The Graduate Diploma of Business Psychology provides students, graduates, and practising professionals with advanced knowledge in organisational psychology. Students completing this course will be able to work in a wide range of organisations, in both the public and private sector, applying their knowledge to areas such as employee or organisational development, evaluation of programs or human factors, strategic human resources management, and even executive/managerial roles.  The course includes a set of core units of study, together with 91 hours of placement experience organised by the University and available in a variety of workplace settings. This course is ideal for those who want to work in the area of organisational psychology, but do not require psychology registration. Students with a Bachelor's qualification or recognised equivalent and two years full-time equivalent work experience at a managerial or professional level are eligible to complete this Diploma. Key features include:

• An undergraduate psychology degree is not required to enter this course.
• Puts theory into practice through supervised placements with one of our many partner organisations.
• There are strong career prospects, as there is growing demand for students with knowledge of business psychology.
• Gives students key skills that are immediately applicable in the workplace.
• Leading academic and practitioner organisational psychologists.
• Gives students access to research and training facilities, including the simulation laboratory.
• Evening classes for students working full time.

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Australia

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Duration
1 Year Full Time

Type of Program
Graduate Diploma

Entry Requirements
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/graduate-diploma-of-business-psychology/entry-requirements#content

Application
https://www2.uac.edu.au/uacpg/

Course Structure Subjects
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/graduate-diploma-of-business-psychology

Clinical neuropsychologists are specialists who understand the cognitive, emotional and behavioural effects of brain-based conditions such as dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, autism-spectrum conditions, multiple sclerosis and psychiatric disorders. They provide assessments and treatment recommendations that may employ cognitive, educational, behavioural or psychosocial methods. Grounded in theory and practice, this course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and qualifications you need to work within a range of clinically oriented areas. Upon graduation, you'll be eligible for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Key features include

• The course consists of three main components: a series of coursework units in areas fundamental to practice and research in clinical neuropsychology, 1000 hours of supervised placement experiences in neuropsychological settings, and a research dissertation.
• You'll learn from expert academic staff as well as visiting clinicians teaching on specialised topics, and you'll participate in presentations discussing cases encountered on placement.
• You'll have the opportunity to undertake placements conducted at the state-of-the-art Macquarie University Psychology Clinic and at Australia's only on-campus teaching hospital; and in clinical collaborations with renowned clinicians in Sydney, regional New South Wales and interstate.

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Australia

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Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

Entry Requirements
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-clinical-neuropsychology/entry-requirements#content

Application
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-clinical-neuropsychology/how-to-apply#content

Course Structure Subjects
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-clinical-neuropsychology/course-structure#content

Clinical psychologists are experts in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of psychological and mental health issues across the lifespan. They are most often involved in the design and implementation of treatment strategies in settings such as primary care, psychiatric hospitals, community based mental health services and private practice, but also may be involved in research and teaching. This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge and training you'll need to practice as a qualified clinical psychologist. As a graduate, you'll be an expert in the delivery of a range of psychological therapies, and have additional skills to also engage in pursuits such as consultation, public policy, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. Key features include:

• This course will provide you with the qualifications you need to work within a range of clinically oriented areas.
• You'll undertake a wide range of units in psychopathology, cognitive behaviour therapy and psychological assessment.
• Supervised practical placements are embedded in this course so you're able to build connections between theoretical knowledge and practical application.
• You'll have the opportunity to train alongside renowned clinicians and researchers within the state-of-the-art Macquarie University Psychology Clinic and other research and training facilities, including the Centre for Emotional Health Clinic, as well as in other organisations in Sydney, regional New South Wales and interstate.

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Australia

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Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

Entry Requirements
Recent APAC accredited Australian level 8 qualification in psychology (with first class or second class honours division one) or recognised equivalent Eligibility for provisional or full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia

Application
https://www2.uac.edu.au/uacpg/

This Master of Organisational Psychology course will provide you with the skills, knowledge and qualifications to work in a wide range of organisations such as consultancies, large companies and government departments. Upon graduation, you'll be eligible for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Key features include

• Supervised practical placements are embedded in this course to enable you to build connections between theoretical knowledge and practical application.
• Your teachers are leading academics and practitioner organisational psychologists.
• You'll have the opportunity to be involved with the state-of-the-art Macquarie University Psychology Clinic alongside renowned practitioners and researchers, as well as other research and training facilities including the simulation laboratory.
• A combination of on-campus evening classes and occasional full-day workshops means you can combine work and study.

Campus
North Ryde

Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

Annual Fee
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-organisational-psychology/fees-and-scholarships#content

Application
https://www2.uac.edu.au/uacpg/

Course Structure Subjects
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-organisational-psychology/course-structure#content

Generalist psychologists are equipped to practice in a broad range of employment settings, including allied health, aged care and disability services, education and private practice. They treat people with mental health problems but also seek to understand how factors such as personality, society and culture affect behaviour and provide counselling that can help people from all walks of like lead happier, healthier and more productive lives.

In a single year of study, this course provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills you need to complete a final, sixth year of supervised placement and gain registration as a generalist psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia. Through undertaking a blend of coursework and supervised placements, you'll be prepared for effective, ethical psychology practice in a broad range of contexts and settings.

KEY FEATURES

• You'll receive experiential-skills training in a range of assessment methods and modes of treatments.
• You'll receive training consistent with international standards (e.g. EuroPsy).
• You'll receive training provided by experienced staff who are registered and/or 'endorsed' psychologists working in diverse fields of applied psychology.
• You’ll be provided with individual career coaching and guidance to position yourself for the sixth-year internship.
• You’ll build networks and stay connected with your classmates via our alumni network.
• You'll receive training in practical aspects of the design, conduct and reporting of psychology research.

