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Department of Psychology seminars

We host experts in different areas of psychology, including academics and practitioners from around the world. View our upcoming seminars on this page.

Upcoming seminars

Details about our scheduled seminars.


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Previous seminars

Find details of past events from the Department of Psychology seminar series.


2024 seminars

17 April 2024

24 April 2024

  • Speaker: Adam Harris, University College London
  • Title: The prevalence and consequences of the severity effect in probability communication

1 May 2024

  • Speaker: ProfessorRichard Rowe, University of Sheffield
  • Title: Modelling a general factor in developmental psychopathology: A multi-informant approach

2 May 2024

  • Speaker: Laura Güdemann, University of Exeter
  • Title: Causal treatment effect estimation using provider preference based Instrumental Variables - Applications in type 2

12 June 2024

27 March 2024

  • Speaker: Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, University of Exeter
  • Title: ‘All Change is Not Growth, as All Movement is Not Forward’: Understanding the Lifecycle of Social Change in the Context of Feminist and LGBT Issues

21 March 2024

  • Speaker: Dr Jennifer Lau, King's College London
  • Title: Youth loneliness: A social-cognitive approach to understanding and managing loneliness in young people

20 March 2024

13 March 2024

  • Speaker: Professor Mick Finlay, Anglia Ruskin University
  • Title: Whose Victims? How people in violent conflicts talk about the deaths of civilians

6 March 2024

28 February 2024

  • Speaker: Dr Marret Noordewiet, Leiden University
  • Title: The dynamic nature of emotional responses to the unknown

22 February 2023

21 February 2024

  • Speaker: Dr Gabriela Jiga-Boy, University of Swansea
  • Title: Polarization & norms of trust: Attempts to study political trust experimentally

14 February 2024

7 February 2024

  • Speaker: Professor John Drury, University of Sussex
  • Title: Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident

2023 seminars

6 December 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Janina Steinmetz, City University of London
  • Title: Too little money or time? Using justifications to maintain a positive image after self-control failure

14 December 2023

  • Speaker: Rachel Lees, University of Bath
  • Title: Cannabis use disorder in young people: investigating risk factors and treatments using epidemiological and clinical trial methods

15 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Ganga Shreedhar, London School of Economics
  • Title: Public understanding of the sixth mass extinction and support for systems transformations to mitigate biodiversity loss: Evidence from UK, USA, India, Brazil and South Africa

16 November 2023

  • Speaker: Nina Higson-Sweeney, University of Bath
  • Title: Advances in our understanding and treatment of adolescent depression: the role of fatigue

22 November 2023

  • Speaker: Professor Geoff Haddock, University of Cardiff
  • Title: What do we think about people who are attitudinally ambivalent?

29 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Dima Danai, City University of London
  • Title: Exploring the interplay of genetics with functional and structural brain variations in psychosis

15 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Ganga Shreedhar, London School of Economics
  • Title: Public understanding of the sixth mass extinction and support for systems transformations to mitigate biodiversity

16 November 2023

  • Speaker: Nina Higson-Sweeney, University of Bath
  • Title: Advances in our understanding and treatment of adolescent depression: the role of fatigue

22 November 2023

  • Speaker: Professor Geoff Haddock, University of Cardiff
  • Title: What do we think about people who are attitudinally ambivalent?

29 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Dima Danai, City University of London
  • Title: Exploring the interplay of genetics with functional and structural brain variations in psychosis

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