Centre for Culture and Evolution

CE Postdoc alert 🚨

Applications for the 2026 New Investigator Award are open!

This award recognises outstanding ECR scholars who have contributed to the field of cultural evolution. The recipient is given the opportunity to give a plenary at a CES conference.

Apply here until March 25: forms.gle/GycUhdFj7q6U...

mutation, drift and selection: carefully evolving life for 3.8 billion years to culminate in 1950's suburban Ohio, obs

Can we all just agree that if your evolutionary theory of humans posits we all evolved to have the social values of 1950s American it’s probably wrong? Thanks.

Deadline extended to 7 March! #ehbea

Applications open until the end of day - still time to get your travel grant applications in for CES2026!

GRANTS, GRANTS, GRANTS 🤩

Do you have a research project that needs funding?

Are you a student or ECR?

Then don’t forget to apply to the research grants from EHBEA 😉

DEADLINE: March 1st

More information in the links 👇

www.ehbea.org/pages/studen...

www.ehbea.org/pages/ecr-re...

5/ What’s involved?

- a recorded Teams call (approx 30 minutes)
- share your experiences in a confidential research setting
- receive a £15 Love2Shop voucher as a thank you

Please share to help us reach people across the UK 💬

4/ Our aim?

To use the findings to help campaign for better, more accessible care for all.

We believe people of all genders can benefit from improved access to gender-affirming healthcare 🏳️‍⚧️

3/ Psychologists at @brunelpsy.bsky.social from Brunel University of London, in collaboration with Gendered Intelligence (a trans-led & trans-involving charity), are exploring people’s:

• Experiences
• Understanding
• Opinions

around gender and sexual healthcare in the UK.

2/

- Are you 18 or older?

- Were you living in the UK during your adolescent years (10 - 19)?

We’d love to hear from you!

1/ 📢 Participants Needed: UK Gender & Sexual Healthcare Study

Phase 2 of our research with Gendered Intelligence is now open - and we’re recruiting adults across the UK.

🚨 The application deadline has been extended to 27 Feb 2026.
Apply at this link: forms.gle/wbUG5WfTRSvh...

My Beautiful Bullshitty Baby:

Episode 2 of our blog series on methods renovations. Diving into my Science and Critical Thinking module - layout, rationale, & the first few weeks.

willgervais.com/blog/2026/2/...

Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

Dr Patricia Kanngiesser: Shared Horizons seminar series Dr Patricia Kanngiesser will speak about her work on Games for Future: Using Experimental Games to Study Sustainable Behaviour

To book your free ticket please go to here 👇

6/ 📍 Mead (Hamilton Centre), Brunel

☕ Refreshments available in person

Also online via Teams:
Meeting ID: 379 341 911 056 34
Passcode: DF6iK9ji

3/ The talk will unpack how games are designed - their mechanics, features and structure - and why they’re such powerful tools for studying decision-making in complex systems 🧠

2/ How do we understand the psychology behind sustainable behaviour?

Dr Kanngiesser uses experimental games - controlled, simulated environments that allow people to experience these dynamics safely 🎲

They reveal how we cooperate, compete, and respond to environmental risk.

1/ 🎮🌍 Shared Horizons Seminar Series

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth) to Brunel Psychology for:

“Games for the future: Using experimental games to study sustainable behaviour across ages and populations.”

🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 2-4pm open to all 🔓

Annual Conference The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

Are you interested in the politics of demography*? Would you like to present research or take part in a panel on the topic at this year's @bspsuk.bsky.social conference? If so, this call for papers is for you 👇

*Papers covering the whole spectrum of population research are also being accepted!

Hierarchical regression analysis with eating disorder symptoms (EAT) as outcome, separate analysis for boys and girls. Perceived sociocultural pressures predict eating disorder symptoms even when controlling for appearance ideal internalisation and body esteem.

Distribution of mean scores in boys and girls by ethnicity (N = 114); light blue (left) represents Afro-descent participants, darker blue (right) represents Indigenous participants. BESAA = Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults, SATAQ = Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire, general and athletic internalization subscales, PSPS = Perceived Sociocultural Pressures Scale, EAT = Eating Attitudes Test SATAQ scores are higher and BESAA scores are lower in indigenous than afro descent children. Indigenous boys show particularly high internalisation of athletic ideals.

New paper from the lab on our previous project in rural Nicaragua.

Indigenous Miskitu teens report more appearance pressure, appearance ideal internalisation and lower body esteem v afro-descent teens.
Appearance pressure directly predicts eating disorder symptoms.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Publications which use "national IQ" data still appearing in Springer Nature journals in 2026. Cool cool

doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Nu Know Working together to navigate adolescence.

Using creative, participatory methods Tristin and Rosie turn young people’s experiences into better education & resources 🩸

Workshop: 🎤 Drawing out the myths

🗓 2 April 2026
🔗 nuknow.co.uk/parent-teen-...

✨ Dr Tristin Agtarap & Rosie Underhill ✨

Tristin and Rosie are researchers working on a Wellbeing of Women & Reckitt Health-funded project exploring the impact of period pain on adolescents’ lives and school

✨Julieta Baker – Brunel Psych Doctoral Researcher✨

Julieta explores how social support, embodiment & lived experience shape reproductive health & parenting 🍼

A participatory, community-led approach – and a full spectrum doula 🤍

Talk: 🎤 Doing More, Feeling Worse? Rethinking Parenting Expectations

it's a day bringing parents, teens, researchers & practitioners together to rethink wellbeing, relationships & expectations

meet the speakers and learn more!👇📣✨

Nu Know Working together to navigate adolescence.

📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social and the @culturemindslab.bsky.social with @nicolewen.bsky.social and @loraadair.bsky.social is excited to support Nu Know’s Parent-Teen Summit 2026 at Boxpark Wembley 🧡 📣

🗓 Thursday 2nd April 2026

🔗👇

🚨We’re delighted to announce our keynote at #EHBEA2026: Prof. Rogier Mars (Oxford & Radboud)!🎤🌍
His talk will dive deeper into “The human brain: A branch on the primate evolutionary tree” and explores how comparative neuroimaging reveals the evolutionary changes shaping primate brain organization.🧠🐵

We have extended the submission deadline to Feb 20th, some people needed more time. Like me. I was one of the people we needed more time 😅

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @nicolewalasek.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award of New Investigator👏