PROMISE (Early Career Group)

PROMISE stands for Promoting Research Opportunities, Mentoring and Innovations for Students and Early Career Members

PROMISE is a group that was developed through ASBHM, where the executive committee felt it was important to support, help and guide the strong Early Career and Postgraduate contingent that are members of ASBHM and have had a strong presence at previous conferences.

Aims: It is clear in the title that the main aim of PROMISE is to promote research opportunities, mentoring and education for students and early career members who have an interest in behavioural medicine, throughout Australasia .

Specifically by:

• Organising workshops on topics of interest at the ASBHM annual conference
• Organising a fun social activity at the ASBHM conference, which will give all PROMISE members an opportunity to meet others and identify common research interests.
• Providing an informative and useful webpage for students and early career members.

There are two Postgraduate Student Representatives on the ASBHM Executive Committee.

• New Zealand : Carina Chan
• Australia : Paula Wye

If you are interested in becoming a member please email your details to Carina Chan: carina.chan@med.monash.edu.my and go to our membership page to find out how you join ASBHM.

Sources of information for students and early career members:

• CREATE (Collaborative Research and Training in the EHPS) is a subdivision of European Health Psychology Society: www.ehps.net/create/index.htm
• American Psychological Association - Students: www.apa.org/students/