4 October 2019
Program (9am-1pm), Networking lunch (1-2pm)
UQ Centre (Bld 27A), The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
The University of Queensland is delighted to invite you to the inaugural UQ Mental Health Symposium, which will be held at the UQ Centre on Friday 4th October 2019. The Symposium will be of interest and benefit to everyone at UQ, and is about students and staff supporting each other in enhancing and maintaining their mental health and that of the community.
This cross-disciplinary symposium is designed to bring together staff – academics, clinicians, researchers and professional, and students from different disciplines across UQ, to present and discuss how we can work together to enhance and maintain their mental health and wellbeing, and that of the community. The Mental Health Symposium is a free half day event, consisting of a keynote address, guest speakers and panel discussions. As a feature of the Symposium, students and staff will be able to choose to attend a concurrent session: one delivered by students and the other by staff. Students may attend the staff session and staff may attend the student session. The formalities of the Symposium will conclude at 1pm followed by a networking lunch which will feature stalls from organisations, the Mental Health Champions Network launch and a student poster installation.
Mental Health Symposium (UQ Centre Bld 27A)
Acknowledgement of country and welcome
Keynote presentation
Morning tea
Staff and student sessions
Wrap up
Next Steps
Networking lunch
Student poster installation
Information stalls
UQ Mental Health Champions Network launch
Staff session (UQ Centre Bld 27A)
Chair
Dr Dee Gibbon (OAM CSC)
(Assoc. Director Workplace Diversity and Inclusion)
Themes for panel discussion
Psychology of health and wellbeing at work
Work-life & energy management
Leadership and mental health in the workplace
Presenters
Prof Alex Haslam
(UQ School of Psychology)
Dr Stacey Parker
(UQ School of Psychology)
Prof Bruce Abernethy
(Executive Dean HABS)
Dr Helen Stallman
(University of South Australia)
Student session (Steele Bld 3 Lecture Theatre 206)
Chair
Isabella Scattini
(UQU)
Panel discussion
Presentation from 3 students on their lived experience and how they thrived at UQ.
Presenters
Ryan Kidd
Ishara Sahama
Mila Deol
Batyr presentation
Giving a voice to the elephant in the room. Driven by young people, for young people.
Keynote
Dr Helen Stallman, University of South Australia
The emotional wellbeing of university students and staff is dependent on the seven biopsychosocial components of health and wellbeing—healthy environments, developmental competencies, sense of belonging, healthy behaviours, coping, resilience, and treatment of illness. This presentation will review how personal health promoting behaviours combined with university policies and practices have important roles in creating a healthy university. The Care · Collaborate · Connect model will be presented as a model for developing a culture of coping, where staff and students can support others when they are distressed. Finally, issues of measuring university health and wellbeing will be explored.
About Dr Helen Stallman
Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. She holds a fellowship from The Hospital Research Foundation and is Director of the International Association for University Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Stallman is a specialist in the development and evaluation of interventions aimed to optimise health and wellbeing. Her focus has included suicide prevention, university health and wellbeing, parenting, and e-psychology. Dr Stallman developed the Coping Planning approach to suicide prevention and the Care · Collaborate · Connect suicide prevention training programs.
The quality and impact of Dr Stallman’s research has been recognised with a number of awards including HDA Women’s Excellence in Research Award for 2019, UniQuest Trailblazer, the Queensland Mental Health Week Achievement Awards - Service/Program category, ANZ Mental Health Services Achievement Award, and the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Award for Best Practice/Innovation.
Benefits for Students and Staff
- Student focused panel discussion
- Presentations from UQ academic staff
- Networking lunch
- Batyr presentation
- Staff focused panel discussion
- Campus support information stalls
- Student Poster Installation
- Launch UQ Mental Health Champions Network