Social Psychology Section

The Social Psychology Section is part of the British Psychological Society (BPS), which is a non-profit-making educational and professional organisation for psychologists in the UK.

The Social Psychology Section was founded in 1953 and is now a thriving community of social psychologists.

As a section of the British Psychological Society (BPS), it receives financial support from the Society and it is represented on major BPS committees and at BPS conferences.

Our Aims

The Social Psychology section aims to:

  • encourage social psychological research
  • facilitate the development of social psychological knowledge
  • facilitate and promote the application of social psychological knowledge in a variety of settings
  • support and facilitate the professional development of social psychologists
  • promote social psychological responses to social problems at national and international level
  • increase public understanding of social psychology
  • and safeguard a central place for social psychology in the curricula of psychology degrees.

 

Achieving our Aims

 

The Social Psychological section aims to meet the objectives above through the following activities:

  • an Annual Social Psychology section conference
  • supporting seminars, workshops, and other conferences organised by members of the section
  • offering pump priming funds for such events
  • supporting policy relevant meetings with government and non-government organisations

 

The Committee

 

The Social Psychology Section has an elected committee and chair who manage and run section activities, such as the Social Psychology Annual Conference .

 

The current committee is:

Chair and Council/Research Board representative: Evanthia Lyons (e.lyons@qub.ac.uk)

Honorary Secretary (co-opted): Stephen Gibson (s.gibson@yorksj.ac.uk)

Treasurer (co-opted): Dora Brown (dora.brown@surrey.ac.uk)

Social Psychological Review (SPR) editor: Jane Montague (j.montague@derby.ac.uk)

SPR book editor: Lloyd Carson (l.carson@abertay.ac.uk)

Conference officer: Clifford Stevenson (clifford.stevenson@ul.ie)

Assistant conference officer: Tom Webb (t.webb@sheffield.ac.uk)

Local conference Organiser (co-opted): Russell Luyt (russell.luyt@winchester.ac.uk)

Press officer (co-opted): Lindsey Cameron (co-opted) (L.Cameron@kent.ac.uk)

Website officers: Alexa Ispas (alexa.ispas@ed.ac.uk) and Sue Widdicombe (S.Widdicombe@ed.ac.uk)

Postgraduate officer: Charlotte McLeod (Cm267@bath.ac.uk)

 

The Mailing List

To subscribe to our mailing list, email s.widdicombe@ed.ac.uk or s.gibson@yorksj.ac.uk.