Announcements

The British Journal of Social Psychology will issue a special issue on ‘Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation’, edited by a range of ICRN members (John Dixon, Stefania Paolini, Chloe Bracegirdle, Patrick Kotzur, Marie-Therese Friehs) alongside Anna Stefaniak. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome; abstracts should be submitted as an expression of interest by the end of March 2025.

We invite you to participate in an exciting international meeting – Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation: Intraindividual, Interpersonal, Intergroup, and Global Processes – that will be held June 20-22, 2025 in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand. The conference will be hosted by the International Institute for Peace and Development Studies and limited in size (50 participants or less).

The ICRN will start a monthly Contact Colloquium from the 18th of October, where we will hear from leading researchers on intergroup contact and related fields and get a chance to discuss with them. The sessions are open to all; the schedule and registration links are now available here. Read more

Applications are invited for two posts of Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Power, Crime, and Society, Royal Holloway, University of London. Location: Egham, UK Salary: £39,233 per annum - including London Allowance Post Type: Full Time Deadline: 23.59 hours BST on Thursday 22 August 2024

Applicants are invited to apply for a full time post doctoral position commencing October 1st 2024 at the Department of Social Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. The department of social psychology is strong in research on intergroup relations, cooperation and conflict within and between social groups, moral emotions, political ideology/ authoritarianism, recognition and reconciliation.

Applicants are invited to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck in the Birkbeck Business School. The funding is provided by the charity Volkswagen Foundation and the title of this international project is ‘Overcoming Societal Tensions in Europe: Can Age-Diverse Friendships be the Solution?’ The research will use dyadic and social network analysis to explore secondary transfer effects of intergenerational workplace friendships to other groups and their conditions/mechanisms (Application deadline 25 July, 2024).

The Durham Psychology Department got approval to advertise the position of an Assistant Professor in Psychology (Research & Education) open to all areas. The post is advertised as ‘open to all areas’ because we currently do not know the exact number of finally approved posts. The outcome of the current planning round will be announced when student numbers are confirmed in autumn.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the UEA School of Psychology to conduct studies on the drivers of intergroup contact engagement. In that role, you would work with Rose Meleady, Shelley McKeown-Jones, George Leckie and Belong, the Social Cohesion and Integration Charity. The project aims to identify structural and psychological antecedents of intergroup contact

🌟 We just completed the inaugural summit of the new international Contact Research Network - thanks to the amazing colleagues who spent the last 2 days with us in London at Birkbeck!🌟 Our conversations highlighted some priorities and opportunities for future research👇 💡Contact interventions can promote understanding in schools (Lindsey), at work (Libby) and in conflict situations (Orkun), and reduce political polarisation (Michèle).