Public issues

June 2011 | Judith Heywood

Talent can be concealed in many places. And those interested in increasing the number and diversity of psychologists in Australian might enjoy reflecting on the unconventional career trajectory of Glenn Williams. Glenn is the new Chair of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA)...

June 2011

The APS Grant for Intercultural and/or International Projects of up to $10,000 supports innovative projects that have an intercultural and/or international focus, particularly in countries where psychology is an emerging discipline. Doug Scott MAPS was awarded the APS Grant in 2009 to facilitate...

June 2011 | Karen Coghlan

The APS National Office has a dedicated media team whose role it is to support the advocacy efforts of the National Office in promoting psychology and its contribution to the health and wellbeing of the Australian community. This article presents highlights of APS media coverage for April and May...

April 2011 | Dr Susie Burke

Over the past 100 years, from Armenia in 1915 to Darfur today, genocides have taken place in many countries, with horrendous death tolls, and devastating consequences for the survivors. Closer to home, Australia's ‘stolen generations', where between 1900-1970 up to 25,000 Aboriginal...

April 2011 | Dr Susie Burke

It has been an extraordinary start to the year worldwide, with floods, fires and cyclones occurring almost simultaneously across Australia, followed by a devastating earthquake in New Zealand, and earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster, in Japan. Our hearts go out to the thousands upon...

April 2011

Having spent most of his career working as a psychologist in Sydney, APS member Brett Stathis wanted to experience a new culture while putting his professional skills to good use. In 2009 he joined Médecins Sans Frontières and spent the next 10 months working as a psychologist in the West Bank of...

February 2011 | Judith Heywood

From malls to lecture halls, via health clinics and office tea rooms, members of the Australian Psychological Society found settings of varied sizes in which to mark the 2010 National Psychology Week (NPW) in November last year. For some members, forums, presentations or seminars proved the most...

December 2010 | Dr Susie Burke

Slowly but surely word is getting around that psychology does indeed have a lot to offer in dealing with climate change. Having over 50 environmental psychologists gathered in Melbourne at ICAP 2010 certainly helped.The recently released American Psychological Association (APA) report on...

December 2010 | Professor Richard Bryant

2010 APS Annual Oration delivered by Professor Richard Bryant FAPSThe 2010 APS Annual Oration was delivered by Professor Richard Bryant, APS Fellow, Scientia Professor in the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, an ARC Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Traumatic Stress Unit...