CPsychol MCIPD PIEMA
'The Role of HR and it’s overlap with Occupational Psychology and sharing pro-environmental behaviours in the workplace'
Jan works with individuals as a coach and with teams and groups facilitating development and change. She is a Registered Occupational Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience of working with public, private and not-for-profit organisations with a focus on management and leadership development - following her early career in building design. She applies her knowledge and experience of positive psychology, has a passion for learning, and promotes the role of psychology in behaviour change at a personal and organisational level.
She is a Carbon Conversations facilitator and delivers Carbon Literacy Project training as ways to engage with people at work and encourage behaviour change through the process. She works with organisations developing their Environmental Management Systems.Her main concerns are creating personal and organisational resilience, recognising the need to mitigate the impact of climate change and our impact on the environment.
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University
'Conspiracy Theory'
Dr Daniel Jolley is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University (UK). He is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, where he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Social Psychology Section.
Daniel’s main area of research is the psychology of conspiracy theories. In his research, he uses experimental methods to examine the social consequences of conspiracy theories. He has also tested tools to address the negative impacts of conspiracy theories. Daniel has co-authored articles in outlets such as PLoSONE, the British Journal of Psychology and Political Psychology and has received funding from research bodies such as the British Academy.
You can read more about Daniel’s work on his website (www.danieljolley.co.uk) or Twitter (@DrDanielJolley).
Lecturer in Social Psychology at St Andrews University
Dr Fergus Neville is a Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews. His research is broadly focused on group processes and their pro-social and anti-social consequences, with a particular focus on the power of social identities and social norms to explain and alter collective behaviour.
'Using Social Identities & Social Norms to Facilitate Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change
This talk will look at the concepts of social identities and social norms and their relevance to environmental attitudes and behaviours. We all possess multiple social identities which are relevant to us in different social contexts (e.g. as Scottish, an academic, a father, an environmentalist etc.), and each of these has a different set of associated social norms (the appropriate way to think and act as a member of that group).
The ways in which these social norms are perceived and misperceived have important consequences for our behaviour. This presentation will review research in this area and discuss the potential to harness these social processes to encourage pro-environmental behaviour change.
Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Stirling
I’m a professor of Health Psychology at the University of Stirling. I got my BA in Psychology from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Following a year in Cardiff, Whitchurch hospital as a community service volunteer, I did my MSc in Health Psychology at the University College London.
I then moved to Istanbul to work in the newly established Psychology Department in Istanbul Bilgi University. Following a two-year stint in Istanbul, I went to Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey (USA) to do my PhD in Social/Health Psychology under the supervision of Prof. Howard Leventhal.
After finishing my degree, I got a research fellowship at the University of St Andrews and then a lectureship. My research spans prevention of ill health to management of long-term conditions. I work in the areas of physical activity, eating behaviour, smoking among other health behaviours. I also have a programme of research around fears of cancer recurrence. I have taught medical students in the past and also teach health psychology at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
'Health and pro-environmental concerns and behaviours'
In this talk, I will cover:
Social researcher in the Scottish Government
'Current Climate Change Research and what it's telling us'
Nadine works as a social researcher in the Scottish Government, currently leading the research on Scotland's Climate Citizens' Assembly. Following a PhD in the psychology of pro-environmental behaviour, she worked in the science team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change technical support unit for Working Group II (impacts, vulnerability and adaptation) with a focus on social sciences and psychology for the Sixth Assessment Report.
Nadine is a visiting researcher at Lancaster University's Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance Scotland. She is also a qualified Mountain Leader, a trained mindfulness teacher and a mindfulness and nature based coach/trainer. In the early part of her career, Nadine spent many years working in various aspects of the music industry, festival management, and in the arts and heritage sector in strategic marketing, organisational development, management research and evaluation, training and facilitation.
Research Associate within the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
Dr. Richard Carmichael is Research Associate within the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and is Co-Leader of the Behaviour change in Energy and Environment Policy (‘BEEP’) Research Network. A Chartered Psychologist, his work focusses on consumer engagement, behaviour change and policy for sustainable lifestyles and system change with specific interests that include energy, technology and ICT.
He has 13 years' experience in post-doctoral research and consultancy, including work for Ofgem and BEIS and authoring the independent report for the CCC, ‘Behaviour change, public engagement and Net Zero’. He is currently exploring several digital tools for more sustainable lifestyles and is project advisor/behavioural expert on several projects for BEIS on societal change for Net Zero.
Lecturer in Social Psychology at Keele University
'Climate Action and Psychological Change - The Role of Inter- and Intragroup Processes'
Dr. Sara Vestergren is a lecturer in Social Psychology at Keele University. Sara’s main research interest and area of expertise is collective action and the environmental movement, more specifically participation in collective action (e.g. protest participation).
In her research, Sara mainly uses qualitative methods such as ethnographic interviews and reflexive thematic analysis to explore psychological change through participation in collective actions. She has, together with Prof. John Drury at University of Sussex, developed a theory of emergent and enduring change through participation in collective action.
Clinical Psychologist and a senior academic tutor on the Exeter Clinical Psychology Doctorate
Tony is a clinical psychologist and a senior academic tutor on the Exeter Clinical Psychology Doctorate, where he teaches on topics including leadership, policy and ethics. Over the past few years Tony been a member of and has chaired the BPS Ethics Committee and has represented the BPS on the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations’ (EFPA) Board of Ethics, the EFPA Board Human Rights and Psychology, and convened the EFPA Board of Prevention and Intervention (http://www.efpa.eu/working-groups.
In these various roles he has dealt with questions concerning the ethics of climate change, and the fall out of the pandemic, racism and oppression, taking forward policy and practice issues in a psychological framework. Tony is delighted to see that the BPS has been developing a stronger advocacy orientation, to engage with public policy in a local and global capacity, to further this urgent international agenda. Tony currently chairs the BPS Steering Group on the Climate and Environmental Crisis and is a member of the Steering Group on Psychology and Human Rights https://www.bps.org.uk/who-we-are/ethics-committee/workstreams and reports on their work to the Ethics Committee. He also co-chairs the DCP Prevention and Public health subcommittee https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/division-clinical-psychology/public-health.
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