Jovan Byford

Jovan Byford is a Senior Lecturer Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Jovan Byford
Alma materUniversity of Kent MSc
Loughborough University PhD
OccupationSenior Lecturer
Social studies scholar

Career and work

Byford is a native of Serbia.[1] He received an M.Sc. in social and applied psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Loughborough University.[2] His interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering and more generally, the relationship between psychology and history.[3] Byford has been widely published, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles dealing with conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance.[4] He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory.[5][6]

Books
  • Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Central European University, 2008). ISBN 978-9-63977-615-9
  • Discovering Psychology with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). ISBN 978-1-84873-466-1
  • Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (Springer, 2011). ISBN 978-0-23034-921-6
  • Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). ISBN 978-1-10703-431-0
  • Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans (Bloomsbury, 2020). ISBN 978-1-35001-598-2

References
  1. Frazier, Danielle (27 June 2018). "Book Review: Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism: Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic". Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
  2. "Dr. Jovan Byford". ushmm.rg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. "Jovan Byford". The Conversation. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. "Dr Jovan Byford: Beyond belief: A critique of contemporary social psychology of conspiracy theories". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  5. "Expert guide to conspiracy theories part 2 – who believes them and why?". The Anthill Podcast. 23 March 2020.
  6. Byford, Jovan (22 July 2020). "Covid-19 conspiracy theories: 6 tips on how to engage anti-vaxxers". CNN. The Conversation.
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