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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Kelly Clemens (UNSW)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Kelly Clemens (UNSW)
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-kelly-clemens-unsw/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Branka Spehar (UNSW)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Branka Spehar (UNSW)
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-branka-spehar-unsw/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Garner Clancey (USYD Law)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Garner Clancey (USYD Law) \nAbstract \nThis presentation will discuss (in brief) contemporary crime and justice trends. Criminal justice agencies (police\, courts\, corrections) are struggling with diverse issues\, many which would benefit from collaboration with universities. Experiences gained in recent years through work of the fledgling University of Sydney Justice Collaboration will be discussed\, with particular focus on what this might mean for the School of Psychology staff and students. The trials\, tribulations and opportunities for criminal justice industry engagement and whole-of-university responses to criminal justice issues will be discussed. \nBio \nDr Garner Clancey\, Associate Professor of Criminology\, University of Sydney Law School and Director\, University of Sydney Justice Collaboration. \nBefore joining the University of Sydney Law School in 2011\, Garner worked in criminal justice agencies (including Juvenile Justice NSW and the NSW Police Force) between 1992-2002 and worked as a crime prevention consultant between 2002-2010. Garner also taught crime prevention\, policing\, juvenile justice\, security and criminology courses at five other Australian universities between 2000 and 2011. Garner is working closely with industry partners and colleagues from across the University of Sydney to tackle various practical and systemic challenges impacting criminal justice systems.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-garner-clancey-usyd-law/
LOCATION:Old Geology Lecture Theatre\, Edgeworth David Building (A11)
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Sophie Green (University of Leeds)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sophie Green (University of Leeds)\n\nOptimising complex interventions in cancer using novel experimental designs\n\nAbstract\n\nComplex interventions are typically evaluated using a randomised controlled trial (RCT). While RCTs are suitable for establishing the overall effectiveness of an intervention\, they tell us little about which individual components of an intervention drive its success (or failure). The Multiphase Optimisation Strategy (MOST) is an engineering inspired framework designed to optimise complex interventions. By using highly efficient\, fully powered experimental designs\, MOST guides the optimisation of interventions that are more effective\, efficient\, affordable and scalable. Crucially\, MOST offers potential to understand how and why interventions work\, helping to accelerate scientific progress.\n\nIn this talk\, Sophie will introduce the MOST framework\, highlighting its benefits and the innovative experimental designs it advocates. She will illustrate these concepts by drawing on examples from a large programme of research aimed at developing and optimising a behavioural intervention to support medication adherence in women with breast cancer (the ROSETA trial)\, guided by the MOST framework. Sophie will also discuss exciting future applications of MOST\, including the potential to optimise psychological interventions—such as those targeting fear of cancer recurrence—to deepen our understanding of their mechanisms of effect.\n\nBio\n\nDr Sophie Green is a senior research fellow at the University of Leeds UK\, with an academic background in behavioural science and psychology and a clinical background as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Sophie’s overarching research interests focus on the development\, optimisation and evaluation of behavioural and psychological interventions to support people living with cancer. Sophie has worked across a number of randomised controlled trials and optimisation trials\, predominantly focused on improving medication adherence and quality of life in women with breast cancer. She is currently funded by a National Institute of Health Research Development and Skills Enhancement Award\, within which she is exploring how secondary analyses of optimisation trials can enhance our understanding of how complex interventions work and for whom.\n\n 
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-sophie-green-university-of-leeds/
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SUMMARY:Psychedelics: A New Frontier in Addiction Therapeutics
DESCRIPTION:Brain and Mind Centre visiting seminar with Dr Jamie Peters\n\n27 May | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nLevel 5\, BMC Lecture Theatre\, In-person\nFollowed by Q&A and Networking. \nDr Jamie Peters is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama\, Birmingham\, (England)\, in Neurobiology. Her work focuses on preclinical behavioural pharmacology using rodent self-administration models of addiction\, optogenetic and chemogenetic dissection of neural circuit function\, neural circuitry and mechanisms underlying extinction memory\, and the intersection of aversion and reward in systems neuroscience. \nRegister here
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychedelics-a-new-frontier-in-addiction-therapeutics/
LOCATION:BMC lecture theaetre\, Level 5\, Brain and Mind Centre
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Sally Andrews Memorial Lecture on Cognitive Psychology: Prof Erik Reichle (Macquarie University)
DESCRIPTION:Professor Erik Reichle (Macquarie University) \n\n\n\nProfessor Sally Andrews Memorial Lecture on Cognitive Psychology: Towards a Model of the Reconstructed Self \n\n\n\nAbstract \n\n\n\nOur sense of self is dependent upon our experiences and how the “thread” of our autobiography is reconstructed from memories of our contextually rich experiences.  In this talk\, I will describe how an instance-based model of human memory\, MINERVA 2 (Hintzman\, 1986)\, can be used as a framework for understanding how this happens.  I will report simulations that show how autobiographical sequences can be generated from discrete memories of unrelated episodes\, and how the basic processes of encoding\, storage\, and retrieval can give rise to distortions of self (e.g.\, dissociative identity disorder; Boag\, 2024). \n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nErik D. Reichle received a BS in psychology from Iowa State University and a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst.  Since 2017\, he has worked at Macquarie University where he is a professor of cognitive psychology.  His research uses computer modelling\, eye-tracking\, and brain-imaging to understand the mental processes that support skilled reading and how those processes are influenced by languages and writing systems.  He has published more than 120 articles on these topics and has recently authored two books: Computational models of reading: A handbook (Oxford University Press) in 2021\, and The psychology of reading: Insights from Chinese (Cambridge University Press) in 2024.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-sally-andrews-memorial-lecture-on-cognitive-psychology-prof-erik-reichle-macquarie-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Haryana Dhillon (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Haryana Dhillon (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: I will survive: challenges of psycho-oncology and supportive care clinical trials \n\n\n\nAbstract:  \n\n\n\nThe psychological and physiological impacts of cancer and its treatment are well recognised as contributing to major reductions in quality of life and function amongst cancer survivors. There have been many interventions developed and shown to be efficacious.  However\, these are too commonly perceived as nice to have added extras rather than core components of cancer treatment and rehabilitation.  \n\n\n\nPreclinical and observational studies suggest that exercise may improve cancer outcomes. However\, definitive level 1 evidence is lacking. \n\n\n\nThe CHALLENGE trial aimed to determine whether a 3-year structured exercise program improved disease-free and overall survival in people with stage III or high-risk stage II colon cancer who had completed adjuvant chemotherapy when compared with health education materials alone. \n\n\n\nRESULTS: From 2009 through 2024\, a total of 889 patients underwent randomization to the exercise group (445 patients) or the health-education group (444 patients). At a median follow-up of 7.9 years\, disease-free survival was significantly longer in the exercise group than in the health-education group (hazard ratio for disease recurrence\, new primary cancer\, or death\, 0.72; 95% confidence interval [CI]\, 0.55 to 0.94; P = 0.02). The 5-year disease-free survival was 80.3% in the exercise group and 73.9% in the health-education group (difference\, 6.4 percentage points; 95% CI\, 0.6 to 12.2). Results support longer overall survival in the exercise group than in the health-education group (hazard ratio for death\, 0.63; 95% CI\, 0.43 to 0.94). The 8-year overall survival was 90.3% in the exercise group and 83.2% in the health education group (difference\, 7.1 percentage points; 95% CI\, 1.8 to 12.3). Musculoskeletal adverse events occurred more often in the exercise group than in the health-education group (in 18.5% vs. 11.5% of patients). \n\n\n\nCONCLUSIONS: A 3-year structured exercise program initiated soon after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer resulted in significantly longer disease-free survival and findings consistent with longer overall survival.  \n\n\n\nWhile the study demonstrated structured exercise is superior to health education alone\, there are many lessons to be learnt about conducting supportive care clinical trials like CHALLENGE. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nProfessor Haryana Dhillon(BSc MA PhD) is a Professor in Psycho-Oncology and Chair and Executive Director of the Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group. They co-lead the Survivorship Research Group\, University of Sydney. Haryana has received multiple awards for their contribution to cancer research including the 2023 Melanie Price Psycho-Oncology Award from the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and the 2023 John Zalcberg AO Award for Excellence in AGITG Research.  They were a finalist in the Eureka Awards category for excellence in Research Supervision and Mentoring (2024 and 2025). \n\n\n\nHaryana has an outstanding track record of research and collaboration with more than 265 peer-reviewed publications and >$27 million in research funding.  They were the Australian co-PI the practice changing Co.21 CHALLENGE Trial which demonstrated a survival advantage to colon cancer survivors who were randomised to a structured exercise program – a highlight of more than 30 years of working in cancer clinical research. \n\n\n\nHaryana’s contributions have extended from informed decision-making\, informed consent at diagnosis\, intervention development and evaluation\, and large scale implementation in supportive care and cancer survivorship. They use a wide range of research methods from exploratory qualitative studies though to large scale randomised controlled trials and implementation science.  Haryana led the MRFF Brain Cancer Mission – Survivorship program of work BRAINS (brain cancer rehabilitation\, assessment\, intervention\, and needs in survivorship) bringing together four cooperative trials groups and 11 institutions across Australia to collaborate on five themes of work. \n\n\n\nHaryana is the president-elect of COSA and a member of the Board. They previously chaired the Supportive Care and Quality of Life Subcommittee of the Australian New Zealand Urogenitary Prostate Cancer Trials Group and the Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia.  They currently contribute to the Cervical Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group and the Rare Cancer Optimal Care Pathway Working Group. \n\n\n\nHaryana has more than 30 years experience in cancer clinical research and is passionate about rigor in research\, practical solutions to tricky problems\, and doing what they can to help humans make it to the 22nd century.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-haryana-dhillon-usyd/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250815T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Education focused academic panel (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Alissa Beath\, A/Prof Simon Boag\, Dr Lisa Kim\, Dr Steson Lo\, Dr Elizabeth Seeley\, Dr Shannon Webb\, Dr Kelsey Zimmermann & Mr James Brown (chair)  \n\n\n\nTitle: Boots on the Ground: Our Education-Focussed Recruits \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nThe School of Psychology has seen dramatic growth in the last year with the hiring of new staff. Many of these new faces are “Education-Focussed” (EF) academics who have been recruited to support and develop our outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Given the rapid expansion of the EF scheme\, we’d like to take the opportunity to formally introduce ourselves and answer any questions you may have about our role in the School of Psychology. This panel discussion (moderated by our own James Brown) will feature a Q&A with five new EF staff and is designed to shed light on the role of education-focussed academics in psychology. Who are we? What do we hope to bring to the School? How will we support and add value to USyd’s world-class psychology research? Should you get attached\, or will we all be replaced by chat bots and Artificial Ian in the next 2 years? We look forward to answering all your questions on Friday.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-education-focussed-academic-panel/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Janie Busby Grant & A/Prof Amanda George (University of Canberra)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Janie Busby Grant & A/Prof Amanda George (University of Canberra) \n\n\n\nTitle: Understanding Industry Demand for Australia’s Psychology Graduates \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nIt is currently unclear where Psychology students can be employed after graduating\, particularly those who exit at the 3-year degree; this impacts student recruitment\, graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes. A UC- ANU research collaboration analysed more than five million job ads using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to identify job roles suitable for psychology graduates\, by establishing and exploring the impacts of underlying skills acquisition rather than traditional keywords. The analysis shows that graduates of the undergraduate Psychology degree have a wide range of unique skills and knowledge that are explicitly needed in variety of industries. This approach identified a wide range of jobs suitable for graduates straight out of the three-year degree\, and also those jobs that would be a good fit for Psychology graduates after additional training or experience. Potential job roles spanned nearly every industry and included jobs where are Psychology graduates are unlikely to recognised as appropriate or be currently sought after. These findings can be used to support potential and current students and graduates\, have impacts on curriculum development and assessment design\, and inform the current debate around the social role of psychology education. \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Janie Busby Grant is based at the Discipline of Psychology\, University of Canberra. Her research fields are at the intersection of cognition\, robotics and mental health. She is the Psychology Lead of the Collaborative Robotics Laboratory at UC\, leading an interdisciplinary team examining human-robot interaction and the implementation of autonomous embodied systems in health and aged care settings\, with a focus on industry partnerships and applied projects. She has a long-standing interest in Psychology graduate outcomes and employment opportunities\, and engages in substantial educational scholarship\, including publications\, presentations and practice-sharing nationally and internationally.  \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor Amanda George is a psychological scientist in the Discipline of Psychology at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on alcohol use/problems and risky driving\, especially among young adults. In particular\, she focuses on modifiable factors that can be targeted to reduce harm. Amanda has also held numerous roles in educational leadership including of Program Director (Psychology and Counselling) and has been responsible for quality assurance processes\, such as internal reaccreditation\, curriculum renewal and teaching quality. She has established a program of peer exchange of teaching and learning adopted by the faculty and regularly contributes to working groups on learning and teaching matters and course advisory panels. Amanda is particularly passionate about supporting staff to adopt the four lenses of review when teaching and on helping to ensure provision of an outstanding learning experience for students\, including focusing on work preparedness.