48th SPR INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
Celebrating 143 years of the SPR
This year's conference will be held at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 6AF, United Kingdom
Saturday 18th October and Sunday 19th October 2025 with welcome drinks and dinner on Friday 17th October.
The conference programme will follow.
Please note that the conference schedule is 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th October. Accommodation and all meals will be available.
All rooms are fully equipped with free Wi-Fi, a secure safe, phone, heating, flat-screen TV, ensuite bathroom, amenities and hairdryer, tea & coffee making facilities. Free parking is available on site.
There are lots of exciting things to do in the local area. These include Oxford Botanic Gardens, Blenheim Palace or go a little further out to Bicester Village Designer Outlet for a fantastic shopping experience.
Enjoy all the Leisure Club has to offer at Milton Hill House, including a gym with a range of cardiovascular training equipment, an indoor heated swimming pool, sauna, steam room, and hot tub.
Hotel guests can enjoy free access to all leisure facilities during their stay and can collect a complimentary towel at the gym reception.
Note that booking separate nights' accommodation, with or without Dinner, is also possible. For instance, you may wish to add Thursday or Sunday night or add accommodation to a Day Delegate booking for just one day of the conference. Please contact me at [email protected] if you wish to book this.
Note from the Programme Chair
Welcome to the 48th Annual International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research. This year we are based close to Oxford, at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 6AF, United Kingdom. We hope you find it comfortable and relaxing, with all the facilities you require under one roof. It seems some time ago now that we would regularly use universities for conferences, and perhaps we will return to some in the future. However, hotels with conference facilities bring immediate convenience and less walking from halls of residence to the lecture rooms for presentations. At the last count, there are more than a dozen UK universities offering taught modules of parapsychology within degree programmes, which bodes well for the SPR.
We usually receive more abstract submissions than we can fit in this year. Alongside the invited speakers and, of course, a guest after-dinner speaker, narrowing down such abstracts and the work people have put into preparing them is no easy task when, even in a strictly packed schedule, we can only accept two-thirds of them in the time available. We do invite those not included in the programme to share a poster to discuss with all the delegates face-to-face at the event. We will cover a wide range of topics from history and legacy to the latest laboratory research, experiences surrounding death, and much more. We encourage all contributors to take feedback from their talks and consider writing for the SPR Journal and/or the Magazine and share the data and ideas much further to our worldwide membership.
I extend my heartfelt thanks to the Conference Programme Committee who work hard to create an interesting programme for everyone. Thanks also, to our Secretary, Peter Johnson, for all the work he puts into this event. He is the backbone of helping make the conference possible and piecing together the fine details. Everyone here is aimed at making sure you get access to the latest research and ideas, and above all, have an enjoyable and memorable time at the SPR conference.
I look forward to welcoming you all, both familiar and new faces!
Dr Cal Cooper, Programme Chair
Steventon
Abingdon
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX13 6AF
United Kingdom
| RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE - SINGLE OCCUPANCY - with 15% EARLY BIRD discount (until 31st August) | |
| FULL CONFERENCE - SPR MEMBERS | £391.00 |
| FULL CONFERENCE - SPR STUDENT MEMBERS | £335.75 |
| FULL CONFERENCE - NONMEMBERS | £449.65 |
| SATURDAY ONLY - SPR MEMBERS | £199.75 |
| SATURDAY ONLY - SPR STUDENT MEMBERS | £174.25 |
| SATURDAY ONLY - NONMEMBERS | £229.71 |
| SUNDAY ONLY - SPR MEMBERS | £199.75 |
| SUNDAY ONLY - SPR STUDENT MEMBERS | £174.25 |
| SUNDAY ONLY - NONMEMBERS | £229.71 |
| TWO SPR MEMBERS SHARING A ROOM (price per person incl. 15% EARLY BIRD discount until 31st August) - RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE SPR MEMBERS - FULL CONFERENCE with TWO SHARING | £306.00 |
| TWO SPR STUDENT MEMBERS SHARING A ROOM (price per person incl. 15% EARLY BIRD discount until 31st August) - RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE SPR STUDENT MEMBERS - FULL CONFERENCE with TWO SHARING | £208.25 |
| TWO NONMEMBERS SHARING A ROOM (price per person incl. 15% EARLY BIRD discount until 31st August) - RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE NONMEMBERS - FULL CONFERENCE with TWO SHARING | £376.34 |
| DAY DELEGATE RATES (with 15% EARLY BIRD discount until 31st August) | |
| SPR MEMBERS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT | £97.75 |
| SPR MEMBERS - SUNDAY 19TH OCT | £97.75 |
| SPR MEMBERS - BOTH DAYS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT and SUNDAY 19TH OCT | £191.25 |
| NONMEMBERS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT | £112.41 |
| NONMEMBERS - SUNDAY 19TH OCT | £112.41 |
| NON-MEMBERS - BOTH DAYS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT and SUNDAY 19TH OCT | £219.94 |
| SPR STUDENT MEMBERS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £25.00 |
| SPR STUDENT MEMBERS - SUNDAY 19TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £25.00 |
| STUDENT NONMEMBERS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £35.00 |
| STUDENT NONMEMBERS - SUNDAY 19TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £35.00 |
| SPR STUDENT MEMBERS - BOTH DAYS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT and SUNDAY 19TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £45.00 |
| STUDENT NON- MEMBERS - BOTH DAYS - SATURDAY 18TH OCT and SUNDAY 19TH OCT (No Early Bird discount applies) | £65.00 |
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| DINNER FRIDAY 17TH OCT | £40.00 |
| DINNER SATURDAY 18TH OCT | £40.00 |
| TWO DINNERS - FRIDAY 17TH and SATURDAY 18TH OCT | £80.00 |
| ZOOM ATTENDANCE - EARLY BIRD | |
| MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - FULL CONFERENCE - EARLY BIRD | £51.00 |
| MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - SATURDAY 18th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £29.75 |
| MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - SUNDAY 19th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £29.75 |
| STUDENT MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - FULL CONFERENCE - EARLY BIRD | £21.25 |
| STUDENT MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - SATURDAY 18th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £12.00 |
| STUDENT MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - SUNDAY 19th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £12.00 |
| NON -MEMBERS - ZOOM - FULL CONFERENCE - EARLY BIRD | £58.65 |
| NON-MEMBERS - ZOOM - SATURDAY 18th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £34.00 |
| NON-MEMBERS - ZOOM - SUNDAY 19th ONLY - EARLY BIRD | £34.00 |
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