Chris received his PhD/MPsych (Health) from the University of Adelaide in 2017, supervised by Emeritus Prof. Helen Winefield, Assoc. Prof. Charli Sargent (CQUni), and Dr Amanda Hutchinson (UniSA). For the past two years he has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden. His current work with the Northern Swedish Cohort (NoSCo), led by Professors Anne Hammarström and Marianna Virtanen, is focused on better understanding social determinants of mental health from a life course perspective.

Dr Sze Yan Cheung recently graduated from the University of Adelaide and completed her thesis in the field of cancer survivorship. She examined the effects of cancer on an individual's identity, such as cancer identity and gender identity, and the public or lay understanding of these identities and its consequences. Currently, she is working as a therapist with children diagnosed with autism or developmental delay.

Jane Cocks is a PhD Candidate at the Engage Research Lab at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her research sits on the intersection between Psychology and Game Design, and her PhD is focussed on developing a framework for designing games for behaviour change grounded in psychology theory and practice. Jane has completed Bachelor degrees in Behavioural Science and Health Science, Psychology Honours. She is currently a Director on the board of both Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA), and Women in Development, Games, and Everything Tech (WiDGET). She has been involved in the Australian games and interactive media industry for the last 4 years; speaking, communicating research, and facilitating events relating to serious games, the psychology of games, and the relationship between games and mental health, and the design of game based interventions for health behaviour change, both nationally and internationally.

Tiffany De Sousa Machado is currently in the second year of a combined Masters/PhD in Psychology (Health). Her focus is on postpartum health, social supports and the psychological wellbeing of women and families. Tiffany is the recipient of a Westpac Future Leaders scholarship which has enabled her to travel overseas to further pursue her studies. She is the mother of two girls, and has lived experience with postnatal depression which she experienced with her first daughter.

Stella Delloso is a Master of Health Psychology candidate at the University of Adelaide. She has over 10 years of experience working in a variety of health-centred roles, and has a particular interest in adjustment to illness in children and families.

Jodie Brown is a Clinical Psychology Registrar with over fifteen years experience working within the field of mental health across public and private, government and non-government settings, charity and for-profit organisations. She has worked across frontline and senior policy positions, as well as having extensive experience as a clinical educator in adult learning environments. Jodie has a special interest in working with vulnerable populations and in the prevention of suicide, as well as in bringing increased awareness to the experiences of carers and to the impact of traumatic stress on health and wellbeing for clients and carers alike. Jodie currently works within the headspace Youth Early Psychosis Program as a clinical educator specialising in trauma-informed practice, in private practice offering individual therapy, and as a casual academic at the University of Southern Queensland. Jodie has had work presented at international conferences and has a particular research interest within the field of trauma, both in the pathology of post-traumatic stress but also in the more healing aspects post-traumatic growth.

Dr Erich C. Fein is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. He completed his PhD in psychology at the Ohio State University with a focus on quantitative methods, organisational psychology, and individual differences. His research programs focus on motivation and performance, individual differences, leadership development, and occupational health and health psychology topics, and include the coordinated supervision of numerous PhD students.

Kirstie Daken is a provisionally registered psychologist, currently completing her Masters of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. She is also involved in research at USQ as a research assistant, with a strong focus on health psychology.

Kate is currently completing a combined PhD/Master of Psychology (Health) program at the University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Dr Clemence Due, Dr Melissa Oxlad, and Professor Philippa Middleton. Her PhD is investigating the psychological impact of pregnancy loss in under-researched populations in Australia, with a specific focus on improving our understandings of men's grief and subsequent support needs.

Dr Sze Yan Cheung recently graduated from the University of Adelaide and completed her thesis in the field of cancer survivorship. She examined the effects of cancer on an individual's identity, such as cancer identity and gender identity, and the public or lay understanding of these identities and its consequences. Currently, she is working as a therapist with children diagnosed with autism or developmental delay.

Lisa completed her PhD at the Australian National University, Canberra and is the recipient of an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University. Lisa’s is endorsed as a clinical psychologist with expertise in behavioural medicine, clinical health psychology and performance psychology. She co-leads the Behavioural Medicine Innovation Hub in the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian National University Medical School. Clinically, Lisa has worked in cardiac rehabilitation, community mental health and in high performance sport.

Dr John Baranoff is a clinical and health psychologist. He is the Team Manger/ Clinical Psychologist at Centre for Treatment of Anxiety and Depression where he is involved in operational management of the teaching clinic, supervision of provisional health and clinical psychologists on placements from the University of Adelaide, as well as undertaking assessments and implementing CBT for anxiety and depression. John is also involved in a number of research projects with the Endocrine and Metabolic Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and is a clinical title holder in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. John has a number of peer-reviewed publications in the area of health psychology, and he has presented at national and international conferences on various topics related to health psychology.

Paul Cafarella is a Health Psychologist in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre and a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide in South Australia. His areas of research and clinical expertise include the assessment, treatment and consequences of mental health problems in people with chronic diseases (particularly respiratory illnesses and Motor Neurone Disease) and their carers; non-pharmacological methods of treatment including behaviour change programmes; illness perceptions; adherence, social stigma and social networks in disabled populations.

