Jovan Byford is a Senior Lecturer in

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

at the

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in the

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Career and work

Byford is a native of Serbia. He received an

M.Sc. A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

in social and applied psychology from the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

from Loughborough University. 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. Byford has been widely published, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles dealing with

conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * * * * The term has a nega ...

antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

and Holocaust remembrance. He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory.

Books

*''Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović'' (Central European University, 2008). *''Discovering Psychology'' with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). *''Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction'' (Springer, 2011). *''Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations'' co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). *''Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans'' (Bloomsbury, 2020).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Byford, Jovan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Kent Academics of the Open University Alumni of Loughborough University Scholars of antisemitism Social psychologists Historians of the Balkans Serbian people of English descent