The ‘READING’ CONFERENCE 2019

Birkbeck College

ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES ‘READING’ CONFERENCE 2019. At Birkbeck, University of London, Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May 2019 The Psychosocial – reflections and developments   The APS Reading Conference 2019 will create an innovative space for developing the field of psychosocial studies. Over two days, you will have the opportunity to participate in discussion …

Psychosocial Methodologies: Politicising Research with Narrative and Free Association

A course for psychosocial researchers taking place at UCL Institute of Education and supported by the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham   Course tutors:  Claudia Lapping, Ian McGimpsey, Felipe Acuna, Mohamed Elshirazy Dates: Mon 1st, Tues 2nd and Weds 3rd July, 10 am - 4pm Location: UCL Room: B06 Drayton House, 30 …

AGM and Relaunch of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies

We  are delighted  to celebrate the publication of the double re-launch issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. The journal will henceforth be published by Policy Press. This move to a professional academic publishing platform reflects the strength of the journal and growing national and international recognition of the unique place it occupies in the field of …

APS Summer Programme 2020

The APS is very excited to be hosting a series of topical events and in an array of formats during the summer of 2020. Please click here for more details and free registration links: APS Summer 2020 Programme.

APS Reading Group: Nini Fang’s ‘Feeling/ being out of place: psychic defence against the hostility environment’

Please join us for our second in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. Like everyone, APS members are working under very altered and potentially isolating circumstances and it was with great regret that the we had to …

APS Online Reading Group: Frances Cardona’s ‘Work Matters: Consulting to Leaders and Organisations in the Tavistock Tradition’

The APS and IGA are pleased to co-host this special event. Francesca will be leading a discussion of issues in her new book. Her presentation will weave in experiences of work from her new book, whose topics include leadership beyond the textbooks, organisational and personal shame and working with succession. This event is free to …

APS/JPS Reading Group Event: Lita Crociani-Windland – “On transience and other hatreds”

Association of Psychosocial Studies and Journal of Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group   Lita Crociani-Windland, “On transience and other hatreds”   Friday 27 November 4 – 6pm   We are pleased to invite you to our fifth in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together to discuss topical psychosocial …

APS Reading Group: No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change, globalisation, homelessness & human migration

Abstract: There are two dominant and competing ways of conceptualising the psychosocial dynamics of social inclusion. In ‘Metropolitan’ systems, if you’re the wrong side of that line which denotes who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’, you’re excluded and oppressed, but you can ‘come in from the cold’ if you accept the terms of the invitation. In …

APS Reading Group: On Disappointment: promoting ordinary conversation for, an in, extraordinary times

Please join us for our monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. This month Christopher Scanlon’s article, “On Disappointment, Failure and Forgivness: promoting ordinary conversation for, and in, extraordinary times?” A free copy of the article is available to download here …