CeBSAP External Launch – Friday 28th June 2019
The Centre for Behavioural Science and Applied Psychology (CeBSAP) were delighted to mark the official opening of their centre with an external launch event held on Friday 28th June.
The conference demonstrated how behavioural science and psychology are being used to provide real-world solutions to a wide range of issues of including well-being, health, social inclusion, cognition and behaviour change.
Professor Maddy Arden (Director of CeBSAP & Project Director of the Behavioural Science Consortium) opened the centre, with guests welcomed by Professor Roger Eccleston, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). The keynote speech was delivered by Dr Tim Chadborn, Head of Behavioural Insights and Evaluation for Public Health England, who provided insight into the growing demand and capacity for behavioural science in Public Health England, the wider health system and across government.
We were delighted to welcome over 120 delegates from local government, public health, healthcare, education, policing, business, voluntary organisations and other higher education institutes to meet members of staff from CeBSAP and find out more about the centre and the range of research projects being carried out there.
There were a range of practical workshops and presentations on three themes – behavioural science, behaviour change and well-being, neurocognitive testing and applied psychological theories and methods.
Work being undertaken at CeBSAP includes: working with Doncaster Council to understand and address low levels of physical activity in disadvantaged communities; devising and testing interventions to address low levels of adherence to medication; developing an online test of cognition that can be used by people with brain injury or stroke; and developing the resources to support prevention of doping use in fitness and sport.
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This article was written by Philip Whitby, Senior Administrator in the Research & Knowledge Transfer team
PsyPAG Conference
On 24 – 26 July, PsyPAG held their 34th annual conference at Sheffield Hallam. Some of the key note speakers included were our own VC Professor Sir Chris Husbands who talked about starting out your academic career in the 21st century, Professor Maddie Arden who looked at Understanding adherence to medication in Cystic Fibrosis: A behavioural science approach and Dr Jennie Drabble who delivered a talk on How do you know there is an afterwards?” – Making the transition from PhD to academia. There was also a whole host of workshops and symposiums over the 3 days where attendees were able to engage with a wide range of areas of psychology such as Education Psychology, Neuropshychology and Perinatal and Developmental.
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