Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Current Postgraduate Students

PhD students

Current PhD Students

 

Abdi, Nadia

Thesis: Aetiology of childhood internalising and externalising difficulties.

 

Alkemade, Nathan

Thesis: Measurement invariance of the MMPI-2 when used with patients suffering a traumatic brain injury.

 

Anderson, Jenny O'Darka

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

 

Barre, Natalie

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

 

Bergin, Sean

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

 

Brennan, Emily

Thesis: Let me tell you: The role of interpersonal communication in anti-smoking mass media campaigns.

 

Brooker, Abigail

Thesis: The developmental experiences of refugee and immigrant tertiary students.

 

Burnett, Alice

Thesis: The Neuroanatomy of Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents Born  less than 1000g (The 1991-1992 VICS Longitudinal Study).

 

Byrne, Michelle

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

 

Caldwell, Kate

Thesis: Patient compliance in breast cancer patients.

 

Canty, Christine

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

 

Chan, Julia Kheng

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

 

Clarke, Lisa

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

 

Coo Calcagni, Soledad

Thesis: Psychological and physical determinants of health in pregnancy.

 

Crowe, Louise

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

 

Culpepper, Joanne

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

 

Dennison, Meg

Thesis: The role of the development of neural reward circuitry in the symptom profile and onset of depression in adolescence - an MRI investigation.

 

Dibattista, Ashley

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

 

Dileo, John

Thesis: Neurodevelopmental changes in children exposed to early relational drama.

 

Duncombe, Melissa

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

 

Edwards, Stephen

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

 

Ely, Robert

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

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

 

Forwood, Alice

Thesis: Social Networks and post-natal depression.

 

Frye, Lisa

Thesis: Self regulation during Problem Solving and Decision Making.

 

Gemmell, Kerry

Thesis: Resilience in older survivors of ovarian cancer.

 

Gent, Angela

Thesis: Sibling adaptation to childhood acquired brain injury.

 

Giummarra, Jacqueline

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

 

Gomez, Rashika

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

 

Groot, Yvonne

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

 

Harrigan, Susan

Thesis: Modelling the characteristics and symptoms in first-episode psychosis from baseline to long-term follow-up.

 

Hasen, Galit

Thesis: The nature of emotional competence in socially withdrawn children.

 

Herd, Natalie

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

 

Humberstone, Judith

Thesis: The acquisition of algebraic competence.

 

Hunter, Alison

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

 

Jackman, Angela

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

 

Jenkins, Lisanne

Thesis: Emotional reactivity in patients following brain surgery.

 

Kanellopoulos, Efstathia

Thesis: The effect of mental training on attentional processes.

 

Kauer, Sylvia

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

 

Kehoe, Christiane

Thesis: Tuning in to teens: Examining the efficacy of an emotion-focused parenting intervention in reducing pre-adolescents' internalising problems.

 

Kho, Puay Bee

Thesis: Is cognitive functioning predictive of employment potential of patients surviving moderate to severe traumatic brain injury?

 

Knight, Sarah

Thesis: Neurodevelopmental functioning in infants with single-suture craniosynostosis.

 

Komiti, Angela

Thesis: Diabetes and pregnancy: Exploring psychological factors influencing the seeking of pre-pregnancy care.

 

Lae, Lidia

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

 

Lee, Young-Eun Claire

Thesis: The natural history of neuropsychological changes in Parkinsonism.

 

Leicester, Steven

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

 

Lichter, Renee

Thesis: Longitudinal analysis of temperament in adolescents with depression.

 

Lim, Boon Chye Jeremy

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

 

Lin, Ashleigh

Thesis: Cognitive functioning and risk for psychosis.

 

Mackintosh, Lucy

Thesis: Memory outcomes of surgical treatment for focal epilepsy: Neurocognitive, functional, and psychosocial aspects.

 

Marco, David

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

 

Marsh, Joan

Thesis: Referential adequacy of analogical representations of common factions.

 

McCarthy, Bernard

Thesis: The predictive factors for best practice dementia care.

 

Merrett, Dawn

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

 

Micallef, Silvana

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

 

Milne, Lisa Clare

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

 

Mooney, Anna

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

 

Muhammad Hafidz, Sarah

Thesis: Perceptions of productive and counter productive work behaviour.

 

Napper, Ellen

Thesis: Neurocognitive and psychological profiles of children with learning difficulties.

 

Nguyen, Trang

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

 

Noori, Zahra

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

 

O'Brien-Simpson, Laurie

Thesis: Relapse in depression: Physiological correlates of vulnerability.

 

Park, Joon-Ha

Thesis: Conceptions of Humanness across Cultures.

 

Partos, Timea

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

 

Patison, Kym

Thesis: Identifying emergent social behavioural networks in domesticated livestock.

 

Pollard, Annabel

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.

 

Restrepo, Carolina

Thesis: Early neuropsychological detection and neuroimaging markers.

 

Reynolds, Catherine

Thesis: The meanings of gender.

 

Robertson, Joanne

Thesis: Perceptual asymmetries in navigation: An investigation of the attentional basis of lateral deviations when steering vehicles through apertures.

 

Rybicki-Condello, Julia

Thesis: The Effects of Schemas, Source Monitoring and Jumping to Conclusions on Auditory Hallucinations and Delusions: A Cognitive Model.

 

Scalzo, Simon

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

 

Scratch, Shannon

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

 

Shin, Shang Hui

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

 

Sim, Joyce

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

 

Simmons, Julian

Thesis: Serotonin affect and mood: a psychophysiological investigation.

 

Sironic, Amanda

Thesis: The role of metacognition in adolescent perfectionism.

 

Sojo, Victor

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

 

Soon, Siew Peng

Thesis: Analysis and treatment of maintenance factors in Anorexia Nervosa.

 

Spear, Owen

Thesis: The effect of neighbourhood characteristic on risk for depression in adolescents.

 

Suetin, Anastasiya

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

 

Suomi, Aino

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

 

Thomas, Elizabeth

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

 

Thompson, Maritza

Thesis: The psychological impact of state violence on refugees.

 

Todd, Stuart

Thesis: Coping With Envy.

 

Toh, Wei Lin

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

 

Trezise, Kelly

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

 

Ure, Alexandra

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

 

Valpied, Jodie

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

 

Waloszek, Joanna

Thesis: Sleeping well: Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescents.

 

Westrupp, Elizabeth

Thesis: Adult psychiatric outcomes of very low birth weight survivors: exploring mechanisms of risk and vulnerability.

 

Woods, Damith

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

 

Youssef, George

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

 

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