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The Research Support Team of the School of Psychology, Social Work & Social Policy is delighted to present the research achievements of staff and students. Our School has benefitted from its multidisciplinary collection of researchers who in collaboration with local, national and international partners have undertaken significant and innovative research works in areas of:
• Aboriginal studies;
• Clinical psychology;
• Cognition;
• Cognitive neuroscience;
• Community well-being;
• Conservation psychology dementia;
• Domestic violence;
• Gender studies;
• Health psychology;
• Organisational and work psychology;
• Preventing bullying at work;
• Psychology education;
• Racism;
• Refugees;
• Rural health and well-being;
• Shiftwork;
• Social work education;
• Suicide;
• Sleep medicine;
• Telepsychology;
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Congratulations to our Cognitive Neuoriscience Laboratory who were in force at the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, held earlier this month at Monash University. PhD candidates Louise, Zach and Andrew all held excellent and well-received "lightning plenary" talks.
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Well done to the APC-WHS who with colleagues from Japan recently attended the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine Melbourne, and gave a joint symposium as part of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work. Harry and Mikaela gave very impressive presentations on their PhD research which involved predicting future cardiovascular risk, psychological health and engagement from Psychosocial Safety Climate and policy implications. Photo from left: Maureen Dollard (Co-chair), Harry Becher, Mikaela Owen, Kanami Tsuno, Akizumi Tsutsumi (Co-Chair) and Akiomi Inoue from the University of Tokyo.
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Well done to the Centre for Social Change for a productive year. A few of their recent book publication are highlighted below.
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Congratulations to our Academics and Doctoral Students from the Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences for recently presenting at the Australasian Cognitive Neurosciences Society Conference held here in Adelaide, Australia.
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Congratulations to our Doctoral Students from the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety (APC-WHS) for recently presenting at the 7th Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work expert workshop at Fudan University, Shanghai.
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Congratulations to all of the postgraduate researchers who took part in this year's HDR Poster Presentation Forum on Tuesday, 8th November. The winner of this year’s award for best poster went to Ms Bianca Kahl Poster title: ‘Testing a Life History Model of Psychopathology’ Supervisors: Dr Phil Kavanagh, Prof David Gleaves
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Mindfulness and Employee Wellbeing: Seeking Participants Take part in a mindfulness training program and contribute to exciting research investigating mindfulness and wellbeing in the workplace. Participants go into the running to win one of three prizes: $200 Myer gift card, $50 Myer gift card or $30 Myer gift card. Participation involves completing a short questionnaire and daily diary (i.e., a very short survey) on 10 workdays and taking part in a mindfulness self-directed training program, consisting of 15 minutes of mindfulness practice on 10 workdays guided by a manual and audio recordings. If you are over the age of 18, residing in Australia, currently working 30 hours or more a week and not currently engaged in mindfulness training, you are eligible to take part in this research project. To register your interest email: jamsd001@mymail.unisa.edu.au Feel free to share this post with your friends. This project has been approved by the University of South Australia’s Human Research Ethics Committee.
New research may save sleepy little snorers from surgery - UniSA news releases - University of South Australia
Dr Scott Coussens and a team at UniSA reviewed scientific studies about the practice of removing tonsils as a treatment for snoring and other forms of mild sleep disordered breathing and found little evidence to support the practise. > Read more http://www.unisa.edu.au/Media-Centre/Releases/2016-Media-releases/New-research-may-save-sleepy-little-snorers-from-surgery/
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Congratulations to our Academics and Doctoral Students who presented at the Sleep DownUnder conference held here in Adelaide. #SDU2016
The science of sleepwalking
Dr Helen Stallman's recent interview with The Saturday Paper.
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Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific | Maureen F. Dollard | Springer
Latest book publication: 'Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific' Prof Dollard says the book introduces exciting new research on workaholism, bullying, work demands classifications, and psychosocial safety climate. The book is available to order online and will be officially launched in Shanghai, China on October 19. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789401789745#aboutAuthors
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