Reminiscing and Memory across the Lifespan (SARMAC Regional Meeting)

Reminiscing and Memory across the Lifespan (SARMAC Regional Meeting)

When: Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd December 2021

Time: 9 am to 4 pm

Where: Online

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Our SARMAC Regional Meeting Australasia focuses on autobiographical memory development, function, and wellbeing across the lifespan. We are particularly interested in understanding how patterns of individual and shared reminiscing shape and inform autobiographical memory, wellbeing, and other aspects of positive psychological adjustment across different periods of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age.

Across this 2-day workshop we aim to bring together research academics, professionals, early career researchers, and students.

Days 1

• A practitioner panel with a hospital psychologist, aged care provider, and educator. Each will share reminiscing practices in their own professional contexts
• An “ask the expert” panel, in which attending students and early career researchers can ask research and career tips and advice of three accomplished professors

Day 1 and 2

• Fifteen-minute academic presentations of recent completed or emerging autobiographical memory research, themed by lifespan period
• Three-minute flash talks of student work-in-progress, themed by lifespan period

Day 2

• A “future directions” workshop, in which interdisciplinary new autobiographical memory research methods and theory are shared, and opportunities for collaboration discussed (Day 2)