Current Postgraduate Students

PhD students

Allan, Amanda
Thesis: Transition of the psyche: a study of professional international aid volunteers from an existential-phenomenological perspective.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Di Bretherton, Dr Prasuna Reddy

Anderson, Jenny O'Darka
Thesis: An expressive writing intervention for colorectal cancer patients: a test of the underlying mechanism.
Supervisors: Professor Pip Pattison, Dr Penny Schofield

Anglim , Jeromy
Thesis: Individual differences and cognitive architectures: The role of strategic behaviour in skilled performance.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Janice Langan-Fox

Au, Gary
Thesis: The mathematical modelling & simulation of social processes
Supervisor: Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima

Ban, Lauren
Thesis: Variations in the concept of mental disorder.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Allen

Barrett, Anna
Thesis: A prospective MRI study into the neurobiology of adolescent onset depression, anxiety and substance abuse
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nick Allen, Dr Murat Yucel

Bendall, Catherine
Thesis: The role of childhood trauma in symptomatology in early psychosis.
Supervisor: Professor Henry Jackson

Benjamin, Christopher
Thesis: The neurobiological substrates of memory for space and time
Supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Saling, Associate Professor David Reutens

Bissett, Melanie
Thesis: Boredom among middle-school students: a situated, multidimensional, cognitive-affective conceptualisation.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Haslam

Borrell, Janine
Thesis: Journalists, Trauma and Psychopathology.
Supervisors: Professor Henry Jackson, Dr Ida Kaplan

Bratanova, Boyka
Thesis: Goals, beliefs, and trust in relational models.
Supervisors: Prodessor Alex Wearing, Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima

Brodsky, Inna
Thesis: Mental representation of native and non-native audio-visual speech.
Supervisor: Dr Chris Davis

Buckley, Sarah
Thesis: The relationship between mathematics anxiety and peer networks in adolescence
Supervisors: Associate Professor Mary Ainley, Professor Pip Pattison

Budzinski, Louisa
Thesis: Pitting indebtedness against gratitude
Supervisor: Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima

Chanen, Andrew
Thesis: Personality disorder in young people: temporal stability, risk and protective factors.
Supervisors: Professor Henry Jackson, Professor Pat McGorry

Clarke, Peter
Thesis: Self regulation and suicidality in 14-25 year olds.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Boldero

Coetzee, Nicolene
Thesis: Medicinal compliance in patients with left and right middle cerebral artery strokes
Supervisor: Associate Professor David Andrewes

Daraganova, Galina
Thesis: Social networks and regional labour market outcomes
Supervisor: Professor Pip Pattison

De Luca, Cinzia
Thesis: A neuropsychiatric investigation of developmental dysplasia.
Supervisor: Professor Vicki Anderson

Donohue, Angela
Thesis: Individual, family and community level effects on adolescent adjustments as a result of war-related trauma.
Supervisor: Dr Nancy McMurray

Dunlop, Sally
Thesis: Mass media campaigns, interpersonal discussion and public health attitudes and behaviours
Supervisors: Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima, Dr Melanie Wakefield

Dye, Sherelle
Thesis: Social functioning in parents of preschoolers with autism: Evidence supporting a broader autism phenotype?
Supervisor: Professor Margot Prior

Edwards, Stephen
Thesis: Identifying, conceptualising and treating anxiety disorders in adults with intellectual disability and borderline intellectual functioning.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Mike Kyrios, Professor Margot Prior

Erskine, Shona
Thesis: Identity formation in the adolescent dancer.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Di Bretherton, Associate Professor Mary Ainley

Fornito, Alexander
Thesis: A twin study of the genetic contributions to neuroanatomical and neuropsychological abnormalities of the frontal lobes in schizophrenia.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Saling, Dr Murat Yucel, Dr Stephen Wood, Associate Professor Christos Pantelis

Foroughi, Elham
Thesis: An investigation of cognitive processes in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Supervisors: Associate Professor John Gleeson, Associate Professor Mike Kyrios

Furlonger, Brett
Thesis: Phonological processing skills and the reading of profoundly deaf adults.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Virginia Holmes, Professor Field Rickard

Glikmann, Yifat
Thesis: Spatial learning and memory in a virtual environment: temporal lobe damage and neurological correlates.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Saling, Dr David Reutens

Gomez, Andre
Thesis: Using confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory to examine how the formal features of self-report questionnaires impact responses.
Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon

Harrigan, Susan
Thesis: Modelling the characteristics and short-term outcome of 767 first-episode psychosis patients.
Supervisors: Professor Henry Jackson, Dr Paul Dudgeon