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-janie-busby-grant-a-prof-amanda-george-university-of-canberra/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Michael Richardson (Macquarie University)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Michael Richardson (Macquarie University) \n\n\n\nTitle: Modelling the Behavioural Dynamics of Multi-agent Coordination: Dynamical Primitives\, Machine Learning\, and Generative AI \n\n\n\nAbstract:  \n\n\n\nEffective multi-agent interaction and teamwork depends on individuals’ ability to coordinate their movements\, actions\, and decisions in dynamic environments. Expert performance is often distinguished by the flexibility and efficiency with which individuals determine who\, how\, and when to act. In this talk\, I will present ongoing work exploring multimodal modelling and analysis techniques that integrate dynamical motor primitives\, advanced machine learning\, and generative AI—including large language models—to examine\, predict\, and enhance human perceptual-motor behaviour and decision-making in team-based tasks. By leveraging multiple data modalities\, from movement trajectories to linguistic interactions\, these techniques provide deeper insights into the underlying mechanisms of human coordination. They also inform the development of interactive artificial agents capable of real-time adaptation\, anticipation\, and intervention to optimize team and joint-action performance. \n\n\n\nBio:  \n\n\n\nProfessor Richardson is a cognitive scientist and director of research in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. His research is directed towards modelling the dynamics of human perception\, action\, and cognition for the development of human-machine systems. He has expertise in social and multi-agent interaction and coordination\, computational\, dynamical\, and complex systems modelling\, and machine-learning and AI.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-michael-richardson-macquarie-university/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: HDR prize ceremony and talks
DESCRIPTION:Presentation of awards by the Associate Head\, Research Education\, A/Prof Irina Harris\, and invited talks by prize winners Dr Joel Raymond and Dr Tao Chen. \n\n\n\nOrder of proceedings: \n\n\n\nAwarding of School of Psychology Publications Prize for 2024 \n\n\n\n\nAyshe Sahinovic (in absentia)\n\n\n\nConnie Badolato\n\n\n\nCosette Saunders\n\n\n\nDaelin Coutts-Bain\n\n\n\nLillian Darke\n\n\n\nRebecca McLean\n\n\n\nTessa Rooney (in absentia)\n\n\n\nThomas Nicholl (in absentia)\n\n\n\n\nAwarding (in absentia) of Faculty of Science Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis for 2024 \n\n\n\nNomination of Dr Tessa Rooney for Exploring The Contribution Of Expectancy\, Anxiety\, And Attention To Nocebo Effects. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTessa completed her PhD in September last year\, supervised by Ben Colagiuri\, Louise Sharpe\, and Jemma Todd. The PhD explored potential cognitive factors that might be involved in nocebo effects\, which are negative effects of treatments that aren’t directly caused by the treatment itself. The PhD involved three meta-analyses and three experimental studies\, to better understand how expectations\, anxiety and attention might be involved in the experience of nocebo effects\, in the interest of understanding how these factors might influence treatment outcomes outside the lab. \n\n\n\nAwarding of H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for the Best PhD Thesis in the School of Psychology for 2024\, with invited addressAwarded to Dr Joel Raymond forThe Social and Sleep Share a Two-Way Sheet: Investigating the Reciprocal Dynamics Between Sleep Social Behaviour and Oxytocin. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr Joel Raymond is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brain Health Institute\, Rutgers University\, New Jersey\, and an alumnus of the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney\, where he completed his Honours (2017) and PhD (2024). His research focuses on the reciprocal links between sleep\, circadian rhythms\, and motivated behaviours such as social interaction\, eating\, and addiction\, with applications to psychiatric disorders. He was awarded the H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for the best PhD thesis in Psychology at the University of Sydney\, the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Best Postdoctoral Poster Award (2025)\, and multiple competitive travel awards from the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and IBNS\, as well as being selected for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Young Investigator Research Forum (2025). Supported by the American Australian Association Graduate Education Scholarship\, his translational research employs preclinical models to uncover mechanisms driving sleep–motivation interactions and to guide the development of novel treatments. He currently serves as Trainee Councillor for the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society\, facilitating training opportunities for early-career researchers. \n\n\n\nAwarding of 2025 APS Award for Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology\, with invited address \n\n\n\nNomination of Dr Tao Chen for Stuck In Place: The Cognitive And Neural Bases Of Inflexibility In Ageing And Dementia. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTao Chen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney\, supervised by Professor Muireann Irish. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Sydney and holds a Master of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychology\, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on flexibility in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders\, integrating dynamic\, causal\, and network analyses with multimodal neuroimaging\, biological and physiological measures\, experience sampling methods (ESM)\, and behavioural experiments. He has published several first-author articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Clinical Psychological Science and the Journal of Affective Disorders\, and serves as a reviewer for journals\, such as Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Tao was selected as the University of Sydney’s sole nominee for the 2025 APS Award for Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology\, and earlier in his career was recognised as an Outstanding Graduate of Beijing and of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-hdr-prize-ceremony-and-talks/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250912T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250912T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T014416
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Cancelled
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URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Barbara Mullen (Curtin University)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Barbara Mullen (Curtin University) \n\n\n\nTitle: Beyond individual behaviour change: Can we use the behaviour change techniques successful in changing health behaviour to change behaviour in health professional led interventions? \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nDrawing on her research over the past 25 years Professor Mullan will explore behaviour change in health psychology. Starting with an overview of using theory to predict behaviour\, she will demonstrate how advances in theory allowed for the successful development of interventions to change behaviour at an individual level. Using research across a range of behaviours\, including physical activity\, nutrition\, adherence\, sleep\, alcohol consumption\, in diverse populations (e.g. people with eating disorders\, diabetes\, stroke\, and obesity) and conditions (e.g. cancer\, autoimmune conditions) she will demonstrate a range of interventions where behaviour was successfully changed (and not so successfully). The final section will explore how these individual-level techniques can be adapted for use by health professionals—nurses\, dietitians\, psychologists\, and pharmacists\, answering the question of whether we shift from isolated success stories to widespread\, sustainable behaviour change across entire populations? Professor Mullan’s work is especially relevant in today’s healthcare landscape\, where chronic illness and lifestyle-related conditions are on the rise. Her approach blends rigorous theory with practical application\, making her insights valuable for both researchers and health care professionals. