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Key Concepts of Societal Psychology
Convenor: Professor Martin W Bauer
Structure: Lecture only sessions during MT, Aim: These lectures were delivered by ISP staff who presented key concepts of social and societal psychology to all PhD and MSc students in Social and Cultural Psychology (SCP),Organisational Social Psychology (OSP), Social and Public Communication (SPC) and Health, Community and Development (HCD). These concepts formed the common basis for these programmes where they were elaborated in many different ways.
Objective: Students who listened to these lectures were hopefully able to understand key social psychological concepts and recognise their value in their own field of study and research.
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15th December 2010 - Psychology@LSE Graduation photos.
Congratulations to all the ISP students' that had their Graduation. View images [password log in required]
01 December 2010 - First Psychoanalysis@LSE public event of 2010-2011. A debate between Stephen Frosh, Ian Parker and Christian Dunker chaired by Dr Derek Hook. Download invite
19–20 November 2010 - Beyond Rationality III - Resistance and the Practice of Rationality. Read more . Download programme
8th - 18th November 2010 - Jacqueline Priego-Hernández made an academic visit to Rio de Janeiro, under the auspices of the LSE/Santander Travel Fund. Read more
7th-18th November 2010 - Skovdal in Kenya to launch Higher Education Innovation initiative. Read more
18th November 2010 - Andrew Gibbs of the Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) in South Africa presented a seminar to ISP, entitled: "Health Care Workers Managing the risk of Multi-drug Resistant and Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: Symbolic risk management".
In picture: Andrew Gibbs (second from left) with members of the HCD Research Group
KwaZulu-Natal, Health Care Workers are between 5-7 times more likely to contract MDR-TB or XDR-TB compared to the general population. Andy's talk used a social psychological framework to explore risk perception and day to day risk management strategies used by nurses in the context of limited resources and limited ability to influence their working conditions. More Health, Community and Development news
8-15 November 2010 - Professor Saadi Lahlou will be on field for the SHEOS (subjective Human Experience Observation System) project in Moscow.
10-11 November 2010 - Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch led the 1st Round of Discussions on Underground Sociabilities taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first seminar for discussing the initial results of the inter-institutional research collaboration onUnderground Sociabilities will take place on the 10th and 11th November in Rio de Janeiro. Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch, principal investigator of the research, is leading the presentation on four key areas: (1) Youth, Citizenship and Routes of Socialization; (2) Identity and Diversity; (3) Urban Frontiers and Social Mediation; (4) Creativity, Culture and Social Innovation in Brazil.
Underground Sociabilities is mapping and systematising the work of AfroReggae and CUFA, cultural organisations that use the arts and the imagination to produce social regeneration in Rio's favelas. The seminar will bring together academics, activists, research partners, UNESCO and the charitable foundations of Itaú Cultural and Itaú Social to reflect on the initial findings of the research.
06th November 2010 - Kerry Scott and Catherine Campbell from the HCD Research Group presented a paper entitled "The role of advocacy and activism for maternal health in India" at an ESRC conference on "Reproductive morbidity and poverty" . The conference was organised by a consortium of six UK universities, including LSE Health. Read more
21st October 2010 - Campbell gave a keynote talk at London Schools AIDS Conference. Read more
7th - 9th October 2010 - Saadi Lahlou gave the following invited talk: "What Subjective Recordings Show us about the Nature of Social Interaction". Action Ascription in Social Interaction Workshop. University of California, Los Angeles. Read more
1st October 2010 - Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch gave a key note speech at University of Linköping in Sweden.
Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch delivered a key-note lecture at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe, University of Linköping, Sweden. The Conference took place from 6 to 9 October 2010, with a focus on Recontextualising Memory. Other invited speakers included James Wertsch (Washington University), Theo Hermans (UCL), Lorenza Mondada (Lyon) and Stephen Regan (Durham). Professor Jovchelovitch did a speech on 'History and Representation in Narratives of Public Life in Brazil".
Sept 20th - 21st 2010 - HCD Group hosted the Local-Global Workshop at the NAB building at LSE. Read more
Aug 5- 7 2010 - Ceren Yalcin(ISP PhD student) presented a paper: " Between Gates and Walls - Life in Gated Communities in Istanbul" at the Marxism and Psychology Conference at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
29th July 2010 -Shose Kessi passed her Vova Voce and will continued her PhD for 2010 - 2011. Read more
July 18 - 23rd 2010 - HCD Group at the 2010 XVII International AIDS Conference in Vienna
Several members of the HCD Research group had posters at the Vienna conference
Rochelle Burgess's two posters focus on work she has done in Swaziland:
"The importance of community: Lessons from an analysis of community based responses to impacts of HIV/AIDS in the Kingdom of Swaziland."
"Addressing the constraints to primary school education in Swaziland: the need for holistic structural interventions to build resilience to HIV and to strengthen human capital in a maturing AIDS epidemic.
Sarah Belton's posters feature work she and her research team have done in Uganda:
"An examination of the barriers to paediatric HIV testing and HAART treatment in Kabarole district, Uganda"
"Opening Pandora's Box: Potential negative implications of the 'biomedicalization' of HIV testing and drug treatment in Kabarole district, Uganda"
Cathy Campbell and Andy Gibbs poster presents their work on home-based care in South Africa:
"Creating social environments that support effective community mobilisation: a case study of home-based care in rural South Africa"
Erin Stern's poster features her South African work on the Treatment Action Campaign:
"The limits of current approaches to stigma: Applying Honneth's theory of recognition to address AIDS related Stigma in South Africa."
