Conferences & courses

Presentation slides available upon request.

2023

COPE seminar | Nov 7, Oslo (NO)
Studying change in anxiety and depression

Department-wide seminar organised by the COPE research group to connect with international collaborators from the Experimental Psychopathology (EPP) lab at Utrecht University.

Revealing state changes in emotion during treatment for depression: presenting recent work

Emotions | Oct 4-6, Tilburg (NL)

International 5-yearly conference | Conference program book

Revealing state changes in emotion during treatment for depression 

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Sep 14-15, Groningen (NL)
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

Annual network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts

Organised by University Medical Center Groningen

The temporal order of improvement in daily life experiences during treatment

Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) | June 21-24, Dublin (IE)

54th International Annual Meeting | Conference program 

Testing the clinical promise of early warning signals
Empirical findings in depressed individuals receiving psychotherapy

Society for Ambulatory Assessment | June 5-7, Amsterdam (NL)

Annual conference | Topic: Stress in action | Conference program & abstracts

Shifts in time: identifying reliable symptom changes of different duration in within-person time series

International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) | Mar 9-11, Brussels (BE)

Annual congress | Conference program book

Testing the clinical promise of early warning signals: empirical findings in depressed individuals*
*Symposium accepted, but could not attend the conference due to personal circumstances.

2022

European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) | Sep 7-10, Barcelona (ES)

Annual congress |  Topic: Rethinking CBT: providing strategies for a new way of living. | Conference program | Book of abstracts

Is it too early for early warning signals?
A study of rising autocorrelation and variance as personalized predictors of transitions towards depressive symptom improvement in individual patients

2021

European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) | Sep 8-11, Belfast (IE) & online

Annual congress | Topic: CBT Back to the future | Conference program | Book of abstracts

Shifts in time: identifying reliable symptom changes of different duration in within-person time series

Society for Ambulatory Assessment conference | June 30-July 2, Online 

7th biennial conference | Topic: Capturing human development accross daily life contexts | Conference program & abstracts 

The rocky road to recovery: do early warning signals precede transitions towards depressive symptom improvement?

13th DynaNeT lab meeting | Feb 9, Online

Dynamical Network and Time series models lab meeting for researchers working on these topics (primarily) in the context of psychopathology. 

Organised by dr. Laura Bringmann

Presenting the TRANS-ID project
So you want to define transitions? 

2020

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Nov 26, Online
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

Annual network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts from Belgium and The Netherlands.

Intensive longitudinal methods | COURSE | Nov 19-21

Course focused on intensive longitudinal methods, particularly on linear mixed models and extensions that model both means and variances.

Course director: Don Hedeker
Remote seminar
Organised by Statistical Horizons 

Celebrating Openness | Open Research Award | Oct 22
Online event

Event to celebrate the many ways in which academics make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible. 

Organised by University of Groningen Library (UB) and Open Science Community Groningen (OSCG)

Could you be more specific?
Preregistering analysis choices for a preconceived set of hypotheses 

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) | June 22-23
Remote edition | online conference

An action-oriented psychology conference, aimed at initiating discussions, projects and participation in hack-a-thons, workshops and unconference sessions, where everyone is free to join or change sessions. 

Conference program

2019

SHARE Day | Nov 14, Groningen (NL)

Topic: Impact | Annual day of workshops, keynotes and lectures organised by the graduate school. Topics included the reproducibility crisis, Equivalence testing (Daniël Lakens), and multiverse analysis (Francis Tuerlinckx).

Organised by Research Institute SHARE  | Graduate School of Medical Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Oct 15-16, Tilburg (NL)
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

Annual network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts from Belgium and The Netherlands.

Organised by Tilburg Experience Sampling Center (TESC) | Tilburg University

Modeling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data | COURSE | Aug 19-23

A five-day course on how to study dynamics in intensive longitudinal data, such as ambulatory assessments (AA), experience sampling method (ESM) data, ecological momentary assessments (EMA), real time data capture, observational data or electronic daily diaries. The course provides a tour of diverse modeling approaches for such data and the philosophies behind them, as well as practical experience with these modeling techniques using different software packages (including R and Mplus). 

