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Centre, reflect, transform: A rights-based future for neuropsychology
Why is it important to keep asking ourselves how our own or society’s ideas might affect the way we understand someone’s brain or behaviour?
Join Australia’s leading clinical neuropsychologists for three days of learning, networking, and professional growth. Connect with colleagues, researchers, and students to shape the future of neuropsychology and advance equitable, culturally responsive care.
After the conference, you’ll be ready to:
Key focus areas include:
ADVANCE PRACTICE,
EXPAND HORIZONS
Join neuropsychologists in Hobart to refine skills, share insights, and embrace innovation in clinical practice and lifelong learning at this transformative conference.
EXPLORE RESEARCH,
ELEVATE IMPACT
Discover cutting-edge research, new assessment tools, and therapies. Engage in discussions that expand knowledge and improve outcomes in brain health and neuropsychological care.
CONNECT, COLLABORATE,
RENEW
Network with experts in Hobart’s inspiring setting. Build connections, exchange ideas, and recharge in a space where collaboration and passion for learning thrive.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
This year’s conference is centred on embedding psychology’s regulatory changes within the neuropsychology discipline. Submissions are invited from neuropsychologists, researchers, educators, and students across all areas of neuropsychology practice.
We welcome research papers, workshops, fireside chats and panel proposals that address the conference theme: Centre, reflect, transform: A rights-based future for neuropsychology.
Topic areas include:
This is an opportunity to present new findings, share innovative approaches, and contribute to a rights-based, culturally responsive, and socially informed future for neuropsychology.
Accepted presentations will be part of a comprehensive 2.5-day program of scientific, clinical, and practice-focused sessions. Join us in nipaluna, (Hobart) to share ideas, build collaborations, and help shape the evolving landscape of neuropsychological practice in Australia.
Conference Program Planning Committee
This committee brings together leaders in clinical neuropsychology who guide the development of a thoughtful, evidence-based program. Drawing on expertise in assessment, intervention, ethics, research, and education, the committee ensures the conference reflects a rights-based, inclusive, and socially informed future for neuropsychology.
Co-chair
Co-chair
Jody Kamminga is a clinical neuropsychologist of settler background and a PhD candidate researching decolonising neuropsychology under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governance, with project oversight by the Australian Indigenous Psychology Association (AIPA). She has over a decade of experience across private practice, public health, and research, and is an Ahpra Board-approved supervisor. Her work is grounded in culturally responsive and decolonising practice, including neuropsychological assessment in justice settings and co-development of Social and Emotional Wellbeing services in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Areas of Expertise
Co-chair
Co-chair
Dr Judy Tang OAM is a clinical neuropsychologist with more than a decade of clinical and academic experience in brain health, cognitive assessment, and complex mental health presentations. She has held leadership roles including Victorian Multicultural Commissioner and Board Director at the Victorian Pride Centre, championing equity and inclusion across health and community settings. Nationally recognised for her advocacy, she works at the intersection of mental health, ageing, disability, multiculturalism, LGBTIQA+ communities, and neurodiversity to drive systemic change.
Areas of Expertise
Co-chair
Co-chair
Dr Liz Vuletich is a clinical neuropsychologist raised on Mparntwe (Alice Springs), where early experiences in central and western desert regions fostered deep respect for Aboriginal knowledges and the importance of deep listening. Endorsed in Clinical Neuropsychology, she holds a Masters and PhD from the University of Western Australia and has worked across public and private sectors since 2006, including senior leadership, university lecturing, board approved supervision and private practice. Since 2009, her work has focused on forensic and medicolegal practice, particularly with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, emphasising culturally responsive, equity-focused, and community-engaged care, especially within the Expert witness role.
Areas of Expertise
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