Special Interest Groups
Help individuals, families, and societies to better cope with life challenges related to illness and health, by promoting rigorous science, precise interventions, and close collaborations.
About SIGs
Special interest groups enable individuals with a shared interest to identify each other, exchange ideas and information and potentially establish collaborations. SIGs could include a focus on a specific illness or behaviour, an intervention technique/medium or a methodology.
Membership of the Special Interest Groups works through mailing lists. Anybody can subscribe or unsubscribe using the links below. Once you subscribed, you can send emails to the list that are then distributed among all members.
SIG Current Groups
If you want to see SIG current groups, please click on below button.
SIG Leading Committee
Cyprus
Angelos Kassianos
United Kingdom
Michele Birtel
Switzerland
Josianne Kolmann
United Kingdom
Daniela Watson
Romania
Adriana Baban
Singapore
Nadia Griva
United Kingdom
Benjamin Gardner
United Kingdom
Philippa Lally
United Kingdom
Emma Norris
Ireland
Elaine Toomey
Netherlands
Thomas Gultzow
Netherlands
Anne van Dongen
How To Apply
If you are interested in establishing a Special Interest Group (SIG) within EHPS, follow these steps to submit your proposal for consideration:
Application for a SIGs
There will be two annual calls for new SIGs, in March and October. Any EHPS member, or group of members can propose a new SIG.
A written proposal should be submitted to the SIG Committee, and clearly indicate
The purpose of the SIG
Intended activities
Leading committee members
Demonstrate capacity to carry out the proposed activities and engage members, by
proposing adequate activities
Show how the SIG will contribute to the impact of EHPS in health psychology to
research and/or practice and/or policy & strategic goals of the EHPS
This proposal is assessed by the SIG Committee within 2 months of submission. The
assessment criteria for acceptance is
Topic does not overlap with other existing SIGs
Focus of the SIG is within the scope of EHPS
There is sufficient support showing the SIG will be regularly active and engage its
members (by e.g. proposing detailed and feasible activities)
Please note the deadline is October 31st for applications for special interest groups examples and SIG funding
Criteria for SIGs
To be supported by EHPS, the SIG is expected to run a minimum of activities per year
a) Organize at least one activity during the EHPS annual conference (e.g. SIG
meeting; symposium)
b) Organize at least one activity throughout the year, outside the EHPS conference
(e.g. webinar/Course)
Maintain regular contact with SIG members throughout the year (e.g. through enewsletter)
Annual report to be submitted every year to the SIG committee. A template will be
provided by the leading committee
Maintain a minimum of 15 members
Based on the annual report of these activities, the EHPS SIG Committee may recommend
dissolving a SIG usually due to low activity or low engagement