Innovations in Educational Neuroscience –Transforming Practice through Emerging Research

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Location: Jack Poole Hall, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre UBC 6163 University Blvd

This special event brings together scholars, educators, students, and practitioners from across several disciplines. We will hear about the latest science and practice in the new field of Educational Neuroscience and look for future opportunities to work collaboratively toward groundbreaking discoveries that will ultimately lead to more effective approaches for promoting healthy child development.

Presented by:

The Educational Neuroscience and Healthy Child Development Cluster

  • Lara Boyd, Director, Brain Behaviour Laboratory; Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Neurobiology of Motor Learning; CIHR Delegate & Health Research Advisor to the VP Research
  • Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Professor in the Human Development, Learning, and Culture area in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education, UBC; Director, HELP
  • Rachel Weber, Instructor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education, UBC; Director of Training, BC School and Applied Child Psychology Internship; Director, PRTC Neuropsychological Assessment Clinic

Guest speakers:

Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Healthy Minds

Mark Greenberg, Edna Peterson Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research; Professor of Human Development and Psychology in Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development

Claudia Krebs, Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor and Head Division of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine UBC; Fellow Royal Society of Canada

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