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Dynamics Within and Outside the Lab. Procedings from the 6th GRASP conference, Lund University, May 2008
- 2009
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since May 1998 Scandinavian group researchers and social psychologists have met bi-annually for what has to be called the GRASP conference. GRASP originally stood for ”Group as Paradox”. The first five conferences were held in Linköping, Lund, Stockholm and Skövde and, again, Linköping. The sixth conference was organized at Lund University May 15-16, 2008 under the auspices of the network Organisational and Social Applications of Psychology (POST) at the Department of Psychology, Lund University, in cooperation with the School of Social Work, Lund University, and Forum for group and organisation research (FOG), Linköping University. Generous assistance was given by the the School of Social Work and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Rsearch(FAS). This year’s theme was ”Dynamics within and outside the lab” and a special emphasis was put on the meeting of different research traditions. 60 researchers and students from Sweden and Norway took part and listened to twenty-seven presentations and two key-note by Susan Wheelan, Ph.D. Eleven contributions have been chosen to represent the conference in this volume.
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Proceedings from the Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin, 3-5 June, 2009
- 2010
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- (Preface) This conference focused on the core of Bakhtin’s theory, which concerns dialogue and dialogicality. The conference themes reflected his notion that the “I” and the “self”, the “you” and the “other” are embedded in each other so that each affects the other and as a whole they create a centrifugal force around which communication and life circle. The choice of the two-faced Janus figure as the symbol of the conference reflects the inward and outward aspects of communication’s inherent dialogue and dialogicality. As an ancient Roman god of beginnings and doorways, of the rising and setting sun, looking in opposite directions, Janus has been associated with polarities, that is, seeing different and contrasting aspects and characteristics. As a metaphor it describes Bakhtin’s view on dialogues and dialogicality within or between “selves” and “others”. As a metaphorical symbol it captured the intent, purpose and outcome of the conference as reflected in this collection of papers.
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Independent in the heard: Inclusion and exclusion as social processes. Proceedings from the 9th GRASP conference, Linköping University, May 2014 : Independent in the heard: Inclusion and exclusion as social processes. The 9th GRASP conference, Linköping University, May 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the 9th GRASP conference, Linköping University, May 2014. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 123-123
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- GRASP (Group and Social Psychology) is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims to provide a community around social psychological issues for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from the Nordic countries within the fields of psychology, sociology, education, behavioural sciences and social work to share, exchange, learn, and develop preliminary results, new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies, as well as bridging the gaps between paradigms, encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations, and advancing our understanding of groups and social psychology.GRASP 2014 was the ninth Nordic conference was held in Linköping and hosted by the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University. The theme of the conference this year was on inclusion and exclusion as social processes. Twenty-two papers were accepted and presented at the conference. Keynote speech was given by Dr Siân Jones from Oxford Brookes University and Dr Ken Mavor from University of St Andrews. In line with the main theme of the conference, Siân Jones talked about “Bullying and belonging: Experimental data, real-world data, tears, and tantrums”. Ken Mavor talked about “Encapsulating the things that matter: Exploring identities for learning, social action and wellbeing”.The topics of the individual papers at GRASP 2014 were: (a) the role of categorization in personal change through participation in collective action, (b) students’ perspectives on bullying incidents, (c) mindfulness in values education in schools, (d) team-training and the executive team’s organizational influence, (e) using discursive psychology to show how students do ‘being collaborative’ in group work, (f) operational leadership and knowledge-transfer in high risk operations, (g) communication of risk in oil and gas megaprojects, (h) verbal expressions of “compassion” in an academic context, (i) a descriptive study of work groups in the Swedish and U.S. economy, (j) challenges and panaceas, as experienced by physicians, when introducing a patient centred and team based round, (k) leadership and communication in cross-cultural teams in a study of Korean/Scandinavian collaboration, (l) conscientiousness and agreeableness among prisoners, (m) ‘dark values’ – the dark triad hiding in Schwartz’ value orientation, (n) gender and legitimacy in student project groups, (o) between Skylla and Karybdis within academia – peer leadership or management, (p) illusion of invulnerability, need for cognition and resisting persuasion, (q) the significance of management climate on the quality of elderly care, (r) benevolence towards men and women, and traditional views of upbringing – a backlash to gender equality, (s) the role of equality in the decision making process in small groups, (t) bullying and defender behaviour amongst school children – the importance of moral emotions and moral disengagement, and (u) development of learning models through social experiments considering widening recruitment of university students.These proceedings bring you seven of the 22 papers from the conference.
