About this event

27 June 09:00
General Information
The event is organised as a complete two-day package. Your booking includes registration for the two days at the Royal Society, a full lunch each day, morning and afternoon refreshments each day, and wine reception on Monday evening. Regular booking is £200 and we have reserved 50% of the places for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) at the discounted price of £100.
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come basis. To secure a place, please book via our booking site and follow the instructions there. If the event is full, please join the waitlist (we hope to release more places as and when the Royal Society lift social-distancing measures).
Refunds are considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on whether we can make the place available to a member of the relevant waitlist. Please note that the booking fee includes a non-refundable administration charge of £20 (full place) or £10 (ECR place).

 

Further information for ECRs
Thanks to generous support from our sponsors, we can extend the definition of ECR to include graduate students and early career researchers who are within five years of completing their PhD, provided they are not already employed on a continuing contract.
To book an ECR place, you need to complete this application form and email it to dorothyfest@psy.ox.ac.uk. Once your application has been approved, you will be sent a personal activation code that you should enter on the booking site. This will allow you to book a place at the discounted price of £100.

 

Some ECRs may be eligible to apply for external funding to reimburse their booking fee, or to support travel and accommodation. These include:
  • The British Neuroscience Association Dorothy Bishop Festschrift Conference Grants
  • Experimental Psychology Society Grindley Grants. **UPDATE: We're pleased to report that this meeting is classed as an EPS event for the purposes of Grindley applications**
  • British Psychological Society Conference Award. Grants are available to support Members of the Society, who are UK early career researchers (ECRs) or postgraduate students who have had a poster accepted as part of the programme to attend the full event.  Each grant consists of up to £200 to contribute towards the costs of registration and travel to attend the conference. Get your applications ready to submit by the deadline on Thursday 31st March 2022. For the full criteria and a link to the electronic application form please contact awardsandgrants@bps.org.uk. Note: For the purposes of the bursary scheme, the BPS define an early career psychologist as a person who is within eight years of completion of their doctoral degree or practitioner doctorate in psychology. You will need to have a poster accepted to apply for this award, more information on poster submissions can be found below.
There will be a range of opportunities for ECR participation, including:
  • Poster sessions and flash talks (applications now closed)
  • Networking meetings with research, industry and clinical leaders
  • Rapporteurs (who will be responsible for providing a written report on the meeting)
Sign-ups and submissions for other ECR events and opportunities will be circulated to those registered for the Festschrift in the spring and posted on this website. We are currently working with Gorilla on another exciting ECR opportunity. More information to follow at the meeting itself, but in the meantime, Jo Evershed, Founder and CEO of Gorilla writes:

"Gorilla are delighted to celebrate Dorothy's extraordinary career. We first worked with Dorothy about 4 years ago helping to gamify tasks for participants with Developmental Language Disorder. Since then she has also shared her experiences of gamifying research with us on several occasions, highlighting the importance of engaging tasks when working with child participants. In part inspired by Dorothy, we've now launched a Game Builder tool in Gorilla so that gamified research is a viable and affordable option for all researchers.  We’re excited to include as part of our sponsorship of “Dorothy Fest” a 1 year Game Builder subscription for 3 researchers to allow them to conduct important research in an engaging way with children".