Psychology

Postgraduate supervision

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Professor Robert Cummins

Quality of life; subjective well-being; happiness and satisfaction

Professor Joseph Graffam

Disability services: policy development and program delivery; organisational behaviour; psychiatric disabilities and community integration

Alfred Deakin Professor Marita McCabe

Human sexuality; relationships; adolescent body image; clinical psychology

Professor David Mellor

Clinical child psychology; racism; mediation and conflict resolution

 

Professor Martine Powell

Children's eye-witness memory; forensic psychology

Professor Jane Speight

The psychological and behavioural aspects of diabetes; assessment of quality of life and other patient-reported outcomes in diabetes; social stigma in diabetes; preventing severe hypoglycaemia; determinants of behavioural changes needed for successful outcomes

Professor Greg Tooley

Personality and behaviour; psychology of stress; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Professor John Toumbourou

Substance abuse; family and community influences in adolescent health promotion; positive social behaviour as a moderating influence on social development

Associate Professor Ron Gold

Social cognition; decision making; cognitive development; AIDS education

Associate Professor Jane McGillivray

Sexuality and disability; Autism spectrum disorders; intellectual disability

Associate Professor Alex Mussap

Health psychology; body image;
exercise and diet attitudes and behaviours; culture and religion; gender; visual perception; self perception

Associate Professor Lina Ricciardelli

Addictive behaviours; gender roles in health; health and adolescence

Associate Professor Petra Staiger

Clinical, child, adolescent psychology; eating disorders; addictive behaviour

Associate Professor Keith McVilly

Interests and support needs of adults with developmental disabilities

Associate Professor Mark Stokes

Circadian rhythms; antecedents to injury

Dr Linda Byrne

Cognitive development; neuropsychology; models of working memory

Dr Tanya Davison

Late-life depression and anxiety; psychological intervention for aged care; development perspectives on body image; dementia

Dr Nick Kambouropoulos

Addictive behaviours; eating and drinking behaviours; drug and alcohol use

Dr Gery Karantzas

Interpersonal relationships; psychosocial development across the lifespan

Dr Bianca Klettke

Child sexual abuse, expert testimony, legal and jury decision-making, forensic psychology

Dr Tess Knight

Developmental psychology; ageing/gerontology

Dr Eric Koukounas

Psychophysiology; violence; human sexuality

Dr Ciaran Pier

Obesity and eating behaviours; anxiety disorders; Internet therapy; depression and cardiovascular health

Dr Stefanie Sharman

Autobioghraphical memory, memory errors and false memories

Dr Helen Skouteris

Mental health; obesity in children

Dr Susannah Tye

Deep brain stimulation. Neurobiology of treatment resistant depression. Systems neurobiology of mood regulation

Dr Kathryn Von Treuer

Organisational climate and culture; organisational intervention; leadership and innovation within organisations; co-worker cohesion/teams

Dr Janine Webb

Social psychology; social dilemmas; distributive justice, power and social structure

 

Geelong Waterfront Campus

Professor Andrew Day

Offender rehabilitation; violet offenders, juvenile justice

Associate Professor Evie Leslie

Physical activity; Behavioural epidemiology, Social and environmental influences

Assoc. Prof. Andrew Lewis

Developmental psychopathology with an emphasis on the development of severe pathology; integration of psychoanalytic and biological theories of mental disorder; models of psychotherapy training

Assoc. Prof. Ross King

Clinical psychology; health psychology; eating disorders/body image; burnout in organisational settings; professional supervision

Dr Lata Aiman

Attention; memory; migration; employee well-being

Dr Marina Haywood

Cognitive neuropsychology; perceptual and memory deficits; cognitive rehabilitation

Dr Jarrad Lum

Neurological and cognitive correlates of specific language impairment; developmental language disorders; developmental neuropsychology.

Dr Josephine Palermo

Culture, gender and social identity; marginality; values; organisational change and leadership; occupational stress and wellbeing; ageing and work; health and planning

Dr Jim Vess

Risk assessment with violent and sexual offenders; personality factors

Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz

Group processes and intergroup relations in organisations and other contexts; attitude-behaviour relations; driver behaviour; social psychology; alcohol and other drug use

 

 

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16th March 2012