INVITED SPEAKERS

 

MARILYN CAMPBELL

Associate Professor at School of Learning and Professional Studies Queensland University of Technology Kelvin

 

"Cyberbullying"


"Publishing in international journals"
 

Dr. Marilyn Campbell is currently an associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology preparing psychologists and school counsellors in the Masters of Education program. Previous to this Marilyn supervised school counsellors and has worked in infants, primary and secondary schools as a teacher, teacher-librarian and school counsellor. Her main clinical and research interests are the prevention and intervention of anxiety disorders in young people and the effects of bullying, especially cyber bullying in schools. She is the author of the Worrybusters series of books for anxious children.
 

PETER MITCHELL

Professor of Cognitive Development and Learning

University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

"Publishing in high impact journals"


"Why do some people find it difficult to guess what others are thinking? Insights from autism"

 

Currently, Director of Studies in Psychology at Nottingham University Malaysia Campus and Editor of the British Journal of Psychology.
BA (Hons) in 1984 and a PhD in 1987 from the University of Liverpool.
Post doctoral research fellow at Birmingham University (1987-1990), assistant professor at Swansea University (1990-1994), associate professor at Birmingham University (1994-1998) and as full professor at Nottingham University (1999--).
Served as Head of School (2005—2009) and served as the Chair of the Developmental Section of the British Psychological Society (2004—2006).
More than 80 research articles in international peer review journals, published in journals that include Cognition, JEP, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Authored 6 books.

 

KAVITA VEDHARA

Professor of Health Psychology

University of Nottingham, UK

"Psychosocial factors and wound healing"

Kavita is interested in experimental and applied research which examines the diverse ways psychological factors influence health and disease outcomes and the development of psychological interventions to improve these outcomes. To date, she has edited 3 textbooks, published over 60 peer reviewed papers and her work has been funded by, amongst others, the MRC, ESRC, NIHR, EU, Fulbright Commission, Cancer Research UK, BUPA, Auckland Medical Research Foundation, Bial Foundation and the Neuroendocrinology Charitable Trust.

 

STEVE W. J. KOZLOWSKI

Professor of Department of Psychology

Michigan State University, USA

 

Dr. Kozlowski’s research is focused on the design of active learning systems and use “synthetic experience” to train adaptive skills, systems for enhancing team learning and team effectiveness, and the critical role of team leaders in the development of adaptive teams. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to facilitate the development of adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. Dr. Kozlowski is the Editor (and a former Associate Editor) for the Journal of Applied Psychology. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Human Factors, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has published over 70 books, chapters, and articles. He is currently the Editor of the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which is a volume in the Library of Psychology to be published by the Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association for Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Dr. Kozlowski received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.

 

GEORGE WRIGHT

Professor of Management at Durham Business School, UK

"New directions in research on the psychology of decision making"

George previously held academic positions at Leeds University Business School, London Business School, and Strathclyde Graduate Business School, where he was Deputy Director. He is now a Professor at Durham Business School in the UK. George researches into the role and quality of management judgment in decision making and in anticipating the future. Are such judgments well-made or are there pitfalls and flaws? In fact, sometimes judgment is flawed and decision aiding techniques - such as scenario thinking and decision analysis can be utilized to improve judgment. George is the Founding Editor of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Associate Editor of two forecasting Journals: International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Forecasting. He is also an Associate Editor of Decision Support Systems. His publications have appeared in a range of US-based management journals - including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, and the Strategic Management Journal.

 

TIM LEWIS

Professor of Special Education

University of Missouri

"Supporting Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders through School-wide Positive Behavior Support"

Dr. Tim Lewis has been involved in special education for 25 years. Dr. Lewis has taught students with emotional and behavioral disorders in high school, elementary, and self-contained psychiatric settings. At present, Dr. Lewis is Professor of Special Education at the University of Missouri. Dr. Lewis is the Co-Editor of the journal Behavioral Disorders, Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions and is a member of nine other editorial boards. Dr. Lewis has been involved with developing school-wide systems of behavioral support for over 15 years. He has worked directly with school teams around the world, secured several federal grants to support his research and demonstration efforts, and is a frequent contributor to the professional literature examining various aspects of Positive Behavior Support. Dr Lewis directs the University of Missouri Center for School-wide Positive Behavior Support, is Co-Director of the national OSEP Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and the IES Center for Adolescent Research in Schools. Dr. Lewis has directed research, model/demonstration, and personnel preparation grants and currently oversees all grant activity in the College of Education at the University of Missouri. His specialty areas include social skill instruction, functional assessment, and proactive school-wide discipline systems.

 

MARGARET HARRIS

Professor of Developmental Psychology

Oxford Brookes University

"Success and failure in learning to read: promoting literacy for children who are deaf"

Margaret Harris began her career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College, moving to Royal Holloway University of London in 1989 as a Senior Lecturer and then Reader and Professor. In 2006 she moved to Oxford Brookes University to become Head of the Psychology Department and Director of the new Institute for Research in Child Development.
Margaret's main interests are in the development of written and spoken language and she has published widely in this area. Much of her research in the past decade has focused on the language development of deaf children, especially the dynamics of deaf and hearing mothers'
communication with their deaf children and literacy attainment in deaf school children. She is the author of five books, and has recently published a book on research methods in developmental psychology.

 

ALDERT VIRJ

Professor of Applied Social Psychology
University of Portsmouth, UK

"Enhancing Team Processes and Effectiveness: A Half Century of Progress"

I was awarded my PhD in 1991 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and came to the UK in 1994, when I joined the Psychology Department as a Senior Lecturer. In 1996 I was promoted to Reader and in 2000 to my current position: Professor of Applied Social Psychology.
I am the Editor of Legal and Criminological Psychology, a Journal published by the British Psychological Society and serve on the Editorial Boards of several Journals including Law and Human Behavior; Psychology, Public Policy and Law; Human Communication Research; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Psychology, Crime, and Law; and Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. I am a member of the Board of Governors of the Society for Applied Research in Memory And Cognition (SARMAC).
Nowadays my primary research interests are nonverbal and verbal cues to deception, and lie detection. I have published more than 325 articles and book chapters to date, mainly on these subjects. My book Detecting lies and deceit: pitfalls and opportunities (a revised second edition of my 2000 Detecting Lies and Deceit book, and published by Wiley in January 2008) is a comprehensive text about deception and lie detection. It describes the lie detection tools used to date and discusses the problems related to these tools. It also gives guidelines on how to improve lie detection.

Prof. Dr. Kobus Maree
Faculty of Education
University of Pretoria, South Africa

"Career counselling at the crossroads in the 21st century: negotiating the diversity divide"

"Writing articles and getting published in Education and Psychology journals: Encouraging and promoting emerging scholarship."

Career counselling in the 21st century is explored to locate current work in the field in the light of global trends (academic and economic) and in terms of historical factors and current economic climate. Salient aspects of 21st century and the essence of Career construction Counselling for Life Designing, including the need for a changed approach to career counselling, the interplay between the different waves in psychology and the global economy, helping models in career counselling, and the impact of global developments on career counselling are unpacked and deconstructed. The impact of these factors on what is currently happening in developing countries in particular and whether these countries have kept abreast of contemporary developments historically, epistemologically and at a more practical level are examined. The key aim is to create a deeper understanding of what can be done to help millions of young people, including those who are currently excluded from sought-after fields of study and training institutions, access available opportunities to promote equity, access and redress.