Associate ProfessorKaryn France

Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award (2008): Study tour to the United States to disseminate research and provide invited addresses on professional training. This is a competitive and prestigious award with only a limited number awarded to New Zealanders each year.

Appointed to the New Zealand Psychologists' Board: Accreditation Committee (2008-present). Appointment was by invitation.

Member of the New Zealand Psychologists' Board: Accreditation Working Party. Appointment by invitation (2004-2006).

Member of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Committee for Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme), 2000-present. Membership by invitation from University of Queensland, School of Psychology, Parenting and Family Support Centre.

Member of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists. Elected membership requires qualifications and experience criteria. Professional and research activities.

Member: International Scientific and Professional Advisory Committee for TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme). Organised by Prof M. Sanders, School of Psych. University of Queensland. Meets regularly re family interventions research and dissemination.

Member: Scientific and Professional Advisory Committee for Healthy Families Trust NZ. Advises on professional and research development. Evaluates applications for student scholarships from Tindall Foundation.

Registered Psychologist (since 1983) under the NZ Psychologists' Act 1981. Qualifications and experience criteria. Approval by the NZ Psychologists' Board.

2006 Invitation to chair a conference symposium: Helping Families Change conference, Brisbane Australia.

1999: Keynote address to the Helping Families Change Conference (see outputs: Parent's role...) This Australasian Conference on Family Interventions invited me along with other Keynote speakers from Australia and the United States.

1998: Invited address to Congress of the European Sleep Research Society Paediatric Symposium (see outputs: Behavioural effects). Primary sleep society in Europe incl Britain. Paediatric Division.

2000: Invited Address Helping Families Change Conference. (see outputs: Interventions with infants) This Australiasian Conference on Family Interventions invited me to present one of a small number of invited addresses.

1998: The Conference of the American Professional Sleep Societies invited me to join a panel on assessment of pediatric sleep (see outputs: Canterbury Sleep Programme). This panel comprised international behavioural sleep researchers.

Nine invitations to address at international universities and hospitals: - Fulbright tour 2008: invitations to present my research from Professors Roberts & Steele at the University of Kansas Clinical Child Psychology Programme and Children's Mercy Hospital Ka. Drs Power, Melzer & Mindell at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Professor Ed Shapiro at the Pediatric School Psychology Programme at Lehigh University Pa; - 2008 From Dr Blunden, Paediatric Sleep Research Fellow, Psychology Department, University of South Australia to address Psychology Department; - 2011 From Professors Benninger & Bowie Queens University Ontario, to address Psychology Department in Colloquium series

Five invitations to present at conferences (2006-2010) I was invited by Dr Barbara Galland to prepare a 30 minute presentation on interventions to present within a symposium entitled “Problematic sleep in infancy: interventions and outcomes” at the WorldSleep conference in Kyoto Japan 2011 and at the Australian Sleep Association conference in Sydney 2011. I was invited by Dr John Fitzgerald (Consultant clinical psychologist, Hamilton) to present within a symposium on Family Psychology at the New Zealand Psychological Society Conferences in 2009 and 2010. I was invited by Professor Fred Seymour to present within a symposium on the Family Court at the New Zealand Psychological Society Conference in 2010 -Australasian Sleep Association Annual Meeting, Adelaide 2008:invited to address as part of a Post-Graduate Satellite Course Invitation from Professor Matt Sanders, to chair a conference symposium: Helping Families Change Conference, Brisbane, Australia.