Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences School of Behavioural Science

Current Postgraduate Students

PhD students

Molloy, Carly               

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

PhD                             

Thesis: Spatial perception deficits in children with extremely low birth weight             

                                                             

Abdi, Nadia                  

Supervisor: Dr Lesley Bretherton            

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: Aetiology of childhood internalising and externalising difficulties                                                                                                                                                          

Alkemade, Nathan                                

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Anderson, Jenny         

Supervisor: Prof Pip Pattison                

PhD                             

Thesis: An expressive writing randomised controlled trial for colorectal cancer patients: A test of the underlying mechanism                                                                                                                                                          

 

 AU, Gary                      

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: A computer simulation of grounding and the formation and maintenance of social groups                                                                                                                                                          

 Barre, Natalie               

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Linguistic Ability in Preterm Children at 7 years of age: a diffusion Tensor MRI Investigation                                                                                                                                                          

 Barrett, Anna               

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: A prospective longitudinal study of neurological, familial and temperament risk factors for adolescent-onset internalising and externalising disorder                                                                                                                                       

 

Benjamin, Christopher 

Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Saling          

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Memory for space and time: The neurobiological substrates of spatio-temporal binding in memory processing                                                                                                                                                          

 

Bergin, Sean                

Supervisor: A/Prof Garry Robins            

PhD                             

Thesis: An evaluation of SNA for intelligence analysis: Towards a mature capability in the domain of terrorism                                                                                                                                                          

 

Bird, Laura                                          

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Brennan, Emily            

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: Influence of narrative content and context of anti-smoking public health messages                                                                                                                                                          

 Brooker, Abigail          

Supervisor: A/Prof Jeanette Lawrence      

PhD                             

Thesis: The developmental experiences of refugee and immigrant tertiary students                                                                                                                                                          

 Buckingham, Connie   

Supervisor: A/Prof Mary Ainley              

MPHIL                          

Thesis: Development and evaluation of a primary prevention conflict  resolution program for girls                                                                                                                                                          

 Buckley, Sarah            

Supervisor: A/Prof Mary Ainley              

PhD                             

Thesis: The affective and relational bases of adolescent mathematics anxiety                                                                                                                                                          

 Budzinski, Louisa        

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: The diverging paths of gratitute and indebtedness: a socio-cultural model                                                                                                                                                          

 Burnett, Alice               

Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Bowden      

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

 Byrne, Michelle            

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

PhD                             

Thesis: Early life experience and depression: The role of cardiac and immunological factors                                                                                                                                                          

 Caldwell, Kate              

Supervisor: Dr Carol Hulbert                  

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Patient compliance in breast cancer patients                                                                                                                                                          

Canty, Christine           

Supervisor: Prof Philip Smith                 

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Task switching processes in patients with Parkinson's disease: The role of the basal ganglia                                                                                                                                                          

 Chan, Julia                  

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                

PhD                             

Thesis: The N550: The effect of different levels of alcohol on brain synchronisation in adolescents                                                                                                                                                          

Chan, Phoebe              

Supervisor: A/Prof Garry Robins            

MPsych/PhD CC                                                                                                                                                                        

Chanen, Andrew          

Supervisor: Prof Henry Jackson             

PhD                             

Thesis: Personality disorder in young people: temporal stability, risk & protective factors                                                                                                                                                          

 Chisholm, Anita           

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

PhD                             

Thesis: Executive function in very preterm children                                                                                                                                             

 Clarke, Lisa                 

Supervisor: A/Prof John Gleeson           

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: The impact of comorbid psychopathy on forensic treatment and social outcomes of civil psychiatric patients with serious mental illness                                                                                                                          

 

Coo Calgani, Soledad  

Supervisor: Prof Jeannette Milgrom       

PhD                             

Thesis: Psychological and physical determinants of health in pregnancy                                                                                                                                                          

Cooke, Melanie                                    

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Crebbin, Susan            

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Phillips                    

MPHIL                          

Thesis: Post traumatic growth following acute myocardial infarction                                                                                                                                                          

 Crowe, Louise             

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

PhD                             

Thesis: Outcome of traumatic brain injuries sustained in infancy: Cognitive, behavioural and social factors                                                                                                                                                          

Culpepper, Joanne      

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                

PhD                             

Thesis: Studies in human visual search and target detection in natural scenes                                                                                                                                                          

 DeLuca, Cinzia            

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Malformations of Cortical Development: Does prenatal disruption of the normal maturational process confer vulnerability for behavioural and/or social dysfunction?                                                                                                                                                          

