Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (PPS) Student Research Conference

You are warmly invited to join our Student Research Conference - Haunting the Future: Insanity in Uncertain Times.

Our PPS Student Research Conference offers a creative space to engage, discuss and debate a number of themes and concerns which affect us all in this contemporary moment. How did we get here? What kinds of underlying social and psychological pressures have created the physical, psychological, and geological climate in which we are living – one which can seem uncertain, strange, disorientating, and divisive?  Yet many feel certain about what they know and enter wars of different kinds: wars of words, images and identities which can all feel traumatising, and threaten our sense of internal coherence, while actual wars – horrifying and unthinkable – seem to have become an everyday reality.  From where have the ghosts come that haunt us today, and how do these new realities get taken up in the clinic and in different kind of therapeutic and social engagement? Will we be haunted into the future or can we re-imagine the possibility of something more hopeful? 

We welcome you to join us for this two day hybrid conference, open to all and free of charge.  Over the course of the two days there will be an opportunity to hear from a wide range of speakers, reflect and share questions on our theme and connect with researchers across and beyond our psychosocial and psychoanalytic fields. There will be opportunities for creative interaction and the chance to hear the debut of some original music created by our PPS community especially for our conference theme. 

Please register your interest here indicating whether you hope to participate in person or on line and whether you hope to attend both days (Thursday 10am - 6pm and Friday 8.45am - 4.40pm ) or just one. We will then be in touch to confirm your place and with further details of the programme and speaker biographies nearer the time. 

We aim for our conference to be as inclusive as possible and welcome people at all levels of research and students of all year groups. Please do let us know ahead if you have any access needs so that we can do our best to accommodate these.