Conference Programme

Research Focus One Day Conference
Health and Well Being
27th February 2008
(MB131 and MB132)

9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30-9.35 Louise Jones: Introduction and welcome

Session 1 (Chair: Louise Jones or Jan Quallington)

9.35-10.00 Holly Andrews (Health)
Charm, Charisma and Catastrophe: The Psychopath at Work

10.00-10.25 Catherine Steele (CP @ W / Health) and Sandra Haase (CP @ W - Business and Health)
Taking control of your career; implications for individual wellbeing at work and at home

10.25-10.50 Victoria Mason (Health)
Floods:  The psychological cost

10.50-11.15 Coffee

Session 2 (Chair: Louise Toner)

11.15-11.40 Helen Watts (CP @ W - Business and Health)
To go or not to go? Factors affecting fitness club attendance

11.40-12.05 Andy Doyle and Jan Francis-Smythe (CP @ W - Business and Health)
Temporal Implications on well-being

12.05 -12.30 Rebecca Ingram (Health)
Psychological Experience of Using a Mobile Phone to Self-monitor Toxicity During Individualised Chemotherapy

12.30-12.55 Erica Thomas (Health)
Habit and the intention-behaviour relationship within the theory of planned behaviour: Implications for health behaviour interventions

12.55-2.00 Lunch

Session 3 (Chair: Debbie Evans)

2.00-2.25 Stephen Bigger (Education)
Building self-worth through guided visualisation: a unique project with disturbed pupils

2.25-2.50 Hugh Somerville and Wendy Messenger (Education)
Researching Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs – A review of some current practices

2.50-3.15 Robyn Cox (Education)
Literate well-being: Children and reading in the primary school

3.15-3.40 Tea and biscuits

Session 4 (Chair: Judith Wright)

3.40-4.05 Penney Upton (Health)
Whose life is it anyway?  Proxy v. self reported quality of life  in childhood cancer survivors

4.05-4.30 Theresa Pengelly (Health)
Children’s perceptions of hospitalisation

4.30-4.55 Kim Russell (Health)
Realising behavioural change in midwifery practice: A participatory action research proposal

4.55-5.00 Concluding comments

5.30-6.30 Mary Nolan’s Inaugural lecture