2008

July News

Visiting Scholar
The ASRI welcomes Dr Amy Bradfield Douglass (from the US) who is visiting the eyewitness laboratory from August to November, supported by a Visiting Research Fellowship from Flinders University.

ASRI leadership change

ASRI leader Neil Brewer has stepped down from the position of ASRI leader for study leave. The ASRI welcomes its new leader Tracey Wade.

Memory Loss and Dementia
Mary Luszcz spoke at “A Public Forum on Dementia: Research in SA” held at FMC on 19th July. Her presentation was on the persistence of memory in dementia: theory driven behavioural interventions can work. • Mary Luszcz recently gave ABC radio talks/interviews on 891 and PM on memory loss and making the most of what's preserved.

UK Presentations

ASRI leader Tracey Wade gave 5 invited presentations whilst in the United Kingdom. The first was given at a meeting of international perfectionism researchers at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and was a paper co-authored with Dr Simon Wilksch comparing a media literacy and perfectionism approach for reducing eating disorder risk factors in 15 year old girls. This same paper was delivered as part of a perfectionism symposium at the annual British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy in Edinburgh, along with a paper co-authored with Dr Anna Steele, comparing three guided self help treatments for bulimia nervosa. She also delivered a paper on an outpatient treatment trial for anorexia nervosa, as part of an anorexia nervosa treatment symposium. Finally, she participated in a clinical case discussion with Professors Waller and Fairburn, presenting on a treatment approach for a hypothetical case of anorexia nervosa.

Conferences and other presentations

5 Cofnerence presentations this month, with two being delivered by former ASRI leader Neil Brewer at the psychology and law conference in Maastricht, a keynote address by Marika Tiggemann at the Appearance Matters conference in bristol, and one being given by Ivanka Prichard, also at the appearance matters conference. Finally, Rosalyn Shute was an invited speaker at the biennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development in Wuerzburg, Germany.

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