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Sam Parker

@samparker1982.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology @UWE Bristol: refugees, integration, qualitative research methods, discursive psychology.

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A great opening panel on Day 2 of the section Conference -- "Exploring the construction of place with Critical Social Psychology". Thank you Philippa Carr, Penny Litchfield, Sam Parker, Sadvansha Munshi & Alex Hunt!
The panel sits at the front table for the Q&A discussion session.
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great talk by Evangelia Vergouli on how citizens construct political extremism. Participants negotiated dilemmas about freedom of speech and social harm. Important take away about counter extremist research needing to be questioned #spsconf2026
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"How to Do Discursive Psychology: A Concise Guide" by @profsalwiggins.bsky.social & @bogdanahuma.bsky.social "This article has detailed some of the core steps of DP analyses using a behind-the-scenes approach to our own work on analyzing family mealtime interactions." psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From the Discursive Psychology Special Section - "Discursive Psychology and Anti-Black racism: Strengths, Deficits, and Ways Forward" by Krystal Perkins, Rahul Sambaraju, & @drsimongoodman.bsky.social-DP allows for the relevance of "sociohistorical aspects in racism" psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"A Discursive Psychological Approach to Moral Dilemmas in Discrimination and Racism in Everyday Life" by Jessica Robles, @natshri.bsky.social, & Cristian Tileagă - A DP approach to morality "is uniquely situated to reveal insights into the nature of defeasible racism" psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media! It's online and free 🙂 www.bps.org.uk/event/social...
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Social Media and Secondary Data in Psychological and Educational Research: Confronting Key Ethical and Methodological Issues | BPS
This one day online event aims to raise and discuss methodological and ethical issues involved in working with secondary data from social media and public datasets.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A golden age of behavioural social psychology? Towards a social psychology of power and intergroup relations in the digital age bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the idea of a ‘golden age’ in social psychological research. I begin with ‘behavioural social psychology’—research that leverages the behavioural traces that are a product of the ...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📢 PUBLICATION ALERT! New article by @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social re-examines how 'the elite' is constructed in populist discourse, using the cases of Die Linke and AfD. A crucial contribution to populism studies! Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What we talk about when we talk about ‘the elite’ in populism studies: re-examining an often-neglected term in the cases of Die Linke and AfD
Populism studies have almost exclusively focused on understanding the phenomenon of populism based on how ‘the people’ are constructed as a political subject. Indeed, most of the relevant literatur...
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QMiP @qmip.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Do not forget our oral history event-we will learn about QMiP and the past, present and future of qualitative research🤩 www.bps.org.uk/event/qmip-2...
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QMiP is 20: An Oral History Event | BPS
As the Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) Section, celebrates 20 years, they invite you to join this oral history event where they will collectively reflect on QMiP’s legacy.
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
⭐New blog post⭐ In this blog ✍️ for our good growth hub, Dr Philippa Carr, drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @dradamjowett.bsky.social & Dr Jackie Abell explore how the media portrays inequality & wealth and the impact this has on economic growth. Read here ➡️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The most cited papers of the 21st century, including @vicclarke.bsky.social and @ginnybraun.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... As they told us in this 2021 interview, 'thematic analysis has travelled to places we've never heard of'! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century
A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.
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Harry Lewis @harrymlewis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New blogpost looking at the psychology of felt safety at live music events: tinyurl.com/4kcs7x2p. Draws on interview, ethnographic and survey data. With @profjohndrury.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Danielle Evans, Fiona Green, @sanjeedah.bsky.social and @lewisdoyle.bsky.social.
Side by side images of a crowd at a music festival. The first image shows a small number of people signaling to a medic. The second image shows a larger number of people in the crowd raising their hands to amplify the medic's signal to other medical personnel at the front of the stage.
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's QMiP's 20th anniversary this year and we'll be celebrating at the conference! There'll also be fab keynotes: @ginnybraun.bsky.social @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social and Paul Flowers Submit your abstracts and join us! Deadline 28th March www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit... #qualitative #research
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Vic Clarke (she/her, they/them) @vicclarke.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Really pleased to have this paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of peer review with @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social out there - open access. We recruited lots of the contributors on the other place... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Centre for Qualitative Research @cqr-bath.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
⭐TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! So many great abstracts submitted already, make sure you don't miss the chance to be part of the discussion on Transparency, Openness and Rigour with us in January! Deadline is 5PM tomorrow- 6th December! ⭐
A powerpoint slide advertising the upcoming Qualitative Research Symposium. Slide reads:

Callingf all qualitative researchers! Submissions are open for the Ninth Annual Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS). (In bold font): Transparency, Openness and Rigour in Qualitative Research. Held from Tuesday 28th- Wednesday 29th January 2025. School of Management, University of Bath. Submission deadline Friday 6th December.
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Dr. Aisling O'Donnell @draislingod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Call for papers! At BJSP we are having a special issue on the social psychology of Collective Racial and Ethnic Violence. Full information can be found here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...  #socialpsychology
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
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Professor Julie Hulme @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New blog! #BOGOF model of #scholarship - I've been talking about this for years, & finally got my thoughts in writing. Get max value out of your teaching, and turn it into scholarship, raise your profile, for #RewardAndRecognition: higherpsyched.home.blog/2024/11/17/t...
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The ‘buy one, get one free’ (BOGOF) model of scholarship in higher education
For education-focused academics, getting promoted can be hard. Even being appreciated just for doing what you do can sometimes be hard. How can we build the kind of profile that contributes to rewa…
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