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.