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11th Annual Graduate Conference  

"Observing, promoting and resisting social change: Perspectives from 

the Social Sciences"   

 

21-22 May 2010  

London School of Economics and Political Science  

 

The Social Psychology Graduate Conference has a tradition dating back to a decade 

ago. It was born out of the collaboration between graduate students of the LSE, 

University of Cambridge and Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, who sought a 

space for sharing ideas, concepts and applications in the field of Social Psychology. 

Since then, the conference has greatly expanded and attracts graduate students and 

their academic supervisors from a wide range of disciplines, institutions and countries. 

 

Next year’s conference will address an area of great importance for social psychologists, 

social scientists and modern societies at large: social change. 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. This generous topic invites both theoretical and 

practical contributions, capable of providing us valuable insight into the mechanisms of 

transformation and innovation in today’s society. This theme expresses a core 

preoccupation of societal psychologists and we will allow an exploration of how 

psychological variables can contribute to the understanding and explanation of 

pressing contemporary social problems.  

 

Contributions are welcomed from graduate students in the field of Psychology and also 

connected disciplines: Economics, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Policy, etc. 

 

The six topics for break-out sessions are: 

• Health and Development 

• Social and Cultural Psychology 

• Organisational Psychology 

• Social Cognition 

• Communication and the Public Sphere 

• Developmental Social Psychology 

 

Visit the website for more information 

http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/lsecamconf/index.html