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 SIGsSigs Apply

About SIGs

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are initiatives of the EHPS that enable members of the society with a shared interest to identify each other, exchange ideas and information and potentially establish collaborations. SIGs can include a focus on for example a specific illness or behaviour, an intervention technique/medium or a methodology.

Please read the SIG Terms of Reference for more information.
Membership of a SIG works through mailing lists. Anybody can subscribe or unsubscribe using the links below. Once you subscribe, you can send emails to the list that are then distributed among all members.

SIG Current Groups

Please click on the button to view current SIGs .
Current Groups

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, read the SIG Terms of Reference and follow these steps to submit your proposal for consideration.

Send the completed application to the SIG Liaison Officer, (sig@ehps.net).

If you have any questions, please contact the SIG Liaison Officer.

Application for a SIGs

Any EHPS member, or group of members can propose a new SIG.

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 (click here) should be submitted to the SIG Leading Committee and clearly indicate.

The purpose of the SIG

Intended activities

Leading committee
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 Leading 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
Sufficient support indicated in the proposal, ensuring that the SIG will be regularly active and engage its members (by proposing for example detailed and feasible activities)

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 e-newsletter)
Annual report to be submitted every year to the SIG Leading 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 Leading Committee may recommend dissolving a SIG usually due to low activity or low engagement

Financial Support for SIGs

SIGs receive a base funding of 200€/year per SIG to support its functioning which should be used within one year after their approval
EHPS will additionally financially support SIG activities. The total amount/ year per SIG is dependent on the total number of active SIGs and is currently up to €1500/year per SIG:
Examples of activities that can be funded by the EHPS are: Open access publication lead by a SIG, invitation of a speaker to attend a SIG initiative at a conference.
SIGs who wish to apply for this funding, should fill in a funding request (click here) and send it to the SIG leading committee, outlining how the fund will be spent.
Maintain a minimum of 15 members
Based on the annual report of these activities, the EHPS SIG Leading Committee may recommend dissolving a SIG usually due to low activity or low engagement