Research Staff
The staff of the School of Psychology and their research
expertise:
Cathy Balfour
- Experimental cognitive psychology
- Developmental psychology (perceptual-motor skills)
- Research methods and statistics
Dr Janet Bryan
- Cognitive performance across the adult life-span
- Psychological change and desistance from crime
- Health habits
- Cognitive performance and psychological well-being
Stuart Byrne
- Clinical psychology
- Forensic psychology
- Psychological screening
- Traumatic stress disorders and other anxiety disorders
- Paranoia and persecution
Dr Sharon Casey
- Forensic psychology, in particular adolescent delinquency and substance abuse
- Social psychology within legal contexts
- Crime and the media
Dr Mark Cescato
- Cognitive-behavioural psychology
- Abnormal psychology
- Counselling and psychotherapy
- Eastern and transpersonal psychologies
- The social construction of reality
Dr John Court
- Raven's Progressive Matrices
- Altered states of consciousness
- Cybercounselling
- Integration of psychology and spirituality
- Spirituality and health
Assoc. Prof. Andy Day
- Forensic psychology
- Offender rehabilitation
- Juvenile justice
- Indigenous psychology
Assoc. Prof. Maureen Dollard
- Work stress, suicide at work, work stress and unionisation
- Women and work
- Rural and remote psychology
- Organisational psychology
- Environmental psychology
- Media representation of work stress
Dr Jill Dorrian
- Sleep and circadian rhythms
- Sleep deprivation and human performance
- Work hours, productivity and occupational safety
Professor Bernard Guerin (Head of School)
- Racial and religious discrimination
- Community psychology
- Indigenous and ethnic communities
Dr David Haynes
- Carl Jung and post-Jungian theories
- Analytical psychology
- Personality measurement
- Personality change
Professor Kevin Howells
- Criminal behaviour
- Anger and its management
- Violent and sexual offending
- Suicide and self-harm in prisons
- Cognitive therapy
Greg Ireland
- Criminal offending with an emphasis on offender subtypes
- Parent education, family support, child intervention
- Crisis and trauma management
- Chronic pain
Lyn Leaney
- Developmental psychology
- Social development
- Children's responses to violent media
- Psycholinguistics
Dr Carla Litchfield
- Non-human primate (especially Great Ape) behaviour
- Cognition and conservation
- Behavioural and cognitive enrichment for captive animals
- Human-animal interactions
- Responsible wildlife tourism
- Applications of ecological learning theory
- Applications of principles of exploratory behaviour to enhance survival of captive animals destined for reintroduction to the "wild"
Josie Luscri
- Social psychology
- Psychology of law
- Adult learning
- Scale development
- Sport psychology
Assoc. Prof. Kurt Lushington
- Adult sleep and behaviour disorders
- Paediatric sleep and behaviour disorders
- Organisational psychology - fatigue and shiftwork
- Application of computer technologies in teaching
- Application of computer technologies in healthcare
Assoc. Prof. Jacques Metzer
- Volunteer behaviour - satisfaction and stress measures, personality, quality of life and social capital
- Animal behaviour, including zoo studies
- Interaction of humans and animals
Dr Nadine Pelling
- Substance abuse and addiction
- Multiculturalism (including sexual minorities)
- Supervision and professional development of Psychologists/Counsellors
- Use of technology in psychology and counselling
- Quantitative and qualitative methodology
Dr Michael Proeve
- Sexual offending and sexual deviance
- Moral emotions: shame, guilt, remorse, regret
- Clinical psychology
- Psychological rehabilitation of offenders
Dr Rob Ranzijn
- Successful ageing, productive ageing, psychology of ageing, diversity in ageing
- Psychological well-being and quality of life
- Competencies of older adults
- Mature age employment
- Psychology and Indigenous Australians
- Positive psychology
Ilona Reid
- Transpersonal psychology
- Psychosynthesis
- Jungian psychology
- Psychodrama
- TA / Gestalt therapy
- Transcendental meditation
Denise Skinner
- Paediatric sleep disorders
- Health psychology and lifestyles issues
Dr Michelle Tuckey
- Organisational psychology, especially job engagement and positive aspects of wellbeing at work
- Wellbeing and motivation of volunteers
- Work stress and burnout
- Psychology and the law, especially eyewitness memory (testimony) and psychology and policing
Dr Paul Whetham
- Experiential learning and video feedback in the classroom and the community
- Ministers of religion, their roles and relationships
- Disadvantaged groups, service access and peer education
- Stress and coping
Professor Tony Winefield
- Psychological effects of unemployment
- Psychological stress and coping in the workplace
- Learned helplessness in humans
- Animal learning