You can also include a link to the conference webpage http://www.aids2010.org/
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Psychology@LSE'S Morten Skovdal gets LSE award for 'Outstanding academic performance'
The LSE has awarded Morten Skovdal the prestigious Robert McKenzie prize for 'outstanding academic performance' on his PhD thesis. Read more
16th July 2010 - PhD Graduation ceremony for Morten Skovdal, Stravroula Tsirogianni, Guiseppe Alessandro Veltri and Eri Park at the Peacock Theatre 2pm. Read more
11 - 16th July 2010 - Soydan Soylu is presenting a paper on "Differences between public and private sector employees with respect to exposure to bullying at work: Evidence from Turkey". Presentation at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne.
International Conferences
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi. (2010). From the Transmission of Information to the Sharing of Human Experience. International Symposium "Digitization and Transfer of Individual Experience: Recent Progress and Trends for the Next 15 Years." Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris, 13 July 2010.
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi. (2010). "Représentation sociales et objets réels : mécanismes d'évolution". Keynote speech, International Conference on Social Representations. Tunis, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2010. (invited)
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi. (2010). "Individual Representations and Social Representations: a Clarification". International Conference on Social Representations. Tunis, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2010.
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi. Interpretation of textual analyses: theory and practice. Social Science Text-Mining and the Particular Contribution of Alceste. International Methodology Seminar, London School of Economics. June 28-29 2010.
(2010) LAHLOU, Saadi. (2010). The distribution of cognition in the group and the environment as an evolutionary process. "Modern methods of psychology" Conference, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Russian Federation, May 17-18, 2010. (invited).
HCD Seminar Series
The HCD group hosted multiple visitors from outside the department as part of our seminar series. Read more More Health, Community and Development news
7th - 9th October 2010 - Saadi Lahlou gave the following talk: "What Subjective Recordings Show us about the Nature of Social Interaction".Read more
21st October 2010 - Professor Catherine Campbell gives keynote talk at London Schools AIDS Conference. Read more
1st October 2010 - Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch gave a key note speech at University of Linköping in Sweden. Read more
Sept 20th - 21st 2010 - HCD Group hosts the Local-Global Workshop. Read more
July 18 - 23rd 2010 - HCD Group at the 2010 XVII International AIDS Conference in Vienna.Read more
16th July 2010 - PhD Graduation ceremony for Morten Skovdal, Stravroula Tsigianni, and Eri Park. Read more
28th June, 2010 - High level meeting on Global Mental Health to be hosted by Health, Community and Development research group at the ISP in coming months. Read more
28th - 29th June 2010 - Text Mining conference co-ordinated by Martin Bauer. Conference will be held at LSE 10.00 am – 17.30 pm, Room: S314 (St Clement's building). Read more
24th June, 2010 - Researching Social and Cultural Psychology Seminar - Annual Mini-Conference of the MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology. Read Programme
23rd June 2010 - Bridging History and Social Psychology - An interdisciplinary dialogue about Social Representation and public sphere.
This one day workshop was a first initiiative of it's kind aiming to bring together historians and Social Psychologists who have been exploring the nature of representations and their ciculation and expressions in past and present public spheres. Read more
23rd June 2010 - Basic tendencies and structural problems of science news problems of science news in Turkish Newspapers: A long term analysis between 1993 - 2008.
London Public Understanding of Science Seminars
Social Psychology Institute & BIOS, (LSE)
Science and Technology Studies, (UCL)
Jane Gregory (UCL) Martin W Bauer (LSE)
Speaker: ÇİLER DURSUN, Associate Professor, Ankara University Faculty of Communication/ Turkiye
16th June, 2010 - LSE held the Strawberry Tea event in the Senior Dining Room. Read more
15th June, 2010 - Title: bridging agent cognitive structure to the constitution of social networks: metalanguage approach. Seminar was given by Ahmet Suerdem
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Download Towards a New Approach in Social Simulations:
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7th - 8th June 2010 - Dr. Sandra Jovchelovitch has been awarded the Abbey/Group Santander Travel Fund for an academic visit to the Department of Social Psychology at ISCTE, Lisbon, in late May 2010.
Dr. Jovchelovitch, together with her PhD students, attended the workshop "Social change and transformation of ideas and behaviour", organised together with Dr. Paula Castro. This workshop is following a very successful experience in early 2007, funded by GRICES and hosted by ISP at LSE.
26th May 2010 - Our ISP Graduate Teacher Assistant, Vlad Petre Glaveanu, won the Barclays grand poster prize for his poster Creativity and Cultural Context.
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21st - 22nd May - 11th Annual Graduate Conference "Observing, promoting and resisting social change: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" taking place at LSE.
Key-notes and paper presentations will be dedicated to exploring the ways in which individuals and communities experience, react to, support, or resist social change in all instances of everyday life and human interaction. Organised by ISP graduate students for graduate students from the UK and worldwide this conference is funded by the LSE Annual Fund.
We are pleased to welcome Professors Edwin Hutchins, Garth Stevens and Janice Haaken as key note speakers at this year's event. For details and registration please visit:
http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/lsecamconf/index.html
20 May 2010 - Psychology as Social Science Public Lecture, Speaker : Professor Ed Hutchins, Chair: Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch,
Ed Hutchins is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.
04 - 06th May 2010 - Asian Social Psychology and Asian Epistemologies: Potentials for Global Psychology? Professor James Liu. Read more
January 2010: Title: Transmission and transformation of scientific information: social psychological perspectives. View