The BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section Annual Conference 2017

The British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Sexualities Section held its 2017 Annual Conference on 8 December 2017 at the BPS London Offce, with the theme ‘Innovations in Psychology of Sexualities’. The programme featured six oral presentations, fve posters, four Pecha Kucha style presentations, and one keynote address. As a relative newcomer to the UK context with a background in LGBT psychology from a different country context (i.e. the Philippines; Manalastas & Torre, 2016), I participated in the conference for the first time with a mix of curiosity, excitement, and the standpoint of a ‘friendly outsider’ (Greenwood & Levin, 2007). As such, I aim to not just offer a summary of the conference but to ‘refect back’ (Greenwood & Levin, 2007, p.125) on the event as a whole.