Primary health clinicians and individuals living with dementia alike will benefit from this insightful article by the Frontier Research Group. Highly recommended reading! Brain & Mind Centre USYD Psychology #DementiaCare #australiandoctors

I'm advertising for a PhD student to join my lab at The MARCS Institute for a project on person-centered approaches to assistive technology for people with dementia. This is a dual award PhD b/w Western Sydney University and University of Hertfordshire. Closes end May - happy to chat! tinyurl.com/mw2new5h

🌟 #PhDScholarship Opportunity! Join A/Prof Celia Harris’ team at the MARCS Institute and contribute to #research in person-centred #AssistiveTechnology for people living with #dementia. Applications close 31 May 2024. Apply now: tinyurl.com/2jrn5vy6

🏆 MARCS #ResearchImpact Competition: Congrats to today’s heat round winner, Dr Sophie Smit ("Understanding #Empathy in the #Brain") & runner-up, Dr Titus Jayarathna ("Empowering Steps: Harnessing #Electrical Stimulation to Safeguard #Diabetic Feet") #Neuroscience #Biomedical

MEET THE TEAMS MemoryAId is a multi-component home assistant that uses prompts to help people with #dementia engage and keep on track with valued activities. The adaptable system, developed by Western Sydney University, is designed to feel intuitive and familiar. Celia Harris #HealthAI

Happily working at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury campus today. Secretly my favourite campus!

Proud of this superstar 🤩 Olivia Maurice The MARCS Institute Western Sydney University

Apply for MARCS Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2025 today! Applications close 21 Jun, AEST. Know someone suitable? Share this post! #Linguistics #Language #Psychology #Academics #Research ✨ More info: tinyurl.com/4xx8y788

Recharging after a big day of field data collection - so proud of my team and our impactful aged care research. An absolute privilege to spend time with residents and staff today ❤️Dr Ruth Brookman @emanshatnawi7 The MARCS Institute Whiddon #HarrisLab

What a night! Our Anne Cutler Public Lecture where we heard from Charles B. Chang , renamed the "Anne Cutler Seminar Room", unveiled Anne's Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal, announced 2025 Fellow Prof Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek & launched new scholarship: tinyurl.com/ACPhDSchol #ResearchWeek

Celia Harris & Penny Van Bergen suggest vicarious memories—memories for events we did not personally experience but that are told to us by others—arise from complex and dynamic #memory sharing process. Read the full commentary: bit.ly/3LLOoxS Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition

Representing the Harris Lab at #IDC2024 today, sharing work on cognitive and social support for older people. Unfortunately we are all in separate concurrent streams so will miss each others talks 😁 The MARCS Institute Western Sydney University Dr Ruth Brookman Olivia Maurice Ruby Lipson-Smith

Harris Lab on fieldwork this week - hitting up the tourist sites on the way! What a privilege to spend time chatting to people living and working in #agedcare, in beautiful parts of the country ❤️ Dr Ruth Brookman @emanshatnawi7 The MARCS Institute Western Sydney University #straya #fieldwork

Great to see this published - really rewarding research with Penny Van Bergen and team! The MARCS Institute

Amazing news! The 5 finalists for #LongitudePrizeonDementia Longitude Prize on Dementia have been selected 🇬🇧Animorph Co-op (Bluesky) 🇵🇹Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS 🇺🇸Theora Care 🇬🇧Supersense Technologies 🇦🇺The MARCS Institute 🎉 Each receives £300k and 15-months of expert support to advance their #assistivetech solutions! #dementia

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm leading a team from The MARCS Institute & @DeakinA2I2 who have just been announced as a finalist for Longitude Prize on Dementia #LongitudePrizeonDementia, with @alzheimersoc and Innovate UK. Learn more about our assistive tech & finalists - dementia.longitudeprize.org

See here for a sneak peek at our project - MemoryAid: youtube.com/watch?v=iJLWmo… We aimed to build an intuitive, familiar smart device that people with dementia can use however they like, to do the things that matter most to them. Looking forward to the next phase of development!

What a joy to share the podium w/ finalists at Alzheimer Europe conf in Geneva! As an Aussie I was a bit of a novelty 🇦🇺 proud to represent on the world stage at the end of a whirlwind trip. Thanks to Fiona Carragher & Longitude Prize on Dementia - excellent session & wonderful audience engagement

Representing Australian tech innovation, the MemoryAid team led by Celia Harris The MARCS Institute & Deakin UniversityA2I2 @Deakin have been awarded a share of $2.9 million AUD as global finalists in the prestigious #LongitudePrizeOnDementia Longitude Prize on Dementia 🧠🇦🇺 More: bit.ly/3YnRHlV

How can familiar tools transform dementia care? Our finalists at The MARCS Institute @DeakinA2I2 are supporting independence & reducing caregiver strain through a ringing corded telephone. 📖Learn more below. bit.ly/4g8CL1b #DementiaCare #AssistiveTech