Postgraduate Studies - Student Profiles

Joanne Collins

Program: PhD
Research Topic: "Access and Utilisation of mental health services in rural areas"
Scholarship sponsor: The Faculty of Health Sciences, The University Adelaide

Nadia Corsini

Program: PhD
Research Topic:"Distinguishing between problematic, beneficial and beingn aspects of parental control over feeding"
Scholarship sponsor: APA and CSIRO top-up scholarships

Edwina Farrall

Program: PhD
Research Topic:"Child and Youth Optimism: Theories, Methods, and issues of Resilience and Health through Development"
Scholarship sponsor: APA Scholarship, Benjamin Poulton Prize

Kathy Fogarty

Program: PhD/Master of Clinical Psychology
Research Topic: "A study into police forensic interviewing of children about alleged sexual abuse"
Scholarship sponsor: APA Scholarship

Caroline Litster

Program: PhD
Research Topic: "Assessment of the driving-related skills of older adults"
Scholarship sponsor: ARC Linkage Grant

Antonina Mikocka-Walus

Program: PhD in Medicine (Psychology, General Practice, Medicine)
Research Topic: "Psychological factors and response to medical treatment: Do psychological factors determine the outcome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and other common gastrointestinal and hepatologic disorders?"
Scholarship sponsor: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and University of Adelaide Scholarship for Postgraduate Research (2005)

Sandra Pisaniello

Program: PhD
Research Topic: "Occupational health in health care workers - focus on nurses"
Scholarship sponsor: Faculty of Health Sciences

Fiona Rillotta

Program: PhD
Research Topic: "Family Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability"
Scholarship sponsor: Faculty of Health Sciences Divisional Scholarship

Stacey Thomson

Program: Combined PhD/Masters (Clinical)
Research Topic: "Predicting support needs for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities"
Scholarship sponsor: The Department of Families and Communities