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Australia

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Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

Entry Requirements
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-professional-psychology/entry-requirements#content

Application
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-professional-psychology/fees-and-scholarships#content

Course Structure Subjects
https://courses.mq.edu.au/2020/domestic/postgraduate/master-of-professional-psychology/course-structure#content

The Body Image and Ingestive Behaviour Research Group is a multidisciplinary research group will address these related issues through collaboration between experts in psychophysics, social psychology, person perception, ingestive behaviour, clinical practice, psychiatry, epidemiology, health psychology, and virtual reality.

Contact Person / Email
Dr. Ian Stephen

Health and Behaviour Intervention Technologies (HABITS) Research Group has a number of research interests that encompass a breadth and depth across diverse areas with behavioural medicine including:

• Coping and adjustment in illness
• Cognitive and affective responses to physical illness
• Stress, resiliency and growth
• Positive psychology and physical illness
• Chronic disease management
• Managing comorbid mental health conditions in individuals with acute and chronic medical conditions
• Physical activity/exercise

Contact Person / Email
Professor Kerry Sherman

The Music, Sound, and Performance Research Group  examines the implications of musical behaviour and skill across a wide range of issues including:

• Expertise
• Creativity
• Ageing and memory
• Health and rehabilitation
• Media violence
• Musical disorders and
• Neural markers of human imagination.  

Contact Person / Email
Dr. Kirk Olsen

The Ageing Research Group is a collaborative group of multidisciplinary researchers with interest in the normal and abnormal aspects of ageing. This includes research related to understanding and improving wellbeing related to neurodegenerative diseases, mental disorders, and health-related conditions in the community and residential aged care. In addition, thy are interested in understanding the normal impacts of ageing on cognition, reading, emotion regulation, social connections and workforce participation (retirement). They have close connections with researchers across Macquarie University and collaborate broadly with cognitive science, medicine, audiology, physiotherapy and business, to name a few.

The PsychNeuro Research Group is a collection of academics in the Department of Psychology who share an interest in brain function and how this, and brain dysfunction, impact on perception, cognition and/or behaviour. The aims of this group are to enhance the presence of neuro research in our department, increase collaboration between members for innovative research ideas and to seek external engagement with funding bodies and partners.

Contact Person / Email
Jen Cornish

The Centre for Emotional Health conducts specialist clinical research to deepen current knowledge of child and adult emotional disorders, as well as improving methods of treatment. Centre for Emotional Health researchers concentrate on the understanding, treatment and prevention of anxiety, depression and related mental health problems. Internationally renowned for our research into anxiety, including several ‘world-first’ findings, we have a special focus on children and families but also conduct research that focuses on emotional disorders and wellbeing across the lifespan.

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Australia

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The Psychology Department test library is a vital resource for Psychology Department staff and students, and a significant amount of funding is set aside by the Department on an annual basis to ensure that the holdings are up-to-date and extensive. Library resources are used to teach psychological assessment to all levels of students. Library resources are also used by professional Masters students on placement, and for research purposes by Masters and research students and staff. 

Address
4 First Walk, Macquarie University

Country
Australia

Contact Person / Email
Dr Gina Hammond, Sabrina Iglesias and Jo Simpson

Call 02 850 1802

The Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise & Training conducts multidisciplinary research designed to address three core problems in the study of elite performance and expertise: understanding its acquisition, its maintenance, and its loss. As well as advancing scholarly knowledge of these three areas, CEPET is equipped to translate experimental findings into real-world applications and tools for training and maintaining expertise, selecting individuals with a propensity for expertise, and providing psychological and social support for individuals who experience a loss of expertise, whether through retirement, injury, or for other reasons.

Address
Macquarie University NSW 210

Country
Australia

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Furthering our understanding of emotional disorders and improving methods of treatment, their highly trained and qualified professionals provide children, adolescents and adults, world-leading, evidence-based, assessment services and treatment for emotional disorders in a welcoming and relaxed environment. Services include assistance with:

• Anxiety (including children with ASD)

• Depression

• Behavioural problems

• Parenting

• PTSD

• Trauma

• Somatic complaints

• Social skills

• School refusal

• Self-esteem

• OCD,

• Loss and grief, tics and trichotillomania, and

• Selective mutism

Treatment may involve individual sessions with a client and psychologist or group sessions led by a psychologist and attended by clients who are facing similar difficulties. For young people most sessions will also involve a parent as well. Sessions take place at the Clinic and typically start out on a weekly basis. Less frequent visits (e.g. fortnightly or monthly) may be scheduled as treatment nears completion. The focus and duration of treatment will vary according to a client’s unique needs, the issues they are wishing to address as well as goals for treatment. They offer specific, structured programs such as:

• Cool Kids Program for anxious children and adolescents and
• The Happy Health Aging Program for older adults 

Address
he Australian Hearing Hub Level 1, 16 University Ave Macquarie University NSW 2109

Country
Australia

Call 02 9850 8711

The Macquarie University Psychology Clinic offers a range of specialised psychological services to the general community. The clinic is staffed by interns who have completed their training in psychology and are undertaking post-graduate training in specialised areas to become Clinical Psychologists and Clinical Neuropsychologists.

