Dreaming beyond institutional borders – the future of psychology
22-23 May 2025

Welcome Message

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great honour and pleasure that we invite you to the XX PhD Meeting in Psychology, taking place on the 22th and 23rd of May 2025 at
Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon.

The Meeting is a scientific gathering of Psychology students that aims to promote debate surrounding current topics of interest in different fields of psychological research.

It is most of all a platform for PhD students to share their recent work and projects. However, undergraduate and Master students, and Postdoc researchers are also invited to present – and all students and researchers are invited to attend the meeting and contribute to the debates at hand.

In addition, the event aims to connect people and provide the opportunity to exchange ideas and receive feedback from peers, while creating a constructive space for exploring future collaborations between researchers. Finally, we will also have the pleasure to learn from guest speakers who will share their insights during the meeting.

This year’s theme is “Dreaming beyond institutional borders – the future of psychology”.

Psychology is a field of study that is always moving in a world that is changing quickly – and this XX PhD Meeting would like to explore new avenues and opportunities within the discipline. It thus aims to look at how the different fields within Psychology can communicate and go “beyond borders” in an ever-changing world, re-enforcing transdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration in research about - places, power(s), bodies, limits, identities, groups, affects, health, discourses, social media, AI, brain functions and so on.

We intend to stimulate discussion regarding the latest developments in the many domains of Psychology as well as how psychological research may contribute to solving today's social issues, to discuss fresh research topics, cutting-edge methods, and revolutionary approaches.

Participation in the XX PhD Meeting is open and free to all those presenting and non-presenting authors, upon registration.

We look forward to seeing you in May!

Important Dates

Submissions

January 23rd to February 23rd
(extension until March 1st)

Registrations for presenters

April 3rd to April 30th

Registrations for attendees

Open since "day one", until the day before

PhD Meeting

May 22th and 23rd

What topics does this conference cover?

  • Behaviour, Emotion and Cognition
  • Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
  • Crises, Disasters and Trauma Psychology
  • Cross-cultural Psychology
  • Developmental, Educational, and Community Psychology
  • Family Psychology
  • Human-Animal Studies
  • Interpersonal, Group and Intergroup Relations
  • LGBTI+ and Gender Studies in Psychology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Organizational Psychology
  • Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
  • Political Attitudes and Social Justice
  • Psychology of Sexual Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Theoretical and General Psychology
  • Vocational Psychology
  • Intercultural Psychology
  • Psychology Research on Covid-19 Related Topics
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* Nevertheless, the Scientific Committee is open to consider and evaluate presentations from other domains within psychological sciences.
Organization