Optimising physical and mental performance

Key groups

• ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
  The ARC Centre of Excellence offers opportunities for interdisciplinary and international collaborative research in the study of cognition, its disorders, and their treatment. Research is conducted in five areas of cognition: belief formation, language, memory, person perception, and reading.
• Centre for the Study of Social Change
  The Centre for the Study of Social Change conducts research in the social sciences to address humanity’s most urgent problems and devises evidence-based solutions. The Centre sponsors conferences, symposia, seminars and other forums for interdisciplinary dialogue and encourages the publication of resulting discussion papers, lectures and proceedings.
• Health Promotion and Evaluation Unit (HPEU)
  The UWA Health Promotion Evaluation Unit seeks to influence health promotion policy and practice and improve the health of Western Australians through the discovery and communication of knowledge. The Unit enables researchers to promote their research and invite interested people to contribute.
• Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE)
  The Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE) commemorates the work of the late Dr. Rutherford, a world leader in research into emotion. The Centre aims to advance our understanding of emotion by bringing together research in cognitive psychology, biological psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, and clinical psychology.