Full Schedule
Tuesday 24th June 2025
9:30
Welcome
9:40
Talk 1: Jamie A Ward - Studies on Social Interaction using Wearables and Theatre
10:10
Talk 2: Sam Wass - 'There, the dance is– at the still point of the turning world’ – a dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development.
10:40
Coffee Break
11:00
Talk 3: Antonia Hamilton – How and why to measure social connections
11:30
Talk 4: Daniel Richardson - Collective Experiences and Social Connections
12:00
Discussion 1: New methods - what should we do with them?
12:20
Lunch and Poster Session
13:50
Talk 5: Lucio Vinicius & Andrea Migliano - Hunter-gatherer social structure and the evolution of friendships
14:20
Talk 6: Aliaksandr Dabranau - How the structures of existing social connections manifest in real-time interaction dynamics
14:50
Tea
15:10
Talk 7: Daisy Fancourt – The Arts as Social Connections: theory and evidence on health benefits
15:40
Talk 8: Emily Cross - The Social Fabric of Aesthetic Experience: How Liveness and Individual Differences Create Collective Engagement in Dance
16:10
Discussion 2: Bringing people together - this is the stuff that matters
16:30
Closing Remarks
Speakers Drinks
Learn more about the speakers
Professor in Social Neuroscience and leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL)
Talk Title: How and why to measure social connections
Full Professor at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zürich
Talk Title: The Social Fabric of Aesthetic Experience: How Liveness and Individual Differences Create Collective Engagement in Dance
Talk Title: Studies on Social Interaction using Wearables and Theatre
Professor of Experimental Psychology, Director of the Psychology BSc / MSci programme at UCL, and a co-director of ACN labs, a neuroscience consultancy company.
Talk Title: Collective Experiences and Social Connections
Professor in Developmental Psychology and Director of the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY) at the University of East London
Talk Title: ‘There, the dance is– at the still point of the turning world’ – a dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development.
Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology and Head of the
Social Biobehavioural Research
Group at UCL
Talk Title: The Arts as Social Connections: theory and evidence on health benefits
Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at UCL
Talk Title: Hunter-gatherer social structure and the evolution of friendships
Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Zurich
Talk Title: Hunter-gatherer social structure and the evolution of friendships
PhD Student in Social Cognition and Network Science at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark
Talk Title: How the structures of existing social connections manifest in real-time interaction dynamics
Discussion Questions
What types of social connections matter?
What do we still need to learn about social connections?
How would you create a new social group and why?
How much can context / circumstance create a group?
What is homophily and why does it matter?
Are connections embodied or cognitive?
Why does shared experience matter? Is this why culture works?
Friends for a reason / Friends for a season
How does online communication change things?