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nProfessor Mullan is a Professor of Health Psychology\, in the School of Population Health at Curtin University. Professor Mullan completed her undergraduate studies in psychology at University College Dublin\, where she then completed her Masters degree. She completed her PhD in health psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She became a Registered Health Psychologist with the Health & Care Professions Council UK in 2007. She has worked in health psychology for more than 25 years including at the University of Birmingham\, the University of Sydney\, and Curtin University. Her PhD was the first to use psychological theory to predict safe food handling behaviour in consumers and she has remained a world leader in this important research area ever since. This work has had important implications for theory\, practice and policy. With her team she has pioneered using theory and behaviour change techniques in interventions to change behaviour\, across a range of behaviours. Her recent research has used these interventions in large population scale interventions to change behaviour in interventions using health professionals.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-barbara-mullen-curtin-university/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Jaimie Northam (USYD) & Priya Vaughan (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jaimie Northam (USYD) & Priya Vaughan (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: A new age for youth mental health: practical considerations for research and practice \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nYouth mental health has been recognised as research priority by the Australian government with the goal of reducing long term harm and social and economic costs. Lived experience participation and engagement has also been emphasised to ensure interventions and outputs are meaningful and relevant to young people. However\, any research that engages youth must acknowledge that young people have distinct experiences and needs to those of children and adults. Young people are more independent than children\, and capable of great creativity and unique perspectives. But they are not yet adults and require varying levels of parental and societal support. As a result\, young people have unique needs for psychological interventions\, and how they’re engaged in research processes. How do we know we are getting their involvement right? And how can we involve young people in research in a meaningful way that drives our research\, and also empowers and strengthens young people’s mental health?  In this talk\, we argue that there are ways to meaningfully engage young people in research that benefits us as researchers\, them as developing individuals\, and the collective society.  \n\n\n\nDr Northam will present recent data regarding young people’s attitudes to mental health help-seeking and how this work is helping to inform development of a new digital mental health tool specifically for 12 to 17-year-olds. Dr Vaughan will share reflections about the co-production of MyBRANCHES\, a digital\, self-management tool for young people (16+) preparing to discharge from an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. She will reflect on what the co-production process looked like ‘in real life’ (as opposed to the neat frameworks she’d seen in journal articles) and share learnings and challenges. Drawing on co-design and co-production approaches\, Jaimie and Priya will close with an interactive discussion with the audience so we can collectively explore the steps we can take to better include our stakeholders in research. \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nDr Jaimie Northam is a Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist. She has been practicing as a psychologist working with young people for over 15 years and is passionate about supporting them and their parents meet the unique needs of this life stage. Currently\, her work is based in the Child Behaviour Research Clinic where she provides treatment\, supervision and conducts research focused on improving childhood mental health outcomes.  \n\n\n\nDr Priya Vaughan is a Research Fellow at the Central Clinical School (The University of Sydney) and at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. Priya’s research focuses on collaborative and participatory research with people with lived experience. Recent research has focused on experiences of psychosis and schizophrenia\, climate emotions\,  and discrimination experienced by people with experience of both disability and mental distress.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-2/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: Applying psychology (socio-behavioural science) to tuberculosis – acceptability\, value\, and preferences \n\n\n\nAbstract:  \n\n\n\nWhen I was a psychology student\, I thought I was going to be ‘a psychologist’. That’s not what happened. Instead\, I trace a journey of 20 years working alongside medical clinicians\, epidemiologists\, and public health implementers. I have leveraged my expertise in understanding people’s experiences and how these experiences interface with history\, context\, social systems\, and health systems\, to turn my training in psychology to a required skill for policy-impactful health research. I share five examples from the field of mixed-method\, multi-disciplinary projects\, mostly on tuberculosis and children. And I invite discussion on lessons-learned toward opportunities and conceptualisations of applied health psychology. \n\n\n\nBio:  \n\n\n\nGraeme trained in psychology in South Africa. He is now a senior lecturer in global health at the Sydney School of Public Health. He is also an extraordinary associate professor in paediatrics and child health (Stellenbosch University\, South Africa)\, and an African Academy of Sciences “ARISE” Fellow hosted by the Group for Research in Infectious Diseases (GRID) at the University of Namibia. He will tell us about his research in the presentation.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-3/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe make thousands of decisions every day\, often without realising how complex and costly they can be. In this talk\, I will provide an overview of several research programs currently underway in the CODES Lab\, with a focus on decision-making\, meta-reasoning\, and cognitive fitness. \n\n\n\nWithin the meta-reasoning framework\, our group is the first to examine individual differences in giving-up behaviours. The decision to give up is not simply a failure but a metacognitive strategy—one that can reduce errors and resource costs during problem solving. Across a series of studies\, we have shown that people give up in systematic ways\, and that some strategies are adaptive while others are maladaptive for performance. \n\n\n\nI will also discuss our work on collective decision making\, highlighting the role of metacognitive confidence and in-group communication in shaping group outcomes. \n\n\n\nFinally\, I will share findings from our research on cognitive fitness\, examining the factors that support mental resilience\, adaptability\, and sustained performance under pressure. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these programs advance our understanding of how individuals and groups manage the demands of decision-making\, and how metacognition and cognitive fitness can be leveraged to improve performance in everyday and high-stakes contexts. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr Sabina Kleitman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney\, and she is a director of the CODES lab at the School of Psychology. She researches psychological traits underlying decision-making\, meta-reasoning\, cognitive fitness\, resilience\, and mental well-being\, and how extreme and uncertain conditions affect them. She and her team also develop or assist with developing novel assessment and research tools\, and methodologies of significance to various end-users\, including Australian Defence.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20251024T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne) \n\n\n\nTitle: Where are the prediction errors? Three tests for expectancy effects on visual evoked responses \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe can rapidly learn repeating patterns in our environment. These learned patterns are often used to form expectations about future sensory events. Several influential predictive coding models posit that stimulus-evoked neural responses in the visual system are reduced when an expected stimulus appears (expectation suppression). However\, there is currently scant electrophysiological evidence for genuine expectation suppression in the visual system when relevant confounds are taken into account. To provide stronger tests for expectation suppression in the visual system\, we performed three predictive cueing experiments (n=48\, n=48\, n=60) while recording electroencephalographic (EEG) data. Participants learned cue-stimulus associations during a training session and were then exposed to the same cue-stimulus pairs in a subsequent experiment. Experiment 1 presented faces\, whereas experiments 2 and 3 presented oriented gratings. Across the three experiments we did not find evidence that expectations influenced event-related potentials in the first 300ms after stimulus onset (i.e.