Inaugural Lecture - Professor Mark A. Wetherell
This lecture will take place on campus, in Nixon Hall, Ellison Place, City Campus West (full address at the bottom of the page). The lecture will also be available to stream online - please register for the event and a link will be sent to you to access the live stream.
'Stop stressing me out!' My life of inducing, measuring (and sometimes, trying to reduce) stress, by a stress(ed) Psychologist
Professor Mark A. Wetherell has spent
the majority of his academic life stressing people out; in fact some people may
suggest that it’s not just his academic life.
He has always been interested in
stress, its causes and consequences, and why it affects some people more than
others. In order to understand this, it is necessary to observe people while
they are experiencing stress. Sometimes this involves making people
stressed in the laboratory and sometimes it involves studying groups of people
who experience chronic levels of stress such as caregivers.
In this lecture, Professor Wetherell
will introduce you to some of the techniques that he has developed to ‘stress
people out’ and explain how they can help us to understand the harmful effects
of chronic stress on health and wellbeing. He will finish by discussing
interventions that could buffer these harmful effects and suggest how these
could be used to help those at risk from chronic stress.
About the Speaker
Professor Mark A. Wetherell
is an HCPC Registered Health Psychologist and Professor of Psychobiology at
Northumbria University. Mark is a specialist
in the psychobiological causes and consequences of stress and explores how
stress gets inside the body, what it does when it gets
there, and why it has different effects on different people in terms of their
health, well-being, and performance. He has worked with a wide range of
populations using novel laboratory and ambulatory techniques and has developed
bespoke interventions that are
more easily accessible by individuals experiencing chronic stress.
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