Address
Psychology Clinic at MQ Health Australian Hearing Hub Level 1, 16 University Avenue Macquarie University NSW 2109

Country
Australia

Call (02) 9850 8000

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The eCentreClinic is specialist research clinic and a not-for-profit initiative of Macquarie University that develops and evaluates state-of-the-art free online treatment courses for people with symptoms of:

• Worry (GAD)

• Panic

• Social anxiety (social phobia)

• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

• Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Stress

• Depression

• Low mood and 

• Other health conditions, including chronic pain.

The clinic offers free access to these treatment courses via participation in clinical trials, which we run throughout the year.

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The Brain and Mind Centre is a global leader in research and treatment. In particular, we focus on conditions that affect child development, youth mental health and brain ageing. We aim to understand individual circumstances and to develop solutions that improve the quality of life for both patients and their loved ones. Work at the Centre extends beyond laboratories and clinics to our strong partnerships with industry, government, the community, and other healthcare providers and researchers.

• Research: the Brain and Mind Centre pools together a vast collective of expertise to create large-scale research teams addressing child development, youth mental health, and ageing and neurodegeneration.
• Clinics: The Brain and Mind Centre's clinics allow us to translate research into real-world practice. Their many services for patients help us achieve our vision of a better quality of life for those affected by conditions of the brain and mind.

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Australia

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The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) exists to enrich the health and wellbeing of people globally by liberating them from the major disease challenges of our time. WIMR is making breakthroughs in medical research and applying these discoveries to some of the world’s most serious diseases. These include illnesses like HIV; diabetes; cancers; heart, kidney and liver issues and deadly viruses.

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Australia

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The CADE Clinic provides advice regarding the diagnoses and management of mood disorders solely for clinical and research purposes. It does not provide assessments for legal purposes, insurance determinations, Centrelink claims or academic exemptions.  The CADE Clinic provides one-off clinical assessments and opinions for adults (aged 18 - 64) with Depression and Bipolar Disorder (mood disorders). The clinic aims to clarify your mood disorder diagnosis and provide advice in the form of a second opinion to your referring doctor to better manage your medication and treatment.

Consultations are bulk-billed by Medicare. You must have a valid Medicare card and bring this along to your appointment. Failure to do so will result in your appointment being cancelled.

Your assessment will usually take approximately 4 hours that includes a comprehensive clinical assessment by a consultant psychiatrist covering relevant medical history, family medical history, past mood episodes, current and past treatments, social factors, any other information that may be relevant and may include a blood test and psychological questionnaires that will assist with confirming your diagnosis. Your appointment at the CADE Clinic will give you a refined diagnosis, management suggestions (concerning medications and psychological treatment) and advice. The Psychiatrist will write to your referring doctor following the consultation, outlining suggested management and treatment options.

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Australia

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The Autism Clinic for Translational Research allows us to use research in real-world practice. The Clinic has been involved in breakthrough clinical trials that have shown that early intervention and therapies can dramatically improve outcomes for children with Autism. The Autism Clinic for Translational Research is committed to developing world-first treatments to improve the lives of young people with autism spectrum disorder and their loved ones. Our clinic concentrates on children and young adults up to age 30 with a diagnosis of autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) or Asperger’s syndrome.

The clinical psychologists, behavioural, cognitive and neuropsychology experts research how biology, genetics and brain functioning contribute to autism. Together, we are striving to develop the first ever medication to reduce social difficulties experienced by children and young adults with autism. To find solutions and develop better treatments, we need individuals from the community who have been diagnosed with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and PDD-NOS to take part in our studies. We know that autism not only affects the person diagnosed, but their entire family. So we also encourage parents of autistic children to take part in our clinical research programs. This will help us uncover biological and behavioural markers that might play a role in the onset of autism spectrum disorder.

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Australia

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The Child Behaviour Research Clinic works with children who present a range of emotional and social development concerns. Based on research and new treatments, the Clinic works alongside parents to deliver the most effective outcomes for families. They offer assessments and treatments free of charge as part of innovative research into child and family mental health.

As we are a research-based clinic, all of our treatments are advanced, evidence-based programs that offer families the latest strategies in child behaviour management. Families are considered research partners, such that we form a team to maximise learning about what works best for children with behaviour problems. They also offer training internships for clinical psychologists wishing to learn the latest state-of-the-art assessments and treatment as part of their masters or doctoral training.

Address
Address Level 1, 97 Church Street Camperdown NSW 2050

Country
Australia

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Central Neurosurgery offers expertise in cranial neurosurgery with a special interest in brain tumours, trigeminal neuralgia and functional neurosurgery, including Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease and essential tremor. Areas of expertise include:

• Surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery for brain tumours and trigeminal neuralgia
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
• General neurosurgical conditions
• Spine surgery.

Address
Suite 1404, Level 14 St Vincent's Private Hospital 406 Victoria St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Country
Australia

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The Woolcock clinics specialise in helping people with sleep and breathing problems. We offer the very latest approaches in care in an internationally recognised medical institute at the forefront of health research. Researchers at NeuroSleep focus on understanding the biology of sleep, maintaining sleep health and examining the relationship between sleep and a healthy brain. Sleeping problems often occur in neurological and mental health disorders. They can also be an early indicator of disease, assisting in their diagnosis. As such, we collaborate with research clinics across the Brain and Mind Centre and University of Sydney.

Located at the Brain and Mind Centre, the Woolcock Neurosleep Clinic focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and mental health problems. We have a dedicated team of neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, and rehabilitation and sleep specialists providing comprehensive care for patients.

