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The EAESP Summer School of 2008 will take place from Sunday August 17 (arrival day) to August 31 (departure day) 2008 in Cardiff Wales, UK at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Cardiff has a population of 300,000 and as the capital of Wales, is home to the Welsh Assembly Government. It boasts many interesting old buildings (such as the castle) and equally interesting and iconic new ones (such as the millennium stadium, the opera house and the assembly building itself). It has buzzing centre and a lively bay area with many pubs, bars, and restaurants throughout the city. It is also close to beautiful countryside and coastline with the Brecon Beacons and Gower peninsular within a short distance. Cardiff University is home to one of the leading and also largest psychology departments in the UK, with 60 full time lecturing staff and many more postgraduate students. The EAESP 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 Cardiff 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:
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 programs 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 (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 students should apply via SPSP. 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 self-catering university housing for the two weeks of the Summer School. Their own institution will however be expected to cover their travel to and from Cardiff and a registration fee of €200. The closing date for applications was January 15, 2008. Russell Spears
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.
The next EAESP summer school will be held in Cardiff (UK) in late summer 2008.
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 EAESP 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 2007.
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EAESP Summer School 2008 August 17 – August 31, Cardiff, Wales, UK -
Call for Applications
1967 July 31-September 2, Leuven, Belgium (officially called
"European Research Training Seminar in Experimental Social Psychology")
