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SMG Annual Conference 2011
The Student Members Group Annual Conference takes place every year alongside the Society's main Annual Conference. Next year's conference will take place at the Marriott Hotel, Glasgow
Nottingham Lectures
London Lectures
The Annual EFPSA Congress 2011
To secure a place at this event please contact Jeremy Roberts, the SMG International Officer - SMG-International-Officer@bps.org.uk
Events in England that might be of interest...
17th February 2011 - Psychologists in the Pub
Topic: The effect of chewing gum on self-rated and physiological measures of mood and stress.
Venue: The Slug and Lettuce, The Cross, Worcester WR1 3PY
Date: Thursday, 17 February 2011, 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Andy Johnson, Psychology Lecturer, Coventry University
Event details: The facilitative effect of chewing gum on cognitive performance has proven controversial (e.g. Wilkinson et al., 2002; Tucha et al., 2004; Johnson and Miles, 2007, 2008). However, recent findings (e.g. Scholey et al., 2009) have intimated that such benefits may be contingent on chewing gum elevating mood and reducing stress (although reductive stress effects were questioned by Torney et al., 2009). The present set of studies examines the effect of chewing gum on mood and stress through utilisation of stress-inducing and alertness-reducing paradigms.
17th March 2011 - Psychologist in the Pub
Topic: Gillian Smith on Drink and Drugs
Venue: Browns, Earl Street, Coventry
Date: Thursday, 17 March 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Gillian Smith, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
Event details: To help celebrate St Patrick’s day Dr Gillian Smith will giving a talk on her research area booze and drugs.
26th March 2011 - ‘Psychology 4 all’ (University of Westminster, London)
This event is for anyone who is interested in health and well-being, how the mind works, or just what makes us tick. Highlights will include keynote speeches from two well-known psychologists.
Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. He started professional life as a magician before becoming a psychologist. A survey conducted by Times Higher Education revealed that he was the psychologist most frequently quoted in the British media and The Independent on Sunday recently listed him as one of the top 100 people who make Britain a better place to live.
He has featured on over 150 television programmes including Horizon, Equinox and World In Action, and has an international reputation for research into quirky areas of psychology such as deception, humour, luck and the paranormal. In 2001 he led an international experiment to find the world's funniest joke.
He is listed as a 'must follow' scientist by The Celebrity Twitter Directory, his daily blog attracts thousands of visitors, and he helped create Telepath - a mind-reading psychological app for the iPhone. Over 1 million people have taken part in his mass participation experiment, and his YouTube channel has received over 10 million views.
Geoff Beattie is a professor at the University of Manchester and is widely regarded as one of the leading international experts in nonverbal communication. He was the psychologist and presenter on 'The Farm of Fussy Eaters' (UKTV Style, 2007), Channel 4's 'Dump Your Mates in Four Days' (2006/07) and was resident psychologist on nine 'Big Brother' series. He has also appeared on He is also a regular contributor to 'Richard and Judy', the 'Lorraine Kelly Show', 'BBC News 24' and 'Sky News'.
He has written for has written for publications as diverse as The Guardian, The Times, New Statesman and Marie Claire. He has also published 15 books many of which have either won or been short-listed for major international prizes. His academic work has appeared in Nature, Semiotica and the British Journal of Psychology.
21st April 2011 - Psychologist in the pub
Topic: The Psychology of the Professional Rock Tribute Band
Venue: All Bar One, Brindley Place, Birmingham B1 2HL
Date: Thursday, 21 April 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Mark Burgess, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
Event details: Mark is a Social Psychologist who is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes. He lectures on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has received a Brookes Teaching Fellowship for his work. He publishes regularly in international journals and has specialised in research on peace and terrorism. His current research is wide-ranging and also includes, among other things, a government funded programme of investigating how people adapt to green technologies and a new programme that involves interviewing top level musicians about how they experience personal growth through their musical development and performance.
19th May 2011 - Psychologist in the pub
Topic: The History of Psychology and Psychology at the Science Museum
Venue: Oxford (full details TBC)
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Philip Loring, BPS Curator of Psychology, the Science Museum
Event details: Before taking up his post in July 2009 Philip was in the doctoral programme in the history of science at Harvard University. He specialises in the history and anthropology of the mind sciences. His dissertation is on the community of psychologists and linguists active in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after the Second World War.
For more information about venues and future psychologist in the pub meetings, visit the BPS West Midlands Branch page on the BPS website, or check out their Facebook page.
Cafe Psychologique - Seven Arts Centre, Leeds
Leeds is now the proud home of the UK’s first Café Psychologique, which aims to ‘allow you to think about life from a psychological and therapeutic perspective...in an everyday environment’. The café was founded by a Leeds-based psychotherapist who holds monthly conversation groups on changing themes (e.g. relationships) with the help of professional guests. For more information about up-and-coming events, check out the ‘Café Psychologique’ Facebook page.
More conferences and events
For information on the latest Society events, please visit the Conferences and Events section of the website.
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