| Staff |
Research Interests |
Professor Grahame J Coleman
Head of School |
- Human-animal interactions
- Selection and training
- Consumer attitudes and behaviour
- Circadian rhythms and sleep
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Professor Jennie L Ponsford
Director, Postgraduate Studies |
- Traumatic brain injury
- Rehabilitation of cognition and behaviour following acquired brain injury
- Disorders of attention
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A/Professor Stephen Robinson
Director, Research |
- Astrocyte-neuron interactions
- Iron and oxidative stress
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
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Professor Ralf Dringen |
- Astrocytes
- Brain iron
- Glia-neuronal interactions
- Neurodegenerative disorders
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Professor Dexter R F Irvine |
- Auditory cortical organization and plasticity
- Cortical responses to cochlear electrical stimulation
- Auditory attentional processes in normal listeners and auditory neglect in stroke patients
- Auditory perceptual learning.
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Professor Lenore Manderson |
- Medical anthropology
- Social history of medicine
- International public health
- Chronic disease and disability
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A/Professor Felicity C L Allen |
- Stress and health
- Euthanasia
- Gender differences in evaluation of merit.
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A/Professor Sally Carless |
- Recruitment and selection
- Psychometrics: scale development and evaluation
- Leadership
- Person-job, person-organisation fit
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A/Professor Eleonora Gullone |
- Emotion development, regulation, and developmental emotional wounds
- Body-mind connections
- Mindfulness and psychotherapy: East meets West
- Human-nature and human-animal interactions
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A/Professor Alan Lill |
- Vertebrate sociality and behavioural ecology
- Ecophysiology and ecological energetics of Australian native birds and mammals
- Wildlife ecology and conservation, including human-wildlife interactions and urban ecology
- Evolutionary psychology; human reactions to environmental issues
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A/Professor Jennifer R Redman |
- Psychopharmacology (including drugs of abuse)
- Chronobiology
- Circadian rhythms and sleep
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Emeritus Professor John L Bradshaw |
- Experimental neuropsychology (clinical & normal)
- Information processing and cognition
- Attention, movement & movement disorders
- Human evolution
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Emeritus Professor Kim T Ng
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- Astrocytes
- Behavioural / cognitive neuroscience
- Glia-neuronal interactions
- Psychopharmacology
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Emeritus Professor Thomas J Triggs |
- Young driver skill development
- Intelligent transport systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Applied human information processing
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Dr Simon Albrecht |
- Organisational culture and climate
- Individual, team and organisational development interventions
- Trust, politics, leadership and their influence on organisational and team effectiveness
- The role of affect in organisational experience
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Dr J. Sabura Allen |
- Clinical psychology
- Evolutionary psychology including human psychopathology, and mating and dating behaviour
- Attachment
- Depression and eating concerns
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Dr Pauleen Bennett |
- Human-companion animal interactions
- Canine behaviour and psychology
- Measurement of executive dysfunction
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Dr Jillian Broadbear |
- Nicotine dependence - investigation of alternative therapeutic strategies for smoking cessation
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Investigation of reward pathways in behavioural models of substance abuse; roles for pituitary hormones, gender and stress
- Investigation of the interactions between antidepressant medication, gender and pituitary hormones in behavioural models of affective disorders
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Dr Susan Burney |
- The impact of cancer treatments on patient quality of life (focus on prostate cancer)
- Sexual dysfunction among cancer patients and their partners
- General quality of life issues for cancer patients
- Male incontinence and quality of life
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Dr Glenda Bishop |
- Iron and oxidative stress
- Alzheimer's disease and amyloid-beta protein
- Cellular mechanisms of brain aging
- Astrocyte-neuron interactions
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Dr Russell Conduit |
- Sleep
- Sleep disorders
- Fatigue
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Dr Wendy Crouch |
- Depression
- Vulnerability factors in chronic illness using a developmental and relational framework.
