Recent Research Activities of Note
- I was Chair of the Organising Committee for the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), which was held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in July 2006. It was the largest ever specialist conference on memory involving 10 Keynote Speakers and over 650 delegates. This meeting, which included a Public Lecture on Memory and an interdisciplinary Art Exhibition (curated by Associate Professor Emma Robertson, UNSW) attracted significant public and media interest. ICOM-4 was featured on Australian TV, Australian and international radio, and in Australian and international print media. For more information, please see www.psy.unsw.edu.au/Groups/ICOM4/
- I was then a Member of the Organising Committee for the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-5), which was held at University of York in York, UK, in August 2011 and welcomed over 1000 delegates.
- In July 2006, I organised (with Professor John Sutton) a 1 day specialist meeting, “Collective Memory”, involving 14 leading scholars from psychology, philosophy, and social sciences. Based on this meeting, John Sutton and I co-edited a Special Issue of the psychology journal Memory on “Collective Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches” published by Psychology Press, April 2008. Since then, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, we have organised annual “Memory Days”, inviting local and international scholars from a range of disciplines to present their research on memory.
- I collaborated with Professor Mike Nash (University of Tennessee) on an edited book entitled The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research, and Practice published by Oxford University Press, March 2008. As noted above, this book was awarded the 2009 Arthur Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Hypnosis from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (USA).
- Associate Professor Michelle Meade (Montana State University), Dr Celia Harris, Dr Penny Van Bergen, Professor John Sutton (Macquarie) and I currently are in negotiations with Oxford University Press to publish a second edited book called “Collaborative Remembering: How Remembering with Others Influences Memory”.