Methods in Social Change Workshops

This is a methods series that Dr. Fouad Bou Zeineddine (University of Greenwich) is organizing in parallel with the Psychology of Resistance Meetings Series. We are planning a variety of workshops, webinars, and roundtables to explore original, cutting edge, or underutilized research methods and designs for studying societal change/inertia, which is central to understanding resistance. 

Complete this form to receive information about every session throughout the year and a newsletter summarising our events every two months. If you are unable to register or attend for any reason, you can find recordings of sessions on YouTube and in the Resistance Psychology Network archive 

Registration for participation in the September workshops is now open! For online attendance, please use the registration links below. 

In-person attendance will enable the most interactive support and training and informal discussion with speakers, although we will make every effort to ensure online attendees also have opportunities for engaging with speakers. Food and refreshments will also be provided for in-person attendees. Please note that we unfortunately do not have the budget to compensate attendees for travel expenses. 

If you would like to attend in person at the University of Greenwich Maritime Campus (London), please email me by Aug 28th at f.bouzeineddine AT gre.ac.uk, letting me know which workshop(s) you would like to attend. You are welcome to register for and attend one or more sessions of one or more workshops.

Programme (tentative dates and titles):

• April 17, 2025: Kevin Durrheim & Nnaemeka Ohamadike (University of Johannesburg) - Word Embeddings for Natural Language Analysis in Political Psychology 
• May 29, 2025: Emma Thomas (Flinders University) – Using Person-Centred Analyses in Research on Collective Action and Social Change
• June 3, 2025: Ismael Puga (Central University of Chile) & Cristobal Moya (DIW Berlin) -- Ideological Inversion: Measurement and Comparison

• Sep 1-2, 2025: Simon Angus (Monash University) – From Words to Waves: Methodological Approaches for Analyzing Social Change Dynamics in Ecological Text Data 
• Sep 1: Session 1 - Bag-of-Words & Word Embeddings
• Sep 2: Session 2 - Transformers & LLMs; Session 3 - Integrations and Practical Research Design
• Sep 4-5, 2025: Joshua Uyheng (Ateneo de Manila University) – Integrating Critical and Computational Analysis to Understand Collective Social Construction
• Sep 4: Day 1 - Conceptual Foundations
• Sep 5: Day 2 - Practical Training
• Sep 23-24, 2025: Agnieszka Rychwalska (University of Warsaw) – Functional Connectivity: Analysing Complex Coordination in Social Systems

• Sep 23: Day 1 - Conceptual Foundations

• Sep 24: Day 2 - Practical Training

 

• October 20, 2025: Roxane de la Sablonniere & Diana Cardenas (University of Montreal) - The Social Change Algorithm (SCA): A Tool to Understand When and How Societies Change
• November, 2025: Diala Hawi (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) – Structural Balance in Domestic & International Relations and Social Change
• November, 2025: Ammar Shamaileh (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) – Elite Networks in Social Change 

• February, 2026: Fouad Bou Zeineddine (University of Greenwich) – Synthesizing Methods for Consilient Social Systems Research

Thanks go to the Institute for Lifecourse Development - Centre for Inequalities for sponsoring this project. Thanks also to the University of Johannesburg Methods Hub and the Resistance Psychology Network for their support. We acknowledge funding by the British Academy Talent Development Award.