The Winter Psychology School SPbU

The Winter Psychology School SPbU. — is the oldest and one of the most well-known amongst Russian psychology conferences. The School is an annual gathering of the best experts in psychology and students from Russia and neighbouring countries dedicated to exchange and maintenance of knowledge about all spheres of psychology. It takes place on the Gulf of Finland at the beginning of February.

Since 2010, the School located in «Vostok-6» resort near St. Petersburg.

The main organisers: St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg University’s Department of Psychology, Student Scientific Society of the Department of Psychology.

Co-organisers: St. Petersburg Psychological Society, The union of students and graduate students of St. Petersburg State University.

Participants

Professional psychologists and people of other professions, whose work or scientific interests are close to psychology in every way, participate in the Winter Psychological School. There are 4 traditional categories of participants:

• Speakers. Professional psychologists from academic society of different universities or practicing psychologists who are invited by organising committee.
• Participants with the projects. Students, aspirants, young specialists from different spheres of psychology and human research who present their own scientific works
• Listeners. They can take part in all parts of program without presenting their own project.
• Guests. Participants without project who don’t attend the whole six days of the WPS SPbU.

Themes of projects

• Methodological foundations of psychology, work in academy
• Methods of practical psychology: trainings, psychological counseling, coaching, psychocorrection and psychotherapy
• General psychology
• History of psychology
• Interdisciplinary researches
• Human and society (culture, politics, social and economic spheres)
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational psychology
• Clinical and special psychology, psychophysiology
• Human and Information Technology
• and others

Program

The WPS SPbU program consists of three scientific blocks and a block of entertainment events. The scientific block starts every day at 10.00 and ends at 22.00, with 7-9 projects in parallel. Participants have to choose what project they want to visit because different projects take place at the same time.

The first block includes projects that last three days with leading teachers and specialists in charge. This is a short-term educational program with an in-depth immersion in the topic: from cognitive research in science to practical work in various fields of human activity: education, business, clinical practice.

The second block consists of lectures and master-classes of invited domestic and foreign speakers from various fields of science and practice, both in psychology and related disciplines.

The third block is for both students and young professionals who present their own projects. These projects are selected by the Expert Council of the SPbU. Participants with projects have the opportunity to receive feedback from colleagues, and to find people who are interested in a particular topic.

Between scientific blocks, meals and after student projects participants can have a rest and relax attending cultural events: “Snow football”, “What? Where? When? ”, discos, Evening of Memories, Photo shoot on the coast of the Gulf of Finland and much more. That creates a warm, friendly and informal atmosphere. Every morning during the breakfast participants receive the newspaper “Psychologist in the morning” where they can read about the events of previous day.

History

The first WPS of the Leningrad state University was in 1983. One of the organisers of the first School in Leningrad was Kostrikin Aleksander Vadimovich, in those years the student of psychology faculty of Leningrad state University. Unfortunately, there is a lack of information about those Schools. WPS of LSU last until 1993.

WPS that called "Leningrad and Moscow schools of psychology: common and differences" was organised in 1993. Ershov Boris, the student of faculty of psychology of SPbU, was the head of school that year.

Then there was a break until 1996. In 1996 WPS SPbU was at the faculty of psychology with the active participation of Yuriev A.I., the head of the Department of political psychology.

Meanwhile, tradition to organise the School had been failed to maintain and next revival of the Winter Psychological School, SPbU has occurred in 2001. Student scientific society from faculty of psychology with an active support of the organised "Winter Psychology School: Active methods of practical psychology." Since then, meeting at the beginning of February become a tradition of psychological faculty. In 2001, the logo of the Winter Psychology School was chosen. It was a drawing by the Danish artist Herluf Bidstrup "Rest".

