Director, Affect Media. Visiting Fellow Vitalities Lab @CSRH_UNSW #healthhumanities #digitalhealth #emotions She/her

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2013
Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Memes, History and Emotional Life by @KatieEBarclay @HealthComms1 Free access available until 30 June ow.ly/eEu850OQlk4 #cambridgeelements #history
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New Cambridge Element Memes, History and Emotional Life by @KatieEBarclay @HealthComms1 is now free to read for 2 weeks! ow.ly/eEu850OQlk4 #cambridgeelements #history
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Dr Leanne Downing retweeted
At our Community Clinics, we welcome patients of all ages – from children to adults. No referral or mental health care plan is necessary. Help us spread the word and share this post with your network. You never know who may need to see it. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters
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Electricity bill. Oil on canvas.
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In honour of the 10th anniversary of the Misogyny Speech I set it to music word for word with permission. Thank you @JuliaGillard for being a guiding light to so many @GIWLANU May this message continue to shift us toward equality. #misogynyopus youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4ZqHg2…
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SO REALLY TO DISMISS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH BECAUSE IT ISN'T GENERALIZABLE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE THE INTENT OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IS NOT TO GENERALIZE BUT RATHER TO UNDERSTAND THE PARTICULAR CONTEXTS, NUANCES, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES OF A PHENOMENA OR GROUP OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW
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Establish dominance with your therapist by asking them 5 things they can see 4 things they can touch 3 things they can hear 2 things they can smell 1 thing they can taste
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In Nova Scotia with appropriately sloganed coffee mug...
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Dr Leanne Downing retweeted
Happy 5th birthday So Fi Zine! 5 years ago I launched the first edition and today I'm stoked to mark the occasion with edition #11. Free to read and DIY print as always. Please share! and help me celebrate 🥰🎈✨sofizine.com #sofizine
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Annabel Crabb asks Barnaby a question. The difference in their IQs is now being calculated by NASA's supercomputers. #BinNight
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Today is the #InternationalDayOfHappiness - When we choose to take action to help others, they benefit, we benefit and we set an example of kindness that can ripple out into the world too. dayofhappiness.net/#:~:text=….
Online therapy is here to stay.
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Today AAPi was featured in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The article mentions AAPi's call to review referrals requirements, raise the Medicare rebate to $150 a visit for all psychologists and double the maximum number of visits to 40 a year. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
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'When the integrity of Australia's research system is compromised by perceived, or actual, political interference, there are real costs to the research sector + indeed the nation...' Read more: bit.ly/34jhwKJ with @Science_Academy @ATSE_au @HumanitiesAU @AAHMS_health
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The benefits of my using a RAT fall mostly on others. Economic theory would suggest that the test should be fully subsidised
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‘Personal responsibility’ is not usually the mainstay of a public health strategy
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There are now fewer than 10 days until the @TASA_SEA and @HealthTASA online symposium! Join us next week as we consider themes of hope and empathy in these uncertain times. Spots are filling up so hop to it! eventbrite.com.au/e/hope-and…
New article from the #Journal of #PsychosocialStudies: Bodies on the line: how #telepsychology brought about new relationalities between therapists and their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16… @CSRH_UNSW @HealthComms1 #digitalhealth
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Dr Leanne Downing retweeted
The AMA is concerned the NSW Govt plan to start reopening lacks important details incl. modelling future cases & impacts on the health system, and ignores warnings that easing when contact tracing is already overwhelmed leads to more cases and greater burden on the health system.
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“‘Ninja’ levels of focus”: Therapeutic holding environments and the affective atmospheres of telepsychology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Authors - Leanne Downing, Heather Marriott, Deborah Lupton. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…!
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