Events

Learning, Education, and Assessment Research Network (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: The discipline that couldn’t explain itself: Narrative identity and Psychology’s crisis of coherence Abstract: Anyone familiar with Psychology’s history will recognise a discipline shaped by fragmentation, competing paradigms, and unresolved questions about Psychology’s identity and purpose. These tensions have become more pronounced in contemporary […]

Prof Mark Dadds (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: Evidence, fads, and the moral high ground in clinical psychology: The example of parental discipline practices Abstract: Clinical psychology grew up in a scientist-practitioner framework, but like all human endeavours, it is heavily influenced by fads, hearsay, and polemics. An informative example of this concerns parental discipline […]

Prof Tasha Stanton (Adelaide University) Title: Taking perceptual science to the clinic to optimise care for chronic pain Abstract: Our understanding of what underpins perceptions of our own body and its capacity is growing, with theories of predictive processing and active inference informing both why we feel what we feel and why we do what […]