Jovan Byford
{{Short description|British psychologist (born 1973)}}
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Jovan Byford (born 1973) is a British Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.
Career and work
Byford was born in 1973,{{cite web |title=Denial and repression of antisemitism by Byford, Jovan T. (1973-) |url=https://digital-research-books-beta.nypl.org/work/3b49673d-6b08-4c64-86c8-1498a9ee6090 |website=New York Public Library Digital Research Books}} in Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia.{{cite web |last1=Frazier |first1=Danielle |title=Book Review: Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism: Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/2645/discussions/1965789/denial-and-repression-anti-semitism-post-communist-rehabilitation |publisher=Humanities and Social Sciences Online |date=27 June 2018}} 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.{{cite web |title=Dr. Jovan Byford |url=https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/jovan-byford-2010 |website=ushmm.rg |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |accessdate=10 August 2020}} 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.{{cite web |title=Jovan Byford |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/jovan-byford-993899 |publisher=The Conversation |accessdate=10 August 2020}} Byford has been widely publishing, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles based on conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance.{{cite web |title=Dr Jovan Byford: Beyond belief: A critique of contemporary social psychology of conspiracy theories |url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=5555 |publisher=Goldsmiths, University of London}} He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory.{{cite web |title=Expert guide to conspiracy theories part 2 – who believes them and why? |url=https://shows.acast.com/anthill/episodes/expert-guide-to-conspiracy-theories-part-2 |publisher=The Anthill Podcast |date=23 March 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Byford |first1=Jovan |title=Covid-19 conspiracy theories: 6 tips on how to engage anti-vaxxers |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/health/conspiracy-theories-covid-19-response-tips-wellness-partner/index.html |website=CNN |publisher=The Conversation |date=22 July 2020}}
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}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Kent
Category:Academics of the Open University
Category:Alumni of Loughborough University
Category:Scholars of antisemitism
Category:British social psychologists
Category:Historians of the Balkans