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Upcoming Events

The EHBEA 2025 conference will be held at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK, from the 14th to the 17th April 2025. More details to come.

Hosting EHBEA Conferences

The European Human Behaviour and Evolution conferences aim to provide a much needed interdisciplinary European forum for discussing evolutionary research applied to the behavioural sciences, broadly interpreted. We are committed to organising genuinely interdisciplinary conferences that bring together all researchers applying evolutionary theory to the behavioural sciences, including not only the main branches of human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution, but including disciplines such as evolutionary archaeology, sociology and medicine.

If you are interested in hosting a future EHBEA conference, please prepare a proposal based on this EHBEA Conference Hosting Form and a careful reading of these EHBEA Conference Guidance Notes and email to the EHBEA Secretary (ehbea.secretary@gmail.com). 

Hosting EHBEA Workshops

EHBEA can provide up to €1000 funding to support workshops and meetings to promote understanding of evolution and human behaviour, facilitate research collaborations, and further research. We especially encourage applicants for workshops that may foster links between EHBEA and other European academic societies. Students organising workshops are also encouraged to apply for the workshop grants. The EHBEA committee considers applications for workshop funding once a year. The deadline each year for submitting a funding proposal is 1st August at 5pm (GMT). For an example application see here. Please return the completed proposal form (available here) by email to the EHBEA Secretary (ehbea.secretary@gmail.com) by 5 pm GMT on August 1st.

Past Conferences

Past Workshops

  • The Darwinian Renaissance in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) November 2009.
  • Contemporary Childbearing and Evolutionary Theory (St. John’s College, Oxford, UK) 31 March – 1 April, 2011.
  • Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues (University of Bristol, UK) 14-16 September 2011. 
  • Diversity and Integration in Scottish Psychology and Evolution Research (University of Stirling, UK) 7 February, 2012. 
  • The Nordic Evolutionary Psychology Meeting (University of Turku, Finland) 13-14 September, 2012. 
  • From DNA to Social Minds conference (University of York, UK) 30 June – 1 July, 2014.
  • The Nordic Evolutionary Psychology Meeting (Lammi Biological Station, Finland) 12-14 September, 2014.
  • Perspectives on Cooperative Behaviour in Humans workshop (University College London, UK) 9 January 2015.
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Current Debates (EHBEA conference satellite meeting) (University of Helsinki, Finland) 28 March 2015.
  • North-East Evolutionary Psychology Conference (Northumbria University, UK) 18 June 2015.
  • Evidence of Animal Minds: An interdisciplinary symposium (Durham University, UK) 18-20 April 2016.
  • Evolutionary based studies of human biology, ecology and behaviour – workshop on research tools (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 19 September 2017.
  • Advanced research methods for the study of cultural evolution (Human Behaviour and Cultural Evolution Group, UK) 16-17 November 2017.
  • The EvoBugs Workshop: How human behaviour impacts the evolution of pathogens and vice versa (University of Oxford, UK) 16 November 2017.
  • Young Social Learning Researchers (YSLR) Workshop (University of St Andrews, UK) 21-22 June 2018.
  • Who Cares? Workshop on Caregiving and Mother-Infant Health (UCL and LSHTM, UK) 11th February 2019.