ECP2023 Thematic Streams

 

Topic

1

Poverty and inequalities

2

Climate change and sustainability

3

Conflict, diplomacy and peace

4

Psychological responses to the pandemic

5

Clinical

6

Counselling 

7

Occupational

8

Forensic

9

Health, Sport & Exercise 

10

Educational and Developmental

11

Experimental: Cognitive, Psychobiology and Neuropsychology

12

Social, Personality & Individual differences

13

Teaching

14

Students & Early Career

15

Coaching

16

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

17

General, Conceptual & History of Psychology

18

Others

 

Please find out more information about our four interdisciplinary themes below:

 

  • Psychological responses to the pandemic: Lessons learned from the pandemic; communicating scientific evidence to the public and policy makers for behaviour change; changes to working practices (eg hybrid working; tele-health; virtual consulting with clients, innovations in research methods) and community health and well-being. 

 

  • Poverty and inequalities: Digital inequalities; the digital divide; health inequalities, the impact of poverty on mental and physical health, cognition and development across the life-span and within different communities.

 

  • Climate change and sustainability: Environmental psychology; Interventions to encourage more sustainable behaviours at the individual, community, organisation and societal levels; eco-anxiety and eco-grief; supporting refugees and migration caused by the environmental crisis.

 

  • Conflict, diplomacy and peace: Political psychology; Defence and security psychology; crisis and trauma; the rise of authoritarianism; trust in governments and institutions; social cohesion; supporting refugees and migration caused by conflict; psychology’s role in diplomatic relations and peace-making; post-conflict trauma recovery and resolution.