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Social Developmental Science: Growing Minds in Social Worlds
Contact person
Dr Callyn Farrell
The University of Queensland
Organising team
Professor Ted Ruffman, University of Otago
Professor Annette Henderson, University of Auckland
Dr Frankie Fong, Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Shalini Gautam, The University of Queensland
Associate Professor Zhenlin Wang, Massey University
Rachel Low, Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Kana Imuta, The University of Queensland
Dr Jessica Spence, The University of Queensland
Dr Callyn Farrell, The University of Queensland
Website blurb
This pre-conference will bring together researchers working across social, developmental, and family psychology to explore how people develop within their social worlds. Topics may include social cognition, language and socialisation, parent–child processes, socio-emotional development, peer relationships, identity, belonging, and related areas of social developmental science.
The program will include an invited mini-keynote, lightning presentations, a panel discussion, and opportunities for informal networking. A central goal is to connect social psychologists with developmental interests and developmental psychologists whose work is centrally social, while supporting mentorship, collaboration, and visibility across career stages. Researchers and students at all career stages are warmly invited to attend.
We hope the event will strengthen an Australasian community of researchers working at this intersection and create pathways for continued collaboration and field-building beyond SASP 2026.
Registration survey
We have created a registration and lightning-presentation expression-of-interest survey:
https://uqpsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dgtwN2JCsaGbcuG
For updates and further information, please visit:
https://sasp.org.au/events/conference/sasp-2026-conference/