School of Psychology
Faculty of HMNBS
The School of Psychology conducts a weekly colloquia series each semester, on both the Geelong campus at the Waterfront and the Melbourne campus at Burwood. There is a wide range of topics covered at these colloquia, and presenters include international researchers, professionals, and Deakin University academics and postgraduate students. There are also further seminar programs conducted in the School. The colloquia schedule for Burwood and Waterfront ca be found below
Melbourne campus at Burwood 26K (as at 3/4/08 - opens in new window)
Geelong campus at the Waterfront 25.1K (as at 02/5/08 -opens in a new window).
Burwood
Reading week one: Professor Bob Cummins - "The wellbeing of Australians - Changing conditions to make life better" 184K
Reading week two: Professor John Toumbourou - "Interventions to reduce harm associated with adolescent substance use" 0.95Mb
Reading week three: Professor Marita McCabe - "The prevalence and recognition of depression among low-level aged care residents with and without cognitive impairment" 83K
Reading week four: Prof Carol Nowson and Sally Fornaro - "How to use the new expedited ethics review process" (weblink).
Reading week five: Dr Cheryl Dissanayake - "Early identification of Autism in infancy" 118K
Reading week six: Assoc Prof David Mellor and Dr Lucy Firth - "Apologies, reconciliation and indigenous health. Reading one 176K, reading two 236K
Reading week seven: Assoc Prof Richard Osborne - "Is failure to consider health literacy the reason for the failure of public health? 166KB
Reading week eight: Dr Eric Koukounas - "Alice through the looking glass: An examination of female sexuality" 58KB
Semester 2
No readings week one.
Reading week two: Dr Linda Byrne - "Memory span in schizophrenia: what contributes to performance?" 288KB
Reading week three: Dr David Hamilton - "Stress and Coping in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder" 141KB
Reading week four: Dr Gery Karantzas - "Let me, help you: The role of attachment facets in prosocial behaviour" 125KB
Reading week five: Dr Jarrad Lum - "Rethinking the importance of intelligence in understanding learning disability" 140KB - CANCELLED
Reading week six: Prof Carlene Wilson - "Primary and secondary prevention of cancer through targeted behavioural interventions" 58KB
Geelong
No colloquia week one
Reading week two: Dr Marina Haywood - "A single-case study of a specific learning disability" 51K
No colloquia week three
Reading week four: Dr Jarrad Lum - "The psychometrics of clinical and funding decisions for children with intellectual and language impairments" 365KB
Reading week five: Dr Craig Olsson - "Genes, environment and depression: The nature - nurture debate just got more complicated?" 5,496KB
