In the category of Excellence in Service, Val Rozon, Director of the Early Childhood Education Centre (ECEC), will receive one of the awards recognizing her outstanding leadership, especially in the face of the great flood of 2018.
UW Psychology's Allison Kelly won the International Journal of Eating Disorders2018 Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award for her paper, "A feasibility study of a 2‐week self‐compassionate letter‐writing intervention for nontreatment seeking individuals with typical and atypical anorexia nervosa". Congratulations Allison!
The Faculty of Arts heat of the 2019 Three Minute Thesis Competition took place on Friday March 1 and three of the four prizes awarded were to Psychology students. You can click on the titles below to watch the talks.
If you missed Dr. Danckert's talk, Out of My Skull: My travels in the psychology of boredom, on February 1, 2019 you can watch it on Youtube.
Clinical PhD Candidate Kathryn Miller's work on how social interactions influence body image among young women is featured in a new edition of the journal Body Image. Kathryn concluded the study with Dr.
You can read all about Dillon Browne's research on screen time and child development in The Telegraph, Yahoo UK, and The Conversation. You can also listen to Dr.
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Parenting Now magazine features an article written by the Department's Marjory Phillips, Director of The Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment (CMHRT), on positive parenting, specifically getting kids out the door in the mornings which is always a challenge. The article also mentions the Triple P
Celina Bowman-Smith, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, discusses her team's research on children's beliefs about improbable events on The British Psychological Society website. Celina's article shows that children are more likely to think improbable events are possible if they are in distant locations. The article is available on the
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