Talking APAC

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Professor Pat Dudgeon and her UWA colleagues Belle Selkirk and Dr Joanna Alexi led a plenary session at APAC's inaugural Community of Practice conference.

APAC CEO David Ensor led a panel discussion on issues in the sector at our recent Community of Practice conference. He was joined by Rachel Phillips (PsyBA), Dr Zena Burgess (APS) and Professor Phil Kavanagh (HODSPA).

Simulation-based learning or SBL represents a novel, evidence-based way to expose psychology students to learning opportunities. To discuss SBL, we're joined by two academics. Associate Professor Josephine Paparo, the director of the Master of Professional Psychology course at Macquarie University…

This episode, we’re talking about the challenges relating to teaching and assessing interpersonal skills and teamwork, often referred to as group work for short. APAC’s Accreditation Standards, in the section relating to graduate competencies, say that graduates must be able to, “Demonstrate inter…

David Ensor joined APAC some six months ago and has been consulting widely with our stakeholders. We sat down with him to talk about his background, what he's learned so far and his thoughts on future change.

This symposium was held at the Ausplat conference in September 2023. The symposium comprised four presentations that outlined work undertaken by AIPEP Community of Practice members. First, a research study on what registered psychologists perceive as gaps in their tertiary education regarding Abor…

Professional competency 3.17 of APAC's Accreditation Standards states that psychology graduates need to "Investigate a substantive individual research question relevant to the discipline of psychology". But what does that mean in practice? Associate Professor Melissa Davis, now a member of the APA…

Ryan Armer, a legally blind fourth-year Psychology student, Darlene McLennan, manager of the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training, and Associate Professor Melissa Davis, a member of APAC’s Accreditation Assessment Committee, discuss the challenges facing students with disab…

Secondary school teachers of psychology played an important part in the recent AusPLAT 2023 conference. Here they discuss the challenges and pleasures, as well as making better links to psychology teaching in the tertiary sector.