Address
431 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW 2037, Sydney

Country
Australia

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The Psychology clinic provides psychological assessment, therapy and psychometric assessments at low cost. Our services are for adults, children, adolescents and their families, the general community as well as University staff and students. As a teaching, training and research clinic at the University of Sydney, our clinic is staffed by postgraduate trainees who work under the supervision of highly experienced clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. Our treatments and psychometric assessments reflect the latest developments in clinical practice and the highest standards of care. We can assist with mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, life events, grief and loss, health and illness, relationships, parenting and family, behavior, study and work, resilience, and learning difficulties for adults and children.

When attending our clinic, you may be invited to participate in research studies to help us contribute new and improved developments to the latest research in psychological assessment and treatment. Participating in these programs is voluntary and will not affect access to our services.

• Therapy: our trainee clinical psychologists, under the close guidance of their clinical psychology supervisors, aim to provide individually tailored, evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment for mental health difficulties in a safe and supportive atmosphere. 
• Psychometric assessments: the clinic offers psychometric assessments for adults experiencing cognitive difficulty stemming from learning disorders (reading, writing, maths) and ADHD. Such assessments can determine the nature of the cognitive issue, and lead to recommendations that may assist with academic, occupational and/or general functioning. Our Clinic does not perform assessments for medicolegal purposes, worker’s compensations, employee assistance or for the NDIS.
• Therapy for children, adolescents and families: ,eany parents have concerns about their child’s emotional development or behaviour. Clinical Psychologists can play a useful role in providing treatment in various forms, including parenting strategies, family therapy, skills-building programs for children, or simply reliable information, for a range of behavioural and emotional problems such as aggression, anxiety, mood problems, social difficulties, bullying and family problems.
• Psychometric assessments: the clinic offers comprehensive psychometric asessments for diagnosing issues related to learning problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and developmental difficulties. In additional to identifying issues that may warrant professional attention, these assessments can also provide recommendations that may assist with children’s school readiness, performance and general behavior. Additionally, where children are intellectually gifted, it can be helpful to identify their areas of strength to enable educational programming to cater to their needs for stimulation and advanced learning opportunities. The clinic does not diagnose autism or provide cognitive evaluations of this condition. Families and individuals seeking assessments of people on the autism spectrum can contact ASPECT, Australia’s leading service provider for people on the Autism spectrum.

Address
Level 2, Building F (M02F), 94 Mallett St Camperdown

Country
Australia

Call +61 2 9114 4343

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The Computational Cognitive Science (CCS) LabOur lab is part of the Complex Human Data Hub at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. Their research focuses on quantitative approaches to higher-order cognition:

• Categorisation

• Concepts

• Language acquisition and evolution,

• Decision-making, and

• Social learning and transmission.

Thy use mathematical and computational models to understand the why and the what within these topics: 

• What goals are human learners and reasoners trying to achieve in particular situations?

• What constraints (cognitive, informational, environmental) do they operate under?

• How do these factors shape their behaviour? 

Content is still being added here so this is mostly just a stub, but here are some good resources for learning R at least.

• Learning Statistics with R is a great (free) online textbook that was designed to introduce beginning psychology students to statistics using R. As such it is an excellent resource for both statistics (seriously it is one of the clearest intro stats books I know of) and R. Since it was written a while ago it doesn't have much on ggplot or tidyverse, although the author, Danielle Navarro, is creating newer materials more focused on using R, which do incorporate ggplot and tidyverse, here in R for Psychological Science.

• Interactive tutorials in R offer introductions to both statistics and R, and are meant to work alongside Andy Field's statistics textbook called An adventure in statistics: The reality enigma. The book is not free but I believe the tutorials are.

• R for Data Science is a great (free) online textbook that walks you through using R for data science. The focus isn't on psychological tests but on data wrangling, visualisation, and so forth, with chapters on tidyverse and ggplot2.

• RYouWithMe is a collection of introductory learning resources designed specifically for newbies from the fabulous folks at RLadiesSydney, which include ggplot2 and tidyverse. Not finished yet.

• Data Skills for Reproducible Science contains the materials from a course which aims to teach students the basic principles of reproducible research and to provide practical training in data processing and analysis in the statistical programming language R. With weekly assignments if that kind of thing helps!

• RStudioPrimers looks like a great set of primers on all sorts of important topics, including ggplot2 and tidyverse amongst other things.

• Data Visualisation: A practical introduction walks you through how to make nice graphs with R, but also talks about general principles of good visualisation more theoretically.

• Data Analysis and Visualisation in R for ecologists says it's for ecologists but most of it is relevant to anybody.

• The R cheat sheets are exactly what it sounds like -- great cheat sheets for a lot of useful packages. Not great for teaching yourself but great for reminding yourself. I use them a lot.

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Australia

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The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying perceptual, reward-based, voluntary and change-of-mind decisions, as well as preference formation, decision confidence, health decisions, decision errors, and related cognitive processes. The Decision Neuroscience Lab is aimed at investigating the cognitive and neural basis of decision-making from psychological, neuroscientific, economic, and population health perspectives. They investigate the neural and cognitive basis of decision making in an interdisciplinary fashion. To this end, we integrate a variety of methods from:

• Experimental Psychology, including cognitive modelling, laboratory reaction time experiments, measuring response force and other decision behaviour

• Cognitive Neuroscience, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electrocardiography (ECG), and galvanic skin response (GSR) assessments

• Public Health, including online surveys, and assessment of behavioural change

Given the wide spectrum of methods we use, our analysis approaches are diverse. One key approach, is the combination of cognitive modelling with multivariate pattern classification analysis (MVPA) for neural data. The goal of these approaches is to predict the outcome of decision-making processes (and other decision-related features and processes) directly from patterns of brain activity, as measured by fMRI or EEG. For this, we developed a novel multivariate toolbox for MATLAB, the Decision Decoding Toolbox (DDTBOX). They further maintain a variety of collaborations within the school, the university, and other national and international partners:

