PsyPAG are pleased to announce that the following people agreed to be keynote speakers at the conference:

• Professor Mark Griffiths - Nottingham Trent University
• Dr David Marchant - Edge Hill University
• Professor Geoff Beattie - University of Manchester

Wednesday 30^th July
Professor Mark Griffiths
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Professor Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and the Director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University. Aside from making fantastic contributions to our very own "PsyPAG Quarterly", Mark has published over 175 refereed journal papers, two books, and more than 35 book chapters, establishing an international reputation in the area of gambling and behavioural addictions. He also engages in a lot of international consultancy work, particularly with gaming companies in the area of social responsibility.

Professor Griffiths has received many national and international awards for both his academic contributions and his excellence in teaching. These include the John Rosecrance Research Prize (1994), Excellence in Teaching of Psychology Award (2006), and the Lifetime Achievement Award For Contributions To The Field Of Youth Gambling (2006). In 2004, he was awarded the Joseph Lister Prize for Social Sciences by the British Association for the Advancement of Science for being one of the UK's "outstanding scientific communicators". Having appeared on over 1,500 radio and television programmes to talk about his specialist research areas, Mark is an established speaker and we very much look forward to hearing him at this year's conference.

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Thursday 31^st July
Dr David Marchant
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The committee are very happy to welcome back former PsyPAG committee member, Dr. David Marchant. David is currently a senior lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at Edge Hill University, and is a founder member of the British Psychological Society's Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology committee. While his academic interests span the field of human performance and exercise psychology, the concentration of his research has been on the influence of attentional focus on movement execution and on learning in sport, exercise and rehabilitative settings.

David has an extensive portfolio of publications in journals such as Athletic Insight, Sport and Exercise Psychology Review, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology or Sports Medicine, and has received great acclaim following the publication of a study in which David's research team demonstrated how thinking about your muscles while exercising can increase your muscle activity. In consideration of the potential implications of these findings for exercise and injury-rehabilitation, this research was hailed as 'a breakthrough in sports research'.

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Friday 1^st August
Professor Geoff Beattie
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Professor Geoffrey Beattie is the Head of the School of Psychological Sciences at the host venue, the University of Manchester. His research is primarily concerned with the relationship between non-verbal communication (particularly iconic hand gestures) and speech, and he is widely regarded as one of the leading international figures in this area.

Geoff is more publicly known for his role as the resident psychologist on all 7 "Big Brother" series, and for numerous other TV credits including regular contributions to "Richard and Judy", "GMTV", and "BBC News 24". He has also published 15 books, many of which have either won or been short-listed for major international prizes. His academic publications have appeared in a wide variety of international journals including Nature, Semiotica, The British Journal of Psychology, and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Geoff has also been keen to show how psychology can illuminate many aspects of human experience and consequently he has written for a diverse range of newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Observer, and Marie Claire.

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