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Therapy Was Never Supposed to Be This Boring: The Lost Spirit of Pragmatism

Therapy Was Never Supposed to Be This Boring: The Lost Spirit of Pragmatism

2 July 2025 | Webinar

Presenters: Will Dobud, PhD & John Paul Healy, PhD Abstract: This presentation examines how contemporary therapy strayed from its pragmatic and experiential foundations, becoming increasingly techno-rational, standardised, and disconnected from lived experience....

A Youth Mental Health Crisis? Kids These Days, the Exhausted Middle, and the Divided World

A Youth Mental Health Crisis? Kids These Days, the Exhausted Middle, and the Divided World

2 July 2025 | Webinar

Presenters: Will Dobud, PhD (Charles Sturt University) and Nevin Harper, PhD (University of Victoria, Canada) Abstract: Amid rising concerns about a so-called youth mental health crisis, this presentation challenges simplified narratives and explores the deeper...

Make only radical plans – 2023 Spring Encounters: with(in) place

Make only radical plans – 2023 Spring Encounters: with(in) place

13 September 2023 | In Conversation, Public Talk or Lecture, Workshop

“2023 Spring Encounters: with(in) place” is series of activities organised by the Alliance for Praxis Research (APR), composed by artists, researchers and PhD candidates from Monash and RMIT. Spring Encounters provides a platform for researchers, activists and artists...

Marg Rogers: winner of the 2022 CHASS Distinctive Works Prize

Marg Rogers: winner of the 2022 CHASS Distinctive Works Prize

31 August 2023 | In Conversation

CHASS President in conversation with Marg Rogers, one of the 2022 CHASS Distinctive Works Prize winners: Dr Marg Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in the Early Childhood Education team within the School of Education at the University of New England. Marg researches...

Supporting Refugee Students in Tertiary Education: A Conversation

Supporting Refugee Students in Tertiary Education: A Conversation

29 August 2023 | Panel Discussion, In Conversation

A conversation about gaps of inclusion in universities, and blocks and pathways to tertiary education for students with a refugee background This panel will consider gaps of inclusion in universities and blocks and pathways to tertiary education for current and...

Demystifying the potential: Inclusively collaborating with Lived Experience

Demystifying the potential: Inclusively collaborating with Lived Experience

29 August 2023 | Workshop

A/Prof Marietta Martinovic leads The Beyond the Stone Walls Advisory Collective (BSWAC), which comprises of people with criminal justice lived experience, RMIT staff and students. As part of Social Sciences Week 2023, BSWAC will run an interactive session, which...

Understanding LGBTQA+SB suicidal behaviour and improving support

Understanding LGBTQA+SB suicidal behaviour and improving support

18 August 2023 | Panel Discussion

Understanding lived experience is a national mental health priority and has a vital role in shaping the policy and practices aimed at improving social support for suicidal distress in LGBTIQA+ communities. This panel brings together expert social science academics,...

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