Research in the School of Psychology
The School of Psychology has a history dating back to 1896. Today it is one of the six Schools of the Faculty of Health Sciences with its main location on the main North Terrace campus in the centre of Adelaide. The School also includes several teaching clinics and practices, including the Centre for the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression (CTAD) in partnership with Central Northern Adelaide Health Service and Ngartunna Wiltanendi, in collaboration with Families SA.
Research Areas:
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Brain and Cognition
The Brain and Cognition Research Centre consists of staff and students engaged in research in the fields of cognition, perception, neuropsychology, and individual differences in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. As well as conducting basic research into psychological processes, the unit also has a strong interest in applied research conducted in association with several industry partners including the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
Visit the Brain and Cognition website for more information
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Health, Disability and Lifespan Development
The Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Research (HDLD) Centre is designed to provide a focus for research in health psychology, disability, rehabilitation and health service delivery, and healthy development across the lifespan. These fields are linked by the assessment and theoretical explanation of the determinants of individual well-being, both physical and psychosocial, how these are affected by age, gender, socioeconomic status and psychological variables, the evaluation of interventions to promote health and wellbeing, and the health policy implications of all these matters.
Visit the Health, Disability and Lifespan Development website for more information
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Social and Organisational Research
Social and Organisational Research Centre consists of staff and students engaged in research and teaching in the areas of social psychology, critical social psychology, discursive psychology, and organisational psychology. There is also a strong emphasis on applied research engaging with social and organisational issues. A discussion group associated with this unit - the Discourse and Social Psychology Group (DASP) – attracts members from throughout the University of Adelaide. DASP functions to sustain a culture of critical inquiry into contemporary social ideas within the School of Psychology at The University of Adelaide.
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Staff Research Interests
Professor Martha Augoustinos
- Discourse and rhetoric
- Race and racism
- Social representations theory
Associate Professor Nick Burns
- Individual differences in personality
- Ageing (cognitive change)
- Cognitive change with ageing
- Cognitive development in children
- Information processing (changes associated with ageing & neurological disorders)
- Intelligence (theories of & its measurement)
- Psychological assessment (applied)
Ms Yvonne Clarke
Dr Matthew Davies
- Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
- Adult psychological disorders
- Subjective Well-Being
Associate Professor Paul Delfabbro
- Learning theory
- Adolescent psychology
- Behavioural addiction
- Gambling addiction
- Foster care and child protection
Dr Linley Denson
- Ageing (cognitive change)
- Ageing (success and wellbeing)
- Carers and work life balance
- Cognitive change with ageing
- Neuropsychological investigations of acquired brain damage & impairments associated with ageing
Professor John Dunn
- Applied cognition
- Decision making
- Cognitive psychology
- Memory
Dr Lisa Kettler
- Social and cognitive development in children
- Foster care and child protection
- Mental health in children and adolescents, including broader topics such as hope, resilience, children of parents with a mental illness and positive psychological frameworks
- Childhood obesity, especially parental feeding practices and social determinants of obesity
- Systemic family therapy
- Impacts of school aged child care on child outcomes and parental well being and participation in the workforce
- Health psychology
Dr Neil Kirby
- Ageing (cognitive change)
- Cognitive change with ageing
- Disability/rehabilitation: assessment & support needs
- Intellectual disability
- Organisational culture
- Psychological assessment (applied)
Associate Professor Amanda LeCouteur
- Communication in medical settings and conversation analysis
- Discourse and rhetoric
- Organisational behaviour interaction and work
- Sports psychology
Dr Anna Ma-Wyatt
- Visual processing, visual perception, visuomotor control
Professor Jane Mathias
- Clinical neuropsychology
- Acquired brain damage and neurological disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Dementia
- Cognitive functioning
- Meta-analysis
Dr Jane Mortimer
- Mind body healing
- Social genomic
- Hypnosis
Dr Daniel Navarro
- Computational cognitive science
- Bayesian models of cognition
- Concepts, categories and semantic cognition
- Human induction, reasoning and decision making
- Statistics, psychometrics and mathematical psychology
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Professor Ted Nettelbeck
- Ageing (cognitive change)
- Cognitive change with ageing
- Cognitive development in children
- Disability/rehabilitation: assessment & support needs
- Information processing (changes associated with ageing & neurological disorders)
- Intellectual disability
- Intelligence (theories of & its measurement)
- Psychological assessment (applied)
Dr Amy Perfors
- Computational cognitive science
- Cognitive psychology (categorisation, knowledge representation, and semantic cognition)
- Language acquisition, evolution and processing
- Bayesian and mathematical models of cognition
- Cognitive development
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Dr Rachel Roberts
- child health psychology (chronic illness, disability and stigma)
- child neuropsychology (acquired brain injury, craniofacial, neurological and metabolic conditions).
- psychological well-being of siblings of children with disabilities.
Dr Aspa Sarris
- Organisational culture, including methods for assessing organisational culture
- Psychological assessment (applied)
- Work-life balance
- Individual and Organisational values
- Group functioning
Dr Carolyn Semmler
- Applied cognition and metacognition
- Psychology and law
- Person identification and face recognition
- Juror decision making and jury instructions
Dr Peter Strelan
- Forgiveness and social justice
Professor Deborah Turnbull
- Health psychology (including patients' perceptions of health & illness experiences; role of companion animals on physical & psychological health)
- Health services evaluation, priority setting and research
- Mental health
- Primary mental health care
Dr Lynn Ward
- Ageing (cognitive change)
- Ageing (success and wellbeing)
- Carers and work life balance
- Cognitive change with ageing
- Neuropsychological investigations of acquired brain damage & impairments associated with ageing
Professor Helen Winefield
- Health psychology (including patients' perceptions of health & illness experiences; role of companion animals on physical & psychological health)
- Occupational stress
- Unemployment and health
- Work life balance
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Institutions with Affiliated Researchers
- Simpson Centre for Military & Veterans Health
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More Information
Further details are available, please contact the Faculty of Health Sciences office.
