The Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne is one of the most highly regarded departments of Psychology in Australia. Ranked in the top three nationally for the quality of its research, and recently rated 8th in the world by QS global rankings, the department attracts some of the best students nationally and internationally to its broad range of APS accredited undergraduate, graduate, professional, and research programs. The school's teaching is underpinned by excellence in research across a range of fields, including cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, quantitative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and clinical science.
10th & 11th February 2012: Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference 2012. Several academics from the department will be in attendance. Click here for more information.
16th February 2012: Orientation and Lunch for our new students on our Masters of Clinical Psychology and Masters of Clinical Neuropsychology.
22nd February 2012: Graduate Diploma Welcome Night.
22nd February 2012: Colloquium : Early interaction between vision and touch: characteristics and constraints.
6th March 12-1pm : Prof Ian Everall, University of Melbourne: HIV the brain and cognitive impairment.
8th March 2012: Brotherton Lecture 2012: Music in the Brain: Professor Isabelle Peretz. For a recording of this public lecture, click here for the vodcast or podcast.
13th March 2012: Professor Michael Norton, Harvard Business School:How charitable giving improves your own happiness - and the organization's bottom line. For a recording of this public lecture, click here for the vodcast or podcast.
14th March 2012: Psychological Sciences Award Night: Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building. Congratulations to our Graduate Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma graduands as well as our prize winners. Click here for more information.
20th March 2012: Colloquium: Professor Jutta Stahl: University of Cologne, Germany: Click here for more information
27 March: Public lecture: Positive education: An alternative vision. Speaker: Dr Paul Wong. Lecture theatre, 227-234 Queensberry Street, Carlton. Organized by: Positive Psychology Interest Group & Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Click here for more details
3rd April 2012: Colloquium: Dr. Julian Oldmeadow: University of York, UK: Click here for more information
4th April 2012: Colloquium: Professor Stefan Treue: Gottingen Graduate School for Neurosciences and The German Primate Center, Germany: Click here for more information
1st May 2012: Colloquium: Professor Bill von Hippel: University of Queensland: Click here for more information
3rd - 6th May 2012: AGE Careers Expo at Caulfield Racecourse – Representatives from Psychology will be at The University of Melbourne stand to answer questions about studying Psychology
9th May 2012: Colloquium: Dr. Ian Colrain: SRI International (California): Click here for more information
15th May 2012: University of Melbourne Graduate Study Expo, 4pm – 7pm Woodward Conference Centre (Level 10, Law Building – 106, 185 Pelham St). Look for us at the MDHS information stand
15th May 2012: Colloquium: Professor Garry Robins: University of Melbourne: Click here for more information
22nd May 2012: Colloquium: A/Professor Jennifer Hudson: Macquarie University: Click here for more information
24th July 2012: Colloquium: Dr Tamlin Conner: University of Otago, New Zealand: Click here for more information
7th August 2012: Colloquium: Professor Michael Saling: University of Melbourne: Click here for more information
21st August 2012: Colloquium: Professor David Alais: University of Sydney: Click here for more information
2nd October 2012: Colloquium: A/Professor Cordelia Fine: University of Melbourne: Click here for more information
23rd October 2012: Colloquium: Professor Yoshihisa Kashima: University of Melbourne: Click here for more information
To see a recent interview of Dr Simon Laham on a BBC Forum program on "What's so bad about behaving badly?", please click here
It is with great pleasure that the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences announces three recipients of the 2012 Learning and Teaching Awards in Psychological Sciences.
Warm congratulations are extended to Dr Meredith McKague and Dr Paul Dudgeon for being the recipients of an Undergraduate Learning and Teaching Award, and A/Prof Carol Hulbert for being the recipient of a Postgraduate Learning and Teaching Award. These awards recognise the substantive contribution these staff have made to the quality of the teaching program in Psychological Sciences.
Congratulations to Dr Brock Bastian, a 2007 PhD graduate of Psychological Sciences, who has won a 2011 Australian Psychological Society Early Career Research Award. This prestigious award recognizes excellence in scientific achievement, and was bestowed on Brock for his influential work on diverse topics including the psychology of dehumanization, pain, morality and meat-eating. Brock is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland.
Congratulations to Dr Simon Laham, a lecturer and research fellow in the department, whose book The Science of Sin (The Joy of Sin in the UK) was recently published. Simon's book explores the seven deadly sins - pride, lust, gluttony, greed, envy, sloth and anger - and shows how they can have positive and functional effects. According to Harvard University's Dan Gilbert, the book takes the reader on "a sinfully delicious tour of human nature that reveals the bright side of our dark side".
Psychological Sciences has been very successful in the 2011 national competitive grant funding schemes, with almost $4 million dollars in research funds from the ARC and NHMRC.
Congratulations to the following academic staff from the department for obtaining ARC and NHMRC grants (along with researchers from other university departments and external universities):
ARC Discovery Grants ($2,394,446 in total):
NHMRC Project Grants ($1,586,374 in total):