 Dennison, Meg            

Supervisor: Dr M. Yucel 

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

 DiBattista, Ashley        

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Development of a cognitive behavioural therapy for management of social anxiety in your post brain injury                                                                                                                                                          

 

Dileo, John                  

Supervisor: A/Prof Elisabeth Northam    

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: Neurodevelopmental changes in children exposed to early relational drama                                                                                                                                                          

 Duncombe, Melissa     

Supervisor: A/Prof Richard Bell              

PhD                             

Thesis: A comparison of emotion-focused and behaviour-focused parenting interventions designed to facilitate emotional competence in children                                                                                                                       

 

Dwyer, Dominic           

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

 Edwards, Stephen       

Supervisor: Prof Henry Jackson             

PhD                             

Thesis: Identifying, conceptualising and treating anxiety disorders in adults with intellectual disability and borderline intellectual functioning                                                                                                                         

 

Ely, Robert                  

Supervisor: A/Prof Mary Ainley              

PhD                             

Thesis: "Oh but Miss, it's boring" - The role of interest and engagement in   behaviour management and learning for students with challenging behaviour                                                                                                                                                         

 

Fernando, Julian         

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: The appraisal and emotion antecedents of political action in intergroup inequality                                                                                                                                                          

 Ferretti-Bergagna, Carmel                    

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPHIL                          

Thesis: The role of stress in preterm infants and mothers and its effects on mother-infant attachment                                                                                                                                                          

 Forwood, Alice            

Supervisor: Dr Carol Hulbert                  

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Social Networks and post-natal depression                                                                                                                                             

 Fox, Simon                  

Supervisor: A/Prof Richard Bell              

PhD                             

Thesis: Modelling the impact of individual and organisational factors on work/life interference & enhancement and the consequences for workplace productivity                                                                                                                                                           

 Fry, Lisa                      

Supervisor: Prof Alex Wearing               

PhD                             

Thesis: Self regulation during Problem Solving and Decision Making                                                                                                                                                          

Gee, Graham                                       

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Gemmell, Kerry           

Supervisor: Dr Christina Bryant              

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Gent, Angela                

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Sibling adaptation to childhood acquired brain injury                                                                                                                                                          

 Gilson, Kim                 

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Giummarra,Jacqueline

Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Bowden      

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Prediction of neuropsychological outcome in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy                                                                                                                                                          

 Gomez, Andre             

Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon                

PhD                             

Thesis: The use of confirmatory factor analysis to explore the associations of design features of questionnaires and personality with self-report questionnaire responses                                                                                                                                                          

 Gomez, Rashika          

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Williams Syndrome: Investigating Hyper-responsiveness in the domains of Music, Anxiety and Sociability                                                                                                                                                          

 

Groot, Yvonne             

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Frontal brain asymmetry, autonomic cardiac control, and temperament predicting vulnerability to psychopathology in pre-adolescents                                                                                                                                  

 

Groot, Christopher       

Supervisor: Dr Susan Rossell                

PhD                             

Thesis: Central auditory processing: an investigation of the relationship between prosodic dysfunction and auditory hallucination                                                                                                                                       

 

Halperin, Stephen        

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPHIL                          

Thesis: A longitudinal study of factors predicting the emergence of depression and personality pathology in Adolescence                                                                                                                                                          

 

Harrigan, Susan           

Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon                

PhD                             

Thesis: Modelling the characteristics and short-term outcome of 767 first-episode psychosis patients                                                                                                                                                           

Hasen, Galit                 

Supervisor: A/Prof Mary Ainley              

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: The nature of emotional competence in socially withdrawn children                                                                                                                                                          

Herd, Natalie                

Supervisor: A/Prof Jennifer Boldero       

PhD                             

Thesis: Relapse to smoking: How do predictors of relapse change according to duration of smoking abstinence?                                                                                                                                                          

 

Howard, Kelly              

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

PhD                             

Thesis: The impact of white matter injury, social risk and family factors on behavioural outcomes in very preterm infants at 24 months of age                                                                                                                                    

 

Humberstone, Judith   

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

PhD                             

Thesis: The acquisition of algebraic competence                                                                                                                                                

Hunter, Alison             

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Investigating self regulation as a construct of temperament in early adolescence: a multi method approach                                                                                                                                                          

 

Jackman,Angela          

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Neurocognitive, Behavioural and psychosocial functioning in children with sleep-disorded breathing                                                                                                                                                          

 

Jenkins, Lisanne         

Supervisor: A/Prof David Andrewes       

PhD                             

Thesis: Emotional reactivity in patients following brain surgery                                                                                                                                                          

Kanellopoulos, Efstathia                      

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: The effect of mental training on attentional processes                                                                                                                                                          

