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?
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