Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill

DR SUZANNE CONBOY-HILL

consultant clinical psychologist

Welcome to my professional home page

More often than not these days, when I meet someone new, I find I have been googled and the person concerned has been puzzled to find mostly animal-oriented activities thrown up by the search. More alarmingly, there are listed in some searches references to papers I have definitely not written. Time, I thought, for a horse's mouth page to balance the record and this is it!

You will find reference to the Disabled Animals' Club in most searches and that is my site, set up to promote the interests of animals with disabling conditions. You may also find reference to a 1996 paper co-authored by Alexis Waitman and me and cited in online essays. If it exists at all, Alexis and I did not write that paper so feel free to penalise any student who cites it in their work!

What's here
In these pages you will find my CV, a list of publications, links to downloads of documents from presentations and either links to or embedded video material of research or other clinical/academic activities. You will also find me on LinkedIn where more general details are listed. You are welcome to download and use any of the materials here but I would ask that you please respect my intellectual property in so doing.

Bits and Pieces

current projects Developing a research-minded approach to every day clinical practice.

Bumping up specialist interview training for the assessment of capacity in vulnerable adults.

and...
most exciting virtual reality research project. This is based in Second Life which has had a mixed press, being seen primarily as a social game environment. However, there is a burgeoning scientific and business community already established in-world and the demographic indicates that a significant proportion of users are mature in age. See Philip Rosedale's TEDtalk for more http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/the_inspiration_of_second_life.html

and...

Newly appointed to a Visiting Research Fellow post at the University of Brighton as part of Sussex Partnership's drive to promote NHS research by seconding clinicians to academic clinical research fellowships. This has already allowed me to develop two further projects towards funding bids and successfully engage interest in working on a virtual world project for children's services along with colleagues in Brighton, Chailey, and Northumbria. One project, using SenseCam for adults with learning disabilites, will be presented at a conference in Chicago shortly by Max Buchanan, a member of our psychology team.

NEW! Hit the papers! See http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899038 and http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4461750.Brighton_patients_to_be_sent_into_virtual_world which led to an early spot on BBC Radio Sussex and then ABC radio, national Australian Broadcasting corporation www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense.

See Health Innovations Expo 2009. This took place at the ExCel Centre, London over June 18th and 19th and showcased innovative practice from all over the UK and elsewhere.

Next up: Curious Minds conference, Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust, November 26th, Sussex Partnership Psychology Research and Audit conference December 1st,