 Karsz, Felicity              

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Is the Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Function abnormal in children with Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder                                                                                                                                                          

 

Kauer,Sylvia                

Supervisor: Prof Henry Jackson             

PhD                             

Thesis: The concept of insight in the prevention of early intervention of adolescent mood related problems                                                                                                                                                          

 Kaufmann, Leah          

Supervisor: Prof Nick Haslam                

PhD                             

Thesis: The utility and limitations of the Go/No Go Association Task  (GNAT) for examining implicit social cognition                                                                                                                                                          

 

Kehoe, Christiane        

Supervisor: A/Prof Richard Bell              

PhD                             

Thesis: Tuning in to Teens: Examining the Efficacy of an Emotion-Focused Parenting Intervention in Reducing Pre-Adolescents' Internalising Problems                                                                                                                                           

 

Knight, Sarah              

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Neurodevelopmental functioning in infants with craniosynostosis (pre- and post-operative)                                                                                                                                                          

 Komiti, Angela             

Supervisor: Prof Henry Jackson                            

PhD                             

Thesis: Diabetes and Pregnancy: Exploring Psychological Factors Influencing the Seeking of Pre-Pregnancy Care                                                                                                                                                          

 

Koval, Peter                 

Supervisor: Prof Nick Haslam                

PhD                             

Thesis: Only human: The perception of human imperfections in self and others                                                                                                                                                          

 Lae, Lidia                    

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: RATL Australia: Evaluating school improvement and the development of the learner attitude scale (LAS)                                                                                                                                                          

 

Lee, Claire                   

Supervisor: Dr Jacqueline Anderson       

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

Leicester, Steven          

Supervisor: A/Prof John Gleeson                       

PhD                             

Thesis: Cognitive biases associated with hallucinations during the 'at-risk' period for psychosis                                                                                                                                                          

 Lichter, Renee             

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Longitudinal analysis of temperament in adolescents with depression.                                                                                                                                                           

Lim, Jeremy                

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Working memory functioning in children born very pre-term: Nature of deficits and early neuroanatomical correlates                                                                                                                                                          

 

Lim, Kheng Seang       

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

PhD                             

Thesis: Trans-cultural factors in psychogenic seizures in Malaysia & Australia                                                                                                                                                          

 Lim, Michelle               

Supervisor: A/Prof John Gleeson           

PhD                             

Thesis: An investigation of psychological mechanisms associated with distress and preoccupation of beliefs:  a continuum perspective of psychosis                                                                                                                                                          

 Lin, Ashleigh               

Supervisor: A/Prof John Gleeson           

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Cognitive functioning and risk for psychosis                                                                                                                                                          

 Macdonald, Jacqueline

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Phillips                    

MPHIL                          

Thesis: Intergenerational Patterns of Psychological Wellbeing                                                                                                                                                          

 Mackintosh, Lucy        

Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Saling          

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

 Marco, David               

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

PhD                             

Thesis: An investigation of the relationships between pitch processing and sound recognition                                                                                                                                                          

 Marsh, Joan                 

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

PhD                             

Thesis: Referential adequacy of analogical representations of common fractions                                                                                                                                                          

 McCarthy, Bernard       

Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon                

PhD                             

Thesis: The predictive factors for best practice dementia care                                                                                                                                                          

 Merrett, Dawn              

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Using music to understand the organization and rehabilitation of language                                                                                                                                                          

 Micallef, Silvana          

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

PhD                             

Thesis: Psychological outcome of epilepsy surgery: When is it best  to operate?                                                                                                                                                          

Milne, Lisa                   

Supervisor: Prof Jeannette Milgrom       

PhD                             

Thesis: Neurobehavioural development in preterm at 36 months: Follow-up of neonatal intervention and exploration of the contribution of maternal factors to infant outcomes                                                                                                                                                          

 Molloy, Carly               

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson                 

PhD                             

Thesis: Spatial perception deficits in children with extremely low birth weight                                                                                                                                                          

 Mooney, Anna             

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                

PhD                             

Thesis: Cortical Synchronization as a measure of the impact of alcohol consumption on the adolescent brain                                                                                                                                                          

 

Muhammad Hafidz, Sarah                    

Supervisor: A/Prof Richard Bell              

PhD                             

Thesis: Perceptions of productive and counter productive work behaviour                                                                                                                                                          

 Murphy, Caroline         

Supervisor: Prof Jeanette Milgrom         

PhD                             

Thesis: Developing a screening tool for vulnerable families                                                                                                                                                          

 Napper, Ellen               

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: Neurocognitive and psychological profiles of children with learning difficulties                                                                                                                                                          

