Research talks
Talks & presentations
Video library with short context on each recording and full detail pages for citations and sharing. For peer-reviewed publications see Research papers; for consultancy write-ups see Research projects.
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3 June 2015
Is Positive Psychology on a Negative Trajectory?
An ACU Institute for Positive Psychology & Education Brown Bag presentation
Venue: Australian Catholic University, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education (IPPE)
Why governments stepped back from positive psychology after 2011 — and how reframing the same programs as applied behavioural science (ROI, employment uplift) reopened doors. Includes redundancy recovery research, Soldier Fitness economics, and the path to 51% flourishing by 2051.
2 March 2016
Behavioural Change in the Unemployed
ACU PhD Confirmation of Candidature seminar
Venue: Australian Catholic University, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education (IPPE)
Confirmation of Candidature: three research questions, TTM stage-of-change methodology, Grove et al. mechanical-over-clinical prediction, and pointed Q&A on active controls and welfare scale-up — the design that became Coppin's 2018 PhD thesis.
August 2018
From Nature to Nurture: The Behavioural Science of Young People
A keynote at YES Summit 2018, on adolescent neuroscience and decision-making for the youth employment services sector
Venue: YES Summit 2018 (hosted by ReadyTech), Australia
Amygdala vs prefrontal cortex, four behavioural principles, why “kids these days” get self-regulation wrong, Search Institute success factors, and under-21 jobseeker stage-of-change data — for transition-to-work, apprenticeships, and youth employment providers.
21–23 October 2025
Speeding Up Wellbeing Adoption Through Behavioural Science
A talk at the Third National Forum on Australia's Wellbeing, Redefining Business session
Venue: Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT
Why 81% citizen demand for wellbeing still hits Treasury and CFO walls — fluffy perception, 234+ measures, and individual-only research — and how climate-style levers (fear, norms, fiscal proof) plus case studies from unemployment scale-up, Soldier Fitness, and workcover unlock adoption.