Industry and community collaboration:

Health:

Collaborations with Headspace, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the LHD Ketamine Clinic, the Australian Twin Registry, and the International Centre for Responsible Gambling have enabled me to make significant contributions to research on mental health, gambling addiction, obesity, and the genetic determinants of decision-making.

Mental health

Responsible gambling

Obesity

Genetic determinants of decision making

Education:

Thanks to a very talented PhD student Xueting Wang, we collaborated with four high schools in China to better understand impatience and risk taking in adolescence:

I wrote a collection of papers on risk-taking and impatience in adolescence, some of the findings are summarised in these non-academic publications.

I am particularly fond of our publication in the Frontiers for Young Minds, a journal where children are the reviewers. We wrote this paper for the inaugural issue promoted at the the 2014 USA Science and Engineering Festival. It was featured on the Scientific American Blog Network.

Arts:

I collaborated with two iconic arts institutions to better understand motives for giving and educate visitors about their risk-taking.

Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

The Marian Koshland Science Museum of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

Non-Academic Audience Talks:

I enjoy sharing my research with non-academic audiences. You could see me present at Outside the Square, Raising the Bar, a couple of podcasts, TV, and radio.

2020 take on COVID-19. The situation around COVID-19 was evolving at an astounding rate. Thinking beyond the physical health ramifications to the mental health, anxiety, communication and sense-making aspects, our panel looked at what’s going on and do their best to make sense of the rapidly shifting series of events. The speakers were:

– Professor Nick Enfield, Department of Linguistics

– Professor Ian Hickie, Brain and Mind Centre

– Dr Claire Hooker, Faculty of Medicine and Health

– Professor Julie Leask, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery

– Professor Agnieszka Tymula, School of Economics

– Professor Annamarie Jagose (Moderator), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

https://soundcloud.com/sydney-ideas/covid-19-fear-and-anxiety?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fsydney-ideas%252Fcovid-19-fear-and-anxiety

You can now listen to me on the ABC’s RN Drive It’s All Academic show talking about neuroeconomics and decision making here. Enjoy!