- Skin disorders
- Childhood chronic illness - family, sibling and individual coping and adjustment
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Dr Tom Edwards |
- The role of nitric oxide in memory processing
- The molecular basis of protein synthesis – dependent long-term memory
- The role of cGMP in memory processing
- The role of ion channels in memory processing
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Dr Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis |
- Experimental Neuropsychology
- Movement, cognitive and attention dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders (i.e., Huntington’s disease, Parkinson's disease, etc)
- Neuropsychology of normal healthy aging
- Electrophysiology (EEG, ERP) and Neuroimaging (fMRI)
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Dr Penelope Hasking |
- Cognitive factors in drug and alcohol use
- Self-injury in adolescents
- Effects of childhood animal cruelty on psychological development
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Dr Vickii B Jenvey |
- Development of social competence in children
- Development of aggressive and antisocial behaviour in children
- Role of children’s play in development: evolutionary & psychosocial perspectives
- Adequate & poor nutrition in early childhood & their developmental outcomes
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Dr Milica Markovic |
- Contemporary public health issues
- Gender and Immigrant health
- Health policy
- Health promotion interventions
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Dr Wendy A McKenzie |
- Memory dissociations (e.g., false memory; ageing)
- Memory and eyewitness testimony (e.g, context effects; face recognition)
- Teaching and learning in higher education
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Dr RoseAnne Misajon |
- Wellbeing of people with disability and chronic illness
- Quality of life and quality of life measures, incl. in different cultural settings
- Migration, coping and social support
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Dr Simon Moss |
- Deceptive and unethical behaviour
- Misconceptions and cognitive biases
- Leadership in organisations
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Dr Bhensri Naemiratch |
- Medical sociology and anthropology
- Nutrition
- Qualitative research
- Cross-cultural studies
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Dr James G Phillips |
- Human Performance
- Human-computer interaction
- Ageing
- Gambling
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Dr Shantha M W Rajaratnam |
- Chronobiology and sleep
- Circadian rhythms
- Sleep disruption and sleepiness
- Fatigue countermeasures
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Dr Nikki Rickard |
- Measuring emotional responses to music
- Anxiolytic effects of music
- Effects of rhythmic auditory stimuli on memory formation
- Role of nitric oxide in memory formation
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Dr Greg Savage (Honorary) |
- Cognitive Neuropsychology
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Dr Dianne Sheppard |
- Experimental Neuropsychology
- Cognitive and attention dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, etc)
- Cognitive declines in normal healthy aging
- Event-related Potential (ERP) technology
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Dr Matthew W Spitzer |
- Neuronal basis of perception and cognition
- Auditory cortex function and organisation
- Primate vocal communication
- Spatial hearing
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Dr Gavin B Sullivan |
- Psychotherapy and counselling (e.g., for borderline personality disorder)
- Qualitative, narrative and discourse studies (any topic)
- Theoretical, historical and philosophical psychology (e.g., any aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology)
- Studies of the self and emotions (e.g., self-conscious emotions)
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Dr Samia Toukhsati |
- Music Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration
- Animal Welfare Methodology and Community Attitudes
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Dr Katherine Vasey |
- Immigration and integration
- Mental health, wellbeing and migration
- Gender and migration
- Social inclusion, politics of social difference, race, citizenship, racism
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Dr Dianne Vella-Brodrick |
- Well-being and holistic health
- Occupational health (e.g., perceived org. support and life/work/family balance)
- Scale development
- Sport psychology
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Dr Gordon Walker |
- Counselling psychology
- Developmental psychology and psychiatry
- Health psychology and behaviours
- Educational psychology
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Dr Thomas A Whelan |
- Child health psychology (effects of hospitalisation, psychological preparation for surgery)
- Parent stress
- Counselling psychology
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Dr Elisabeth Wilson-Evered |
- Leadership and leadership succession and development
- Teams and workgroup innovation and performance
- Climate, culture and organizational change
- Health services research
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Dr Gregory W Yelland |
- Experimental psycholinguistics