\, during afferent visual responses). These findings do not support predictive coding-based accounts that specify reduced prediction error signalling when perceptual expectations are fulfilled. Our results instead highlight the role of other hypothesised processes that allow our minds to adapt to our environments\, which do not appeal to prediction error signalling modulations. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Feuerriegel is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab at the University of Melbourne. He uses a variety of neuroimaging techniques in combination with psychophysics and computational modelling to investigate how decision-making and visual perception are implemented within the human brain. His team uses high temporal resolution recording methods\, such as scalp and stereotactic EEG\, to track the formation of decisions as they unfold over time. His research group is also interested in how our past experience and expectations about future events shape responses of stimulus-selective neurons within the visual system.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-5/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto) \n\n\n\nTitle: Moral Language Use By U.S. Political Elites \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nPoliticians on the left and right vary in the extent to which they moralize social issues. Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits five moral foundations said to constitute the basic building blocks of morality across cultures: the “individualizing” foundations of harm and fairness\, and the “binding” foundations of ingroup loyalty\, respect for authority\, and purity. Past self-report studies suggest that conservatives endorse the binding foundations more strongly than liberals do. However\, research does not consistently show that moral language use differs by ideology as predicted by MFT. I’ll present a series of studies in which we use computer-aided natural language analyses to uncover moral language used by U.S. Members of Congress. I’ll discuss differences between liberal and conservative politicians in how much and what kind of moral language they use\, and how this changes across time and different issues. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nYoel Inbar is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and director of the Morality\, Affect\, and Politics (MAP) Lab. His research is dedicated to uncovering the basic processes underlying moral thinking and applying this knowledge to understand people’s ideology\, beliefs\, and reasoning.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-yoel-inbar-university-of-toronto/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Jessica Flake (University of British Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jessica Flake (University of British Columbia) \n\n\n\nTitle: Methodological Research Needs Methodological Reform Too \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nPsychology is in a period of methodological reform. Researchers are rethinking their practices\, sharing their data\, and trying out registered reports. In this open science era\, my work has focused on the role of measurement practices. I’ll provide some background as to how that previous metascience and psychometric research in the context of replication studies led me to discover two related problems. First\, even as registration becomes common\, we lack practices to analysis plan for complex models and to ensure their transparent reporting and reproducibility. Second\, current methodological research does not address this because it does not focus on how to navigate the garden of forking paths and quantify the uncertainty in results that comes from reasonable analytical flexibility. In fact\, methodological research seeks to increase the size of the garden of forking paths! These problems prevent the uptake of open science practices and threaten the validity of research results. I’ll preview my on-going work to develop research synthesis methods for methodologies and ways of integrating multiverse analysis with metascience to quantify analytical uncertainty. I’ll discuss how applied and meta researchers can consider decision making in analysis pipelines as a unique contributor to the uncertainty of results and ideas for correcting for it. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr. Flake developed an interest in psychology and statistics as an undergraduate at Northern Kentucky University and went on to complete a PhD in Measurement\, Evaluation\, and Assessment from the University of Connecticut in 2015. She recently joined the faculty in the Quantitative Methods Area of the Department of Psychology at University of British Columbia\, after having been an Associate Professor at McGill University. Her lab works on applied problems in psychological measurement and psychometrics with an emphasis on reproducibility and replicability. She was a founding member of the Psychological Science Accelerator\, a distributed laboratory network of over 1\,000 researchers\, serving as the Assistant Director of the Data and Methods Committee from 2018 to 2023. She continues to work on methodological challenges for big team science and psychometric methods for complex data structures. Currently she is an Associate Editor at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science and Psychological Methods. Her recent and future work is considering how open science practices like registered reports and multiverse analysis can be further developed for latent variable models.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-jessica-flake-university-of-british-columbia/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Ed Awh (University of Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Ed Awh (University of Chicago) \n\n\n\nTitle: Content-independent pointers mediate storage in working memory \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nAlthough past neural studies of working memory (WM) have focused on stimulus-specific activity that tracks the stored feature values\, a separate line of evidence has revealed neural signals that track the number of items in WM\, independent of the contents of those items. Thus\, a common neural signature of WM load has been identified for highly distinct visual features\, and even across visual and auditory sensory modalities. Our working hypothesis is that these content-independent load signals reflect the operation of spatiotemporal “pointers” that enable the binding of stored items to the surrounding event context\, a process that is critical for precise access online memories despite high levels of proactive interference. This hypothesis predicts that pointer deployment is a key limiting factor for WM capacity. To test this prediction\, we applied representational similarity analysis (RSA) to EEG data to determine the number of pointers deployed across set sizes that ranged from 1 to 8 items. We observed a “neural load” function that rises with increasing numbers of stored items\, while controlling for differences in sensory energy and spatial attention. Critically\, this function differed sharply as a function of individual differences in WM capacity. Subjects with higher capacity showed a monotonic rise in the number of pointers deployed that leveled off at higher set sizes. By contrast\, low capacity subjects showed an initial rise followed by a sharp decline in the number of pointers deployed at higher set sizes. This empirical pattern dovetails with past behavioral and neural studies that have documented increased costs for low capacity observers as the number of memoranda exceeds capacity. We conclude that content-independent indexing is a core component of individual differences in WM ability. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nI’m a cognitive neuroscientist who received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan\, training with Drs. John Jonides and Edward Smith. I then spent 2 years at UC San Diego\, working with Dr. Hal Pashler\, and Dr. Steve Hillyard. I took my first professor position at the University of Oregon in 1999\, where I spent 16 years and developed a close collaboration with Dr. Ed Vogel. In 2015\, Vogel and I both took positions at the University of Chicago where I still reside. My core research interests focus on working memory and attention\, with an eye towards the intertwined nature of these constructs. I’ve been very interested in the sharp capacity limits that characterize working memory performance\, and we have recently proposed that those limits may relate to limits on content-independent operations that serve to bind item representations to the observer’s current context. My talk will focus on the evidence supporting this broad hypothesis. 
