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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Lisa Williams
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Lisa Williams (UNSW)Driving EDI with data: How data-driven approaches can advance equity in the STEM sector\nAbstract\nAdvancing equity\, diversity\, and inclusion is a moral and operational imperative in today’s society\, especially in the STEM sector. Establishing what to do to shift the dial in this space\, and evaluating if it’s working\, is essential yet often overlooked. This talk will cover several projects that leverage data to design\, garner support for\, and advance initiatives for equity\, diversity\, and inclusion at the university\, sector\, and national levels. These projects include data-driven design and evaluation of initiatives within the UNSW Faculty of Science\, including the UNSW Women in Maths and Science Champions Program. Other examples include those conducted in A/Prof Williams’ capacity as Chief Investigator on the grants that fund Australia’s Women in STEM Ambassador initiative: (1) an analysis of 20 years of ARC and NHMRC grant outcomes data by gender of the lead investigator\, (2) a trial of anonymising peer review for grant applications for access to scientific equipment\, and (3) a series of systematic reviews on the efficacy of workplace initiatives to support gender equity\, disability inclusion\, and inclusion of sexual and gender minority populations. How such approaches can be effectively leveraged to advise on policy and practice at governmental and organisational levels will be discussed.\nBio\nAssociate Professor Lisa A. Williams is a social psychologist whose research explores the mechanisms of social and emotional wellbeing. Her current research projects address emotional experience in the context of close relationships\, prosocial behaviour\, and blood donation. She is an advocate for gender equity—particularly in STEM—and currently serves as Associate Dean Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the UNSW Faculty of Science. She is Chief Investigator on the grants that fund the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador initiative. To her advocacy for equity she brings her knowledge of the science of stereotypes\, discrimination\, and prejudice and is a staunch supporter of deploying best-practice initiatives using an empirically-backed approach.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-lisa-williams/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Llew Mills
DESCRIPTION:Dr Llew Mills (USYD)What works and why: two approaches to the treatment of addiction\nAbstract\nAddiction affects everyone\, either directly through their own struggles or indirectly through the struggles of their friends and family. Yet it remains one of the most challenging disorders to treat. Medical addiction research tends to be pre-occupied with what treatments work and for whom\, whereas theoretical addiction research attempts to ask why these treatments work. Dr Llew Mills from the Specialty of Addiction Medicine\, University of Sydney discusses the pros and cons of these two different approaches\, first via a tour through his more theroretical PhD work examining the cognitive processes that affect caffeine withdrawal\, and second via a discussion of some of the studies he has run as a postdoc at the Faculty of Medicine: testing efficacy of a cannabis agonist drug for people with cannabis use disorder; determining what factors are associated with cannabis use disorder among medical cannabis users; and examining whether methamphetamine use at outset of treatment is associated with poorer outcomes among clients enrolled in an opioid treatment program.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-llew-mills/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Vincent Laurent
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Vincent Laurent (UNSW)Cholinergic regulation of fear by the basal forebrain\nAbstract\nThe basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the infralimbic (IL) region of the medial prefrontal cortex are heavily implicated in fear regulation. These two regions receive dense cholinergic projections from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) and/or the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca (HDB)\, which are both located in the basal forebrain. The present experiments examined whether these projections regulate the formation and extinction of fear memories\, as well as the capacity of these memories to renew when context cues are manipulated. This was achieved by employing a Pavlovian fear protocol and optogenetics in transgenic rats. Silencing NBM-to-BLA cholinergic projections during fear conditioning weakened the fear memory produced by this conditioning and eliminated its renewal after extinction. A similar outcome was obtained when silencing HDB-to-BLA or HDB-to-IL cholinergic projections during extinction. These findings indicate that basal forebrain cholinergic signalling in the BLA and IL plays a critical role in fear regulation by promoting strength and durability of fear memories. This leads to the proposal that the function of basal forebrain cholinergic signalling is to protect fear memories from erasure when they are extinguished.\nBio\nVincent Laurent is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. His general field of research is behavioural neuroscience\, and he is interested in understanding how we learn about environmental stimuli that predict aversive or appetitive events\, how the predictive relationships between these stimuli and events are updated when circumstances change\, and how they are used to inform our choices and decisions.  His work combines behavioural tasks in rodents and modern neuroscience tools to manipulate specific brain regions and neuronal populations.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-vincent-laurent/
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