- Language and cognitive impairments in development disorders e.g., dyslexia, autism, etc)
- Assessment of cognitive and language impairment in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
- Development of reading abilities
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A/Professor Marilyn Lucas
Head of Psychology (Monash South Africa) |
- Exposure to violence, coping and resilience
- The neuropsychology of psychiatric illnesses
- Predictive testing in Huntington's Disease
- Ethical issues in regard to the researcher/practitioner
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Ms Debra Cairns
(Monash South Africa) |
- Health psychology and cancer
- Cross cultural issues arising out of social changes
- Exposure to violence, coping and resilience
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Ms Maria Damianova
(Monash South Africa) |
- Private speech in children and adults
- Cross-cultural issues arising out of social changes
- Exposure to violence, coping and resilience
- Neuropsychology and outcomes in traumatic brain injury
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Mr Maboe Mokgobi
(Monash South Africa) |
- An African's perspective of western psychology
- The relevance of psychiatric diagnosis in African peoples
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Miss Narelle Warren |
- Qualitative Research
- Rural Health
- Chronic Disease
- Gender and Ageing
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Staff |
Research Interests |
Professor Grahame J. Coleman
Head of School |
- Human-animal interactions
- Selection and training
- Consumer attitudes and behaviour
- Circadian rhythms and sleep
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Professor Bruce Tonge
Deputy Head of School
Director, Clinical and Professional Services |
- Developmental psychology and psychiatry
- Phenomenology of childhood psychopathology and treatment in (anxiety, depression, ADHD)
- Psychopathology of intellectual disability (including autism) and approaches to intervention
- Epidemiology and longitude study of childhood mental health problem
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Professor David Clarke |
- Coping with physical illness
- Depression and demoralisation in the medically ill
- Illness behaviour and unexplained physical symptoms
- Medical ethics
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Professor Paul B Fitzgerald |
- Schizophrenia and affective disorders/depression
- Brain stimulation techniques including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Brain imaging (fMRI, MRS, EEG/evoked potentials, NIRS)
- Psychopharmacology
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Professor Nicholas A Keks |
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychoses: schizophrenia and bipolar illness
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Ethical issues in psychosis research
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Professor Jayashri Kulkarni |
- Womens Mental Health
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Schizophrenia
- Affective Disorders
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Professor Paul Martin |
- Migraine, headache and pain
- Stress, anxiety and depression, including postnatal depression
- Social networks and support.
- Lifestyle and health, particularly as related to cardiovascular disease and cancer
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Professor Graham Meadows |
- Psychiatric epidemiology
- Health systems research
- Primary mental health care
- Economics and mental health care
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Professor George Mendelson
(Honorary) |
- Psychiatric issues in chronic pain
- Compensation and litigation following personal injury
- Rating of psychiatric impairment
- Posttraumatic psychiatric reactions
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Professor Paul Mullen |
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Professor Mark Oakley-Browne |
- Community and clinical epidemiology of mood and anxiety disorders
- Evidence based mental health
- Social psychiatry
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Professor Daniel O’Connor |
- Depression
- Dementia
- Residential care
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Professor James Ogloff |
- Forensic psychology
- Mentally ill offenders
- Risk for violence and psychopathy
- Jury behaviour
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A/Professor Saji Damodaran |
- Psychopharmacology
- Mental health service research
- Leadership and management
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A/Professor Ken Jones |
- Stress - psychophysiology and management
- Professional development, and professional behaviour
- Health professional education
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A/Professor Krishna Vaddadi |
- Movement disorders
- Huntington’s Disease
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Stress of care giving
- Rehabilitation psychiatry
- Novel antipsychotics and method of switching
- Essential fatty acids in psychiatric therapeutics
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Dr Cate Bearsley-Smith |
- Rural child and adolescent mental health
- Adolescent depression
- Interpersonal therapy for adolescents
- Assessment of autism
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Dr Nadia Boscaglia |