Harris, Ben
Thesis: A new measure of cognitive flexibility through the use of primes: Implications for models of executive function.
Supervisor: Associate Professor David Andrewes

Hayman-White, Karla
Thesis: Sexually abusive behaviours in childhood & adolescence.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bob Reeve

Holt, Lillian
Thesis: Black Humour.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Di Bretherton, Associate Professor Bob Reeve

Hosking, Warwick
Thesis: Relational discrepancies within dyadic relationships: the emotional outcomes and implications for relationship functioning.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Boldero

Howard, Kelly
Thesis: Neurobehavioural functioning at 2 years of age in very preterm children: The impact of brain injury and altered brain development.
Supervisor: Professor Vicki Anderson

Humberstone, Judith
Thesis: The nature of conceptual change involved in the transition from whole number to rational number
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Reeve

Ingram, Anna
Thesis: Anterograde and retrograde amnesia after electroconvulsive therapy.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Saling, Professor Isaac Schweitzer, Dr Greg Savage.

Jobling, Karmen
Thesis: The psychophysiology of attention allocation in social hierarchies.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Allen

Jones, Bronwyn
Thesis: The role of cognitive emotion regulation in adjustment to traumatic injury
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nick Allen, Professor Mark Creamer, Dr Meaghan O'Donnell

Jones, Cara
Thesis: Predicting the work success of independent consultants: A situational and dispositional analysis.
Supervisors: Professor Alex Wearing, Associate Professor Bruce Headey

Kanellopoulos, Efstathia
Thesis: Developmental pathways to and away from somatoform disorders
Supervisor: Dr Carol Hulbert

Kaufmann, Leah
Thesis title: Examining the utility and limitations of the Go/No Go Association Task for the study of social cognition
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Haslam

Kapsalakis, Anthoula
Thesis: Concepts of intelligence and giftedness in a multicultural society.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Mary Ainley

Khisbiyah, Yayah
Thesis: Social groupings: The making and unmaking of religious radicalism in Muslim socities.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Di Bretherton, Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima

Kleverlaan, Darci
Thesis: Arousal from sleep: more complex than simply a change in state.
Supervisor: Professor John Trinder

Liebowitz, Lesley
Thesis: Clinical factors in recovery from acute cardiac events.
Supervisors: Dr Prasuna Reddy, Professor Henry Jackson, Professor Michael Berk

Lim, Michelle
Thesis: An Investigation of the Relationship between Beliefs and Well-being in diverse community groups.
Supervisors: Professor Henry Jackson, Associate Professor John Gleeson

Loughnan, Stephen
Thesis: The relationship between humanness, social groups and non-human groups
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Haslam

Marot, Melissa
Thesis: The impact of commercial funding on rsearch team effectiveness in health and medical research.
Supervisor: Dr Prasuna Reddy

Marsh, Joan
Thesis: Referential adequacy of analogical representations of common factions.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bob Reeve

Matthews, Christine
Thesis: Task switching processes in patients with Parkinson's disease: The role of the basal ganglia.
Supervisors: Professor Philip Smith, Professor Malcolm Horne

Mayhew, Vanessa
Thesis: Family problem solving in adolescents with conduct problems and depression.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ann Sanson

McLean, Gregor
Thesis: Reconciling perceptual and cognitive accounts of dyslexia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Anne Castles, A/Professor Geoff Stuart

McNab, Catharine
Thesis: Families in early psychosis: experience of caregiving, expressed emotion, control, coping and distress in first episode and prodromal samples.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Haslam

Micallef, Silvana
Thesis: Psychological outcome of epilepsy surgery: When is it best to operate?
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Wilson, Dr Jacqui Wrennal

Molloy, Carly
Thesis: Spatial perception deficits in children with extremely low birth weight
Supervisors: Professor Vicki Anderson, Professor Lex Doyle, Dr Peter Anderson

Morgan, Lisa-Marie
Thesis: Psychological adjustment in the adoptee.
Supervisor: Dr Nancy McMurray

Morris, Adam
Thesis: The role of the parietal cortex in dynamically updating neural representations of space for perception and action.
Supervisor: Professor Jason Mattingley

Nelson, Christopher
Thesis: A phenomenological and psychometric investigation of the experience of the artistic creativity and its relationship with personality characteristics.
Supervisor: Dr David Rawlings

Noori, Zahra
Thesis:   The relationship between acquired and core number abilities in Iran and Australia.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bob Reeve

O'Brien-Simpson, Laurie
Thesis: Relapse in depression: Physiological correlates of vulnerability
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Allen

