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2019 Organizational Psychology Summer Seminar and Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture

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Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

Alumni and friends of the Department are invited to the Department's annual Summer Seminar to hear about the latest research in the fields of Occupational Psychology, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (HRM).  The Summer Seminar will be followed by the Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture.  

Timetable

Summer Seminar

12.30 pm: Registration, lunch and networking

1.30 pm: Welcome and departmental update - Professor Almuth McDowall

1.45pm:  Keynote Presentation: A behavioural science perspective on experience  - Dr Emre Soyer

2.30pm: Medical Consultants' Careers - Dr Kenneth Courtenay

3.00pm: Tea/coffee

3.30pm: Translating learning into consultancy - Ant Green

4.00pm: PhD research in the Department

4.30pm: Developing an evidence-based toolkit to support return to work - Dr Joanna Yarker

Alec Rodger lecture

5.00 pm: Registration for evening ticket holders

5.30 pm: Alec Rodger Lecture: 'The Glass Cliff: Understanding the Precariousness of Women's Positions' - Professor Michelle Ryan

6.30 pm: Drinks reception and networking

*Please note: the timetable may be subject to alteration

 

Please book your place for either or both sessions by registering on EventBrite:

https://opsummer19.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Recognising the work of Alec Rodger
Alec Rodger had a profound influence on British psychology. He was Reader in Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London from 1948 to 1960, and then Professor of Occupational Psychology until he retired in 1975 and was made Professor Emeritus.

Alec Rodger developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses in occupational psychology, and he continued to seize and to create every opportunity he could for his staff and his students. For much of his time he also worked strenuously for The British Psychological Society. He was Honorary General Secretary for a long period and President in 1957-58. Alec Rodger also edited Occupational Psychology from 1946 to 1968, facilitating the progress to a journal of international stature.

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