1200-1700

PSYPAG Committee Meeting (PsyPAG elected reps only)

1700-2000

Drinks and canapes

1800-2000

“Skeptics in the pub” on campus: Psychology of magic by Dr Gustav Kuhn

08.00-09.15

Registration

Breakfast

09.15-09.30

Opening ceremony

Holly Walton- Outgoing Chair of PSYPAG

09.30-10.00

Keynote Speaker

Professor Sir Chris Husbands: Starting out – academic careers in the 21st century

10.10-11.15

Symposium: Health (x3 presenters)

10.10-10.35 Tahseen Ara Azad : Link between gastrointestinal disorders, memory, eating behaviour and stress

10.35-10.55 Kristina Newman: “People don’t know how severe some of them can be”: An exploration of beliefs and attitudes in adolescents with food allergy

10.55-11.15 Sanya Anjam & Humma Akram: Medication adherence: Women’s understanding of pharmacodynamics and risks associated with non-adherence of the oral contraceptive pill 

Symposium: Language (x3 presenters)

10.10-10.35 Anna Robson: How disgusted are you, and in what way? Validating words to measure the concept of self-disgust.

10.35-10.55 Nikki Dean Marshall: Interlingual Homographs as semantic primes in sentence contexts: does prime duration matter?

10.55-11.15 Josephine Urquhart: “I have no doubt”: Distinguishing the cognitive processes supporting decision-making using a language perception task.

Symposium: Clinical (x3 presenters)

10.10-10.35 Christopher Dawes: Divergent effects of Positive, Negative, and Disorganised schizotypy in Probabilistic Reversal Learning: controlling for motivation, metacognition, and psychopathology

10.35-10.55 Jeanne Wolstencroft: SOAR Study: New approaches to managing social skills deficits in Turner Syndrome

10.55-11.15 Megan Bean: Less than or equal to tea: A systematic review of the best possible future self ”intervention” literature

Workshop

Jack Andrews, Anna Greenburgh and Marie Mueller: Social network analysis for psychologists

11.15-11.40

Coffee Break

Posters

11.40-12.40

Symposium: Cognitive (x3 presenters)

11.40-12.00 Olly Robertson: ‘It Just Feels So Fucking Good’: How Does Swearing Influence Your Emotional State?

12.00-12.20 Vytautas Nastajus : Using fully-immersive virtual reality in episodic memory research

12.20-12.40 Rachel Nesbit:  Influences of social anxiety, depression and emotion processing on facial emotion recognition (FER) performance, and attention to facial features during FER.

Symposium: Body Image (x3 presenters)

11.40-12.00 Sandy Belle Rosales Cadena: Potential mechanisms of the relationship between self-compassion and body dissatisfaction in women

12.00-12.20 Oliver Clark: Mean and Lean: An exploration of Athletic Stereotypes

12.20-12.40 Nadia Maalin: Testing the effectiveness of a cognitive training program for body image.

Symposium: Cyberpsychology (x3 presenters)

11.40-12.00 Priyanjali Ratwatte: An exploration of fitspiration content on youtube and its impact on consumers

12.00-12.20 Rachael Thomas: Empowering Spaces? A critical discursive social psychological analysis of the construction of self-injurious behaviours on YouTube.

12.20-12.40 Adam Bates: ‘Let me do what I please with it […] don’t decide my identity for me’: LGBTQ+ youth experiences of social media in narrative identity development.