O'Connor, David
Thesis title: Understanding delusions in Alzheimer's Disease
Supervisors: Professor Jason Mattingley, Dr Susan Rossell

Partos, Timea
Thesis: Seeing things: An investigation of factors linking schizotypy to members of new religious movements, creativity and aesthetic preference
Supervisor: Dr David Rawlings

Phillips, Rowena
Thesis: Attachment and children's representations of relationships.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jeanette Lawrence, Associate Professor Bob Reeve

Platania-Phung, Chris
Thesis: Lifestyle Cultures and Health.
Supervisor: Professor Janice Langan-Fox

Reid, Katharine
Thesis: The importance of estimation in the development of mathematical competence.
Supervisor: Professor Margot Prior and Dr Katherine Canobi

Roth, Shira
Thesis: Insight into illness, insight into emaciation (size over estimation), depression and motivation to change in anorexia nervosa.
Supervisor: Dr Nola Rushford

Sambell, Natalie
Thesis: The influence of regulatory fit on perceived persuasiveness of health promotion messages within the media
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Boldero, Dr Melanie Wakefield

Simmons, Julian
Thesis: Serotonin affect and mood: a psychophysiological investigation.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Allen

Spencer, Sarah
Thesis: Analysis of the spatial behaviour of apprehended seial sex offenders.
Supervisors: Professor Pip Pattison, Dr Stuart Ross

Spencer-Smith, Megan
Thesis: Timing of brain insult and the development of executive functions: Are skills differentially affected by brain insult at different developmental stages?
Supervisors: Professor Vicki Anderson, Dr Rani Jacobs, Dr Peter Anderson

Stewart, Andrew
Thesis: Psychosocial adjustment to coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Supervisors: Dr Prasuna Reddy, Associate Professor David Hare, Associate Professor Michael Kyrios, Dr Paul Dudgeon

Thomacos, Nickolaos
Thesis: Adult attachment, social support and adjustment and adaption to illness.
Supervisor: Dr Nancy McMurray

Tipping, Susannah
Thesis: The relationship between meaning-making, social connectedness and quality of life in Australian-Sudanese refugees.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Di Bretherton, Professor Pat McGorry, Dr Ida Kaplan, Associate Professor John Gleeson

Turner, Margaret
Thesis: An investigation into the use of in vivo laboratory assessments of a cognitive behavioural intervention aimed at reducing emotional and social dysfunction in patients following brain surgery.
Supervisor: Associate Professor David Andrewes

Walters, Izabela
Thesis: Investigation of diagnostic expertise in neuropsychology.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michael Saling

Wan, Catherine
Thesis: The neurobiology of performance anxiety in musicians.
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Wilson

Whelan, Jennifer
Thesis: Social Support Networks and Acculturation.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Yoshi Kashima

Wilkinson, Vanessa
Thesis: Role of upper airway dilator muscles in the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnoea.
Supervisor: Professor John Trinder

Willetts, Sarah
Thesis: Characterising the evolution of psychosocial and cognitive effects in epilepsy.
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Wilson, Associate Professor Michael Saling

Williams, Ian
Thesis: Facilitating positive change in adolescent self-regulation through therapeutic experiential interventions
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nick Allen

Wise, Sarah
Thesis: Middle childhood attachment security and the effects of maltreatment in out-of-home care settings.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Ann Sanson, Professor Frank Oberklaid

Yates, Mark
Thesis: Models of Temporal Perception.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Mike Nicholls

MA (Research) students 2006

Wilson-Ching, Michelle
Thesis: Comprehensive study of attentional dysfunctions in premature children
Supervisors: Professor Vicki Anderson, Professor Lex Doyle, Dr Peter Anderson

MSc (Research) students 2006

Byrne, Kenneth
Thesis: Working memory and verbal problem-solving: a comparison of Anterior and Posterior Post-operative Aneurysm.
Supervisor: Associate Professor David Andrewes

Eren, Senem
Thesis: Brain activation in children with post-traumatic stress symptoms following traumatic brain injury: an fMRI study
Supervisor: Professor Vicki Anderson, Associate Professor Justin Kenardy

Flynn, Clare
Thesis: Creativity in writers: investigating the role of personality and emotional intelligence
Supervisor: Dr David Rawlings

Keogh, Deborah
Thesis: Improving the diagnosis of memory disability
Supervisor: Associate Professor Stephen Bowden

Sussex, Rebecca
Thesis: An investigation of the efficacy of Melodic Intonation Therapy
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Wilson

Tang, Weng Keong Bryan
Thesis: Recovering from deception in negotiation
Supervisors: Professor Philip Smith, Professor Mara Olekalns