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-ed-awh-university-of-chicago/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Luigi Fontana (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Luigi Fontana (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: Promoting healthy longevity through lifestyle medicine: biological and behavioural mechanisms \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nChronic diseases are often perceived as an unavoidable consequence of genetics or chance. Yet converging evidence shows that a large proportion of cardiometabolic disease\, type 2 diabetes\, and many cancers is preventable\, and that the years lived with disability can be dramatically reduced through mechanism-focused lifestyle interventions. Modern healthcare has excelled at prolonging survival after disease onset\, but too often this extends years characterized by multimorbidity\, polypharmacy\, reduced independence\, and escalating costs.1 \n\n\n\nThis lecture synthesizes human and translational evidence showing how lifestyle medicine can extend healthspan by targeting fundamental biological pathways that drive aging and chronic disease risk.2-4 Key interventions include optimizing diet quality and energy balance (e.g.\, a Mediterranean-like\, minimally processed\, fiber-rich dietary pattern)\, regular endurance and resistance exercise\, and avoidance of smoking and harmful alcohol use.1\, 5 \n\n\n\nImportantly\, the effectiveness of these interventions in both clinical trials and real-world settings depends on adherence and long-term compliance\, which are influenced by psychological and behavioral factors that remain incompletely understood. I will briefly discuss how improving health literacy—particularly through education—may help shape health behaviors and strengthen prevention. Finally\, I will outline how integrating lifestyle medicine into proactive\, personalized care can reduce disparities and support sustainable healthcare systems while aligning human and planetary health goals.6\, 7 \n\n\n\nKey references: \n\n\n\n1.         Cagigas ML\, Twigg SM and Fontana L. Ten tips for promoting cardiometabolic health and slowing cardiovascular aging. Eur Heart J 2024; 45: 1094-1097. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad853. \n\n\n\n2.         Green CL\, Lamming DW and Fontana L. Molecular mechanisms of dietary restriction promoting health and longevity. Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 2022; 23: 56-73. 2021/09/15. DOI: 10.1038/s41580-021-00411-4. \n\n\n\n3.         Cagigas ML\, De Ciutiis I\, Masedunskas A\, et al. Dietary and pharmacological energy restriction and exercise for healthspan extension. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2025; 36: 521-545. 20250502. DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2025.04.001. \n\n\n\n4.         Fontana L\, Partridge L and Longo VD. Extending healthy life span—from yeast to humans. science 2010; 328: 321-326. \n\n\n\n5.         Tosti V\, Bertozzi B and Fontana L. Health benefits of the mediterranean diet: metabolic and molecular mechanisms. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 2017; 73: 318-326. \n\n\n\n6.         Cheng K and Fontana L. Investing in value-based primary care: a pathway to sustainable healthcare. Eur Heart J 2024 20240710. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae404. \n\n\n\n7.         Fontana L\, Fasano A\, Chong YS\, et al. Transdisciplinary research and clinical priorities for better health. PLoS medicine 2021; 18: e1003699. 20210727. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003699. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nLuigi Fontana is an internationally recognized physician scientist and one of the world’s leaders in the field of nutrition\, metabolism and healthy longevity in humans. His pioneering studies on the effects of dietary restriction in humans have opened a new area of nutrition-related research that holds tremendous promise for the prevention of age-related chronic diseases and for the understanding of the biology of human aging.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Fontana is the Leonard P. Ullmann Chair of Translational Metabolic Health at the Charles Perkins Centre\, where he directs the Charles Perkins Centre Royal Prince Alfred Clinic and the Health for Life Research\, Clinical & Educational Program. He is also a Professor of Medicine and Nutrition in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and a Clinical Academic in the Department of Endocrinology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fontana was a Senior Scientist at the Italian NIH (ISS) and a Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Washington University in St.Louis (USA)\, and co-director of the Longevity Research Program at Washington University.  Fontana graduated with highest honors from the Verona University Medical School (1994)\, where he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine (1999). He also received a Ph.D. in Metabolism and Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Padua Medical School (2003). \n\n\n\nProfessor Fontana has published over 180 manuscripts in prestigious journals including Science\, Cell\, New England Journal of Medicine\, JAMA\, BMJ\, CA Clinical Journal cancer\, Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biol\, Cell Metabolism\, Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol\, Circulation\, Journal American College of Cardiology\, and PNAS ; 96.4% of his papers are in the top 10% most-cited journals (Google scholar total citations >39\,000; h-index 90).  He has been invited to present his work at international conferences and top medical schools and research institutes around the world\, including Harvard University\, Cambridge University\, Yale University\, Universitè Paris “Pierre et Marie Curie”\, Max Plank Institute of Aging\, Baylor College of Medicine\, Buck Institute for Research on Aging\, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre\, National University of Singapore among others. \n\n\n\nDr. Fontana’s is the recipient of several prestigious awards\, including the 2009 American Federation Aging Research (AFAR) Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award and the 2011 Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging\, the 2016 Vincent Cristofalo Award of the American Federation Aging Research\, 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence of the University of Sydney\, 2022 Honorary Member of the Italian Association of Hospital Gastroenterologists\, 2022 Ordinary Non-resident Member of the Italian Academy of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the National Society of Sciences in Naples\, and 2023 Ordinary Non-resident Member of of the Italian Pontanian Academy of Naples (founded in 1458). He was a Scientific Member of the Board of Directors of the American Aging Association (2014-2019)\, and since 2016\, he is the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Nutrition and Healthy Aging’ and Associated Editor of ‘Geroscience’. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fontana believes that the time has come for a change in the conversation about chronic disease to a refreshed and repurposed model of health care\, which emphasizes the power of mechanism based prevention and education to change potential to actual outcomes. Fontana is also an environmentalist. He wrote several highly-cited perspective articles and book chapters with Daniel Kammen\, Walter Willett and Nicoletta Batini on the beneficial role of efficient use of energy and food in promoting human\, environmental\, and planetary health\, and sustainable economic development. Fontana and colleagues believe that it is possible to substantially enhance human and environmental health\, societal wealth and well-being\, but this requires a profound transformation in the way we live\, and a new prevention- and environment-centred healthcare\, agricultural\, industrial and economic system. They argues that most of the knowledge and technology to transform the world and begin a new industrial revolution already exist today. We only need to relinquish the idea of producing more energy\, food\, and other products at lower cost in favor of a new paradigm that opts for less but high-quality energy\, food and materials for a healthier life and environment. They also claims that “both individual and societal wealth\, happiness\, and well-being do not depend merely on the acquisition of material goods and on economic growth\, but are powered by our physical and psychological health\, the quality of life and the richness of our social relationships\, and foremost by the health of the environment that supports all life on earth\, our Natural Capital that must be preserved”. \n\n\n\nMajor Media attention \n\n\n\n\nQuoted in The New York Times\, “Food for Holiday Thought: Eat Less\, Live to 140?” by David Hochman\, by David Hochman\, Nov 23\, 2003\n\n\n\nProfiled on a NHK special documentary “Challenge the aging: You can live longer”\, 2004\n\n\n\nQuoted in The Washington Post\, “Seeking the Low-Calorie Fountain of Youth: Severely Restricted Diets May Slow Aging Process” by Rob Stein\, May 4 2004.