Symposium: Health (x3 presenters)

11.40-12.00 Rosie Martin: A pilot study using the CFHealthHub digital platform to investigate the relationship between adherence to treatment and symptoms in people with Cystic Fibrosis

12.00-12.20 Catrin Pedder Jones: A General Practice Intervention Targeting Registration on the NHS Organ Donor Register

12.20-12.40 Lyndsey Brown: Co-designing a behaviour change intervention for older adults living with cancer: Initial insights

12.40-13.40

Working Lunch

CPR University of Life Savers

Late Lunch

Yoga

Lazy Lunch

Posters

13.40-14.40

Workshop

Dr Paul Aleixo & Bambos Georgiou: Using Comics to Disseminate Research

Workshop

Theresa Wege: Data visualisation

Workshop

Olly Robertson & Dr Jon Sutton: Bringing Reproducible Science to the People – The Story of Change

Symposium: Health/ Neuroscience (x3 presenters)

Benjamin Butterworth: Drinking to regret? Piloting a mixed-methods alcohol study 

Shanara Abdin: The development of a 6-week programme in increasing physical activity to improve public health outcomes

Natalia Favila: The role of substance P and enkephalin in action sequence learning and memory

14.40-14.55

Afternoon tea

Posters

15.00-15.30

Keynote: Dr Dan Smith (Cognitive Psychology): Are cognitive processes embodied in the motor system?

15.40-16.40

Symposium: Education Psychology (x3 presenters)

15.40-16.00 Laura Oxley: Psychology of punishment in schools

16.00-16.20 Snigdha Dutta: Understanding Pathways to Resilience in Undergraduate Students: A Theoretical Approach

16.20-16.40 Kathryn Fradley: Identifying specific risk factors for mental health problems, in those with object naming difficulties

Symposium: Neuropsychology (x4 presenters)

15.40-16.00 Michelle Newman: “Let’s build an app” – the challenge of automating drawing-based neuropsychological assessments

16.00-16.20 Jack Andrews: Social risk perception during adolescence 

16.20-16.40 Rebecca Denniss: Is There a Role for Micronutrients to Support Recovery in Traumatic Brain Injury?

16.40-17.00 Eszter Porter: A TMS and EMG Study Exploring the Neural Overlap between Speech Perception and Production Processes

Symposium: Perinatal and Developmental (x3 presenters)

15.40-16.00 Suzy Hodgson: “Present but invisible”: New fathers’ navigation of perinatal services

16.00-16.20 Fathima Kodakkadan: A cross-cultural study of modelling resilience among the parents of children with autism spectrum disorder

16.20-16.40 Jade Parnell: Understanding attitudes and friendship behaviours towards socially stigmatised appearances in children aged 4-10 years 

CPR University of Life Savers

17.00-18.00

Drinks and nibbles

18.00-21.00

School sports/ It’s a PSYPAG knock out

BBQ

Drinks

08.00-09.00

Registration

Breakfast

Posters

09.15-10.00

Keynote: Prof. Maddy Arden: Understanding adherence to medication in Cystic Fibrosis: A behavioural science approach

10.00-10.45

PSYPAG Award winners presentations

10.45-11.00

Coffee

Posters

11.00-12.00

Workshop 

British Library: Expand Your Knowledge Base: Using Libraries and Archives for Research

Workshop

Dr Jan Smith: Trainee transition

Workshop

Dr Laura Kilby: “It all began very badly”: Thoughts on successfully ‘doing’ academia

CPR University of Life Savers

12.00-13.00

Lunch

Posters

Late Lunch: Mindfulness

Working  Lunch: Heavy metal therapy

CPR University of Life Savers

13.00-14.00

PSYPAG AGM

PSYPAG AGM

PSYPAG AGM

PSYPAG AGM

14.05-14.35

Keynote: Emma Norris ECR

14.35-14.50

Coffee

Posters

14.50-15.50

Symposium: Health (x3 presenters)

14.50-15.10 Martin Lamb: The Change Exchange: Using behavioural science to explore antimicrobial resistance in Northern Ghana  

15.10-15.30 Maya Al-Khouja: Long-Term Mental Health Correlates of Social Supportive Relationships in a Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Sample

15.30-15.50 Jenna Gillett: Psychological and Rehabilitation Outcomes of MRSA-Isolation in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury

Workshop

Alex Lloyd: How to Turn Your Research Into A TED Talk

Workshop

Kelly Birtwell: The mindful way through postgraduate study: simple ways to support your wellbeing

