Resources and seminars
SIGN's members are invited to speak at international and national conferences and seminars on various topics related to social identity research.
In addition to these conferences and seminars, SIGN holds its very own SIGN seminar each month, which sees guests from across the world discuss their research.
Click on the below options to view these conference and seminar speakers and their recordings.
SIGN Seminars
May 2023: Dr Laura Anderson: "Health behaviour change: Improving participation in mail-out bowel cancer screening programs."
April 2023: Professor Miguel Moya: "Cognitive & motivational mechanisms of trust in authoritarian leaderships in contexts of economic threat."
April 2023: Bao-Thi Van Cong: "Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces."
March 2023: Dr Vanessa Wergin: "Collective team collapse in competitive sports."
February 2023: Associate Professor Joseph Cohen: "The promise and pitfalls of a developmental psychopathology lens for trauma- informed care."
February 2023: Sally Knox: "High reliability followership in elite military teams."
November 2022: Professor Olivier Klein: "How conspiracy beliefs affect attributions for intergroup equalities among members of disadvantaged groups."
October 2022: Professor Olivier Luminet and Professor Oliver Klein: "When Psychology informs policy: Lessons from the Motivation Barometer in Belguim"
Friday 7 October, 2022: Dr Kelly Kirkland: "Unpacking the relationship between economic inequality and morality"
Friday 5 August, 2022: Professor Lionel Page: "The game theoretic of social identity'"
Friday 1 July, 2022: Associate Professor Andre Pekerti: "Cultural metacognition: A large, well-stocked, organised and illuminated toolshed in the mind."
Friday 1 July, 2022: Dr Alexander O'Donnell: "Financial, psychological and social barriers to refugee adaptation in Australia: Findings from the Building a New Life in Australia study (BLNA)."
Friday 6 May, 2022: Dr Andrew Livingstone: "Developing a felt understanding-based intervention for intergroup peace building: Evidence from Northern Ireland"
Friday 6 May, 2022: Dr Jason McIntyre: "Using the Social Identity Approach to understand psychosis"
Friday 1 April, 2022: Professor Catherine Amiot: "Connecting to other animals: An application and extension of intergroup theories"
Friday 1 April, 2022: Associate Professor Judith Mair, "Who has the right to be rural?"
Friday 4 March, 2022: Dr Joanne Rathbone, " The self-reinforcing relationship between social identity and norm compliance."
Friday 4 February, 2022: Dr Sarah Bentley, "Online Social Identity Mapping: What is it, why we need it, and what can you do with it!"
Friday 5 November, 2021: Professor Linda Skitka, "Exploring whether identity expression forms the basis of moral conviction"
Friday 1 October, 2021: Belen Alvarez, "Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean Student movement: A latent transition analysis of participation, identity and social class"
Friday 1 October, 2021: Professor Michael Schmitt, "Imagining a Sustainable World and Environmental Activism"
Friday 3 September, 2021: Professor Roberto González, "Collective action as a vehicle for social change: The role of social norms, efficacy, and emotions"
Friday 3 September, 2021: Professor Winnifred Louis, "The psychology of effective activism"
Friday 6 August, 2021: Professor Katherine Reynolds, "How can schools impact on positive futures?"
Friday 2 July, 2021: James Casey, "Sympathy for the devil: Using moral attributions to explain the political intergroup empathy gap"
Friday 11 June, 2021: Professor Brian Lickel, "Collective responsibility and group identity: Forms, functions, processes, and implications for identity"
Friday 11 June, 2021: Professor Emma Thomas, "Distinguishing sympathisers, philanthropists, rusted on activists and radicals: Using person-centred analyses in collective action research"
To view more SIGN Seminar presentations, click here.
Industry and Organisational Presentations
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Professor Alex Haslam
- Tackling Austalia's most challenging health problems: Why Men's Sheds are an important part of the solution. Professor Alex Haslam
The PEPSS Seminar Series
The Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science (PEPSS) Seminar Series is a joint initiative between UQ’s SIGN research centre, the Social Change Lab and the Network of Environmental Social Scientists, and has also been endorsed by CRiSP. It brings monthly seminars focussed on big topics central to these fields, such as democracy, peace, environmental sustainability and diversity, and featuring standout interdisciplinary speakers
- Friday 11 November, 2022: Why People Do and Don't Protect Nature
- Friday 28 October, 2022: Gender Equity and Inclusion in Academia
- Friday 16 September, 2022: Introduction to the PEPSS Seminar Series