\n\n\n\nQuoted in Science “Lean\, Hungry\, and Healthy” by Constance Holden\, Apr 23 2004(Science 2004;304:514)\n\n\n\nQuoted in New Scientist “Eat less and keep disease at bay” by Anil Ananthaswamy\, Apr 24\, 2004 (New Scientist 2004;182:2444)\n\n\n\nFeatured in the Korean documentary “Secrets of Living\, Aging\, Illness and Death ” by Mia Lee (Korean Broadcasting Systems)\, 2005\n\n\n\nQuoted in The Times of London\, “Eat less — and live to 130” by David Mattin\, Oct 3\, 2005\n\n\n\nProfiled in an Italian TV documentary on nutrition and longevity “Calorie restriction and aging” by Piero Angela (“SuperQuark” series)\, 2005\n\n\n\nQuoted in The Wall Street Journal\, “Reducing Your Daily Calories by 40%: The Science Behind ‘Starvation’ Diets”\, by Tara Parker-Pope\, Jan 31 2006.\n\n\n\nQuoted in The Washington Post\, “High Protein Diets May Boost Cancer Risk” by Steven Reinberg\, Dec 7\, 2006\n\n\n\nFeatured in the BBC4 documentary “Live longer: Caloric restrictions and ageing of the heart”\, 2007\n\n\n\nQuoted in Newsweek\, “Never say die”\, by Anne Underwood\, Dec 12 2008.\n\n\n\nQuoted in The New York Times Magazine “The Calorie-Restriction Experiment” by JON GERTNER\, Oct 7 2009.\n\n\n\nQuoted in the Los Angeles Time\, “Permanent diet may equal longer life” by Karen Kaplan\, July 9\, 2009\n\n\n\nQuoted in the Time Magazine\, “Health Checkup: How to Live 100 Years – Eat Less\, Live Longer?”\, by Bryan Walsh\, Feb 11 2010.\n\n\n\nQuoted in New Scientist “Eat less\, live longer?” by Laura Cassiday\, Jun 3\, 2010\n\n\n\nTime Magazine – “9 Healthy Snacks That Prevent Overeating”\, by Markham Heid\, Aug 11\, 2016.\n\n\n\nFeatured in the BBC2 Horizon documentary Eat\, Fast & Live Longer by Michael J. Mosley\, 2012\n\n\n\nFeatured in the ABC ‘Catalyst’ documentary “Staying Younger For Longer” by Jayne Parker\, 2019\n\n\n\nFeatured in the ABC ‘Catalyst’ documentary “The Truth about Fasting”\, 2021
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-luigi-fontana-university-of-sydney/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Agnieszka Tymula (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Agnieszka Tymula (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: Rationally Selected Utility – A New Theory of Choice \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTraditional prescriptive decision theories from Pascal’s to Expected Utility have struggled to explain inconsistent human choices\, leading to predictive models like Prospect Theory. This paper introduces a novel approach to understand why these behaviors occur\, reconciling these observed “irrationalities” with a simple rational objective. Here we propose that the human nervous system\, faced with limited cognitive capacity (a finite representational precision for the representation of reward value)\, optimally selects a task-appropriate utility function to either maximize long-run average earnings or to minimize errors. We argue that the utility functions we have measured are tools\, sculpted by knowledge of the choice environment’s probabilistic structure and the decision-maker’s precision level\, for optimally achieving a rational objective. Our results show that almost every experimentally observed utility function can be described as a near-optimal tool for achieving a maximization of objective earnings (a goal abandoned since Bernoulli) or for minimizing errors. We quantify the specific gains that result from adding cognitive capacity and find that these gains are quite small as long as the utility function is correctly adjusted to cognitive capacity. Our research provides a novel framework that offers a testable and foundational explanation for why human and animal decision-makers evolved the puzzling range of utility functions and risk attitudes that have been widely observed. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-agnieszka-tymula-university-of-sydney/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Phillippa Diedrichs (University of the West of England)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Phillippa Diedrichs (University of the West of England) \n\n\n\nTitle: Beyond journal articles: How research psychologists\, industry and civil society joined forces to reach 140 million young people with evidence-based body image interventions. \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nIndustries have long shaped body image\, appearance ideals\, and wellbeing\, yet a persistent gap remains between scientific discovery and real-world application. Brands and businesses struggle to access academic expertise and evidence-based tools; researchers\, meanwhile\, often lack the platforms\, resources\, connections\, and sometimes the confidence or appetite to translate their findings into practice. In the meantime\, young people continue to be shaped by appearance pressures that harm their health and curtail their relationships\, aspirations\, and opportunities. The solution lies not in more research alone\, but in a fundamentally different model of knowledge translation\, one built on disruptive innovation\, ethical industry partnerships\, and task-shifting to community-led delivery. \n\n\n\nDrawing on ten years of work spanning academia\, global brands\, civil society\, and policy\, this talk traces how evidence-based body image interventions were designed\, scaled\, and delivered to more than 140 million young people worldwide. It examines the realities of cross-sector collaboration candidly\, including the processes\, tensions\, and hard-won lessons\, so that researchers and practitioners can consider how similar approaches might strengthen the impact of their own work. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nProfessor Phillippa Diedrichs\, PhD\, is a social scientist on a mission to create a world where no one is held back by how they look\, their gender or identity. She’s an internationally recognised psychologist\, researcher\, author\, and speaker specialising in body image\, mental health and inclusion. Phillippa is a Professor of Psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research\, UWE Bristol and founder of EVERYBODY Consulting\, partnering with brands like Dove\, Nike and Instagram to challenge beauty norms and drive social change. Her best-selling teen guide\, The Body Confidence Book\, is now published in five languages.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-phillippa-diedrichs-university-of-the-west-of-england-tbc/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel (University of NSW)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel (University of NSW) \n\n\n\nTitle: A cross-species paradigm for exploring persistent detrimental behaviour \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nA basic precept in psychology is that actions with positive consequences are repeated while actions with negative consequences are avoided. However\, individuals vary immensely in their tendency to cease detrimental actions\, with many persisting in self-destructive behaviour. Tasks used to study this often fail to reveal psychological roots for these inter-individual differences. We have sought to address this via rodent and human versions of a conditioned punishment task. Across studies\, we have found that avoidance of negative consequences is bimodally distributed across individuals. We have found these differences in avoidance are not readily attributable to differences in appetitive or aversive motivation\, nor differences in behavioural control. Rather\, avoidance differences were driven by failures in Action-Punisher learning\, indicating an overlooked source of maladaptive choices. Factors that interact with these tendencies\, broader implications\, and future directions will be discussed.  \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW School of Psychology. His lab investigates the psychobiology of learning\, decision-making\, and behaviour\, with a special focus on how we learn and make decisions about actions with negative consequences. His research program leverages complex behavioural tasks across species\, precision neuroscience techniques (in vivo pharmacology\, optical and genetic approaches for real-time neural measurement and manipulation)\, and advanced analysis methods.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-philip-jean-richard-dit-bressel-university-of-nsw/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260409T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260409T140000