 Newitt, Penelope          

Supervisor: A/Prof Jennifer Boldero                      

Thesis: The relationship between perceptions of brands and perceptions of self                                                                                                                                                          

 Nguyen, Trang                                     

MPsych/PhD OI            

Thesis: The role of self-regulatory theory in complex decision making                                                                                                                                                          

 Noori, Zahra                

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

PhD                             

Thesis: The relationship between required and core number abilities in Iran and Australia                                                                                                                                                          

 O'Brien-Simpson, Laurie                     

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Relapse in depression: Physiological correlates of vulnerability                                                                                                                                                          

 O'Connor, David          

Supervisor: Dr Meredith McKague          

PhD                             

Thesis: Understanding delusions in Alzheimer's Disease                                                                                                                                                          

 Orr, Catherine              

Supervisor: A/Prof Mike Nicholls            

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis:The Role of Attention in Processing Facial Affect                                                                                                                                                          

 Park, Joon-ha              

Supervisor: Prof Nick Haslam                

PhD                             

Thesis: Conceptions of Humanness across Cultures                                                                                                                                                          

 Partos, Timea              

Supervisor: Dr Simon Cropper               

PhD                             

Thesis: Seeing things: An investigation of factors linking schizotypy to members of new religious movements, creativity and aesthetic preference                                                                                                                            

 

Patison, Kym               

Supervisor: Prof Pip Pattison                

PhD                             

Thesis: Identifying emergent social behavioural networks in domesticated livestock                                                                                                                                                          

 Pollard, Annabel          

Supervisor: Dr Christina Bryant              

PhD                             

Thesis: An investigation of the effect of behavioural interventions in predicting uptake of health behaviours and psychological outcomes (physical activity, diet, menopause management, measures of psychological adjustment) in women diagnosed with breast cancer                                                                                                                                                    

 

Punaro, Laura              

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve                          

Thesis: School-related worries in young children                                                                                                                                                 

 Reid, Katharine            

Supervisor: Prof Margot Prior / Dr Christina Bryant

MPsych/PhD OI            

Thesis: Preschool children's informal understanding of discrete and continuous quantity concepts                                                                                                                                                          

 Restrepo, Carolina       

Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Saling          

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Early neuropsychological detection and neuroimaging markers                                                                                                                                                          

 Reynolds, Catherine    

Supervisor: Prof Nick Haslam                

PhD                             

Thesis: The meanings of gender                                                                                                                                                

 Robertson, Joanne                              

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

 Rybicki-Condello, Julia

Supervisor: Prof Henry Jackson             

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

 Scalzo, Simon                                     

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Social dysfunction following brain surgery: An investigation of empathy, self-monitoring and indifference                                                                                                                                                          

 

Scealy, Marita              

Supervisor: Prof Janice Langan-Fox                      

Thesis: Role of self-construal in stress reactivity                                                                                                                                                

 Schwartz, Orli              

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Adolescent emotion regulation and the family: Predicting depression                                                                                                                                                          

 Scratch, Shannon        

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Determining the mechanisms underlying learning and memory deficits in very preterm children                                                                                                                                                          

 Shin, Shang Hui            

Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima            

PhD                             

Thesis: Evaluation of the change through national history: Roles of national identity and perceived collective continuity                                                                                                                                                          

 

Sim, Joyce                  

Supervisor: Dr Jacqueline Anderson       

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: The role of inhibitory automatic processed on implicit learing in Parkinson's Disease                                                                                                                                                          

 Simmons, Julian         

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

PhD                             

Thesis: Serotonin affect and mood: a psychophysiological investigation                                                                                                                                                          

 Sironic, Amanda           

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: The role of metacognition in adolescent perfectionism                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                             

Sojo, Victor                 

Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon                

PhD                             

Thesis: The relationship of personality and contextual factors to   people's physical and mental health                                                                                                                                                          

Soon, Siew                  

Supervisor: Dr Nola Rushford                

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Spear, Owen                

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Suetin, Anastasiya       

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: The effect of prematurity-related cognitive deficits and parenting style upon social adjustment of very preterm children                                                                                                                                              

 

Suomi, Aino                

Supervisor: A/Prof Jeanette Lawrence    

PhD                             

Thesis: Analyses of clinicians' assessments of child and family circumstances in child protection in matters ordered by the Children's Court                                                                                                                                  

 