• Decision errors and confidence: Projects involve Prof Jutta Stahl (University of Cologne), Prof Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn, Dr Eva Niessen (Julich Neuroscience Centre) as part of the JUMPA program

• Information Seeking: Projects involve Dr Trevor Chong (Monash University), Dr Daniel Bennett (Princeton University), Dr Nicholas Van Dam, A/Prof Luke Smillie (UoM)

• Voluntary decision-making: Recent projects involved Prof Patrick Haggard (UCL), Dr Chun Siong Soon (DUKE-NUS), and Prof Ross Cunnington (University of Queensland)

• Perceptual decision-making: Projects involve Prof Philip Smith, Dr Simon Lilburn, A/Prof Daniel Little (UoM), Dr David Sewell (University of Queensland)

• Perception & Ageing: Projects involve Prof Allison McKendrick, Dr Janet Chan, Dr Bao Nguyen (UoM), Dr Hinze Hoogendorn (UoM)

• Health decisions / Obesity: Projects involve Prof Melanie Wakefield, Dr Helen Dixon (Cancer Council Victoria), and Prof Annette Horstmann (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig)

• Moral & value-guided decision-making: Projects involve Dr Simon Laham (UoM)

• Emotion regulation and decision-making: Projects involve Dr Carmen Morawetz (Technical University Vienna) and Prof Hauke Heekeren (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr Peter Koval (UoM)

• Multivariate pattern classification analyses (MVPA): Recent projects involved Dr Alexandra Woolgar (Camebridge University) and Dr Phillip Alday (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

• Neurocognitive Development: Projects involve A/Prof Katherine Johnson (UoM), Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Dr Leila Larson (WEHI)

Research in the Decision Neuroscience Lab investigates decision situations in which people do not have clear preferences: How are decisions encoded in the brain? How do we make decisions when the choice options are equally likely or valuable? How do we change our mind? How does context bias preferences or judgements outside of the decision-makers' awareness? When do people prefer to sample information? We also investigate the cognitive and neural basis of health decisions and how we can encourage people to make better dietary decisions.These are the main projects currently being undertaken in the lab:

• Change-of-Mind decisions, decision errors and decision confidence: this ARC funded research program investigates the cognitive and neural basis of decisions that do not lead to the desired outcome. Often, we have to change our mind, even after committing to an initial decision. This can happen because new information becomes available, sometimes during later stages of the decision-making process. In case we don't change our mind, such decisions might result in either decision errors, or we might have low confidence in our decision outcomes. This project investigates the interplay of these factors across a variety of different decision problems, such as perceptual decisions, conflict decisions and moral decisions.
• Neural markers of the effectiveness of health warning messages: this research project is embedded in a recent collaboration with the Cancer Council Victoria and aimed at identifying successful characteristics of health warning messages that could be used for obesity prevention. Besides this goal, the project aims at identifying the neural signatures that predict the success of health warning messages and the message features that lead to a message being passed on or being able to trigger behaviour change. We also investigate how successful messages might change the way the brain encodes relevant stimuli, such as unhealthy food or drinks.
• Neural correlates of information sampling in uncertain environments: this ARC funded research program investigates whether in any situation it is better for an individual to act on the basis of present beliefs, or to acquire additional information which may aid their decision, possibly at some cost. By using mathematical modeling of people's choices in uncertain environments, and linking these models with neuroimaging data, we aim to identify neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying information and reward processing. This project is particularly focused at understanding why people seem to value information even in cases when this information does not help them with obtaining better outcomes.
• Development of predictive multivariate methods for neuroimaging data: an ongoing methodological program of the lab is to contribute to the development of multivariate methods that allow for the prediction of decision outcomes (and other decision-relevant processes) from brain signals. We have designed the DDTBOX - a freely available multivariate pattern classification analysis toolbox - which can be applied to spatially distributed patterns of event-related potential data. Our toolbox has been successfully applied to investigate e.g., decision biases in perceptual decision-making (Bode et al., 2012, J Neurosci), the evolution of error processing (Bode & Stahl, 2014), processing of abstract decision-relevant stimulus dimensions (Bode et al., 2014, PLoS ONE; Turner et al., 2017, Consciousn Cogn), and multisensory integration (Chan et al., 2017, Neurobiol Aeg). This toolbox compliments the variety of other neuroscience methods used in the lab.
• The impact of emotion regulation on decision-making (with Dr Carmen Morawetz, Prof Hauke Heekeren)
• Prediction of performance monitoring during force production (with Prof Jutta Stahl)
• Tracking the neuro-cognitive development in iron-deficient children in developing countries (with A/Prof Katherine Johnson, Dr Sant-Ryan Pasricha, Dr Leila Larson)
• Mapping the representational structure of moral norms and core values guiding decisions (with Dr Simon Laham)
• Neural prediction of the future in the brain (with Dr Hinze Hoogendorn)

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Australia

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The FEEL Lab aims to discover how emotions function in the rich and complex environments we encounter in our daily lives. Current Projects include:

• Managing Emotions in Everyday Life aims to investigate your emotional experiences across the course of a week, and how you manage those everyday emotional experiences.
• Mobile Momentary Mindfulness (MMM) and Emotions in Everyday Life aims to advance emotion science by systematically investigating the role of brief momentary mindfulness practice on people’s emotional experiences in daily life. The aim is to identify healthy patterns of emotions together with beneficial context(s) which enhance psychological well-being.
• Secrets in Everyday Life: uses experience sampling methodology to study the emotional consequences of keeping secrets on an hour-by-hour and day-by-day basis.
• The FEEL Research Project

