Psychology LIVE! Student Conference Event for KS4 and 5 at Disneyland® Paris
Event Dates:
Monday 3rd March 2025
Monday 2nd March 2026
Psychology LIVE! is the best possible way to spend time outside the classroom whilst bringing Psychology studies to life. This immersive event gives students the opportunity to meet experts face to face and provide them with all the inspiration they need for their exams including memorable examples and case studies.
Speakers will present the most current issues with presentations linked to key topics covered in the AQA, OCR and Edexcel A Level curriculum. Through their real-life experiences our speakers will help the students understand how psychology is applied in the real world such as the contribution of psychology to individual, social and cultural diversity, and ultimately to a successful society. There will be the opportunity to ask questions of the industry practitioners and learn about careers associated with the subject during the interactive question and answer sessions.
While enjoying and being immersed in the Disneyland® Parks, the Park Challenges encourage students to take a step back and look at the resort from a scientific perspective. Students are given simple experiments to complete which allow them to develop arguments and draw conclusions about how psychological principles/theories are applied across the resort in order to stimulate specific behaviours and responses.
Prices start from£465pp
Price Shown includes
- Return coach travel *
- 2 nights bed & breakfast accommodation at Chateau de Grande Romaine*
- Park Hopper Ticket
- Attendance at the Psychology LIVE! Conference
- Curriculum-linked workbook for students
- Group Travel Insurance
- 1:10 free place ratio for staff on a twin room basis
- Support from our Events Team in Disneyland® Paris throughout your stay
Based on 40 passengers travelling by coach. Eurostar and flight options available.
*On-site Disney hotels and additional nights also available.
Who Is This For?
The event is aimed at Key Stage 4 and 5 students of Psychology and is designed to complement studies within the AQA, OCR, Edexcel syllabus as well as complementing WJEC and SQA qualifications. It is aimed at encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for the subject as well as inspiration for how to progress further in the subject.
Topics from across the Psychology curriculum brought to life at our event include:
- Memory
- Research methods
- Cognition & development
- Psychopathology
- Behavioural psychology
The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Places to Stay
Event details and 2025 speakers at LIVE! events
Jon Chase - Facilitator
Jon Chase is a science communicator, author and science rapper currently posted at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has an intense passion for scientific thinking and believes that knowledge should be made available in a way that allows as many people as possible the opportunity to gain access to it.
He has presented science for BBC learning on TV and YouTube and also co-authored books on The Science of Star Wars and The Science of Jurassic World. In 2017 he was awarded the Josh Award in Science Communication but is most well known for his science raps, which he has produced for various learning establishments and organisations including NASA, BBC, CH4 and Chester Zoo.
Dr Peter Lovatt (aka Dr Dance)
Dr Peter Lovatt is the co-founder of the Movement in Practice (MiP) Academy, a specialist provider of education in the psychology of movement and dance. He set up the first Dance Psychology Lab in 2008, from where he studied how movement changes the way people think and solve problems, how it changes social interaction and increases pro-social behaviour, and how movement changes people’s feelings. Peter has been invited to appear on many popular TV shows including Strictly Come Dancing: It takes two, The Graham Norton Show, and Britain’s Got Talent.
Guaranteed to energise the room, Peter will take your students on a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the psychology of movement.
Dr. Daniela Varley
Dr. Varley, a distinguished Forensic Psychologist and TEDx speaker, is the founder and director of Recre8, an internationally recognised, award-winning Drama-based Psychology company specialising in Youth Justice. With over 17 years of experience, she has established herself as a leading expert in the field through her research and development of the highly acclaimed V² rehabilitation model, widely implemented across educational and youth justice settings in England.
Daniela’s innovative approach to rehabilitation will offer your students valuable insights into future careers in applied psychology, demonstrating the practical application of psychological theories to make life-changing differences to people.
Kimberley Wilson
Chartered psychologist Kimberley Wilson is a governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust, and a former chair of the British Psychological Society Training Committee in Counselling. She authored ‘How to Build a Healthy Brain’, named by critics a practical manual for the brain and something to help understand mental health on a deeper level.
Kimberley's philosophy of Whole Body Mental Health and looking at the roles food and lifestyle play will help your students to understand disordered eating, the gut-brain axis and our emotional relationship with food.
Q&A Session
Our lively and interactive question and answer session gives the students control to ask the questions they want answers to. All the speakers take to the stage to answer questions to provide different perspectives and to offer invaluable career advice from their own experience.
LIVE! Events Team
Our LIVE! Events Team provide expert on-site support throughout your stay to make your trip as easy and memorable as possible:
- Be on-hand & provide assistance throughout the event
- Register your students at the conference & take questions
Workbook and Park Challenges
Our complementary workbooks are designed to be used as your group enjoy the Disney® Parks. The workbooks contain park challenges which encourage students to take a step back and critically appraise the resort from their subject perspective. These park challenges provide opportunity for problem solving, decision making as well as working together so that your students get the maximum from the their time at Disneyland® Paris.
What You Say
Brilliant Psychology conference! Walbottle Campus
Michelle Fletcher was the best, the students loved her. They felt they had a clear insight into her role and her field. Her presentation was engaging with real life examples, she clearly broke down how she carries out clinical assessments and linked this back to relevant examples. Bacons College
Another excellent trip thanks to EST. This is the third year that we have done the trip and every time EST deliver in terms of making it easy to organise the trip and particularly when in the resort, where they are always available to assist when needed. Staff are enthusiastic and really welcoming. We will be returning again next year! Garforth Academy
We definitely want to come back next year. Your trip represented better value for money than the rival company as the pupils had one more day in the park. Churchdown School Academy
Expert's comment
"I'm glad that the presentation was well received, and that students managed to learn something as well as gain a sense of what it's like working as a forensic psychologist.!
Michelle Fletcher, Clinical Psychologist