Defence and Security Conference 2023
- BPS updates
Registration has now closed
The conference will be held at Novotel Birmingham Centre, 70 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HT.
We welcome you to share research and experiences on resilience in Defence and Security through two sub-topics:
1.The importance of partnerships
The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (2021) highlighted the importance of strengthening resilience through national and global collaboration with allies and partners.
We are keen to hear about your work and your experiences across a wide range of topics which may include building and maintaining partnerships to counter state threats, build capability at home and overseas or defence and deterrence through collective security.
2. Building, maintaining, and restoring resilience
Building resilience to establish a 'whole-of-society' approach requires work to be done at individual, organisational and societal levels to improve our ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a wide-range of risks.
You may be working in mental health and wellbeing for example, at the individual level.
Or supporting organisational resilience through an integrated approach across government, industry, the third sector and academia.
Building a higher level of societal resilience to deal with the challenges of the grey zone could be an area of interest in your work.
Whatever your area of interest, we would love to hear from practitioners and researchers who are willing to share their knowledge about resilience in defence and security.
Target audience: Social psychology and Cognitive, Clinical, Occupational, Sports and Exercise. All those who may have an interest in applying psychology In Defence and Security Section.
Key submission dates
|
July 2022 |
Online submission system opens |
|
20 February 2023 |
The deadline for Submissions |
|
13 March 2023 | Notification of Submission Outcomes |
| 20 March 2023 | Draft programme available online |
Authors are strongly advised to register on the on-line submission system and begin preparing their submissions well in advance of the following deadlines
If you wish to submit more than one abstract, please complete individual submissions for each.
How to Submit
Please ensure you read the submission guidelines below before submitting, including the reviewer guidelines. These allow you to see how your submissions will be reviewed.
Please make your submissions via the online application portal by clicking the 'Make a Submission' button below. You will need to create an account if this is your first time submitting.
If you any queries about submissions please contact us at [email protected]
Registration has now closed
Registration is available online only.
All rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%.
| BPS Concession/Student Member | £96.60 |
|
Defence and Security Section Member |
£138 |
| Civil Servants / Serving Military |
£165.60 If you are a Civil Servants / Serving Military please enter the code 'SERVEDISC' in the promotional code box on the basket page then click 'update' |
| BPS Member | £165.60 |
| Affiliate Member | £200.10 |
| Non-BPS Member | £220.80 |
Returning Customers (members and non-members)
In order to register for the event you will need to sign in using your BPS website log in details.
We have implemented a new Membership Database and if you haven't received your pre-registration email you will need to request your unique registration link.
Once you have the link, you can complete your registration on our portal.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
If you have forgotten your log-in details, you can reset your username or password here.
Non-returning customers (members and non-members)
If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create your BPS account on the portal. The process is straightforward and takes just a few minutes.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
The Defence and Security Psychology (D&SP) Section are offering bursaries to cover the registration cost of the Annual Conference on 4 May 2023.
This year we have three bursaries available, aimed at:
- Students
- D&SP Section members
- Non-D&SP Section members that have an interest in Defence and Security practice and research
Applications must be received by 4 April 2023 at 5pm
If awarded a bursary you will be invited to write a piece for the D&SP Newsletter, but this is not an essential requirement of the bursary. You will be given support from one of the committee sub-editors and your work will go through usual peer review procedures.
The committee reserves the right not to make bursary awards should no suitable candidates be found.
Eligibility Criteria:
To be eligible for a bursary, you must meet the following criteria:
- Not have received a conference bursary from the D&SP Section in the last 2 years
- For student bursaries, Section membership is not essential and all students can apply including MSc, PhD.
- For D&SP member bursaries, presenting at the conference or supporting the Defence and Security Early Careers Award event as a Subject Matter Expert is desirable but not essential.
- For non-D&SP members, supporting the Defence and Security Early Careers Award event as a Subject Matter Expert is desirable but not essential.
We welcome applications from everyone and strongly encourage applications from individuals with protected characteristics (e.g. race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability, age, etc.).
Speakers
Keynote Speaker 1: Garry Banford
Topic: Elite Teamwork - High stakes. High pressure. Uncertainty.
This keynote will focus on individual resilience in what we can control and will also lean into partnerships and building trust quickly. All elite teams are looking for high-performing individuals but how do you first find, train and sustain the best people? How do you ensure that your team is hyper-focused and equipped to achieve outstanding results without burning out or falling out?
High stakes. High pressure. Uncertainty. This was Garry's 'normal' for many years in his career within Special Forces where he honed his craft leading high-performing teams in demanding environments. He has a distinguished military career, serving over 2 decades in the UK MOD, 16 of which were in Special Forces and is one of the UK's most operationally seasoned leaders, serving all of his years with UKSF in the challenging and ever adapting aftermath of the Twin Towers attacks. He rose to the rank of Sergeant Major before leaving in 2019 to found his own company Duratus.
Since starting Duratus, Garry has been in high demand, coaching and mentoring executives and leaders across the world in numerous diverse sectors; from finance to football. It was clear from the start that his unique experiences resonated with clients, and could be successfully translated into their high-stake corporate environments. He has helped Duratus' clients make some incredible changes to their mindset, and make positive steps to progress toward their personal and professional goals.
He shares insights you won't easily find anywhere else - translated into real actionable advice that work in your own challenging environment. Garry has helped his clients navigate uncertainty, communicate their problems better, demonstrate authentic leadership, and perform optimally under pressure - all without sacrificing their own wellbeing. Duratus coaches have worked within and alongside some of the world's most elite teams including Navy SEAL team 6, NASA and Manchester City FC.
- Website: Duratus
- Podcast: Duratus Mind Podcast
Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Marc Jones
Marc is a Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work is focused on understanding the impact of stress on health, wellbeing and performance. The protocols, and approach that Marc and colleagues have developed for the assessment and training of stress responses, and enhancing performance, have been utilised by businesses, education, professional athletes and sports teams. In addition to his ongoing work in sport and business, Marc is working on, research and consultancy projects in stress, wellbeing and health in extreme environments. These include military settings, space travel and emergency medicine groups. Marc has published widely with over 100 publications comprising peer-review papers, book chapters and books.
Marc will talk about the ARENA (enAbling REsilieNt performance) programme that has been a two year project aimed at the development of a training programme for Resilient Performance in Defence and Security Settings. Marc will report preliminary data from the project and reflect on lessons learned from project.
Programme
Please note: our conference programme is subject to change at any point before or during the conference itself. We are unable to accept responsibility for changes made which are outside of our control.
Have a query?
Contact us at [email protected]