Catherine Emerson is a PhD candidate from Deakin University. Catherine is researching into the field of psychogastroenterology, working to improve the lives of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and their fatigue. Beyond the scope of fatigue, Catherine is passionate about improving the lives and well-being of patients with IBD and hopes to continue to work in this field post-PhD.

Kenley Kuoch is a Psychology PhD candidate at Swinburne University, in Melbourne Australia. He is currently being supervised by Dr Simon Knowles and Prof Denny Meyer from Swinburne University, and Prof David Austin from Deakin University. His research investigates bladder and bowel-based anxiety conditions which include paruresis, parcopresis, and bladder and bowel incontinence phobia. Aims of his research include development of a socio-cognitive model of paruresis and parcopresis, a validated severity scale for bladder and bowel incontinence phobia, and a phobia model which incorporates the aforementioned conditions along with related psychological factors such as dysfunctional attitudes and fear of evaluation. Through his PhD, Kenley hopes to provide resources to researchers and clinicians which would allow them to better understand, identify, and examine paruresis, parcopresis, and bladder and bowel incontinence phobia in their research participants and/or patients.

Dr Antonina Mikocka-Walus is an Associate Professor in Health Psychology and HDR Coordinator at Psychology, Deakin University. She holds visiting appointments at the University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, and University of York in the UK. She is also a registered psychologist and an academic member of the APS College of Health Psychologists. Her specialty is psycho-gastroenterology and particularly psychotherapy for chronic gastrointestinal conditions. She has published over 100 research papers/book chapters and co-edited two textbooks on psycho-gastroenterology. She has received > $1mln in research funding. Her interdisciplinary research has contributed to the Australian, European and American guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr Erich C. Fein is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. He completed his PhD in psychology at the Ohio State University with a focus on quantitative methods, organisational psychology, and individual differences. His research programs focus on motivation and performance, individual differences, leadership development, and occupational health and health psychology topics, and include the coordinated supervision of numerous PhD students.

I received my PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Exeter (UK) in 1999. My longest period of employment (2001-2014) has been at the University of Birmingham (UK). I joined the Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Group at Curtin University in 2014 on a research-only role. In 2015 I established the Physical Activity and Well-Being (PAW) Lab I am interested in personal and contextual factors that optimise motivation and promote performance, morality, psychological well-being and health-conducive behaviours. Areas of interest are physical activity promotion in different community settings, self-regulation of weight management goals (diet and physical activity goals), and psychology of sport with emphasis on applications of contemporary theories of motivation. Some of my publications appear on ResearchGate. An overview of my research can be found on my ORCID page. A short overview video of my research is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms0UMz419Ow I have developed new research instruments in the form of questionnaires that have been widely adopted and translated (peer motivational climate, psychological need thwarting, controlling coach behaviours). I have also empirically integrated theoretical frameworks in various settings (self-determination theory and self-regulation, self-determination theory and achievement goal theory) and developed innovative interventions for the promotion of physical activity engagement, adherence, and psychological well-being. To date, I have published 2 books, about 200 peer reviewed articles and 21 book chapters; my research has attracted over 19,500 citations on Google Scholar (h index=73; Scopus h index=49). My research has been published in various journals (e.g., Perspectives on Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Sports Medicine, Health Psychology), and has been supported by funding (over $12m) from major research councils in the UK (ESRC, MRC), the ARC, the European Union, the International Olympic Committee, Healthway, Cancer Council WA, UK charities, UK local health authorities, Australian Army, and the industry. My research has received awards from various academic and professional organisations (e.g., BPS, ISSI, NASPSPA, ECSS). I have authored two books on statistics that were published by Routledge in 2001 and by Wiley in 2016. In 2014 I was awarded a fellowship by the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences for exceptional research. The Fellowship recognised academics who made “a substantial contribution to wider social science in the UK” and were “leading social scientists”. In 2015 I was awarded a fellowship from the British Psychological Society (BPS). According to BPS, “A Fellowship is recognition of a significant contribution to the advancement or communication of psychological knowledge or practice, and represents the highest designation that the Society can bestow”. In 2016 I was awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title by Curtin University. My research work has also received awards by several societies (e.g., British Psychological Society, North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity).

Miriam is an established Health Psychologist, working in solo private practice in Glenalta, SA. With special interests in Mind-Body Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Coaching and Photobiomodulation, Miriam seeks to be a bridge between health-based disciplines and the general public. A regular speaker and facilitator for organisations such as Diabetes SA, BUPA, and Liquid Learning, Miriam is actively involved in health promotion efforts as well as Executive Coaching and Leadership Development training. With her title of Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Miriam provides ad hoc lectures, and supervision of research projects and Health Psychology-based placements in her practice. The creator of The Mainspring Method, Miriam is a visionary and educator on the use of mind-body therapies as complementary healthcare.

Taryn is a Health Psychologist with experience in both clinical and research settings. At the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Taryn works in the Mind and Brain theme specifically on the development of a group program for people with both depression and obesity. She also works at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and in private practice.