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7th Annual Scientific Meeting (Stirling 2011, 13-14 December 2011)

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The UK Society of Behavioural Medicine 7th Annual Scientific Meeting (2011) in association with the National Prevention Research Initiative (NPRI) Annual Scientific Meeting.

Theme: Motivating, enabling and prompting behaviour change for health

Held at Stirling Conference Centre (University of Stirling), Stirling, 13-14 December 2011

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Conference proceedings

Proceedings from the 7th Annual Scientific Meeting in Stirling can now be downloaded (.pdf, 1.5 MB). ISBN 978-1-908063-10-6

Scientific and Local Organising Committee:

Gerry Molloy – Conference Chair

Ronan O’Carroll – UKSBM President

Maggie Cunningham, Lesley McGregor, Rory O’Connor, Vivien Swanson, Pam Warner,Helen Cheyne & Brian Williams.
NPRI: Marlie Ferenczi

Keynote speakers

• Professor Christopher Butler : Promoting behaviour change in primary care: clinical and research challenges
  Head of Department, Department of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University.
• Professor Kavita Vedhara : What has stress got to do with it…..?
  Professor of Health Psychology, Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham.
• Professor David Blanchflower : Happiness, bio-markers and health
  Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College & Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, part-time professor at the University of Stirling, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Munich and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the University of Bonn.
• Professor Theresa Marteau : The Automaticity of Being: Implications for Changing Behaviour to Improve Population Health
  Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge & Professor of Health Psychology at King’s College London & Director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health (with the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London).

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UK Society of Behavioural Medicine 6th Annual Scientific Meeting (2010) in association with the National Prevention Research Initiative (NPRI) Annual Scientific Meeting.

Theme: Advancing Science and Knowledge Translation

Held at Weetwood Hall Hotel & Conference Centre, Leeds, 14-15 December 2010

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Conference Proceedings

Proceedings from the 6th Annual Scientific Meeting in Leeds can now be downloaded (PDF, 1.1 Mb). ISBN 978-0-85316-301-5

Keynote speakers

Sally Macintyre

Professor of Social & Public Health Science, University of Glasgow, and Director, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Evaluating complex interventions and natural experiments

Andrew Steptoe

British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London

Stress, resilience and biological ageing: a psychobiological perspective

Carl May

Professor of Healthcare Innovation, University of Southampton

Reconfiguring illness careers? Applications for normalization process theory in understanding the work of being a patient - slides

Frank Kee

Professor of Public Health Medicine, Queens University Belfast, and Director of the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI)

Paradigm shifts in public health – overdue or overdone?

Enquiries

Please contact uksbm@leeds.ac.uk