What is PEPSS?
Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science (PEPSS) Seminar Series, known as PEPSS, is an interdisciplinary seminar series that connects academics, practitioners, and policy-makers. The seminar series is sponsored by the Social Change Lab, SIGN, NESS, and endorsed by CRiSP.
Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science (PEPSS) Seminar Series, known as PEPSS, is an interdisciplinary seminar series that connects academics, practitioners, and policy-makers. The seminar series is sponsored by the Social Change Lab, SIGN, NESS, and endorsed by CRiSP.
What are our aims?
PEPSS aims to break the disconnects between academics from different disciplines, and between scholars and practitioners and policy-makers, through facilitating interdisciplinary conversations. PEPSS provide a structure that encourages conversations between interdisciplinary teams, replacing traditional presentations as one-off monologues with iterative dialogues. Instead of focusing on individuals presenting their own work, PEPSS takes a next step by asking scholars to present to and respond to each other.
Through inviting interdisciplinary dyads or panels to triangulate a problem from multiple perspectives, PEPSS is designed to reach interdisciplinary audiences and stimulate new conversations. Our aim is to encourage students and scholars to think across levels of analysis, surface assumptions, and make salient contests of ideas.
The PEPSS talks are recorded and published via the Psychology of Change YouTube channel. The world community can access the talks for free. Moreover, we hope that in future, scholars can also iteratively return to the topics in future sessions to try to progress understanding and engage debates.
PEPSS in 2022
PEPSS in 2023
PEPSS in 2024
PEPSS aims to break the disconnects between academics from different disciplines, and between scholars and practitioners and policy-makers, through facilitating interdisciplinary conversations. PEPSS provide a structure that encourages conversations between interdisciplinary teams, replacing traditional presentations as one-off monologues with iterative dialogues. Instead of focusing on individuals presenting their own work, PEPSS takes a next step by asking scholars to present to and respond to each other.
Through inviting interdisciplinary dyads or panels to triangulate a problem from multiple perspectives, PEPSS is designed to reach interdisciplinary audiences and stimulate new conversations. Our aim is to encourage students and scholars to think across levels of analysis, surface assumptions, and make salient contests of ideas.
The PEPSS talks are recorded and published via the Psychology of Change YouTube channel. The world community can access the talks for free. Moreover, we hope that in future, scholars can also iteratively return to the topics in future sessions to try to progress understanding and engage debates.
PEPSS in 2022
- September 16 - Introduction to PEPSS [Video: 59:36] - Prof. Jolanda Jetten, Prof. Kelly Fielding, Prof. Winnifred Louis
- October 28 – Gender Inclusion and Equity in Universities [Video: 1:27:18]- Prof. Jolanda Jetten, A/Prof Marit Kragt, Prof. Naomi Ellemers, Prof. Michelle Ryan
- November 11, 10:30am Brisbane time – Why people do and don’t protect biodiversity - Prof. Kelly Fielding, Dr. Lily van Eeden, Prof. Hugh Possingham, Prof. Taciano Milfont
PEPSS in 2023
- March 17 - The boundary between free speech and hate speech [Video: 1:25:18] - Prof. Winnifred Louis, Prof. Kath Gelber, Prof. Michal Bilewicz.
- April 21 - Achieving World Peace – what we know and what we don’t know [Video: 1:26:59] - Prof. Winnifred Louis, Prof. Diane Bretherton, Prof. Alexander Bellamy
- May 19 - Countering Science Misinformation - A case study of the Great Barrier Reef [Video: 1:19:40] - Dr Alicia Kennedy, Dr John Cook, Prof. Winnifred Louis, Dr Tracy Schultz
- August 18 - The Dynamics of State Capture - What we know and what we don't know [Video: 1:26:07] - Dr Rebecca Colvin, Prof. Daniel Nyberg, Prof. Winnifred Louis, Dr Christoph Klebl.
- Sept 15 - Weight Stigma in Health Policy and Practice [Video: 59:37] - Dr Briony. Hill, Prof John Dixon, Dr Joanne Rathbone.
- Nov 17 - Theory of Change: Practical reflections from an environmental scientist's perspective. [Video: 1:29:38] - Prof. lain Walker (Chair), Ashley Sparrow, Dr Lucy Richardson
PEPSS in 2024
- March 15 – Perspectives on Violent and Non-Violent Resistance Strategies. [Video: 1:31:31] - Prof. Winnifred Louis (Co-Chair), Dr Hema Preya Selvanathan (Co-Chair), Prof. Stellan Vinthagen, Dr Robin Gulliver.
- April 19 – Behaviour change and system change: Friend, foe, or folly? [Video: 1:30:59] - Prof. Winnifred Louis (Chair), Prof. Liam Smith, Dr Mitzi Bolton.
- May 17 Democratic transitions: What we know and what we don't know [Video: 1:31:46] - Prof. Winnifred Louis (Chair), Dr Chris Klebl (Co-Chair), Prof. Fathali M. Moghaddam, Prof. Edward Aspinall
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- August 29
- September 20
- October 18
- November 15
