Education and research

December 2013 | Debbie Anderson

The APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CCN) celebrated 30 years of existence at its recent Conference titled Celebrating 30 years of CCN: Meeting challenges in an evolving clinical landscape in October in Brisbane. This 30-year milestone provided the College with the opportunity to...

December 2013

At membership renewal time this year, APS members donated $27,000 towards the APS Bendi Lango initiative, a fund that provides bursaries for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander postgraduate psychology students in financial need. These member donations will go towards the 2014 student...

December 2013

2014 APS Bendi Lango bursaries for postgraduate psychology students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descentAPPLICATIONS NOW OPENThe Bendi Lango initiative aims to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists and facilitate their contribution to the health...

October 2013 | Professor Jason Mattingley

Insights from 20 years of research on attention and consciousnessBy Professor Jason Mattingley MAPS, Queensland Brain Institute and School of Psychology, The University of QueenslandJason Mattingley was the 2012 recipient of the APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award...

October 2013 | Professor Pat Dudgeon, Dr Sabine Hammond , Associate Professor Jacquelyn Cranney, Associate Professor Dawn Darlaston-Jones, Dr Jillene Harris, Professor Jeannie Herbert, Associate Professor Judi Homewood and Dr Russell Roberts

The Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP)The APS is one of the partners in an innovative collaborative project that has received a $350,000 grant from the Federal Government’s Office of Learning and Teaching. Entitled ‘Curricular approaches to increasing cultural...

August 2013

Psychology for a healthy nation8–12 October 2013, Cairns Convention Centre, Far North QueenslandJoin us in Cairns for this wonderful opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge, hear about the latest developments in psychology, meet like-minded colleagues, consult with peers and accrue...

August 2013

The 2013 biennial APS Forensic Psychology Conference was held from 18th to 20th April at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia and was attended by over 250 delegates from Australia and abroad. Under the theme The times are a changin’: Controversies, competencies and DSM-5, the...

August 2013

The 10th Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IOP) Conference was held from 3rd to 6th July at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, and was attended by nearly 400 delegates from across Australia and abroad. As expressed in the theme Crossing borders: Exploring the contribution of...

August 2013 | Professor Ann Sanson

Two eminent APS Fellows, Professor Margot Prior and Professor Ann Sanson, were the founding research psychologists in the pioneering Australian Temperament Project (ATP), which has just celebrated its 30th birthday. The ATP has followed the development of a large group of Victorians from their...