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Australia

The PhD (Clinical Psychology) program aims to develop effective clinical competencies and to encourage a critical approach to the application of these competencies to practice. The emphasis is on a science-based approach to clinical psychology and the development of clinical problem solving skills, with a focus on scientific evidence combined with practical experience based on the theory of clinical psychology.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology) is a four year (full-time) program of coursework, clinical placements (1,000 hours) and a research thesis equivalent to a PhD by research thesis in size and scope. This program is designed for those who have a particular interest in the academic and research aspects of clinical psychology. Graduates of this program have the benefit of the training provided to Master of Clinical Psychology students with the intensive research training provided by completing a research PhD in the field of clinical psychology. Further academic teaching and research opportunities are open to graduates of the clinical PhD.

The PhD (Clinical Psychology) program aims to develop effective clinical competencies and to encourage a critical approach to the application of these competencies to practice. The emphasis is on a science-based approach to clinical psychology and the development of clinical problem solving skills, with a focus on scientific evidence combined with practical experience based on the theory of clinical psychology.

The programs include the three components of formal coursework, supervised clinical practice (internships) and original clinical research. Students complete the coursework component in first and second year. Beginning in January / February of their second year, students undertake supervised clinical practice in the ANU Psychology Clinic. Subsequently they undertake two or more supervised clinical placements external to ANU. Internships are undertaken, in addition to the ANU Psychology Clinic, in a variety of community and hospital based settings within Canberra or nearby country areas, and include community health centres, general hospital, psychiatric and medical units, neurology and neuropsychology services, veterans' counselling services, alcohol and drug services and school counselling units.

Immediately following their acceptance into the program, PhD students also commence a program of extensive clinical research. At the end of the fourth year of study, PhD candidates are required to present a major thesis (equivalent in size and scope to a research-only PhD thesis) for external examination.

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Australia

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Duration
4 Years

Type of Program
PHD Course

A degree in psychology gives you the knowledge and skills to find answer to some fundamental questions about the human brain, mind and behaviour. Psychology at ANU can be studied as an individual unit, as a minor or through double degree pathways. Psychology can also be studied as part of a Bachelor of Science (BSc) or Bachelor of Arts (BA)program, the choice of program depending on whether a student's interests lean towards the biological (BSc) or humanities and social science (BA) areas.

Students in either program may opt to undertake psychology as a major, entailing completion of the following courses: PSYC1003, PSYC1004, a minimum of 12 units of PSYC2000 level courses and a minimum of 18 units of PSYC3000 level courses. Students wishing to qualify for fourth year (Honours) study in psychology must take a minimum of 72 units of psychology. The undergraduate degree programs in psychology can also form part of combined programs. For example, the Bachelor of Science (Psychology) may be combined with programs in law, commerce, economics or music, as well as with the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Arts.

• Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
• Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Business Administration / Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Economics / Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Music / Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Bachelor of Science (Psychology) / Bachelor of Laws
• Bachelor of Science (Psychology) / Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) (PhB)

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Australia

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Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

Master of Clinical Psychology provides a comprehensive understanding of the core areas of clinical psychology and develop practical skills that will underpin your career success. The Master of Clinical Psychology is a two year (full-time) program of coursework, clinical placements (1,000 hours) and a research project (focused on a Master’s Thesis project of original research and culminating in a written report of at least 5000 words). This degree is primarily designed to be the basic professional qualification in clinical psychology, but can also form the basis of a career in other areas in psychology and outside the discipline. Within psychology graduates from this program have gone to work as:

• Clinical psychologists
• Counsellors
• Forensic psychologists
• Neuropsychologists
• Health psychologists
• Organisational psychologists
• Sports psychologists, and
• Psychology-relevant positions within diverse sectors such as the public service and non-government organisations (NGOs).

The Master of Clinical Psychology program aims to develop effective clinical competencies and to encourage a critical approach to the application of these competencies to practice. The emphasis is on a science-based approach to clinical psychology and the development of clinical problem solving skills, with a focus on scientific evidence combined with practical experience based on the theory of clinical psychology.

All students undertaking the Master of Clinical Psychology program are required to conduct an approved empirical research project. The project will culminate in the submission and examination of an MCP thesis, taking the form of a journal article manuscript of at least 5000 words (with no maximum length). Internships are undertaken, in addition to the ANU Psychology Clinic, in a variety of community and hospital based settings within Canberra or nearby country areas, and include community health centres, general hospital, psychiatric and medical units, neurology and neuropsychology services, veterans' counselling services, alcohol and drug services and school counselling units.

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Australia

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Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

The Bachelor of Science (Psychology) is a three year degree listed with the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council. It offers concentrated study in psychology for students who want a thorough exploration of the discipline and the opportunity for specialisation in your third year. It includes courses in the major substantive areas of psychology. You will have the option of applying for an honours year towards the end of your third year of study. The Bachelor of Science (Psychology) is a fantastic launch pad for a range of careers, including research, management consulting, human resources, marketing, public policy, child development and welfare, health and human services, education, counselling and clinical practice. 

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Australia

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The Bachelor of Science (Psychology)

Duration
3 Years

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

The Master of Professional Psychology (MProfPsych) is a two year (full-time) program and offers an alternative pathway to your professional career in psychology, without the need for an Honours degree.  Graduates can pursue careers in diverse community, non-government and government settings. The degree includes coursework on psychological assessment, interventions, ethics and professional skills; a group research project in the first year and practical experience in the second year.

