | Prof. David Wilson (Uni. of Birmingham) | |
| It's an inside job: doing psychotherapy in prisons | Mary Haley (HMP Grendon) | |
| Life beyond murder: reconstructing life after release | Dr. Dan Rusu (Uni of Birmingham) | |
| October 2023 | Human factors: Tricks, Tribulations and Toilets | Dr. Graham Edgar (Uni. of Gloucester) |
| April 2023 | Forensic Psychology Skills | Dr. Coral Dando (Uni. of Westminster), Dr. Alex Sandham (The Open University), Rachel Dando |
| March 2023 | Online Mental Health Conference | |
| Psychotherapy in prisons | Mary Haley (HMP Grendon) | |
| The School Bullying Research Program | Professor Peter K Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London) | |
| Slowing down to speed up: Mindfulness in the UK Armed Forces | Dr. Jutta Tobias-Mortlock (City, University of London) | |
| Supporting Autistic Adults’ Wellbeing in Healthcare Services | Dr. Cheryl Venart (Glasgow Caledonian University | |
| February 2023 | How to review and analyse research papers | Dr. Monika McNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University |
| Literature search and reference databases | Dr. Monika McNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University | |
| Reading papers like a pro! | Dr. Sarah Howcutt (Oxford Brookes University) | |
| So, you want to be a Counsellor? | Kris Ambler (BACP) | |
| January 2023 | ANOVA Workshop (Glasgow) | Dr. Michelle Newman (City, University of London) |
| ANOVA Workshop (Glasgow) | Dr. Angie Johnson | |
| ANOVA Workshop (Glasgow) | Dr. Monika McNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University |
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | Day Conference: Criminal Minds | |
| Understanding sexual serial killing | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) | |
| Armed Robbers: Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country | Professor Emmeline Taylor (City, University of London) | |
| Life beyond murder: exploring the identity reconstruction of mandatory lifers after release | Dr. Dan Gabriel Rusu (Birmingham City University) | |
| March 2021 | Love and robots | Professor Neil Frude |
| November 2020 | From Social Cognition to Social Robots (and back again!) | Professor Emily Cross (University of Macquarie) |
| August 2020 | Day Conference: Social Psychology Today | |
| The role of social psychology in responses to the pandemic: Don't blame the public' | Professor John Drury (University of Sussex) | |
| Talking in the time of coronavirus: The science of conversation' | Professor Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough University) | |
| Solidarity not charity? A political psychological perspective on UK COVID-19 mutual aid groups | Dr Emma O'Dwyer (Kingston University) | |
| July 2020 | Mindfulness stress management | Dr. Jutta Tobias-Mortlock (City, University of London) |
| June 2020 | Hidden CSI effect? Face mapping: a cause of forensic mis-identification | Dr. Monika McNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University) |
| June 2020 | Sex-linked serial killers | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) |
| May 2020 | What is a human? | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) |
| March 2020 | Day Conference: Technology and Psychology | |
| The Neuroscience of Consciousness' | Professor Anil Seth (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex) | |
| Social and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence | Dr David Leslie (The Turing Institute) | |
| Developmental robotics for Language-learning, Trust and Theory-of-mind | Professor Angelo Cangelosi (Manchester University) | |
| Understanding Humans by Building Brain-inspired Robots | Professor Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield) | |
| February 2020 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: An afternoon with Kent Berridge and Frederick Toates | Professor Kent Berridge (University of Michigan) and Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) |
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Quantitative Methods and SPSS Support Day (London, Manchester) | |
| October 2019 | Maslow, the 'happiness industry' and post-psychology | Dr.Babak Fozooni |
| September 2019 | Mental Health Seminar | |
| Stress: Are we coping? | Victoria Zamperoni (The Mental Health Foundation) | |
| Introduction to Sophrology | Dr. Gini Harrison (The Open University) | |
| Epigenetics and resilience: putting the gin back in the bottle | Dr. Gillian Ragsdale (The Open University) | |
| Stress, addictions and obsessions | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) | |
| Mindfulness as team sport | Dr. Jutta Tobias-Mortlock (City, University of London) | |
| May 2019 | Brexit: a social psychology perspective | Dr. Eleni Andreouli (The Open University) |
| March 2019 | Day Conference: Developmental Psychology | |
| How neuroscience is helping to motivate a preventative psychiatry approach: latent vulnerability and the impact of childhood maltreatment. | Professor Eamon McCrory (University College London) | |
| From understanding maintenance mechanisms to improving access to effective treatments for child anxiety disorders' | Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Reading) | |
| Young people's social and emotional skills, relationships, and well-being' | Professor Robin Banerjee (University of Sussex) | |
| Developmental disorders in low resource settings: perspectives from Ethiopia' | Dr Rosa Hoekstra (King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience) | |
| February 2019 | What is psychology doing for autism? | Professor Dermot Bowler (City, University of London) |
| January 2019 | Quantitative Methods and SPSS Support Day (London, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Plymouth) | |
| October 2018 | How sexual desire works | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) |
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | OU Postgraduate Options Seminar | |
| Mental Health Science | Dr. Payam Rezaie (The Open University) | |
| Evaluating Psychology: Research and Practice' | Dr Sarah Crafter (The Open University) | |
| Forensic Psychology | Dr Jim Turner (The Open University) | |
| Childhood and Youth | Dr Mimi Tatlow-Golden (The Open University) | |
| March 2018 | Hidden CSI effect ? Face mapping: a cause of identity mis-identification' | Dr. Monika McNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University) |
| March 2018 | Day Conference: 21st Century Social Psychology | |
| Why don't we like one another? Recent directions in the psychology of prejudice' | Prof. John Dixon (The Open University) | |
| Social Psychology, New Technologies and Digital Data' | Prof. Mark Levine (University of Exeter) | |
| How behaviour spreads: from smiling to rioting'' | Dr. John Drury (University of Sussex) | |
| The Rise of Donald Trump and the Psychology of Authoritarian Populism' | Prof. Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) | |
| November 2017 | Memories: true reflections or fantastical creations?' | Dr. Alan Pechey (The Open University) |
| September 2017 | Mental Health Seminar | |
| Stress: stone age minds in modern skulls | Dr. Gillian Ragsdale (The Open University) | |
| When brains work right and when they go wrong | Professor Frederick Toates (The Open University) | |
| Mindfulness and our emotions | Dr. Meg-John Barker (The Open University) | |
| March 2017 | Day conference: Consciousness | |
| Hypnosis, Psychosis and the Consciousness Conundrum' | Dr. Peter Naish (The Open University) | |
| The neurobiology of consciousness' | Professor Anil Seth (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex) | |
| Decisions in the mists of consciousness: how wakefulness differentially modulates cognitive processes' | Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge) | |
| Synaesthesia - A window into human consciousness and social cognition' | Dr. Noam Sagiv (Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University) | |
| November 2016 | The science and the magic of mindreading' | Dr. Graham Edgar (University of Gloucester) |
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Criminology Day Conference | |
| Criminology from Below: Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System' | Dr. Victoria Canning (The Open University) | |
| Criminology and Terrorism' | Professor Andrew Silke (University of East London) | |
| Murder and serial murder in Britain' | Professor David Wilson (Birmingham City University) | |
| Identifying the psychology of gang membership' | Dr. Jane Wood (University of Kent) | |
| June 2016 | Humour in therapy | Dr.Babak Fozooni |