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4th Year Application Information

Supervisors and Research Areas

General Research Areas

Some staff members have listed projects they have available for 4th year students. Other members of staff would prefer to work with their student(s) to identify a research project of mutual interest. Listed below are the general research areas for each of the available supervisors. Follow the the link from a supervisor's name to the outlines of projects they are offering or their specific areas of research interest. Where available you can also follow the link to their web pages for further information.

Supervisors

Staff Member Location Research Area 1

Research Area 2

 Research Area 3
Accident Research Centre MUARC Human Factors Human / Road Safety Organizational Psychology
Prof Grahame Coleman Clayton Human-Animal Interactions Chronobiology and Sleep Behavioural and Cellular Neurosciences
Prof Kim Cornish Clayton Developmental Disorders (e.g. fragile X, ADHD, autism, Williams syndrome) Developmental Trajectories Attention Disorders
Prof Paul Fitzgerald Alfred Brain Imaging Clinical Neuropsychology /Psychiatry  
Prof Jayashri Kulkarni Alfred Hospital Women’s Mental Health Novel Psychiatric Treatments Psychiatric Service Development
Prof Lenore Manderson Caulfield Infectious Diseases, gender and sexuality, embodiment and identity  
Prof Paul Martin MMC Clinical Psychology Health Psychology  
Prof Louise Newman MMC Infant Parent Interactions Refugee Mental Health Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology
Prof Daniel O'Connor Kingston Centre Aged Mental Health  
Prof James Ogloff MMC Forensic Psychology Clinical Psychology  
Prof Jennie Ponsford Clayton Clinical Neuropsychology  
Prof Julie Stout Clayton Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology Cognitive Modelling
Assoc Prof Felicity Allen Caulfield Health Psychology Social Psychology  
Assoc Prof Sally Carless Caulfield Organisational Psychology  
Assoc Prof Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis Clayton Experimental Neuropsychology Neuroimaging Applications  
Assoc Prof Eleonora Gullone Clayton Developmental Psychology    Human-Animal Interactions Philosophy
Assoc Prof Marilyn Lucas South Africa Neuropsychology Health Psychology  
Assoc Prof Nikki Rickard Caulfield Music Psychology  Learning and Memory Emotion
Assoc Prof Susan Rossell Alfred Hospital Cognitive Neuropsychology / neuropsychiatry Neuroimaging Cognition and Psycholinguistics
Assoc Prof Stephen Robinson Clayton Behavioural and Cellular Neurosciences  
Dr Simon Albrecht Caulfield Organizational Psychology  
Dr J Sabura Allen Clayton Clinical Psychology  
Dr Pauleen Bennett Clayton Human-Companion Animal Relationships Companion Animal Welfare Dog Cognition
Dr Glenda Bishop Clayton Behavioural and Cellular Neurosciences  
Dr Jillian Broadbear Clayton Behavioural and Cellular Neurosciences Psychopharmacology  
Dr Sue Burney Caulfield Health Psychology Psycho-oncology  
Ms Debra Cairns South Africa Health Psychology Social Psychology  
Dr Russell Conduit Caulfield Chronobiology and Sleep  
Dr Michael Daffern Caulfield Forensic Psychology Clinical Psychology  
Ms Maria Damianova South Africa Neuropsychology Cross-cultural Psychology  
Dr Peter Enticott Alfred Clinical Neuropsychology Social Neuroscience  
Dr Kathryn Gilson Clayton Clinical Psychology     
Dr Penny Hasking Caulfield Substance Use & Abuse Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour  
Dr Graeme Hyman Caulfield Health Psychology Organisational Psychology Sports Psychology
Dr Vickii Jenvey Clayton Developmental Psychology Educational Psychology Developmental (Clinical)
Dr Max Jory Caulfield Perception (visual) (Social Perception) Cognition
Dr Litza Kiropoulos Caulfield Clinical and Cross-Cultural Psychology  
Dr Stuart Lee Alfred Hospital Psychiatric Service Development Neuropsychology Distress in Cancer
Dr Georgia Lowndes - not available in 2010 Clayton Clinical Neuropsychology  
Dr Wendy McKenzie Clayton Cognition and Psycholinguistics Human Memory Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Dr Glenn Melvin Notting Hill Developmental Psychology Treatment Evaluation Suicide
Dr Steven Miller Caulfield Perceptual and Clinical Neuroscience  
Mr Maboe Mokgobi South Africa Clinical Psychology Cross-cultural Psychology  
Dr Simon Moss Caulfield Organisational Psychology Social Psychology Emotion
Dr Lillian Nejad Clayton Clinical Psychology Psychological First-Aid for Psychiatric Inpatients who experience Seclusion CBT Skills Training Groups for Psychiatric Inpatients
Dr Trung Ngo Caulfield Perceptual and Clinical Neuroscience  
Dr Jim Phillips Clayton Human Factors Developmental Psychology  
Dr Shantha Rajaratnam Clayton Chronobiology and Sleep Behavioural and Cellular Neurosciences  
Dr Nicole Rinehart MMC Clinical Neuropsychology Developmental Psychology  
Dr Susannah Runci Kingston Centre Clinical Psychology  
Dr Dianne Sheppard Clayton Neuropsychology Developmental Psychology  
Dr Rene Stolwyk Clayton Clinical Neuropsychology Cross-Cultural Issues Disorders of Awareness and Insight
Dr Gavin Sullivan Caulfield Counselling Psychology Clinical Psychology  
Dr Neil Thomas Alfred Clinical Psychology Psychiatric Service Development  
Dr Renee Testa Clayton Neurodevelopmental Disorders Learning Difficulties Psychiatric Disorders (Schizophrenia)
Dr Stuart Thomas CFBS Forensic Psychology  
Dr Samia Toukhsati Caulfield Music Psychology Human-Animal Interactions Learning and Memory
Dr Katherine Vasey Caulfield Mental Health, wellbeing and migration; Immigration and integration; Gender and migration Social inclusion, politics of social difference, race, citizenship, racism  
Dr Dianne Vella-Brodrick Caulfield Health Psychology Organisational Psychology Emotion and Well-Being
Dr Gordon Walker Caulfield Health Psychology Clinical and Counselling Psychology  
Dr Narelle Warren Caulfield Qualitative Research; Rural Health; Chronic Disease Gender and Ageing Women's Health
Dr Tom Whelan Caulfield Developmental Psychology Clinical Psychology Emotion
Dr Sam Wilson Caulfield Organisational Psychology  
Dr Greg Yelland Clayton Psycholinguistics Cognitive impairment Developmental language disorders