Welcome to the 3rd Biennial IWP International Conference 2012 on Work, Wellbeing and Performance: Thriving in times of uncertainty
The IWP International Conference 2012 is being held from 26th to 28th June at the Mercure St. Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield City Centre. It is hosted by the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, a distinctive community of researchers focused on work psychology and related areas, such as organisational behaviour and human resource management.
This conference follows our extremely successful events in 2008 and 2010 each of which attracted over 200 delegates from 36 different countries.
The conference theme, Thriving in times of uncertainty, encourages us to consider what facilitates high performance and well-being in challenging times. We encourage academics and practitioners to focus on the positive contribution that work psychology and related areas can make in a post-recovery climate.
We anticipate the presence of some 200 - 300 delegates at our 2012 conference for whom this will be a major showcase for their research and a unique networking opportunity.
The Conference will also be attractive to business leaders by exploring the latest ideas in occupational psychology and placing them in a practical setting.
The conference will feature three internationally recognised keynote speakers - Professor Talya Bauer, Professor Gilad Chen and Professor Sharon Parker. An internationally recognised business keynote will also feature at the conference. There will be a full programme of papers and an interactive poster session.
The week opens with a follow-up to 2008’s and 2010's very popular Postgraduate and Early Careers Event, Pre Conference Workshops and Statistics Training Courses.
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EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship”
Posted on Jan 04, 2012
We are delighted to announce that immediately after the IWP Conference 2012 the EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” will take place in Sheffield.
We are delighted to announce that immediately after the IWP Conference 2012 the EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” will take place in Sheffield (June 29 – July 1st, 2012).
The aim of this small group meeting is to advance the field of Psychology of Entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond. This will be achieved by bringing together researchers working in the field and stimulating intense discussion, by encouraging participants to make links between each other’s work and by stimulating cross cultural collaboration. The contributions for the meeting will be clustered around four broad topics. Provisionally, these are 1) Entrepreneurial Personality: From trait to process and interaction; 2) Advancing research on entrepreneurial careers; 3) Entrepreneurial leadership; and 4) Affect and cognition in entrepreneurship. A cross-cutting theme throughout the meeting will be to draw attention to cultural aspects.
The meeting also entails a number of keynote speakers chosen among top-level researchers in the broader field of the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Confirmed international keynote speakers include
Professor Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia
Professor Michael Frese, National University of Singapore and Leuphana University Germany
Professor Lorraine Uhlaner, EDHEC Business School, France
Professor Juergen Wegge, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Confirmed UK keynote speakers include
Professor John Arnold, University of Sheffield, UK
How can you take part?
The number of participants is restricted to 25. To participate please submit a paper to the Small Group Meeting organisers (see below) by March 15, 2012. There will be no fees for participation. Please see the full call for papers here.
Meeting Organisers
Dr. Marjan Gorgievski, Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam, Netherlands .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Ute Stephan, University of Sheffield, UK .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Small Group Meeting is sponsored by EAWOP – the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Sheffield.