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The EASP Summer School of 2010 will take place from Monday August 23rd (arrival day) to September 6th (departure day) 2010 in Aegina, Greece at the 1st Primary School of Aegina in collaboration with the Department of Psychology Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the Municipality of Aegina. Aegina is a small island near Athens (approx.1 hour of boat) that attracts Athenians and tourists all over the year. The visitor is able to see in Aegina the long history of Greece. The temple of Athena Aphaia is built in the northern part of the island in a place covered with pine trees and with a view of the beautiful blue sea. It's in a very good condition. Twenty-four pillars of the temple remain, out of a total of 34. It has been built in 480 b.c. just after the naval battle in Salamina. Vestiges of the Byzantine times and the Ottoman empire are also present on the island. In 1828 Aegina became the first capital of Greece and the neoclassical buildings testify of these era. Just not to forget mentionning that Aegina is the homeland of the famous pistachoes! There are plenty of activities, in Aegina but of course we will be all dedicated to social psychology! The EASP Summer School is currently organized every two years and is a central activity of the Association, and one that has a long and illustrious history – many members have benefited over the years from this unique chance to work with up-and-coming and established scholars from around Europe and indeed the globe (see below). It provides an ideal educational opportunity where much can be learnt about theory, methodology, and research design in social psychology, whilst also honing communication and presentational skills. It stimulates the cross fertilization of ideas and approaches between countries, continents and cultures as well as individuals. The close working in small groups provides a uniquely intense “hothouse” environment with the teaching more interactive than didactic. It is also “fun”. The social networks that emerge often lead to lifelong collaborations and friendships and those attending will be encouraged to design and develop collaborative research projects that continue afterwards. For the Aegina Summer School we have been lucky to recruit a very dynamic set of leading scholars to teach five workshops covering some classic topics but also some new ones. The topics and teachers are as follows: Professor Willem Doise (University of Geneva) will take part in some of the summer school activities. In addition, this year, again, the Social Cognition workshop will be sponsored by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON), continuing the close collaboration with EASP. The Summer School will accommodate 12 students per workshop making 60 in all (with a small number of local students helping with the organization also taking part). The limited number of places means that with great regret we already anticipate that we will not be able to take many students who apply. PhD students who are currently eligible for a PhD program in Europe and who have not previously participated in a previous summer school are eligible. The Association also has an arrangement with SPSP to admit 5 students from the USA/Canada (with a reciprocal agreement to send a similar number of European postgraduates to the US equivalent of the Summer school held in alternate years: the Summer Institute in Social Psychology) American and Canadian students should apply via SPSP. We have also agreed to admit 4 students from Asia and Australia that should apply via SASP. A limited/discretionary number of places will be open to applications from other parts of the globe making the summer school truly international enterprise. Students will be accommodated in twin bedrooms in a hotel for the two weeks of the Summer School. Their own institution is expected to cover their travel to and from Aegina and a registration fee of € 550 that will cover registration, accomodation and a daily meal. Application deadline was January 31, 2010 and is now closed
Organizing Committee: Xenia Chryssochoou
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 North America. 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 costs a great deal of time, effort, and money to organise, any given graduate student is limited to participating in one Summer School, and 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 member 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 extention of the planned research at one or more of the participants' home universities.
A relatively new development is, that the Summer School Dean keeps 5 of the approximately 60 potential Summer School places open for graduate students from outside Europe. Thus far students from the USA, from Canada, from Israel, and from Australia have attended EASP Summer Schools. This is based on an agreement with SPSP which on the other hand allows 5 European students to attend the SPSP Summer Schools (SISP). The next SISP is scheduled for summer 2011.
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 Last update: January 15, 2010 |
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EASP Summer School 2010 August 23 - September 6, Aegina, Greece 
1967 July 31-September 2, Leuven, Belgium (officially called
"European Research Training Seminar in Experimental Social Psychology")
