Public issues

October 2010

As well as the peace psychologists who attended ICAP 2010 (profiled in the previous edition of InPsych), the Congress was also buzzing with environmental psychologists from around the world. They hailed from across the Americas and Europe, as well as nearer to home in New Zealand and from around...

October 2010

Jamie Terzi completed studies in psychology and cognitive science before working as a psychologist in several community health settings in Melbourne. She worked for seven years in Afghanistan, originally as a volunteer then as paid Director of Programs with an Afghan Women's Education Centre,...

June 2010

The APS Grant for Intercultural and/or International Projects of up to $10,000 supports innovative projects that have an intercultural or international focus, particularly in countries where psychology is an emerging discipline. Dr Lisa Phillips MAPS from the University of Melbourne was awarded...

June 2010 | Dr Susie Burke

I just didn't know what to expect ... It was like nothing I'd ever imagined before ... We were so unprepared ... I didn't realise I would be so terrified ... I was not ready for this.Living through a natural disaster can be a truly terrifying experience. As well, there are many...

April 2010 | Adjunct Associate Professor Pat Dudgeon

​Members of AIPA and the APS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples and Psychology Interest Group get together for dinner at the 2009 APS Conference in Darwin.The Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) has gone from strength to strength in the 18 months since it was officially...

April 2010

Alison Schafer is a provisional psychologist based in Melbourne. She is currently studying for a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Swinburne University. Her research is on the influences of basic needs, social support and migration in South Sudan. Still working for World Vision, Alison is...

February 2010 | Ellise McLoughlan

National Psychology Week was built on the foundation that psychologists themselves are best placed to promote the discipline of psychology and the variety of roles that psychologists play in their local communities.In 2009, more psychologists than ever embraced the week from 8-14 November...

February 2010 | Angela Simcox

Cambodians experienced appalling atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime from 1975 to 1979. Nearly two million Cambodians, one quarter of the population, were killed or died, by execution, starvation, exhaustion from forced labour and torture. Radical social restrictions were imposed...

February 2010 | Graham Gee

Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) Steering Committee member, Graham Gee, is a descendant of the Garawa nation and comes from Darwin, Northern Territory. He is a dual diagnosis counsellor at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Services, and is completing a combined Masters/PhD...