Recent Theses Passed

Scroll this page for details of theses passed for 2004 and 2005. For other years, go to:

• Theses Passed 2007
• Theses Passed 2006
• Theses Passed 2005
• Theses Passed 2004
• Theses Passed 2003
• Theses Passed 2002
• Theses Passed 2001
• Theses Passed 2000

2007

Paul Badcock
PhD
Mood and domains of risk-taking: An empirical test of the social risk hypothesis of depression
Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen

Nikola Balvin
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Influencing prejudice and stereotype communication: The case of Aboriginal Australians
Supervisor: Prof Yoshi Kashima

Brock Bastian
PhD
Essentialising entity theories:  placing implicit person theories within the framework of psychological essentialism
Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Haslam

Bei Bei
DPsych (Clinical)
Sleep disruption: a contributory factor to baby blues
Supervisor: Prof John Trinder

Narelle Bethune
PhD
Dynamic assessment of children's rational number competence
Supervisor: Prof Margot Prior, A/Prof Robert Reeve

Jennifer Bradshaw
PhD
Attentional function in dementia with Lewy bodies: contrasts with dementia of the Alzheimer's type and normal controls
Supervisors: A/Prof Michael Saling, Prof Vicki Anderson, A/Prof Malcolm Hopwood

Isla Carboon
PhD
Global meaning and its implications for emotional adjustment following a cancer diagnosis
Supervisor: Prof Vicki Anderson

Melinda Carrington
PhD
Cardiovascular activity during sleep onset and the influence of arousals from sleep
Supervisor: Prof John Trinder

Trevor Chong
PhD
On the automaticity and specificity of human mirror system responses - neural and behavioural studies on the perception and execution of action
Supervisors: A/Prof Mike Nicholls, Prof Jason Mattingley, Dr Ross Cunningham, Dr Mark Williams

Julian Dooley
PhD
Psychometrics of a novel measure of social information processing and the assessment of cognitive functioning and aggression in clinical and non-clinical populations
Supervisors: Prof Vicki Anderson, Dr Jeneva Ohan, Dr Sheryl Hemphill

Judith Dunai
PhD
State related fluctuations in ventilation during sleep onset
Supervisor: Prof John Trinder

Sherelle Dye
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Social functioning in parents of young children with an autism spectrum disorder: Evidence supporting a broader autism phenotype?
Supervisor: Prof Margot Prior

Ross Evans
MPsych (Clinical)
Possible selves and suicidality
Supervisors: Dr Carol Hulbert, A/Prof Jennifer Boldero

Alexander Fornito
MPsych/PhD
Anatomical abnormalities of the anterior cingulate cortex and paracingulate cortex in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Supervisors: A/Prof Michael Saling, Prof Christopher Pantelis, Dr Murat Yucel, Dr Stephen Wood

Candice Franich-Ray
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Personality profile as a predictor of early adjustment in parents of infants undergoing cardiac surgery
Supervisors: Prof Vicki Anderson, Dr Lis Northam, Dr Samuel Menahem

Ben Harris
MPsych/PhD
Investigation and specification of the semantic executive system
Supervisor: A/Prof David Andrewes

Samantha Hutton
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Parent and peer attachment: Association with self concept, social and emotional adjustment and academic achievement following transition to secondary school
Supervisor: Dr Lesley Bretherton

Cara Jones
PhD
The new boundaryless career:  understanding independent consultants' well-being and business success
Supervisors: Prof Alex Wearing, A/Prof Bruce Headey

Frank Lambrick
DPsych (Forensic)
Implicit theories of child molesters with an intellectual disability
Supervisors: Dr Lynne Eccleston, Dr Grant Devilly, Prof Tony Ward

Max Lee      
DPsych (Clinical)
Individuation, perspective taking, narcissism and the self-humanizing effect
Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Haslam

Shoen Hwa Leow
MPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Individual differences, culture and creativity
Supervisors: Dr David Rawlings, Prof Yoshi Kashima

Vivian Liu
DPsych (Forensic)
The utility of signal detection theory in the assessment of memory malingering
Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Bowden

Chuen Yee Lo
PhD
The depressive rumination trait and attention switching in a modified mental counting task
Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen

Christopher Mogan
PhD
An investigation of Compulsive Hoarding
Supervisors: Prof Henry Jackson, Prof Isaac Schweitzer, Prof Michael Kyrios

Belinda Morley
PhD
Enhancing the effectiveness of abortive medication for migraine with behavioural self-management
Supervisors: Dr Nancy McMurray, Prof Paul Martin, Dr John Heywood

Alexandra Parker
MPsych/PhD
Self-discrepancies, self-structure and depression:  own and other perspectives on the self
Supervisor: A/Prof Jennifer Boldero

Sophie Reid
MPsych (Clinical)
Novel ways of capturing adolescent depression
Supervisor: Dr Paul Dudgeon

Penelope Schmidt
DPsych (Health)
Deviations in Body Weight in Australian Children - Considerations for Healthy Child Weight Interventions
Supervisors: Dr Nola Rushford, Prof Susan Paxton

Maree Sleeman
PhD
Assessment and development of interpersonal intelligence: classroom applications
Supervisors: Dr Nancy McMurray

Lesley Stafford
MPsych/PhD
Depression and health-related quality of life in coronary artery disease
Supervisors: Prof Henry Jackson, Prof Michael Berk, Prof Michael Kyrios, Dr Sarah Wilson, Dr Prasuna Reddy

Sarah Whittle
PhD
The neurobiological correlates of temperament in early adolescence
Supervisors: A/Prof Nick Allen, Dr Murat Yucel, Prof Yoshi Kashima

Joanne Wrench
MPsych/PhD
Depression before and after epilepsy surgery: nuerobiological and psychosocial mechanisms 
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Wilson, Prof David Reutens

Benjamin Wright
MPsych (Clinical)
Narcissism and the self
Supervisors: Dr Carol Hulbert, A/Prof Jennifer Boldero

Bee Hui Marie Yap
PhD
Temperament, family processes and adolescent depressive symptomatology:  emotion regulation as a mediator
Supervisor: A/Prof Nick Allen

Wai Lan Yeung
PhD
Stereotype communication:  the role of task and culture in the communication of stereotype relevant information
Supervisors: Prof Yoshi Kashima, Prof Alex Wearing

Yu Zhao
PhD
Multiple networks in organizations
Supervisor: A/Prof Garry Robins, Prof Alex Wearing, Dr Prasuna Reddy

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