Undergraduate Research Conference

UWinnipeg’s Psychology Department’s Prairie Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024.

Registration for UWinnipeg’s Psychology Department’s Prairie Undergraduate Research Conference is now CLOSED. This Conference is for undergraduate students who are completing their Honours thesis course in the Spring of 2024, or who would like to present an advanced research project that they completed in the 2023-2024 academic year. 

Here are the links to the 2024 Conference program. There is an HTML version with just the schedule as well as a longer PDF version that includes abstracts and a campus map:

 http://puc.42web.io/program/index.html

 http://puc.42web.io/program/PUC-program-2024.pdf

The registration fee is $30.00 for anyone who is attending the entire Conference. The fee covers the luncheon buffet. (UWinnipeg Honours students do not have to pay this fee because the Department covers the fee for them.) If you just want to attend a presentation or two, or just the Keynote Address, you do not have to pay the registration fee.

The Conference day’s schedule is as follows (more details will be provided closer to the Conference): Conference badge pick-up and morning refreshments from 8:00-8:45: Opening Remarks at 8:50; the first session of spoken presentations will commence at 9:00; poster presentations will run from 10:30-11:00; second session of spoken presentations from 11:00-12:00; luncheon buffet from 12:00-1:15; the Keynote Address runs from 1:30-2:30.

We award two monetary prizes at the Conference: one for the best oral presentation in the social sciences (The McIntyre Award) and one for the best oral presentation in the natural sciences (The Santesso Award). UWinnipeg Honours students only will be considered for the Santesso Award; oral presentations only are judged for both awards.

Dr. Todd Girard will give the Conference's Keynote Address (Toronto Metropolitan University on the topic of Task Demands and Strategy Use Are Important Factors in Memory Performance.

Abstract:

"Memory is important for successful functioning in everyday life. For example, memory helps us to understand lectures, navigate the campus efficiently, and track what we discussed with whom. Memory is also intimately linked to our present sense of self and our ability to plan for the future. Perhaps not surprisingly, memory is often a key predictor of functional outcomes in several clinical conditions associated with memory difficulties. However, different aspects of memory may be affected to different degrees in these conditions. Moreover, successful memory performance further relates to the demands of a given situation or context, and our strategic regulation of memory processes. In this respect, a guiding theme in my research program is that the more we understand the specific profiles of mnemonic abilities associated with different clinical conditions, the better we might harness their strengths and tailor intervention strategies. In this talk, I will highlight the roles of task demands and participant strategies on memory performance through brief examples from my lab investigating individuals with psychosis and those with symptoms of depression."

Read more about Dr. Girard here: https://www.torontomu.ca/psychology/about-us/our-people/faculty/todd-girard/

Questions? please email the Psychology Department Assistant: c.smallwood@uwinnipeg.ca