• 2001: WPS-I "Winter psychological school for students and postgraduates "Active methods of practical psychology"" was organised from 5th tо 9th February at the recreation center "Wave". Project Manager (Chairman) Mednikov Stepan.
• 2002: WPS-II "inter-University Winter psychological school for students and postgraduates "Psychology: research and practice" took place on February 3-9 at the recreation center "Wave". Project Manager (Chairman) Mednikov Stepan.
• 2003: WPS-III "Winter psychological school "Psychology: research and practice" took place on February 3-9 on the basis of the House of rest and creativity of the Union of theatrical figures in Komarovo. Project Manager (Chairman) Mednikov Stepan.
• 2004: WPSl-IV "Winter psychological school students and graduate students, "Psychology: research and practice" took place on February at the recreation center "Wave". Project Manager (Chairman) Mednikov Stepan.
• 2005: WPS-V "anniversary international Winter psychological school students, graduate students and young specialists "Psychology: research and practice" took place on 7-12 February at the House of rest and creativity of the Union of theatrical figures in Komarovo. Project Manager (Chairman) Mednikov Stepan.
• 2006: WPS-VI "international Winter psychological school students, graduate students and young specialists "Psychology: research and practice" took place on 5-10 February at the House of rest and creativity in Komarovo. Project Director (Chairman) Zhukov Anton.
• 2007: WPS-VII "international Winter psychological school students, graduate students and young specialists "Psychology: research and practice" took place on 4-9 February at the House of rest and creativity of the Union of theatrical figures in Komarovo. Project Manager (Chairman) Alexander Lozovskiy
• 2008: WPS-VIII "Winter psychological school students, graduate students and young specialists "Psychology: research and practice" took place on 3-8 February at the House of rest and creativity of the Union of theatrical figures in Komarovo. Project Manager (Chairman) Alexander Lozovskiy
• 2009: WPS-IX " IX international Winter Psychological School of young scientists" took place on 6-11 February in the pension Burevestnik. Project Manager Mednikov Stepan, head of the program Committee Samykina Natalia
• 2010: WPS-X "X anniversary international Winter Psychological School of young scientists" took place on February 1-7. Since this year all WPS’s were held in «Vostok-6» resort. Project Manager Mednikov Stepan, head of the program Committee Samykina Natalia.
• 2011: WPS-XI "XI international Winter Psychological School of young scientists of St. Petersburg state University" took place from 30 January to 4 February. Project leader Nika Adamian, head of the program Committee Selezneva Daria, head of the organising Committee Yury Sitnikov.
• 2012: WPS-XII "XII international Winter Psychological School of young scientists of St. Petersburg state University" took place from 31 January to 5 February. Project leader Nika Adamian, head of the program Committee Selezneva Daria, head of the organising Committee Yury Sitnikov.

Further, the organisational Committee took a decision to cease counting numbers of WPS SPbU.

• 2013 (from 29 January to 3 February). Project Manager Yury Sitnikov, the head of the program Committee Kazbekova Alexandra.
• 2014 (28 January to 2 February). Project Manager Alexandra Kazbekova,the head of the program Committee Lvova Olga, the head of the organizing Committee Mescheriakov Nikita.
• 2015 (2 - 7 February). Supervisor: Kostromina Svetlana Nikolaeva, Research supervisors: Manevski Fedor., Shcherbakova Olga and Mednikov Stepan. The head of the organizing Committee Valentina Melnikova, head of the program Committee Kipnis Anna. The School-15 was dedicated to the memory of Boatswain of WPS SPbU —  Dotsenko Aleksandr Nikolaevich. This year attracted a record number of participants — more than 450 people.
• 2016 (2 - 7 February). Supervisor: Kostromina Svetlana Nikolaeva, the Curators of the organising Committee: Manevski Fedor Sergeyevich, Mednikov Stepan Viktorovich. The head of the student organizing Committee Valentina Melnikova, the head of the program Committee Anna Kipnis.
• 2017 (6 - 11 February). Supervisor: Kostromina Svetlana Nikolaeva. Curator of the organising Committee: Mednikov Stepan Viktorovich. Project manager Valentina Melnikova, the head of the program committee Ksenia Khudyakova.
• 2018 (31 January - 5 February). Supervisor: Kostromina Svetlana Nikolaeva. Curator of the organising Committee: Mednikov Stepan Viktorovich. Project manager Valentina Melnikova, the head of the program committee Ksenia Khudyakova.
• 2019 (3-8 February). Supervisor: Kostromina Svetlana Nikolaeva. Curator of the organising Committee: Mednikov Stepan Viktorovich. Project manager Anastasia Serova, the head of the program committee Agnia Serheyuk.

Awards and Grants

The Winter Psychological School of SPbU became the winner of the «Golden Psyche» National Competition in the nomination: “Contribution to the development of a unified professional psychological community in Russia”. It was awarded two statuettes "Golden Psyche".

The Winter Psychological School of SPbU was supported by the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

In 2002, the Winter Psychological School of SPbU was supported by the “Integration” program of the Foundation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for a 5 years period.

Some of the speakers of the WPS-19

• Vasily Andreyevich Klyucharyov is a Russian neurobiologist and popularizer of science, a specialist in neuroeconomics. Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor at the HSE School of Social Sciences, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Nurkova Veronika Valerievna is a Russian psychologist, Psy.D, professor of Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosova, Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, professor of Department of General Psychology in Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University (MGPPU), member of the Russian Psychological Society, Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) and International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR).
• Viktor Mikhailovich Allahverdov is russian psychologist, Psy.D, head of the Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, SPbU.
• Brian Rogers is emeritus professor of experimental psychology, BSc University of Bristol, PhD University of Bristol, MA Oxford.
• Bazarov Tahir Jusupovich russian psychologist, specialist in the field of management psychology.
• Ushakov Dmitry Viktorovich russian scientist, Psy.D, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of cognitive psychology and psychology of creativity and giftedness.
• and others

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