Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference 2022

Submissions

Key Submission Dates

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.

If you any queries about submissions please contact us at [email protected]

Guidance for bursary applicants

The British Psychological Society, Psychology of Education Section, will offer a number of bursaries for students (undergraduate or postgraduate) who have had a poster or paper accepted for presentation at our annual conference.

Applicants need to be members of the British Psychological Society, members of the Psychology of Education Section and must be registered as a student at a Higher Education Institution.

Bursaries will offer a 50% reduction in the conference fee for delegates choosing to attend the full two-day conference.

Please send a letter of application along with confirmation of your student status (e.g., a letter from your supervisor), by email to [email protected] with 'PES bursary application' in the subject line. Applications must be received by 4pm on 10th June 2022.

• Access Submission Guidelines and Submit Symposia 
• Access Submission Guidelines and Submit All Submissions except Symposia 

Registration

Registration is available online only. All rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%. All costs are inclusive of subsistence but not accommodation. To book accommodation at Wolfson College B&B please click here. 

Conference Dinner included in ticket price.

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 (CRM) recently and if you haven't received your pre-registration email please contact [email protected] to request a re-send and follow the instructions received. Once pre-registered on the CRM use your USERNAME and PASSWORD to log in to register for the event.

Non-returning customers (Members and non-members)

If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create a free account. Once set up use your USERNAME and PASSWORD to log in to register for the event.

Programme

The Psychology of Education Section Conference will be held on 14 – 15 September 2022 at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Download the full conference programme

Download the book of abstracts

Location and accommodation

Location

• Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford OX2 6UD

Accommodation

Book your accommodation for the conference, using the promotional code "BPS2022" 

Keynote speakers

Professor Peter K Smith (41st Venon-Wall Lecture), Goldsmiths College, University of London

The School Bullying Research Program: How and Why it has Developed.

Peter K. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  He has researched extensively in aspects of children's social development, and was Head of the Unit for School and Family Studies there from 1998-2011. In 2015 he was awarded the William Thierry Preyer award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, by the European Society for Developmental Psychology, and in 2018 the Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Award, from Flinders University, Australia. In December 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna.

Smith has authored, co-authored or co-edited 38 books, and authored or co-authored 213 journal articles and 140 book chapters. His general works in children's development include Children's Development and the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. His most extensive research recently has been on bullying and violence in schools. Publications include The Psychology of School Bullying and Making an Impact on School Bullying: Interventions and Recommendations, and The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Bullying: A Comprehensive and International Review of Research and Intervention.

Dr Sarah McGeown, Edinburgh University

Better together: Co-designing educational interventions with children, young people, teachers and other professionals

Sarah McGeown is Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Sarah's research focuses on understanding and improving the literacy experiences and outcomes of children and young people through collaborative research practices.  In 2019, she co-founded LALco (https://lalco.org.uk) a multidisciplinary network to connect those working across research, policy and practice, but with a shared interest in supporting the language and literacy skills and experiences of children and young people. Details of these projects can be found at: https://lalco.org.uk/projects

Professor Gijsbert Stoet, University of Essex

Sex differences in educational outcomes are more profound than many people think

Sex differences in educational achievement and attitudes have been studied since the early years of psychological research. One consistent finding is that girls typically outperform boys in language related skills and boys often, but not always, outperform girls in certain mathematical abilities. In this talk, I will highlight some large and consistent differences as well as changes over time.

Further, I will show that sex differences in educational variables are often larger in countries in which women are more empowered. This is known as the gender equality paradox. I will illustrate this with our latest findings on adolescents' career aspiration.

Gijsbert Stoet studied psychology at the University of Groningen in Holland and was awarded his doctoral degree from the University of Munich. He has worked subsequently at the Washington University School of Medicine and, since 2006, five different universities in the UK, including Leeds, Glasgow, and now Essex.

His current research focus is individual differences, especially in regard to educational achievement and attitudes.