Last week I was at the BPS Social Psych Conference @bps-social-psych.bsky.social in Oxford @ox.ac.uk The theme was Beyond Tribalism—bringing different traditions together organised by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @nascherme.bsky.social Some reflections in a thread 👇

Thank you to everyone who supported and attended- it was great to have so many social psychologists hanging out in Oxford at the lovely LMH.

Its with great pleasure that we present Chloe Bracegirdle as this year's early career award winner! 🏆 Her keynote talk explores the ties that bind and divide in terms of intergroup relations in school social networks.

At @bps-social-psych.bsky.social, section chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social congratulates Prof Stephen Gibson on the mid-career award @bpsofficial.bsky.social

We're pleased to kick off the 2025 BPS Social Psychology Section Conference with a welcoming speech by our chair @swedishprotests.bsky.social and organisers @shelleymckeown.bsky.social & @nascherme.bsky.social

So wonderful to connect with colleagues (and friends!) after the #ISPP2025 sessions Thanks for bringing us all together @polpsyispp.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

This weekend, we are excited to have our team presenting at #ISPP2025 ! See here for where to catch these incredible presentations by Dr. Vivian Liu and @iniccraith.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social @polpsyispp.bsky.social

Delighted to have made it to this year's #ISPP2025 and to present this paper from our Shared Spaces project authored with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social and @pierlucdupont.bsky.social

Finally, Chloe Bracegirdle from @ox.ac.uk ‬ looks at ethnically segregated social networks in UK schools. 🔹82% of bullying ties were same-ethnic 🔹18% were cross-ethnic

Stefania Paolini from @durhampsych.bsky.social explains work showing that positive intergroup contact improves social cohesion, but the disproportionate effect of negative contact is larger when people feel able to self-select out of contact situations.

@aaronltbh.bsky.social ‬ from @westernsydneyu.bsky.social‬ describes how GPS-based movement patterns may reveal who seeks or avoids outgroup spaces in Greater Sydney.

Jack Klein discusses identity-fusion - a powerful form of group alignment that can motivate extreme pro-group behaviour.

Final day of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference... Tjitske de Groot from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reviews the different effects of intergroup contact interventions on minority and majority groups.

Helen Neville discusses the different processes of peacebuilding for White people and People of Colour within systems of oppression. #SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky

Aishath Nasheeda introduces life skills education in the Maldives.

Alex O’Donnell discusses positive intergroup contact and youth development. For more see: issr.uq.edu.au/profile/4885...

Patrick Kotzur from @durhampsych.bsky.social presents longitudinal data showing intergroup “contact does its magic across the board,” including target outgroups (primary transfer effect), other outgroups (secondary transfer effect), and cognition more broadly (tertiary transfer effect).

Day 2 of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference @shelleymckeown.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk explaining that empathy is associated with more positive attitudes toward out‐groups in Northern Ireland, which in turn, is related to higher out‐group prosocial behaviors.

Kicking off the SASP-SPSSI 2025 “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand. sasp.org.au/events/sasp-... @lindatropp.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social #SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky

I am incredibly lucky to be working closely with the wonderful @emilykubin.bsky.social over the coming, watch this space!

Very excited to share I have been awarded the Walter Benjamin Post-Doc Fellowship from the DFG for my project on healing conflict through understanding victimhood narratives. Will be conducting this work @University of Oxford w/ the wonderful @shelleymckeown.bsky.social starting in September 25

If you know potential PhD candidates who'd be interested, please link them to Studentships currently advertised on our ERC ID-Compression project (one social psychology; one applied maths/computational social science): @markrubin.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mike...

