SASP 2024 Post-conference on Environmental Psychology

REGISTER NOW!

Registrations for the SASP post-conference on environmental psychology are open now! 

Please register to attend here by 20 October 2024: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6lG4yMX2roXnD0i.

Note that there is no registration fee to attend the post-conference. 

The post-conference will now begin at 1.30pm and finish at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November. This later start time is to accommodate the SASP lunch and AGM. 

The post-conference will begin with a brief welcome address by Professor Iain Walker, talks by three keynote speakers, an afternoon tea, lightning talks, and facilitated discussion. 

Please direct any questions on this post-conference to Samantha Stanley (), Anna Klas (), Zoe Leviston () and Iain Walker ().


OPEN FOR SUBMISSION

Upscaling environmental psychology for social and policy change

SASP Post-conference on Environmental Psychology

in conjunction with the 2024 Annual SASP conference

afternoon Wed 27 November 2024 1-5pm, Canberra, Australia.

We are now inviting submissions for lightening talks (3-5 minutes) to be presented at the SASP Post-conference on Environmental Psychology. We invite you to share your work in progress and/or the issues you think we need to resolve in this area. 

Abstract submissions are via this Qualtrics link and are up to 100 words: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sGuwWMNwCxiKH4. Submissions will close on 20 September.

Preliminary schedule

The post-conference will begin with 20minute keynote presentations from the following invited speakers:
– Prof Mark Howden (Director of ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions)
– Prof Sharon Friel (ARC Laureate Fellow & Professor of Health Equity at ANU)
– Dr Jacqui Brewer (Senior Adviser at the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government). 
We will then have a series of lightening talks, and finish with an interactive discussion/workshop session to end the day.

We will open registrations for the post-conference, and send speaker acceptances, in early October.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please direct any questions on this post-conference to Samantha Stanley (), Anna Klas (), Zoe Leviston () and Iain Walker ().


SAVE THE DATE!

Upscaling environmental psychology for social and policy change

SASP Post-conference on Environmental Psychology

in conjunction with the 2024 Annual SASP conference

afternoon Wed 27 November 2024 1-5pm, Canberra, Australia

We live in a critical time for a range of environmental issues, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution. Many of these environmental issues are driven by human behaviour and therefore the focus within social psychology has often been upon encouraging individual-level attitudinal and behavioural pro-environmental change. Yet what is often missing from these conversations is also the need for societal and policy change to help us transition towards a fairer and more sustainable future. Thus, exploring how to facilitate social change, policy change, and systemic change is of critical importance for social and environmental psychology researchers working inside and outside of academia.

Given this, we will be organising a half day post-conference event on the afternoon of Wednesday November 2024 (1-5pm) to advance conversations in this area and to facilitate the sharing of research problems. Given the increasing rate of environmental focused presentations at SASP the last few years, we also seek to develop a small research group/collective focused on environmental psychology topics. We invite social psychology researchers (at any career stage) with an interest in applying their work to climate change/environmental issues to attend, and especially strongly encourage the attendance of PhD students and EMCRs working in this space.

More specific details regarding the schedule will be released soon. However, the afternoon will involve several 20 minute keynote presentations, a series of lightening talks (3-5 minutes in length) where people can share their work in progress and issues to resolve in this area, then an interactive workshop/discussion session to end the day.

Calls for lightening talks come soon. 

Please direct any questions on this post-conference to Samantha Stanley (), Anna Klas (), Zoe Leviston () and Iain Walker ().