Research talks
Video library with short context on each recording and full detail pages for citations and sharing.
How behavioural science helps aged care leaders navigate uncertainty, shape team norms, and protect people under pressure.
Ageing Australia NSW/ACT State Conference
Plenary on workplace pressure, purpose, emotional contagion, peer support, recruitment bias, and empathy without burnout for aged care leadership.
10 to 11 November 2022
Why anxiety and emptiness are rising: three evolutionary drivers we underestimate, community, contribution, and comparison.
Pyrmont Theatre, ICC Sydney
Evolutionary mismatches and three under-weighted drivers of flourishing, community, contribution, and comparison, plus pragmatic actions for families, teams, and policy.
Why governments stepped back from positive psychology, and how behavioural-science framing reopened the door.
Australian Catholic University, IPPE
Redundancy recovery research, Soldier Fitness economics, learned helplessness in unemployment, and the APP→ABS rebrand that scaled access.
2 March 2016
PhD Confirmation: three research questions, stage-of-change methodology, and why mechanical assessment beats clinical guesswork.
Australian Catholic University, IPPE
The design that became Coppin’s 2018 thesis, TTM stages, Grove et al. on mechanical prediction, and pointed Q&A on scale-up.
Adolescent brains, four behavioural principles, and what actually predicts youth success, for employment services that work with young people.
YES Summit, Australia
Amygdala vs prefrontal cortex, four behavioural principles, why “kids these days” get self-regulation wrong, and Search Institute success factors.
21 to 23 October 2025
81% want happiness over wealth, so why do Treasuries and CFOs still stall wellbeing programmes?
Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra
Three adoption barriers, fluffy perception, 234+ measures, individual-only research, and climate-style levers that unlock scale.
