Associate Professor Ciping Deng visited the School of Psychology and Sociology at CQU Rockhampton this week (July 10 - 11).

Associate Professor Deng was invited by Dr Wei Wang of the School, under the Faculty's (SEH) Distinguished Visitors Program.

The visitor delivered a public seminar to a audience of psychology and sociology peers, as well as some community members, on the topic of young children's pretense play and representational theory of mind.

Associate Professor Deng is from the Department of Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai.

He was accompanied by 2 other Chinese psychologists - Professor Dan Li from the Department of Applied Psychology at Shanghai Normal University and Associate Professor Qinmei Xu from the Department of Psychology at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.

Zhejiang University is one of the best universities in China, and its psychology department and the psychology department in East China Normal University are first class departments in the discipline of psychology (both teaching and research) in China.

The visitors were attending the 19th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Developmental in Melbourne, before visiting Rockhampton.

The Executive Dean of Sciences, Engineering and Health, Professor Elizabeth Taylor, met the visiting Chinese psychologists in the company of Dr Wei Wang and Robert Forsterlee from CQU's School of Psychology and Sociology.

Both the School staff and the visitors expressed an interest in teaching and research collaborations.The Dean expressed support for exploration of the potential and feasibility of these directions.

The visitors also had a meeting with the School of Psychology and Sociology Head of School, Associate Professor Lynne Forsterlee, and Professor Kevin Ronan from the School of Psychology and Sociology. They also discussed research interests and the potential for collaboration.