News Stories
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Surrey Student, Geetha Reddy, accepted to attend the ISPP
22 May 2012
Geetha Reddy, who is currently studying for her MSc at the University of Surrey, was accepted to attend the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) Summer Academy which will be held on July 3rd – 5th 2012 in Chicago, USA. A fellowship at the academy is highly competitive and we are very proud that Geetha was accepted.
The Summer Academy is designed for young scholars who are likely to teach political psychology and/or conduct political psychology research in the future.
This year the Summer Academy program hosts five new courses by prominent scholars: Susan Condor (Lancaster University), Jack Levy (Rutgers University), Victor Ottati (Loyola University Chicago) Felicia Pratto (University of Connecticut), Jerrold Post (George Washington University) and an introductory course in Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy and Stanley Feldman (Stony Brook University). Fellows will also discuss their research agendas in smaller breakout groups, and take part in a number of social activities.
Geetha’s research looks at ‘Negotiating Ethnic Identities in multicultural Singapore’ and she will present findings of her MSc thesis at the ISPP annual meeting that follows the Summer Academy in Chicago.
She is supervised by Dr Ilka Gleibs.
Paper to be included in Science for Environment Policy
21 March 2012
At the end of last year, a paper written by David Uzzell and Nora Räthzel (Visiting Professor, and university of Umeå) - ‘Trade unions and climate change: the jobs versus environment dilemma’ (published in Global Environmental Change, 21, 1215–1223) was named research paper of the month in Nature: Climate Change. It has now been selected for inclusion in Science for Environment Policy, which is the European Commission's environmental news service for policy makers, distributed to over 14,000. A summary of the paper can be read here:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/277na2.pdf
and the full paper downloaded here:
Research award for Psychology student
8 February 2012
Lucy Butterworth, who is currently studying for her MSC at the University of Surrey, having graduated also from Surrey with a first class honours degree last year, won the coveted price for the best research project at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference in Chester, January 2012. Lucy undertook practical research to encourage recycling behaviours in the workplace, and was commended on her mixed methods approach.
She was supervised by Dr Almuth McDowall.
Lucy follows in the footsteps of Alison Lynsday, now a Surrey alumni, who was runner up last year - also supervised by Almuth.
Sex Offenders and Lad's Mags
15 December 2011
Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same language?
Far from being harmless or ironic fun, lads’ mags could be legitimising hostile sexist attitudes, according to new research.
Scholarships Announced
16 November 2011
Chancellor’s Scholarships 2012/13
The University of Surrey has introduced merit-based scholarships, the Chancellor’s Scholarships, to recognise exceptional academic achievement for the academic year 2012/13.
Sports Scholarships
Our Sports Scholarships recognise exceptional achievement by high calibre athletes and complement our state-of-the-art sports facilities at Surrey Sports Park.
For more information please click here http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees/index.htm
