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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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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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