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Seventh EUSPR Conference Workshop Presentations

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Workshops Please see below for the PDFs of the presentations from the pre-conference workshops.   1) “Give me the money!”: how to ask for research funding. Full day workshop convened by Kimberley Hill and Angelina Brotherhood, the University of Northampton (UK); University of Vienna (AT) Slides 2) An Introduction to Latent Class Analysis for Prevention …

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Seventh EUSPR Conference Speaker Presentations

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EUSPR Members and 2016 Conference attendees   Plenary Speaker Presentations Please see below for the PDFs of the presentations from the plenary speakers.   Plenary Session 1 Developmental Approaches to Crime and Violence Prevention: Issues of Evaluation, Generalization and Differentiation – Prof Friedrich Lösel (University of Cambridge, UK; University Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE) This talk is not available …

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Seventh EUSPR Conference Poster Presentations

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EUSPR Members and 2016 Conference attendees   Posters A selection of posters presented at the conference can be downloaded via the links below:   Poster 3 – Mediation of an efficacious HIV risk reduction intervention for Spanish adolescents: The importance of knowledge on HIV and STIs Poster_3_Alexandra_Morales Poster 4 – The HIV-related Attitudes Scale (HIV-AS): Factor …

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Environmental prevention in Europe: survey

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Via an online survey, the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) is assessing the availability and content of environmental prevention interventions and policies that change the context for behaviour. Europeans with an interest in prevention and health promotion are invited to complete the survey link (takes 20 minutes to complete). LINK

Science for Prevention Academic Network (SPAN)

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The unequal distribution of health and social status across the EU poses a challenge to the EU‘s fundamental objective of solidarity and cohesion, and to secure sustainability a focus on prevention is essential. Alarmingly, 97% of health spending across Europe goes on treatment as compared to only 3% on prevention. Whilst Prevention Science is a …

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Awards – EUSPR 2016

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EUSPR awarded four prizes plus two runner up prizes at their 7th Conference which was held in Berlin, Germany in 2016. Award winners: President’s Award – Avalon de Bruijn and colleagues Prize: Certificate, plaque and one year’s free EUSPR membership. The President’s award winner will be invited to give the Society Lecture the following year For an …

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Travel and Accommodation – EUSPR 2018

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Accommodation and Travel guidance Our EMCDDA co-organisers in Lisbon have provided a handy travel and accommodation guide based upon their previous experiences of hosting conferences and meetings. Please note that neither the EMCDDA, nor EUSPR, take any responsibility for your booking choices, experiences and stay. You are also advised to check with independent review websites …

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European Drugs Summer School, 27 June-8 July

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2016 edition of the ‘Summer school on illicit drugs Europe’ will take place from 27 June-8 July 2016. Two-week summer school in Lisbon on the drugs problem in Europe and beyond involving Scientific Experts from the EMCDDA and guest lecturers from European Universities. See the EMCDDA website for further details. Registration: 2nd phase (Full rate) …

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Job Vacancies

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Centre for Behaviour Change and the Health Psychology Research Group are looking for four Research Associates to join the team Research Associate in Health Psychology An opening exists for an experienced and enthusiastic Research Associate to lead the behavioural science input to the newly formed Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) tasked with evaluation of interventions. …

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Blog of the Early Careers Forum of EUSPR – Updated 20/01/2017

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20/01/2017 Update

Do GPs want or need formal support following a patient suicide?

Our first article for this year is already online – it comes from Pooja Saini, a researcher and Chartered Psychologist at the University of Liverpool, currently involved in suicide prevention research. In this blog post, Pooja shares her research and describes what role GPs and Primary Care providers can play in suicide prevention. Additionally, her research highlights the opposite effect: the effect patient suicide has on GPs.

You can find Pooja’s blog at https://euspr.hypotheses.org/479

As always, please do comment underneath the blog & feel free to share in your networks. Thanks very much Pooja for telling us more about your research!

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