47th Conference of the Society for Psychical Research: Abstracts

Welcome to the 47th Annual International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research.This year we are based in the East Midlands, at the Derby Mickelover Hotel.We hope you find it comfortable and relaxing, with all the facilities you require under one roof.It seems some time ago now that we would regularly use universities for conferences, and perhaps we will return to some in the future.However, hotels with conferences facilities bring immediate convenience and less walking from halls of residence to the lecture rooms for presentations.This year, we are also very close to the University of Derby (UOD); colleagues from the parapsychology team there are attending.One of the invited speakers and our guest after-dinner speaker are also from the UOD.At the last count, there are more than a dozen UK universities offering taught modules of parapsychology within degree programmes, which bodes well for the SPR.We had more abstract submissions than we could fit in this year.Alongside the invited speakers and, of course, a guest after-dinner speaker, narrowing down such abstracts and the work people have put into preparing them is no easy task, when even in a strict packed schedule we can only accept twothirds of them in the time available.We have invited those not included in the programme to share a poster to discuss with all the delegates face-to-face at the event.We will cover a wide range of topics from history and legacy to the latest laboratory research, experiences surrounding death, and much more.We encourage all contributors to take feedback from their talks and consider writing for the SPR Journal and/or the Magazine and share the data and ideas much further to our worldwide membership.