Workshop

British Library: Expand Your Knowledge Base: Using Libraries and Archives for Research

15.55-16.55

Symposium: Clinical (x3 presenters)

15.55-16.15 Marie Mueller: The role of the physical environment in adolescent mental health

16.15-16.35 Anna Greenburgh: Conspiracy theories and paranoia – the cognitive psychology of how we understand group intentions

16.35-16.55 Kelly Birtwell: What elements are important to include in a brief mindfulness-based intervention? Mindfulness teacher and mindfulness course participant perspective

Symposium: Forensic (x2 presenters)

15.55-16.15 Sarah Wefers: Offender characteristics associated with transnational child sex offending: A systematic review

16.15-16.35 Oliver Merry: A systematic review of current knowledge on offender characteristics and offence differences between contact and non-contact child grooming offenders

Symposium: Qualitative (x3 presenters)

15.55-16.15 Joel Crawford: Embarrassing yourself that’s not exactly negative just a symptom of drinking alcohol – An IPA study of university student drinking

16.15-16.35 Alessandro Massazza: Reactions during trauma among disaster survivors: A qualitative analysis

16.35-16.55 Claire Melia: “I wouldn’t smash a bottle of vodka”: Exploring discursive constructions, orientations, and justifications of alcohol use.

Workshop

Oliver Clark & Emma Henderson: Power Analysis Using Simulation

19.00 to late

Conference Dinner: Sheffield City Hall

Three course dinner and drinks

08.30-09.20

Registration

Breakfast

Posters

9.20-10.20

Symposium: Social (x4 presenters)

9.20-9.40 Tanya Schrader: The Dark Side of Conspiracy Theories

9.40-10.00 Darel Cookson: “If they believe, then so shall I”: Perceived belief of an in-group member’s belief in conspiracy theories predicts personal belief.

10.00-10.20 Becky Scott: “It’s All a Bit Cloak and Dagger”: A Foucauldian/Marxist Discursive Analysis of Representations of People with Mental Health Difficulties Who Claim Benefits

10.20-10.40 Madeleine Pownall: Can positive self-objectification diffuse stereotype threat effects in women?

Symposium: Education (x3 presenters)

9.20-9.40 David Hamilton: The Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual-Reality as a Pedagogical Method in Education and its Psychological Implications: A Systematic Review

9.40-10.00 Charlotte Bagnall: ‘It’s like me being the caterpillar moving up to secondary school and turning into a butterfly’: What emotional centred challenges do children, staff and parents at special schools face across the primary-secondary school transition?

10.00-10.20 Emine Simsek: Teacher Knowledge Predicts Students’ Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence

Workshop

David Smith: “Compassion & mental health: Why it matters for students”

10.40-11.15

Keynote: Dr Jennie Drabble ECR: “How do you know there is an afterwards?” – Making the transition from PhD to academia

11.15-11.45

Brunch

Posters

11.45-12.45

Symposium: Cyberpsychology (x3 presenters)

11.45-12.05 Ed Noon: Social Comparisons on Instagram and Adolescent Identity Development

12.05-12.25 Beatrice Hayes: Adolescent and child perceptions of the risks and benefits of social networking site use.

12.25-12.45 Emily Smith: Exploring the Perceptions of Cyberbullying & Cyber Aggression in Emerging Adults

Symposium: Cognitive (x2 presenters)

11.45-12.05 Arwa Omar: The relationship between executive function, theory of mind and academic achievement

12.05-12.25 Alex Lloyd: Are adolescents optimal decision-makers in novel environments? Examining exploration and learning in a patch foraging paradigm

Symposium: Research Methods (x3 presenters)

11.45-12.05 Ben Partridge: Reflective Bracketing and Reflexivity in IPA research

12.05-12.25 Emma Henderson: Reducing your Results Anxiety with Registered Reports

12.25-12.45 Rose Turner: Immersion in Fiction and Empathic Accuracy: Experimental Findings and Methodological Challenges

12.45-13.30

Farewell and prize giving