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Australia

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2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

ANU Language Lab focus on understanding the causes and consequences of individual differences in language acquisition and processing across the lifespan. Their research focuses on language processing and language acquisition. We conduct a range of projects investigating a range of populations (e.g., infants, children, adults) and languages (e.g., European languages like English, Italian, and German; Chinese languages like Cantonese and Mandarin; and indigenous languages of Australia and the Pacific). The lab is part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), and is funded by the Australian Research Council and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands).

A big focus of the lab is on understanding the causes and consequences of individual differences in language acquisition and processing across the lifespan. As part of this focus we are running the CoEDL-funded Canberra Longitudinal Child Language Project (CLCL Project). The project follows 100+ typically-developing children from the age of 9 months to 5 years, and aims to document and explain how early language processing skills in infancy influence language development up until children reach primary school. Alongside the CLCL Project, several other studies are ongoing, including an ARC Discovery Project investigating the role of statistical learning in later language and literacy acquisition, studies of grammatical development, work on symbolic play and language development, work on Australian English, and work with CoEDL members on language processing and production of Australian indigenous languages. The lab has strong links with CoEDL partners at The University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, Cornell University, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

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Australia

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Child Wellbeing Research Group disseminates research driven by scientific advancements and emerging community needs, leading to improved quality of life for children and their families. The Child Wellbeing Research Group directed by Dr Dave Pasalich focuses on several core research objectives:

• Developing new understanding into how parenting and the quality of the parent-child relationship relates to risk and resilience in childhood and adolescence;

• Translating this knowledge into practical strategies to cultivate safe and healthy family relationships;

• Evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of family-based interventions to promote child mental health and wellbeing.

We seek to disseminate research that is driven by scientific advancements and emerging community needs, and that can lead to improved quality of life for children and their families. Projects include:

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of attachment-based and emotion-focused parenting interventions for reducing externalising and internalising behaviours
• Affective quality of the kinship parent-child relationship and child behavioural and emotional adjustment
• Assessing adolescents’ perspectives of the quality of the parent-teen relationship
• Connecting Kin Research Project: Evaluation of a Trauma- and Attachment-Based Support Program for Kinship Parents

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Australia

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Cognition & Perception conduct research, research supervision, and teaching in a range of core areas within human cognition and perception. Their research includes a strong emphasis on visual cognition (attention and visual neglect, face and object processing, reading and dyslexia), as well as early visual processing (motion and depth perception), memory (implicit memory, false memory and metamemory), hemipsheric lateralisation and interaction, and motor control. Research methods include a mix of behavioural experiments and neuroimaging studies in neurologically normal participants, and neuropsychological studies of people with various cognitive and perceptual disorders.

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Australia

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Research Methods publish original contributions and software resources in quantitative research methods, as well as undergraduate textbooks and advanced researcher handbooks. Prof Mike Smithson heads a group that introduces new statistical techniques to psychology and reforms to statistical practices in the discipline. Recent highlights include a handbook on statistical techniques for modelling variables for which conventional techniques are not applicable, and contributing a new statistical package (by Dr Yiyun Shou and Prof Smithson) to the open-source R computing environment. Dr Dirk Van Rooy’s research focuses on theoretical analyses of social psychological processes via quantitative analysis and computational simulation, including connectionist and agent-based modelling, and statistical modelling of (social) learning.

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Australia

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Social & Organisational is a group conducts research and teaching in a range of core areas within social psychology. They are recognised as one of the leading centres in the world in the study of social identity and self-categorisation, particularly in relation to stereotypes and stereotyping, prejudice and ethnocentrism, leadership and social influence, fairness and trust, group processes and learning, the self-concept and intergroup behaviour.In addition, our group has published extensively on topics ranging from ignorance and uncertainty and computational social psychology to education psychology. Some recent highlights

• Together with 52 colleagues from across the world, Dr Boris Bizumic participated in the World Views project for which data were collected online from 8,883 individuals in 33 countries. Results showed important cross-cultural differences in the way individuals experience religion, regularity-norm behaviours, family roles and living arrangements and ethnonationalism.

•  In work funded by the Army Research Scheme, Dr Dirk Van Rooy is exploring how insights from social psychology and cognitive modelling can be used to improve individual and collective learning and training in real and synthetic environments.

• Prof Michael Platow & Dr Dirk Van Rooy, together with colleagues from Europe and Israel, are exploring how an understanding of lay-beliefs around prejudice affects attempts to combat it in work funded by an ARC discovery grant.

• Prof Kate Reynolds,  Dr Eunro Lee and Dr Kathleen Klik are conducting research on school (group) processes in ACT high schools and key factors that contribute to better performing schools including outcomes such as prosocial behaviour, attendance, well-being and learning.  This research has received funding from the ARC, and is of great interest to a range of policy makers and educator.

• Prof Mike Smithson is examining the impact of ambiguity and conflict on judgements and decisions, with the aim of advancing understanding of the influence of uncertainty on individuals, in work funded by an ARC Discovery grant.

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Australia

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The Clinical and Health Psychology area focuses on a range of issues related to understanding and managing psychological disorders and distress, models of psychological adjustment, and the interface between health and psychology. The Clinical and Health Psychology area focuses on a range of issues related to understanding and managing psychological disorders and distress, models of psychological adjustment, and the interface between health and psychology. We are committed to the scientist-practitioner model, which is founded on the principles of integrating theory and research with clinical practice. 

