Previous Events in the School of Behavioural Science

Psychology Awards Night

 On Tuesday 1^st April the School of Behavioural Science hosted its second official “Psychology Awards Night”.  The night was to congratulate the graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Psychology and Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology upon the completion of their course.  Undergraduate prize winners were presented with their awards for their outstanding results in the five main areas of psychology taught in the department. Following are the prize winners:

• Kate Fernandez – The recipient of the First Year Psychology Exhibition Award
• Alison Cheetham - The recipient of the Norma Grieve Prize
• Katherine Keene – The recipient of the Quantitative Methods Exhibition Award
• Jessica Sinclair – The recipient of the Social Psychology Exhibition Award
• Alissandra Mcilroy -  The recipient of the Behavioural Neuroscience Exhibition & Joint recipient of the Cognitive Psychology Exhibition Award
• Gabriel Strauss – The joint recipient of the Cognitive Psychology Exhibition Award
• Amrita Gupta – The recipient of the Developmental Psychology Exhibition Award
• Linda Macleod – The joint recipient of the Applied Psychology Exhibition Award
• Yingyi Wong – The joint recipient of the Applied Psychology Exhibition Award
• Patrick Goodbourn - The recipient of the Dwight Final Assessment Prize

APS Prize 2007 was presented by APS Melbourne Branch Chair - Ms Wendy McDonald, to Patrick Goodbourn. Congratulation for all the prize winners and keep going with the good work.    

We were incredibly privileged to have Associate Professor Jeanette Lawrence as the guest speaker. Associate Professor Lawrence is a developmental psychologist studying the development of people in interaction with their social environments across the life course. She talked about her career and her experiences as a student. It was truly inspirational.

The student representative speaker was Linda Macleod who is a Graduate Diploma graduate and the joint recipient of the Applied Psychology Exhibition Award. She talked about how the Graduate Diploma offered her an enriching learning experience due to the diversity of knowledge, skills and backgrounds.  And she acknowledged the contribution the staff made to the Graduate Diploma students, in particular made reference to the openness of the staff to students’ ideas and how they supported student’s collaborative learning through their own research and mentoring.

Culture and Conflict

A public lecture entitled “Culture and Conflict: Cultures of War, Cultures of Peace” was delivered by Professor Anthony Marsella, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii . An eminent clinical and cultural psychologist, and President of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Professor Marsella will examine the relations between culture and conflict that emerge when parties with differing constructions of reality come into contention regarding the distribution of power, control, and influence, and the competition for identities, roles, and economic, political, and religious needs. The lecture was held on March 14 2008 from 2.15-4.00pm in the Sunderland Theatre, Medical Building. For more details click here

Special Colloquium On-line

Did you miss the November 23 special colloquium: the Determinants of refugee mental health: A global meta-analysis or simply wish to relive the occasion? Presented by Associate Professor Nick Haslam, the hugely successful lecture is now available as an on-line audio recording. The presentation was sponsored by Researchers for Asylum Seekers and the School of Behavioural Science and has strong policy implications for the mandatory detention issue. Go to ilecture

For more information on the Researchers for Asylum Seekers (RAS) group click here

2005 Alice Barber Memorial Lecture On-line

A recording of the 2005 Alice Barber Lecture: 'Improving vocational and social recovery in people with early psychosis - can we do better?' is now available. Listen on-line to an ilecture recording of Professor David Fowler's' presentation held on Wednesday october 12. Go to ilecture

2006 Brotherton Lecture

Dr Patricia Lesley Brotherton, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology until her death in 1979, bequeathed the sum of $20,000 to the Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne , to be used at the discretion of the Professors of the Department for the work of the Department.

The net annual income of the funds is expended by the Council on the recommendation of the Head of the Department of Psychology for the following purposes:
•  to provide special lectures ( The Brotherton Lectures ) in the Department given by persons from within Australia or overseas
•  to appoint from time to time a fellow ( The Brotherton Fellow ) from within Australia or overseas, to undertake in the Department research relating to psychology
•  to enhance the work of the Department in any other approved way

For more details click here