Resistance Psychology Network

Join us on June 15 at 3pm UK time for a discussion with Prof. Robin Celikates, on the conceptual, philosophical, and social psychological dimensions of civil disobedience in the context of the climate catastrophe. For more information, see the below flyer. To register, please click here . 

Join us on Feb 9 at 18.00 Central European Time for a co-production roundtable on prefigurative politics in repressive contexts, with activists and researchers from Lebanon, Serbia, and Turkey, led by Dr Tijana Karić (Philipps University Marburg). For more details, see the flyer below. To register, please click here .

Please join us on Jan 12, 2026 (17.00 UK time) for a read and discuss session with Deniz Yonucu on the role of living historical memory in fearless resistance under colonialism, repression, and undercover surveillance. Please see flyer below for more details. To register, please click: tinyurl.com/AnticolonialResist 

Please join us for the last session of 2025 on  Monday, December 8 , for the next virtual meeting in the Psychology of Resistance, on morals and community as influences on collective action under repression in the Netherlands, by Samaher Yehya (see flyer below for details). To register, please click here .

  Please join us on Nov 10 (17.00 UK time) for a peer review as conversation session between Dr. Mete Sefa Uysal, Yasemin Acar, and Carmen Marazzi on allyship and protest tactics in contexts of repression. Please see flyer below for more details. To register, please click: tinyurl.com/disruptive-protest

Please join us online for the next event of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia Workshop Series on Oct 20 at 2pm UK time! This session we have an extended talk and method demonstration from Roxane de la Sablonniere & Diana Cardenas (University of Montreal), and Jean-Marc Lina (École de Technologie Supérieure) of their new Social Change Algorithm. More details below. To find out more and register, please click  here .

  Please join us on Monday Oct. 13 at 12.00 (UK time) for an interactive roundtable on methods in psychology of resistance research! Come see what methods we have been exploring or come to share your own - welcome in either case! More details below. To register, please click here .

We are excited to bring you the 3rd instalment of the Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts Meeting Series, starting this month. Our schedule of events is now on our website ( here ). This year, we are kicking things off with a methods 'bazaar' on Mon Oct 13 at 7.00 (New York time). The organizing team will start things off talking about some of the methods they use or plan to use (5 mins each) then we will open things up to everyone to contribute their approaches and thoughts. More details and registration link coming soon!

After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts  meeting series , we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-2026, and looking forward to engaging a broad network of international researchers and activists. The seminar will start again in September 2025 on a monthly basis (every second Monday of the month), and is intended to be a space to discuss, share work on, and build community around the psychology of resistance in repressive and violent contexts. We hope to create an interactive space focusing on theoretical, methodological, ethical, and practical questions alike - with session formats going beyond traditional talks and presentations to emphasize learning together through participation and discussion.  We are now soliciting submissions for sessions between September 2025 and June 2026.  Please fill out this form  or use the QR code below if you are interested in o...

We are excited to present the next instalment of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia Workshop Series! Please see our page here for registration details:  Methods in Social Change Workshops The events running next month are: 1. From Words to Waves: Methodological Approaches for Analysing Social Change Dynamics in Ecological Text Data Prof. Simon Angus (Monash University)   September 1, 2025 - 14.00-17.00 UK time Day 1 (Session 1: Bag-of-Words & Word Embeddings)   September 2, 2025 - 10.00-17.00 UK time  Day 2 (Session 2: Transformers/LLMs + Session 3: Integrations/Practical Research Design)   2. Integrating Critical and Computational Analysis to Understand Collective Social Construction Dr. Joshua Uyheng (Ateneo de Manila University)   September 4, 2025 - 10.00-13.00 UK time Day 1 (Conceptual Foundations)   September 5, 2025 - 10.00-17.00 UK time  Day 2 (Practical Training)   3. Functional Connectivity: Analysing Complex Coordination ...

Please join us for the third event of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia Workshop Series on June 3rd at 2pm UK time! This session we have an extended talk and method demonstration from Ismael Puga (Central University of Chile) and Cristobal Moya (SOEP/DIW Berlin) on "Ideological inversion: Measurement and comparison". To find out more and register, please click here .

Please join us on Jun 2 at 2pm UK time for a "peer review as conversation" discussion. canan coskan (independent researcher affiliated with Universite Libre de Bruxelles) will present her work on "(Re)creating ‘Power From Below’ for Resistance and Existence: The Kurdish Diaspora in Belgium Explains Kurdish Power". Joining canan will be peer reviewers Hu Young Jeong (University of Virginia) and Michelle Sinayobye Twali (New York University). To register, click here .

Please join us for the second event of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia Workshop Series on May 29th at 10am UK time! This session we have an extended talk and method demonstration from Emma Thomas (Flinders University) on "Distinguishing Sympathisers, Slacktivists, Activists, and Radicals: Using Person-Centred Analyses in Collective Action Research." For more details or to register, click  here .

 Join us on Friday May 2 at 14.30 UK time for a talk by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink (University College Dublin) on "Dissident Reasoning in the Arab World." More details in the flyer below. Please register here .

The first event of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia Workshops Series! Please join us on Apr 17 for a workshop with Kevin Durrheim and Nnaemeka Ohamadike (University of Johannesburg) on using word embeddings for analysing natural language in political psychological research. For more details and to register, please click here .

Join us on April 7 at 12.00 UK time (17.00 Bishkek time) for a discussion of Professor Nina Bagdasarova's (American University of Central Asia) participatory research on Kyrgyz LGBTQ+ people's security and safety concerns and adaptations in Kyrgyzstan, as well as a follow-up discussion on the implications of this work for conceptualizations of underground existence and everyday resistance. See more details in the flyer below. To register, please click here .

Join us on Monday March 3rd at 15.00 GMT for Azadeh Akbari's (University of Twente) talk on resistance against digital surveillance, with discussants Joshua Uyheng and Ali Teymoori. For more information, see the flyer below. To register, please click here .

Join us on Feb 3 at 17.00 GMT for a 90 minute co-production session with Dr. Eric Shuman and climate activists on the effects of disruptive collective action. For more details, see below. To register, please click here .

Join us on Jan 13 at 15.00 GMT for a work in progress session by Yara Zebian (University of Sussex) on the social psychology of bank raids and everyday resistance in Lebanon. More details in the flyer below. You can register for the session here .

Join us on Dec. 3 at 13.00 UTC for a discussion with Jennifer Earl (discussant: Aya Adra) around social movement repression. For more details, see the flyer below. To register, click here .