Overview
Join us for an engaging introduction to reflexivity and its essential role in forensic psychology. In this webinar, you will hear about how reflexivity differs from self-reflection, explore evolving perspectives in modern psychology, and learn to navigate first-, second-, and third-person subjectivity.
You’ll also reflect on your own values, beliefs, experiences, and cultural identity, and consider how these shape your professional practice. This is a unique opportunity to deepen your self-awareness, strengthen your professional identity, and enhance culturally responsive practice.
About the presenter(s)
A/Prof Fox completed a BSc(Hons first class) in Psychology at the University of Stirling, UK, before going on to complete a PhD in Community Psychology, also at the University of Stirling. The title of the PhD was 'Scottish secondary education from a critical community psychological perspective: power, control and exclusion'. This research involved extended ethnography in a number of secondary educational settings and participatory research with young people who have experienced school exclusion. The work examined education from a standpoint with these young people using Foucauldian discourse approaches to reveal problematic power relations in education.
She has since been engaged in qualitative research involving: migrant children and families; young LGBTIQA+ people; young carers; evaluating health and mental health service provision; and student experiences of Higher Education. In 2010 she joined the School of Psychology at Charles Sturt University on the Wagga Wagga Campus. She teaches qualitative methods and critical community psychology and her current primary research interests include the social exclusion experiences of young people and collaborative, ethnographic methodologies. She is a member of the Faculty research group on Health Services, which aims to provide a cross-disciplinary perspective that will seek to explore problems and challenges that the health industry faces. She is also the Editor of the Australian Community Psychologist.
Dr. Greig completed a Bachelor of Psychology at Charles Sturt University in 2005. After working in various research roles for 6 years, she started a PhD in Psychology and Economics. The title of her PhD was “Estimating the Social Impacts of Change: Exploring a Psychological Approach to Capturing Social Impact Data for Cost-Benefit Analysis”. Following graduation in 2016, Jenni continued working across a wide variety of research projects at Charles Sturt, and with the Western Research Institute. She has worked with international organisations for research and research student supervision, leading to an interest in cross-cultural aspects of Psychology. She also held two sequential Post Doctoral Research Fellowships at Charles Sturt, funded by the Soils CRC.
Dr. Greig started lecturing in the School of Psychology in 2007, joining the School as a Faculty member in 2023. She is interested in many aspects of human social cognition, with an emphasis on wellbeing, and how we function as individuals and in inter-connected communities. She has applied this interest to areas including rural communities, ageing, environmental behaviour and decision making, disengaged young people, STEM education, high-stress work environments, and health.
Dr. Greig works across both qualitative and quantitative research and has taught a variety of undergraduate subjects including Qualitative Research Methods, Psychology of Ageing, Psychology of Crime, and introductory Psychology subjects (PSY101, PSY102 and PSY111). Jenni has also supervised Honours and PhD students.
Graduating from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) in 1998, Dr. Spaccavento is a registered forensic psychologist. Her practice has mainly been in the correctional industry, specialising in work with people experiencing severe and complex psychological dysfunction including resistant, challenging, dangerous, or other antisocial behaviours within higher security environments of the criminal justice system. She developed particular expertise in the areas of prison gangs, terrorism, and high-risk-offender community reintegration. During this time she completed her Doctor of Psychology (Forensic) at Charles Sturt in 2012, conducting research into the relationship between re-offending and cognitive inflexibility. In later leadership roles as Principal Psychologist and then Director of Services with Corrective Services NSW, Bianca developed a passion for sound clinical governance of ethical and professional issues in correctional and forensic psychology and other areas of human service delivery in the correctional environment. Also an accredited supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia, her attention turned more recently to broader contributions to the profession through academic activity and engagement with emerging psychologists, prompting a career change to academia.
Since joining Charles Sturt University on the Port Macquarie campus in 2019, Dr. Spaccavento has focused on developing and teaching subjects relevant to both the professional practice of psychology and the application of psychology in forensic areas. She also supervises Honours, Clinical Masters and PhD student research projects in the broad area of forensic psychology. She is passionate about building the psychological workforce capacity in rural and regional areas of Australia, particularly with regards to enhancing forensic expertise. Dr. Spaccavento is always looking forward to further opportunities for teaching, professional engagement, and research activities in both foundational and specific areas of forensic psychology
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Target Audience
This event is aimed at psychologists working in forensic fields.
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