Tay, Sarah-Ann                                    

MPsych/PhD CL                                                                                                                                                                       

Telfer, Josephine         

Supervisor: Dr Simon Cropper               

PhD (VCA)                   

Thesis: Shifts of cognition in creative process                                                                                                                                                   

 Thomas, Elizabeth       

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

PhD                             

Thesis: The co-ordination of visuo-spatial functions: A developmental analysis of performance on a hidden maze learning task                                                                                                                                                    

 

Tipping, Susannah      

Supervisor: Prof Di Bretherton               

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Meaning in life, social connectedness and quality of life in young people from a Sudanese refugee background                                                                                                                                                          

 

Todd, Stuart                

Supervisor: A/Prof Richard Bell              

PhD                             

Thesis: Coping With Envy                                                                                                                                                         

 Toh, Wei Lin                

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Phillips                    

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Are facial perception difficulties in body dysmorphic disorder the result of abnormalities in eye tracking ability or biases in attention?                                                                                                                             

 

Trezise, Kelly               

Supervisor: A/Prof Robert Reeve           

PhD                             

Thesis: Mathematics Anxiety: Mathematical Factors and Behavioural   Expression in Adolescents                                                                                                                                                          

 Truong, Ann                

Supervisor: Dr Simon Cropper               

PhD                             

Thesis: Lost in translation: The accuracy of linguistic representations of internal colour perception                                                                                                                                                          

Turner, Margaret          

Supervisor: A/Prof David Andrewes       

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: An investigation into methods of improving mood and social  communication in depressed stroke patients: progress towards therapeutic change                                                                                                                                                       

 Ure, Alexandra             

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: Do brain abnormalities at birth predict psychiatric symptoms at 2 and 7 years of age?                                                                                                                                                          

Valpied, Jodie             

Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Bowden      

PhD                             

Thesis: Completing the map of common ground: Relationships between sensory-processing sensitivity, openness, introversion and intelligence                                                                                                                                                      

 

Velissaris, Sarah         

Supervisor: A/Prof Sarah Wilson            

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: The psychosocial effects of a newly-diagnosed seizure in adulthood                                                                                                                                                          

Vijayakumar, Nandita   

Supervisor: A/Prof Mike Nicholls            

MPsych/PhD CN                                                                                                                                                                       

 Waloszek, Joanna        

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                

PhD                             

Thesis: Sleeping well: Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescents                                                                                                                                                          

Watts-Hampton, Theresa                      

Supervisor: A/Prof John Gleeson                          

Thesis: An examination of the impact of the psychological impact of workplace aggression on in-patient clinical staff                                                                                                                                                          

 

Wan, Catherine            

Supervisor: Dr Jason Forte                    

PhD                             

Thesis: The behavioural and neural correlates of brain plasticity in blind individuals                                                                                                                                                          

 Werden, Emile             

Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Saling          

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: The correlation between performance on a paired associated learning task and amyloi deposition in individuals with a history of mild memory complaints                                                                                                                                            

 Westrupp, Elizabeth    

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson               

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: Development of psychopathology in an extremely low and very  low birth weight cohort in Australia                                                                                                                                                          

 

Wilkinson, Vanessa     

Supervisor: Prof John Trinder                               

Thesis: Role of upper airway dilator muscles in the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea                                                                                                                                                          

 Williams, Ian               

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                 

MPsych/PhD CL           

Thesis: Depression prevention and promotion of emotional wellbeing in adolescents using a therapeutic outdoor adventure intervention:  development of a best practice model                                                                                                                                                          

 Wilson Ching, Michelle

Supervisor: Dr Peter Anderson                              

Thesis: Comprehensive evaluation of attention deficits in very preterm/extremely low birth weight adolescents                                                                                                                                                          

 

Wilson, Samuel           

Supervisor: Prof Nick Haslam                

MPsych/PhD OI            

Thesis: Dehumanisation and folk explanations of behaviour                                                                                                                                                          

 Woods, Damith            

Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson            

MPsych/PhD CC           

Thesis: A family-centred intervention to improve family-parental adaptation and reduce challenging behaviours in children with acquired brain injury (ABI)                                                                                                                                                   

 

Woods, Michael           

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                                

PhD

Thesis: Sleep and cardiovascular disease in adolescents at risk for depression                                                                                                                                                        

Yates, Mark                  

Supervisor: A/Prof Mike Nicholls                    

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Models of Temporal Perception                                                                                                                                     

 Youssef, George          

Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen                                

MPsych/PhD CN           

Thesis: Understanding the neurocognitive temperament and demographic correlates of adolescent risk taking                                                                                                                                                          

 

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