Course director: Prof. dr. Ellen Hamaker
Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht (NL)
Organised by Utrecht University | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 

Complexity Methods for Behavioural Science | COURSE | July 8-12

A toolbox for studying change

A five-day course on research methods developed to study complex adaptive dynamical systems and networks, applied to the study of human behaviour. The idea behind many methods for studying the dynamics of complex systems is to exploit the fact that “everything is interacting” and quantify the degree of periodicity, nonlinearity, context sensitivity or resistance to perturbation (resilience) of system behaviour. The main focus of the course was hands-on data-analysis.

Course leader: Fred Hasselman
Radboud Summer School, Nijmegen (NL)
Organised by Radboud University Nijmegen | Behavioural Science Institute 

Society for Ambulatory Assessment conference | June 19-22, Syracuse, NY (USA) 

6th biennial conference | Topic: Understanding how persons change: from observations to intervention | Conference program | Book of abstracts

Daily dynamics of negative affect: an indicator for response to treatment and remission from depression? 

Capturing important periods of symptom transitions: a how-to

2018

Rob Giel Onderzoekscentrum (RGOc) studiemiddag | Dec 11,  Zuidlaren (NL)
Gepersonaliseerde zorg: geen woorden maar daden

Clinical conference organised by University Medical Center Groningen, University Center Psychiatry and RGOc

Kleine stapjes en grote sprongen: patronen van verandering leiden tot betere uitkomsten in depressie

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry V | May 28-30, Copenhagen (DK)
The problems of Multiple Levels, Explanatory Pluralism, Reduction and Emergence

This conference explored how the field of psychiatry incorporates a plethora of viable explanatory approaches (biology, neuroscience, clinical psychology, epidemiology, sociology, etc.) in an attempt to understand the causes of psychiatric illness.

Conference programme and presentations.

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Nov 29-30,  Heerlen (NL)
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

Annual network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts from Belgium and The Netherlands.

Organised by Open University Heerlen & Maastricht University

Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) conference | June 27-30, Amsterdam (NL)

49th International Annual Meeting

Change by the day: detailed patterns of improvement during therapy for depression 

Predicting Transitions in Complex Systems | Apr 23-28, Dresden (DE)
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

International Workshop

Complex dynamical systems can show sudden transitions to very diverse regimes. The workshop focused on new advances in data-driven approaches for identifying, characterizing and predicting regime transitions, and promoting cross-fertilization across disciplines. 

Conference description| My poster presentation

Transitions toward recovery in depression: An intensive mood- and activity-monitoring design 

2017

Clinical Relevance versus Statistical Significance | COURSE | Dec 5-7

Compared to statistical significance, little attention is paid to the importance of “clinical relevance” in scientific research. This short course dealt with the role clinical relevance plays in sample size determination (power), describing the results and statistical testing.

Course coordinator: Dr. Eric van Sonderen
Offered by Graduate School of Medical Sciences &  University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen (NL)

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Nov 24, Groningen (NL)
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

Annual network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts from Belgium and The Netherlands.

Organised by University Medical Center Groningen

Advanced (non)linear regression techniques | COURSE | Oct 30-Nov 11

This statistics course offered an advanced introduction into Generalized Additive Modeling and (Logistic) Mixed-Effects Regression.

Course coordinator: Dr. Martijn Wieling
Offered by BCN &  University of Groningen, Groningen (NL)

Society for Ambulatory Assessment conference | June 14-17, Esch-sur-Alzette (LU)

5th biennial conference | Topic: Digital Health in Ambulatory Assessment | Conference program | Book of abstracts | My poster presentation

Reality check: an experience sampling study of the relationship between theory of mind and social functioning of patients with schizophrenia

MINI SCAN certification | COURSE | Feb 22 & Mar 1

Training for MINI-SCAN diagnostic interview

Course coordinator: Drs. F. J. Nienhuis | Groningen (NL)
Offered by Rob Giel Onderzoekscentrum & University Medical Center Groningen

2016

ESM Expert Network Meeting | Nov 24, Leuven (BE)
Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health

First network meeting for experience sampling method (ESM) experts from Belgium and The Netherlands.

Organised by Center for Contextual Psychiatry | Catholic University Leuven