The draft programme time table can be downloaded. AC2006 Programme

Alternatively, please find below the programme outline for Thursday 30 March, Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April.

Thursday 30 March (back to top)

09.30 REGISTRATION OPENS (Foyer)
TEA/COFFEE to run until 11:00 (Exhibition Hall)

10.30 Council meeting (Council Chamber)

11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

• Funding opportunities: Reasearch Councils & Charities
• Collecting Psychological Data from the Internet, Dr Tom Buchanan, University of Westminster
• Everything you ever wanted to know about statistics, Jeremy Miles, University of York & Andy Field, University of Sussex
• Handling Ethical Approval for Staff and Student Research, Prof Hugh Foot, Strathclyde University & Prof Nigel Foreman, Middlesex University
• Hormones in Sport and Exercise Symposia

12.30 LUNCH (Exhibition Hall)

The Psychologist feedback session will take place over lunch in Room I: come along to meet the Editor and the Chair of the Psychologist Policy Committee, hear some results from the reader research and have your say

13.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS RECOMMENCE (as morning programme)

14.45 TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

15.00 Welcome by Dr Brian Gibbons, Minister for Health & Social Services prior to Presidential Address (Council Chamber)

15.10 Presidential Address (Council Chamber)
Dr Graham Powell
"Psychology, the Law and Capacity to Manage Financial Affairs"
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is based on certain underlying principles regarding the circumstances under which an individual can be deemed incapable of managing their own financial and related affairs. This paper discusses the contribution of psychology, psychologists, and the professional body to the evolution of those principles. The task now in 2006 is to develop the specific criteria for gauging whether an individual has capacity, and to ensure that psychologists are trained in making such assessments. The overarching issue is how to balance the need for autonomy, and the human right to be autonomous, against the need to make decisions on behalf of some vulnerable people. The strategy emerging is to minimise and put boundaries around the reduction in autonomy, and to recognize and promote residual capacity.

16.10 AGM & Open Meeting (Council Chamber)

17.25 Keynote (Assembly Room)
Orthodoxy, extremism and true believers: Some characteristics of group identity in uncertain times, Professor Michael Hogg, University of Queensland

18.10 WELCOME RECEPTION to be opened by The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Councillor Freda Salway in the Assembly Room & Marble Hall

Friday 31 March (back to top)

08.30 REGISTRATION OPENS (Foyer)
TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

09.15 Keynote (Assembly Room)
Psychological interventions for psychosis
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers, Institute of Psychiatry

10.00 TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

10.30 PARALLEL SYMPOSIA SESSIONS

"Conflict and Harmony between Groups"

"Psychological treatment for psychosis"

"Psychobiology and gender development"

Prize Symposia

D E Broadbent Lecture: "Alignment in Dialogue" Professor Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh

Hans Eysenck Memorial Lecture: "Divided selves as nervous types" Professor Gordon Claridge, University of Oxford

Michael Argyle Lecture "Negotiating rules and roles in the media-rich home: Reflections on the games families play" Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science

C S Myers Lecture: Professor Kevin Durkin, University of Strathclyde

12.30 LUNCH (Exhibition Hall)

13.45 Keynote (Assembly Room)
Bullying in Schools: Outcomes of Research and Attempts at Behavioural and Institutional Change
Professor Peter Smith, Goldsmiths College

14.30 POSTER SESSION 1 (Marble Hall & Rooms A, B, C & D - inc tea/coffee)

16.00 Keynote (Assembly Room)

Androgen and human psychosexual development Professor Melissa Hines, City University

16.45 POSTER SESSION 2 (Marble Hall & Rooms A, B, C & D - inc. wine)

20.00 Conference Dinner (Assembly Hall)

08.30 REGISTRATION OPENS (Foyer)
TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

09.00 Keynote (Assembly Room)
"How many times must I tell you…" Behavioural Change in Health Care
Professor Stephen Rollnick, Dept. of General Practice, Wales College of Medicine

09.45 TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

10.10 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Prize symposia
Spearman Medal: "Constraints and opportunities for processing in the two cerebral hemispheres" Dr Padraic Monaghan, University of York

Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
Professor P Halligan, Cardiff University

Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research
Dr Beth Jefferies, University of Manchester

Book Award 2005 (Joint)
Professor David Milner, Wolfson Institute, University of Durham &
Professor Mel Goodale, University of Western Ontario

Symposia
"Advances in illness perceptions research and practice"

"Problem solving, motivation & age"

Prize symposia
Promoting Equality of Opportunity Professor Carolyn Kagan, Manchester Metropolitan University

Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology Dr Gill Aitken, Rampton Hospital

Distinguished Contributions to the Teaching of Psychology (Joint): "Artificial Dissemination? Aca-media and the teaching process" Professor Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Trent University & Dr Andy Field, Sussex University

Symposia
"Bullying in different contexts: what we know and what we can do"

12.10 TEA/COFFEE (Exhibition Hall)

12.30 Keynote (Assembly Hall)
Everyday Problem Solving and Emotion: Developmental Dynamics
Dr Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Georgia Institute of Technology

13.15 LUNCH & CLOSE at 14.30 (Exhibition Hall)

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