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In recent years, Alex Haslam (pictured) and Steve Reicher have given a large number of talks on aspects of the BBC Prison Study. These have been presented to students, teachers and academics, in schools, universities and at various conferences both in the UK and overseas. A selection of these is listed below.

• (SR) Understanding conflict. The BBC Lent lecture, BBC Radio 4, 8.45am, Wednesday April 6, 2011.
• (SR) The BBC Prison Study: A new perspective on the psychology of tyranny. A-level students conference, Hartlepool, January 14, 2011.
• (AH) The BBC Prison Study: A new perspective on tyranny. One-day student conference on AS/A2 Psychology Core Studies. London, December 2, 2010.
• (AH) The BBC Prison Study: A new perspective on tyranny. One-day student conference. Broadstone, November 25, 2010.
• (SR)  Social identity and the psychology of tyranny. UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham, November 24, 2010.
• (SR) The science of the BBC Prison Study. Award address to the British Psychology Society, April 14, 2010.
• (AH) Bringing the science of the BBC Prison Study into the classroom. Award address to the British Psychology Society, April 14, 2010.
• (AH) The path to tyranny: Group failure, social identification, and leadership. One-day student conference. London, December 8, 2009.
• (AH) Questioning the banality of evil: Beyond Milgram and Zimbardo. One-day student conference. London, November 17, 2009.
• (AH) Beyond imagination?: The BBC Prison Study and the Social Psychology of Resistance. Association of Teachers of Psychology (ATP) Annual Conference, Exeter, July 10, 2009.
• (SR) Why people do evil - and how group psychology can help us stop them. University of Greenwich Annual Psychology Lecture, King William Building, Maritime Campus, March 5, 2009, 4pm
• (SR) The psychology of tyrannical leadership. UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham, January 9, 2008.
• (AH) New perspectives on the psychology of tyranny: Rethinking the role of roles. London Metropolitan University, December 11, 2008.
• (AH) The psychology of tyranny: Rethinking the lessons of Milgram and Zimbardo. One-day student conference on AS/A2 Psychology Core Studies. London, December 1, 2008.
• (SR) Making a virtue of evil: A five-step social identity model of the development of collective hate. Keynote address to 10th Norwegian Conference of Social and Community Psychology. Trondheim, Norway. 7th November 2008.