Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science Seminar Series (PEPSS)
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
Working list of future PEPSS dates for 2023
August 18
Sept 15
October 20
Nov 17
Dec 15
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
Working list of future PEPSS dates for 2023
August 18
Sept 15
October 20
Nov 17
Dec 15
