Keynote speakers & invited addresses

Meet our ECP 2023 keynote and invited speakers

Christoph Steinebach

President, EFPA (European Federation of Psychologists' Associations)
Tuesday

Keynote title:

European Psychology in the Post-Covid Era. Strategies for Sustainable Change 

Speaker Bio

Tuesday 4 July

4.30 – 5.15pm

Ioana Cristea

Associate Professor at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy and a Research Affiliate at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University
tuesday

Keynote title:

A pharmacologically informed paradigm for psychotherapy research: Active ingredients, kinetics and dynamics

Speaker Bio

Tuesday 4 July

2.45 – 3.45pm

Eef Hogervorst

Director, Dementia Research at Loughborough University
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Different cognitive assessment to diagnose dementia across cross-culturally

Speaker bio

Wednesday 5 July

9 – 10am

Roxane Cohen Silver

Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Institutional Research & Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Science, the Department of Medicine, and the Program in Public Health at the University of California
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Coping with collective traumas: From mass violence to Covid-19

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

2.45 – 3.45pm

Robin Banerjee

Head of the School of Psychology & Professor of developmental psychology - University of Sussex
Thursday

Keynote title:

Relationships and mental health: The role of social and emotional learning at school

Speaker Bio

Thursday 6 July

9 – 10am

Rusi Jaspal

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange) & Professor of Psychology at the University of Brighton
Tuesday

Keynote title:

Coping with threats to identity amid change, uncertainty and technological innovation

Speaker Bio

Tuesday 4 July

9 – 10am

Kate Pickett OBE

Professor of Epidemiology & Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health, University of York & Co-Director of Health Equity North
Tuesday

Keynote title:

Inequality: The enemy between us

Speaker Bio

Tuesday 4 July

10.30 – 11.30am

Inari Sakki

Professor in Social Psychology,
University of Helsinki
Thursday

Keynote title:

Contested meanings and uses of hate speech

Speaker Bio

Thursday 6 July

11.45am – 12.45pm

Nicky Hayes

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the British Psychological Society, Visiting Professor in psychology at Suffolk University & member of the Society of Authors 
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Social psychological implications of our hybrid future

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

4.30 – 5.15pm

Rosaleen McElvaney

European Awarding Committee, European Federation of Psychologists Associations
Thursday

Keynote title:

The EuroPsy: Reflections on achievements and directions for the future

Speaker Bio

Thursday 6 July

11.45 – 12.30pm

Tiago Pereira

Executive Board Member and former COVID-19 Crisis Cabinet Coordinator of Portuguese Psychologists Association
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Multiple contributions of psychology to a ‘full stop to poverty’ – The role of psychological science, practice and professional associations

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

11.45am – 12.45pm

Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu

Goethe University Frankfurt
Tuesday

Keynote title:

Climate change is more than a ‘crisis’:  

Community psychology as a tool for collective action 

Speaker Bio

Tuesday 4 July

11.45am – 12.45pm

Arthur Evans

CEO of the American Psychological Association, Clinical and community psychologist
Wednesday

Keynote title:

The power of psychology to improve people’s lives: Using what we know and applying what we have learned

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

9.30 – 10.15am

Giuseppe Riva

Humane Technology Lab - Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy & Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Positive Technology: Uniting communities for a sustainable world (Aristotle Award)

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

11.00 – 11.45am

Francesca Margherita De Falco

Master degree student in Clinical and Community Psychology - University of Naples “Federico II”
Wednesday

Keynote title:

Undergraduate Research Prize Address:

Yalla! Analysis of migratory phenomenon in the Neopolitan territory

Speaker Bio

Wednesday 5 July

9.30 – 10.15am

Dr Lisa Cameron MP

Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Psychology and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Health
Thursday

Keynote title:

Psychology and policy making

Speaker Bio

Thursday 6 July

10.30 – 11.30am