Description
Registration will be from 8.30am to 8.50am.
Please note the Fremantle Train Station is an 800m walk to the Esplanade Hotel.
Presenters
Prof Pamela Snow
Pamela Snow is a Professor and Head of the Rural Health School at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University. Pamela has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate health professionals and also has experience in teacher education.
Pamela is a registered psychologist, having qualified originally in speech pathology.
Her research has been funded by nationally competitive schemes such as the ARC Discovery Program, ARC Linkage Program, and the Criminology Research Council, and spans various aspects of risk in childhood and adolescence:
- the oral language skills of high-risk young people (youth offenders and those in the state care system), and the role of oral language competence as an academic and mental health protective factor in childhood and adolescence;
- applying evidence in the language-to-literacy transition in the early years of school;
- linguistic aspects of investigative interviewing with children / adolescents as witnesses, suspects, victims in criminal investigations
Pamela has research links with the education, welfare and justice sectors, and her research has been published in a wide range of international journals. She is frequently called upon to address education, health, welfare, and forensic audiences, and in early 2017 was a member of the National Year 1 Literacy and Numeracy Panel, convened by the Hon. Simon Birmingham, Federal Education Minister. She is a Fellow of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia and is a past Victorian State Chair of the Australian Psychological Society. She has over 130 publications, comprising refereed papers, book chapters, monographs and research reports.
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Date / Time
29 Apr 2019 Starts: 09:00 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person