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SUMMARY:Thriving With and Beyond Cancer: A World Psycho-Oncology Day Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Clinical: Supporting Mental Health in Cancer CareCancer care is about more than just treatment\, scans\, and surgery. In honour of World Psycho-Oncology Day\, the Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG) invites you to a special webinar: Thriving With and Beyond Cancer. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Thursday 9 April to discover how psycho-social and supportive care clinical trials and implementation research are transforming the way we support the emotional and psychological needs of patients and their families. \n\n\n\nThis session is open to all – clinicians\, researchers\, students\, and community members alike. \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday 9 April\, 1pm – 2 pm AEST \n\n\n\nWhere: Online (link provided upon registration) \n\n\n\nHost: PoCoG (School of Psychology\, Faculty of Science\, University of Sydney)
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/thriving-with-and-beyond-cancer-a-world-psycho-oncology-day-webinar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260417T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260417T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T014416
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Psychology Colloquium: Prof Mark Dadds (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:UNFORTUNATELY\, MARK’S COLLOQUIUM HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR. \n\n\n\nProf Mark Dadds (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: What is it to discipline a child; what should it be? Evidence\, myths\, and the moral high ground \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nParental discipline of children is central to children’s moral development but is also the context for most abuse and violence. Time-out (TO) is a widely used parental discipline strategy developed as an alternative to physical punishment for children with behavioural problems and is now the 2nd most common discipline strategy. Despite strong research support\, concerns have spread widely regarding adverse impact on child mental health (CMH) in part driven by evidence of widespread variability in how TO is implemented\, and also with regard to its use with child from trauma and adversity backgrounds. I will present the results of several studies using a new measure of procedural implementation of TO by parents of children aged 2-8 years\, to examine the relationship between use and implementation of TO and child mental health\, attachment\, moral development\, and other outcomes. Data will include the first surveys of young adults who grew up in the Time-out generation. Overall\, the findings suggest that TO is ……. you’ll need to come to hear this bit! \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nMark Dadds is Director of Growing Minds Australia\, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney and Founding Co-Director of the Child Behaviour Research Clinic\, which develops state-of-the-art treatments for children and adolescents with MH problems. He has received over $17M of NHMRC\, MRFF and philanthropic funding since 2020. He has developed and directed several national intervention programs for children\, youth\, and their families\, at risk for MH problems. His Integrated Family Intervention for Child Conduct Disorder (with D.Hawes) is implemented throughout the world in the form of a tertiary treatment and since 2020\, online as Parentworks and FamilyMan\, both developed in partnership with the Movember Foundation. The ABC 3-part documentary of his approach to treating early onset child mental health problems led to him being awarded the 2021 Inaugural APS Award for Media Engagement with Science. Other awards include Early Career Award from the Division of Scientific Affairs of the Australian Psychological Society\, the Ian Matthew Campbell Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychology\, Distinguished Career Award of the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy\, the Eric Taylor Award for Translational Research into Practice\, Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health\, UK\, 2020\, and in 2021\, the APS President’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology. He has authored 4 books and over 280 papers on child and family psychology receiving over 39\,000 citations in total and over 11\,000 since 2020 on Google Scholar\, and has given invited keynote addresses and skills training workshops to international audiences throughout the world. In 2021 he established Australia’s first Clinical Trials Network in Child and Youth Mental Health funded by the federal government and tasked with developing innovative methods for identifying and responding to early mental health problems in children. This CTN has since 2021 developed Australia’s first network of Early and Midcareer researchers in child and youth mental health\, established over 14 flagship\, funded and endorsed new research trials\, established core methods support teams in Health Economics\, Lived Experience and Co-design\, Translation\, and Statistical methods\, and engaged ~100 research collaborators in child and youth mental health.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-mark-dadds-university-of-sydney/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260424T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Natalie Matosin (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Natalie Matosin (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: Decoding the impacts of stress on the human brain \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nSevere psychological stress is a global issue. The accumulation of recent geopolitical\, environmental\, and health crises has highlighted that stress has broad and substantial ramifications for global mental health. In this presentation\, Dr. Natalie Matosin will present cutting-edge research on how stress and trauma affect the cytoarchitecture of the human brain\, and how through studying this process\, the lab is defining new brain cell types that have not been described before. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr. Natalie Matosin is a Sydney Horizon and Al & Val Rosenstrauss Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences\, and Director of the MINDS Lab in the Charles Perkins Centre. With over a decade of international training in neurobiology\, Natalie specialises in advanced techniques to explore brain complexities and disorders. Her lab’s pioneering research in spatial and single-cell histology aims to improve diagnostics and develop new treatments for mental health conditions\, driving solutions from lab research to clinical applications.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-tba/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260501T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260501T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Learning\, Education\, and Assessment Research Network (Psychology) (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Learning\, Education\, and Assessment Research Network (Psychology) (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-tba-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260508T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Louise Sharpe (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Louise Sharpe (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-louise-sharpe-university-of-sydney/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260515T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey (University of NSW)
DESCRIPTION:Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey (University of NSW) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-scientia-prof-kaarin-anstey-university-of-nsw/
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