- Affective disorder in the medically ill
- Psychotherapy in the elderly
- Psycho-oncology
- Stress physiology
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Dr. Avril Brereton |
- Autism: parent - based interventions: early childhood and adolescence: Genetic basis of autism: Parental mental health
- Intellectual disability and autism: Patterns and levels of Psychopathology
- Screening for autism: In young people 4-18 years
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Dr Andrew Carroll |
- Psychiatric aspects of criminal responsibility
- Interpersonal violence
- Risk assessment
- Road rage
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Dr Phyllis Chua |
- Neuropsychiatry
- Neuroimaging
- Huntington’s disease
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Dr Nick Cooper |
- Effects of TMS on the human electroencephalogram
- Brain Plasticity
- Functional connectivity
- Attention & consciousness
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Dr Grace Couchman |
- Family, systemic & group interventions
- Psychosis and depression intervention
- Separating couples/families
- The nature of clinical engagement
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Dr Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield |
- Philosophy of Mind, and the psychodynamics of mind
- French phenomenology, especially the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- The philosophy and writing of history
- Philosophy of science, including medicine and psychoanalysis
- Philosophy and religion
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Dr Amanda Favilla |
- Depression and primary care
- Mental health policy
- Women’s mental health
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Dr Teresa Flower |
- Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry including fitness to plead and mental impairment in adolescents
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder and the interface with forensic issues
- Stalking
- Assessment of risk in juvenile offenders
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Dr Kathryn Garland |
- Clinical psychology
- Health psychology
- Age mental health
- Chronic pain
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Dr Kylie Gray |
- Autism and pervasive developmental disorders
- Intellectual disability and mental health problems
- Child development
- Developmental psychopathology
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Dr Margaret Hay |
- Health education for pre-adolescents in multi-media
- Childhood obesity (aetiology and health outcomes)
- Evaluation of health / clinical education and training
- Medical education
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Dr Ester Klimkeit |
- Childhood psychopathology (depression, anxiety, ADHD)
- Developmental Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Experimental Neuropsychology
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Dr Glenn Melvin |
- Adolescent depression
- School refusal
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
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Dr Nicole Rinehart |
- Autism
- Asperger’s disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Neuropsychology and neuroimaging
- Neuromotor investigations, e.g. gait, EEG, TMS
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Dr Susannah Runci |
- Clinical Psychology
- Dementia
- Residential care
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| Dr Pamela Snow |
- oral language competence and high risk adolescents
- investigative interviewing of child witnesses
- alcohol and other drug education
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Dr John Taffe |
- Statistics in psychiatry, psychology and other health sciences
- Longitudinal studies
- Menstrual cycle length patterns during the menopausal transition
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Dr George Taleporos |
- Psychological impact of physical disability
- Benefits of counselling
- Sexuality and disability
- Masculinity and wellbeing
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Dr Jodi DeAraugo
(Honorary) |
- Anxiety disorders
- Mood disorders
- Rural mental health
- Eating disorders
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Dr Michael Gordon
(Honorary) |
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Dr Michelle Menzel
(Honorary) |
- Eating Disorders
- Treatment outcome studies
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Dr Caroline Mohr
(Honorary) |
- Mental health care for adults with intellectual disability
- Checklists and ratings scales assessing psychopathology
- Mental health care for older people
- Psychological treatment of depression and anxiety
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Dr Junichiro Kobayashi
(Visiting academic from Japan) |
- Developmental Paediatrics
- Learning difficulties in Autism
- Mental health service for children with autism and intellectual disability in mainstream and special school
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Mr Peter Enticott
PhD/RA candidate |
- Experimental neuropsychology
- Developmental psychology
- Offending behaviour
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Ms Georgina Hughes
PhD/RA candidate |
- Attachment
- Middle childhood development
- Learning and school functioning
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