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Proceedings of the 15th SweCog Conference
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In an article published in Nature: Human Behavior, Nunez et al. (2019) asks What happened to cognitive science? The authors review bibliometric and socio-institutional aspects of the field and argues that the transition from a multi-disciplinary program to a mature inter-disciplinary coherent field has failed. Looking at the Swedish environment, we can nothing but agree. Many of us identifying ourselves as researchers in cognitive science are working at departments primarily focused at other disciplines, teaching within other objects and publishing in journals and conferences adjacent to the field. The diversity of cognitive science is also present in the number of directions that has has evolved over the years. The embodied approaches that many of us align with are not evolving towards a coherent view, but is today found under numerous labels such as situated cognition, distributed cognition, extended cognition, and enactive cognition. The so called 4E perspectives on the field have now ventured beyond the four, and is today more often referred to as the multi-E framework.While we agree with Nunez et al. that we remain a multi-disciplinary, multi-perspective, and multi-method group of researchers who may share an interest for the science of the mind, rather than a coherent approach or perspective, we disagree that this entails a failure for the enterprise of cognitive science. We dare to say that the Sweish Cognitive Science Society has embraced the multi-perspectives idea by adopting an inclusive approach in the selection of research and methods presented at our conferences. We hope that SweCog will remain a forum for inclusive discussions, working against discipline conformism and isolation, in a time where both public and scientific debate is increasingly shattered.
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Under urban mask: On rural landscapes with different logics
- 2014
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a result of natural hazards, ecological disasters, lawlessness, wars and fluctuations in economy, numerous European landscapes slowly but surely lose their ‘raison d’être’. The consequence of this is a continuous process of degradation, both in respect to infrastructure as well as the social fabric. Effectively, the changes that occur create specific landscapes that encompass elements, which, at a first glance, could be considered both urban and rural. However, these are prone to mechanisms other than the progressive blurring of the rural-urban dichotomy brought on by urbanization; they are subject to a different kind of rationale. Are they just dissonant nests of desolation or merely slumbering resources for future creative uses? How do we view them? How should we handle them? To the fore of this special session we bring analyses of rural landscapes endowed with specific urban traits whose common denominator is their dysfunctional character. The main task of this special session is to unravel the logics of these particular landscapes by means of: (1) Cognition of the factors and mechanisms that contributed to their emergence; (2) Analyses of the processes that take place in them in order to: (a) determine their course and dynamics, (b) establish potential directions of change; (c) propose methodological solutions – how to do research; (3) Generalization of the research results in search of common problems and similarities in order to: (a) formulate universal methodological assumptions, (b) marshal solutions that are useful in decision-making on administrative and institutional levels. The session has attracted 10 presentations addressing any of these issues in the context of dysfunctional rural landscapes with interesting perspectives and innovative approaches. The spectrum of this double session included: post-war rural areas in Amsterdam (J.E. Abrahamse), Zagreb’s peri-urban fringe (A. Toskić, D. Njegač & D. Orešić), rural transformation from urban influences in Olsztyn (M. Wasilewicz-Pszczółkowska, A. Szczepańska & A. Senetra), degraded urban agglomerations in Poland (R. Krzysztofik, I. Kantor-Pietraga & T. Spórna), landscapes transcending rural-urban characteristics in Gothenburg (M. Dymitrow, R. Brauer, G. Holmertz, B. Apostolovska-Toševska, F. Holmberg & L. Johansson), landscape discriminants in valorization of rural areas in Poland (A. Bocheńska-Skałecka, Z. Kuriata, I. Niedźwiecka-Filipiak, A. Podolska & L. Serafin), degraded towns in Silesia (R. Szmytkie), agri-ghettos in central Poland (J. Biegańska, E. Grzelak-Kostulska & M. Dymitrow), Bucharest's Romani ghetto (D. Teodorescu) and urban agriculture in socially deprived areas of Thessaloniki (E. Gavriilidou, D. Dedousi, E. Oureilidou & M. Ritou).
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Proceedings of the 16th SweCog Conference
- 2021
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- We welcome you to the 16’th SweCog conference! After the 2020 meeting had to be cancelled, due to the unusual circumstances of facing a worldwide pandemic, we look forward to finally meet again, although the pandemic makes us meet virtually and not in person. Fittingly, an emerging theme of this year’s meeting is virtual reality. A technology which creates new ways of interacting with each other and with the world. It is not only a subject of active research, but increasingly also a medium for new creative experiments or applications, as evidenced by one of our keynote speakers this year. VR has become now a more widely available tool in different areas of research, and probably has made its full and final impact not yet. SweCog 2021 also features a nod to the word usability day. As technology becomes increasingly present in our daily lives, not the least emphasized through the pandemic, we believe that cognitive science has an important role as a field of research informing the design of usable digital artifacts. As the University of Skövde stands as one example of the close relation between cognitive science and user experience design, we take the opportunity to celebrate the topic of Cognitoon and UX. This meeting has been organized jointly by the Interaction lab and the Cognitive Neuroscience lab of the University of Skövde. We are glad to see this interaction happening between the two labs and the two fields. We hope this is not perceived as an “invasion” of the brain scientists documenting the failure of cognitive science as a field (see Nunez et al., 2019), but rather a collaborative move of finding synergies in our research. In this spirit, we hope our meetings continue to bring people together from different parts of Sweden, from different departments, and maybe also from more different disciplines, to discuss our latest research. And despite our enthusiasm for virtual reality, we sincerely hope the next meeting will allow us to meet again in person.
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