Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
12–13 June 2026
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: K110 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
AI and Relationships Location: K110 Chair: Noreen Giffney Chair: Lisa O'Hehir Individual Paper The Fragility of Trust in Simulated Holding Environments Individual Paper Embedding Trust – Automated Forms Of Interaction In Therapeutic Uses Of Artificial Intelligence Individual Paper ‘Almost Like a Friend’: A Psychosocial Reading of Trust in Generative AI Chatbots Individual Paper Trust, Enlivening Chatbots and the Aesthetic Container. |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Working Session 4 Location: K110 Chair: Oshea Johnson Chair: Lisa O'Hehir Working session Force as care: Fear, Control and Distress in the UK’s Criminal Justice Pipeline |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Race, Culture, Stigma, and Identity Location: K110 Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Harriet Mossop Individual Paper 'Just Phillip': Dreaming Race in 'Slave Play' Individual Paper Democracy And The Crisis Of Trust In Post-Truth: A Psychosocial Study Individual Paper What’s In A Name? Reflections on Trust, Identity and the Therapeutic Encounter Individual Paper “I Couldn’t See My Own Image”: White Anxiety and the Photograph |
| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Symposium 4 Location: K110 Chair: Gustavo Machado Chair: Anya Walecha Symposium Refusing Trust: Scepticism And Institutional Power Presentations of the Symposium In Theory We Trust: Authorising Harm in the Name of Psychoanalysis Trust, Mistrust And Power: Transphobia And Psychosocial studies Of Masters And Monsters: The Subaltern Cannot Be Heard |