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The Summer School of the Association normally has now a 2-year cycle, and we attempt to ensure that this cycle also avoids clashing with the General Meetings. The Summer School is intended to provide graduate students in Europe with the opportunity to come together for a two-week period to receive instruction and supervision from senior social psychologists drawn from Europe and North America. It also provides graduate students with the chance to meet graduate students from other European countries. Since many of these students go on to become full-time academics, this means that it is possible for even junior academic staff to have an established network of contacts throughout Europe, drawn from fellow-participants in a Summer School.
The next EAESP summer school will be held in summer 2010.
Because the Summer School costs a great deal of time, effort, and money to organise, any given graduate student is limited to participating in one Summer School, and participants are selected on a competitive basis. A typical Summer School lasts for 2 weeks, and consists of 5 'workshop' groups of students, with about 12 students in each group. The groups are organised around research themes, and each group is supervised by a tutor whose own research specialisation falls within that theme. This tutor is usually assisted by a second member person, who is often recruited from the university staff of institutions in the host country. Efforts are made by the Summer School organiser (who is appointed to this role by the Executive Committee) to achieve a balance of research themes, so that the discipline of social psychology is as far as possible covered. Normally no more than one current member of the Executive Committee acts as a tutor at summer schools, and the academic programme of the school is devised in consultation with the Executive Committee.
The intention is that each of the 5 workshop groups receives specialist instruction in a particular research topic, and that on the basis of this instruction members of the group design one or more empirical studies that would address key theoretical questions. Given that the schools take place in the summer months, when the supply of potential research participants is limited, it is usually only possible for students to conduct pilot research during the Summer School. The summer school organiser may set aside some sources of support towards the later extention of the planned research at one or more of the participants' home universities.
A relatively new development is, that the Summer School
Dean keeps 5 of the approximately 60 potential Summer School places open
for graduate students from outside Europe. Thus far students from the
USA, from Canada, from Israel, and from Australia have attended EAESP
Summer Schools. This is based on an agreement with SPSP which on the other
hand allows 5 European students to attend the SPSP Summer Schools (SISP). The next SISP is scheduled for summer 2009 - information can be found at: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/marketing/SummerInstitute/index.htm
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Last update: November 13, 2008 |
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1967 July 31-September 2, Leuven, Belgium (officially called
"European Research Training Seminar in Experimental Social Psychology")
