Please join us for a luncheon seminar!

Using Humor in Peer Education: Trials and Tribulations of an Action Research Project
Bridie Scott-Parker, PhD, University of the Sunshine Coast

Dr. Bridie Scott-Parker will discuss her work in adolescent health and well-being and the influence of personal, social (parents, peers), and structural (legislation, police) influences upon risky behavior.

Thursday, January 14, 2016
Noon—1 pm (lunch provided)
C217  College of Public Health Building

Dr Bridie Scott-Parker is a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow with more than a decade of expertise in young and novice driver road safety. She is the leader of the Adolescent Risk Research Unit (ARRU) at the University of the Sunshine Coast, in sunny Queensland, Australia, a research unit focusing on improving the health and well being of all adolescents.  With more than 40 research papers and young driver projects running on six continents, Bridie was named the Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year in 2015, recognizing her research excellence and her very strong skills in ‘speaking English,’, allowing scientific research to be translated to the everyday community.

Sponsored by the Injury Prevention Research Center