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We are pleased to announce that the 2014 EASP Summer School will take place in Lisbon, Portugal (August 17-30, 2014). The Summer School will be co-hosted by the Institute of Social Sciences,University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) and the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). The local organizing team is looking forward to welcome promising young researchers to attend broad and intellectually stimulating workshops and keynote addresses that were put together. In line with previous editions of the EASP Summer School, applicants are invited to apply for participating in one of the following five workshops: WORKSHOP 1: Socially Situated Cognition Specific application guidelines will be announced in the next issue of the EBSP and on the Summer School website that will be available from October, 1st (website address will be announced through EASP mailing list). Important dates: For inquiries about the 2014 EASP Summer School, please contact the local
organizing team: Rui Costa Lopes (rui.lopes@ics.ul.pt), Margarida Vaz Garrido (margarida.garrido@iscte.pt) or directly to the Summer School email address: sseasp2014lisboa@gmail.com. On behalf of the organizing committee,
The Summer School of the Association normally has now a 2-year cycle, and we attempt to ensure that this cycle also avoids clashing with the General Meetings. The Summer School is intended to provide graduate students in Europe with the opportunity to come together for a two-week period to receive instruction and supervision from senior social psychologists drawn from Europe and the rest of the world. It also provides graduate students with the chance to meet graduate students from other European countries. Since many of these students go on to become full-time academics, this means that it is possible for even junior academic staff to have an established network of contacts throughout Europe, drawn from fellow-participants in a Summer School.
Because the Summer School takes a great deal of time, effort, and money to organise, any because graduate students are limited to participating in one Summer School, participants are selected on a competitive basis. A typical Summer School lasts for 2 weeks, and consists of 5 'workshop' groups of students, with about 12 students in each group. The groups are organised around research themes, and each group is supervised by a tutor whose own research specialisation falls within that theme. This tutor is usually assisted by a second person, who is often recruited from the university staff of institutions in the host country. Efforts are made by the Summer School organiser (who is appointed to this role by the Executive Committee) to achieve a balance of research themes, so that the discipline of social psychology is as far as possible covered. Normally no more than one current member of the Executive Committee acts as a tutor at summer schools, and the academic programme of the school is devised in consultation with the Executive Committee.
The intention is that each of the 5 workshop groups receives specialist instruction in a particular research topic, and that on the basis of this instruction members of the group design one or more empirical studies that would address key theoretical questions. Given that the schools take place in the summer months, when the supply of potential research participants is limited, it is usually only possible for students to conduct pilot research during the Summer School. The summer school organiser may set aside some sources of support towards the later extension of the planned research at one or more of the participants' home universities.
A relatively new development is, that the Summer School organizer keeps 5 of the approximately 60 potential Summer School places open for graduate students from North America/Canada (selected by SPSP) and 5 places for Australasian students (selected by the SASP). This is based on an agreement with SPSP and SASP which, in turn, allows European students to attend the SPSP Summer Schools (SISP) and the summer school of SASP. The next SISP is scheduled for summer 2013, the next SASP summer school will take place 2014.
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 Last update: March 21, 2013 |
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EASP Summer Schools
1967 July 31-September 2, Leuven, Belgium (officially called
"European Research Training Seminar in Experimental Social Psychology")
