I’ve now given too many talks to list them all, but the lists below cover events that I thought were particularly interesting, and those for which videos or recordings are available.
Selected invited talks:
- Invited plenary, Royal Society of Medicine event, 2025, “Why does evolution matter for psychiatry, psychology and medicine?” [Link to programme]
- Invited plenary, UK Crime & Community Conference, 2024 [Link to slides on conference site]
- Invited Seminar, Durham University of Anthropology of Health Research Group, 2024
- The Big 5 Podcast, November 2023 [Link to the podcast]
- Invited talk, Royal College of Psychiatrists (EPSIG), 2021 [Link to the video]
- Invited seminar, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH), 2021
- Invited seminar, University Of Portsmouth, Psychology Department, 2020
- Invited presentation at Keep Britain Tidy roundtable on litter and environmental quality, 2019
- Invited symposium talk, Outrage: collective behaviour in response to social inequality, International Convention of Psychological Science, 2019
- Invited symposium talk, Developmental Adaptation to Stress: Longitudinal Tests of an Evolutionary-Developmental Model, International Convention of Psychological Science, 2019
- Invited seminar, École normale supérieure, Paris, 2018
- Invited seminar, Oxford, Evolution and Public Health, 2018 [Listen to the podcast]
- Invited guest lecture, Newcastle University School of Psychology, 2018
- Invited talk, St Andrews School of Psychology & Neuroscience, 2018
- Invited talk, Ruhr University Bochum interdisciplinary workshop on public health, 2018
- Invited plenary, at Institute of Advanced Studies workshop on ‘Computational modelling of decision-making across scales: from neural coding to policy-making’, 2018
- Invited Seminar, Middlesex University, Department of Psychology, 2018
- National Centre for Research Methods workshops on experimental methods for the social sciences, 2016 & 2017
- Invited guest lecture, London School of Economics and Political Science on The Social Psychology of Health Communication module, 2017
- Invited Seminar, King’s College London, Health Psychology Section, 2017
- Invited seminar, Nottingham Trent University, Division of Psychology, 2017
- Invited Seminar, Durham University of Anthropology of Health Research Group, 2016
- Invited Seminar, University of Oxford Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, 2016
- Invited guest lecture, University of Liverpool Clinical and Health Psychology module, 2016
- Invited guest lecture, London School of Economics and Political Science on The Social Psychology of Health Communication module, 2016
- Invited Seminar, University College London biological anthropology seminar series, 2016
- Invited seminar, York University Social Minds talk series, 2015
- Invited seminar, Northumbria Psychology seminar series, 2015
- Invited presentation at the North East Evolutionary Psychology Conference, 2015
- Invited guest lecture, University of Liverpool Clinical and Health Psychology module, 2015
- Invited seminar, University of Liverpool Perception Research Group, 2015
- Invited workshop for Health Improvement Commissioners & Public Health workers from South Tees, 2014
- Invited seminar, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014 [link]
- Invited presentation as part of the Liverpool Hope University as part of the Economic and Social Research Council Festival, 2013 [Watch the video]
- Invited Newcastle Health Psychology Group Workshop, 2014 [link]
Selected proffered talks:
- European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, 2025, “Field-experiments on pro-sociality and observations of hazardous behaviour in a volcanic environment” [Link to slides].
- DCMA network presentation on adversity systematic review, 2023.
- Biodiversity, health and climate change workshop, 2023.
- Data and Data Science for the Measurement, Understanding and Mitigation of Place-Based Disparities, at Newcastle University, 2023.
- Darwin in Medicine: Why Evolution is relevant for research and medical practice, Centro Ettore Majorana, Italy, 2022.
- DCMA network presentation on measures of adversity, online, 2022.
- Seminar for the Newcastle University Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, 2018.
- Presentation at a Fuse event on “The challenges and opportunities of embedded research in public health”, 2015
- Talk at the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health Inaugural Meeting, 2015 [Link to the video]
- Guest lecture, Newcastle University Combined Studies module on Urban Poverty, 2014
- European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, 2014 [Link].
Selected posters:
I find it difficult to make good posters, so I haven’t presented many. However, I do really like the #BetterPoster movement, and enjoy making posters more since discovering it. To find out more about how a simplified poster format could make things better for us all, see Mike Morrison’s YouTube resources on how to make a #BetterPoster.
- British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology conference, 2025 [Poster]
- Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 67th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023 [Poster]
- Poster presentation at the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference, 2021 [Poster]
- Poster presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, 2015 [Poster]
- Poster presentation at the Institute of Neuroscience Postgraduate poster evening, 2013 [Poster]
- Poster presentation at the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference, 2013
- Poster presentation at the Behaviour 2013, the International Conference for Ethology
- Poster presentation at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution Conference, 2013
Gillian Pepper 