Led by the brilliant @shelleymckeown.bsky.social we present a Perspectives article on why and how #IntergroupContact can be a valuable tool in educational settings. We hope this can facilitate a fruitful dialogue between researchers and teachers bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Explore the new May special issue of @pacjournal.bsky.social on peace psychology and #global challenges across a broad range of applications, including changing attitudes toward religious others. bit.ly/4mbdZRS @shelleymckeown.bsky.social

For more info, check out the ICRN website... @mindwaveprof.bsky.social @lukaswallrich.bsky.social @debshulman.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @drcaitlinbaker.bsky.social #SocialPsyc

📢 Special Issue Alert! We’re excited to share the #PAC Special Issue: Peace Psychology and Global Challenges Co-edited by Nikola Balvin, Reeshma Haji, & @shelleymckeown.bsky.social 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... #AcademicSky #SocialPsych #PeacePsychology @apajournals.bsky.social

🌍 From the 2022 Symposium of International Network for Peace Psychology, the #PAC Special Issue tackles global #social, #environmental & #geopolitical challenges after COVID-19. 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pac0... #AcademicSky #SocialPsych @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @laurentianu.bsky.social

New preprint: ‘Crossing the Line’: A boundary Transgression Model of Resistance to Desegregation’ led by John Dixon. We’d love your feedback. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Friendly reminder that the award nominations for early and mid career psychologists close this Friday on May 2nd! Follow the link in the post to find out more about what makes a social psychological researcher eligible for this award!

Don’t forget, the deadline for submissions for @bps-social-psych.bsky.social is today. We’d love to have you join us in Oxford in September.

Come join us @bps-social-psych.bsky.social this September at the lovely LMH, Oxford. Submission deadline is the 23rd April.

📣 Submissions are now open for The British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section annual conference taking place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 8-10 September 2025. Come join us! Submission deadline 23rd April 2025. www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

📣 Calling social psychologists. Come join us in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. We’re recruiting an Associate Professor in Social Psychology with a Tutorial Fellowship at Christ Church College. Deadline 13th March 2025. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Very excited to be starting a visiting researcher position with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social at Uni Oxford! Working on understanding conflict and how to heal divisions. Feeling grateful and ready for this new adventure 🤗

Excited to be hosting @bps-social-psych.bsky.social conference at Lady Margaret Hall next September. Watch this space for more details coming soon.

New pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... Fostering felt understanding through structured communication: Developing a tool to improve intergroup relations V proud of this work in Northern Ireland with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social and James Willmott 1/

@shelleymckeown.bsky.social et al new paper " we found that both perceived inclusive peer norms and perceived school equality norms were associated with higher quantity and quality of contact for both ethnic majority and minority group youth" OA @ JCASP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New postdoc position on antecedents of intergroup contact! An amazing opportunity. Led by Rose Meleady, with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social & George Leckie vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/96... #PrejudiceResearch #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology "Promoting social change through collective action locally, nationally, and globally" BlueSky Editors: 🔹️ @profjohndrury.bsky.social 🔹️ @shelleymckeown.bsky.social 🔹️ @evangelospsych.bsky.social #SocialPsyc #AppliedPsych PoliSky

📣Job alert: we are seeking a social psychologist to join the wonder team at the University of Bristol’s School of Education. I am happy to discuss the role with anyone interested. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFE166/p...

Today I delivered my last teaching sessions as a member of staff at Bristol’s School of Education. Cue lots of emotions. Thank you to our wonderful students for being so lovely this week. It’s exactly 8 weeks until I start my new role at Oxford!

Wonderful work by my @SOEBristol colleague Will Baker looking at how schools - schools! - are now acting as the fourth emergency service in this cost of living crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #polisky #Sociology #PrejudiceResearch New paper by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social et al, looking at contact norms among young teens in conflict-tense Northern Ireland. Longitudinal. Great time for us to think about peace building... psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

I am delighted to say that I am joining the University of Bristol as Research Associate, working on the ESRC Shared Spaces project. Led by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social, this project looks at the how, when, and why of adolescent intergroup interactions (sharedspacesproject.co.uk). Exciting times!

Psychology at Ohio State invites applications for two positions involving diversity science and racial/health disparities. Open Rank Faculty Search: tinyurl.com/2wzbjjjj Fellow to Faculty Position: tinyurl.com/3e5b4wdv #psychscisky

I am excited to share the news that I’ll be joining the University of Oxford in February 2024 as Professor in Social Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology and Tutorial Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall. I’ll be sad to leave Bristol but looking forward to the next chapter.