Members of this research area contribute to the undergraduate psychology curriculum (i.e., classes on abnormal, clinical, and health psychology), and are responsible for the postgraduate Clinical Training Program, which includes the Master of Clinical Psychology and PhD (Clinical Psychology) degrees. The Clinical Training Program prepares students for practice as clinical psychologists through the integration of theory, clinical practice and research. Coursework covers topics such as psychopathology, health psychology, assessment, treatment, and ethics. Students undertake professional training by way of clinical placements, both at the ANU Psychology Clinic and external agencies in the region and across Australia. They also complete in-depth clinical research projects under the close supervision of expert academic staff. Research in the Clinical and Health Psychology area spans a broad range of topics, in both child and adult clinical psychology. Examples include:

• Child Psychopathology: including parent-child relationships; emotional and behavioural disturbances (e.g., youth antisocial behaviour); family-based treatment and prevention; child maltreatment; and how the development of language and communication abilities relate to childhood psychological disorders
• Psychological Disorders: including anxiety disorders, depression, psychotic disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding, body dysmorphic disorder and trichotillomania), post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and behavioural addictions (compulsive buying and problem gambling)
• Experimental Psychopathology: various studies investigating the cognitive, neurobiological, motivational, self-psychological, interpersonal, and social mechanisms of mental illness
• Psychological Treatment: the evaluation of evidence-based psychological treatments such as cognitive-behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing, and e-therapies.
• Health Psychology: psychological aspects and management of medical illnesses and symptoms (such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, fatigue, and sleep disorders), as well as work-related stress among doctors and healthcare providers

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The Developmental: Child, Youth, Aging group conduct research that investigates early development (from birth to 8 years) focuses on language and cognitive development, with the latter focusing on face and body perception and visual deficits in children with dyslexia.  Child, youth, and developmental psychology at the ANU spans many sub-disciplines of psychology. Research that investigates early development (from birth to 8 years) focuses on language and cognitive development, with the latter focusing on face and body perception and visual deficits in children with dyslexia.

Research with older children investigates how the social climates of schools affect student outcomes. Other research focuses on psychopathology across childhood and adolescence, investigating topics such as the link between language development and psychopathology, conduct problems, schizophrenia, and eating disorders and obesity.

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Australia

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The Health and Identity Lab examines the ways our mental and physical health are shaped by our social relationships and social connectedness. Our research examines the ways our mental and physical health is fundamentally shaped by our social relationships and social connectedness. A particular focus of our work is on the vital role of the social groups in determining health outcomes. Social identities are those groups to which we subjectively belong, and consider an important part of who we are.

In our research, we use a diverse array of research designs including lab and field-based experiments, intensive longitudinal studies, qualitative investigations with vulnerable communities, and randomised controlled trials. Through this varied and flexible approach, we contribute to efforts to find solutions to problems of national and global significance. For instance, we investigate the role of discrimination, poverty, and loneliness in contributing to mental illness and health inequality. We investigate the factors that drive peoples’ engagement in behaviours that enhance health (e.g., physical activity and healthy eating), as well as behaviours that can harm health (e.g., risky behaviours such as binge drinking and drug taking). Our research also focuses on designing, implementing, and testing theory-driven health interventions.

We work with diverse populations and in a wide array of contexts. These include young people at mass gatherings, members of sports teams and exercise groups, retirees, people experiencing depression, trauma or chronic illness. Our lab has also worked in partnership with 20 different community organisations, and over 150 researchers across 14 countries. We have particularly strong links with the University of Queensland, University of Exeter, University of Otago, Bournemouth University, and University of Edinburgh.Projects include:

• Adjustment to retirement through social identity change
• Connecting adolescents to reduce relapse
• Neighbour Day
• The Psychology of Schoolies
• Unlocking the social cure: Innovations in basic and translational science of the social determinants of mental health

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Australia

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Vision Cognition is a group are interested in the factors that influence the regulation of human attentional resources, and the perceptual consequences of applying attention in different ways. In the Visual Cognition lab, we are interested in the factors that influence the regulation of human attentional resources, and the perceptual consequences of applying attention in different ways. The practical implications of our work include understanding the attentional mechanisms of clinical conditions, such as anxiety, as well as improving our understanding of how to select and train individuals for attention-demanding roles (e.g., emergency vehicle drivers).

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The ANU Psychology Clinic is a centre for clinical practice & research in psychology. Our aim is to provide the highest standards in psychological assessment and treatment in a professional, responsive and caring environment.  The ANU Psychology Clinic is a training, treatment and research centre offering specialised psychological services to the community. The clinic provides assessment, counselling and therapy for adults and children / families who may be experiencing emotional or behavioural problems including anxiety, fears and phobias, depression, stress, and coping with health conditions (i.e., sleep, pain). Therapy is provided individually or within groups, is time limited and centred around evidence based best practices. The ANU Clinic is also currently offering group programs for ANU students to attend:

• Social Success Group: An 8 week group program designed to benefit individuals struggling with social anxiety and shyness.
• Mood Management Group: An 8 week group program designed to benefit individuals struggling with anxiety and depression.
• Sleep Group: A 5 week group program designed to benefit individuals who have sleep issues (i.e., insomnia).
• Working with Emotions Group: An 8 week program designed to benefit individuals struggling with intense emotions such as sadness, anger, and guilt.

The clinic is staffed by clinical psychologists and provisional psychologists. All clinic staff are fully registered with the Psychology Board of Australia. The clinical psychologists are board-endorsed clinical supervisors who oversee the provisional psychologists clinical practice whilst they are providing services in the clinic. Provisional psychologists have already completed at least four years of training in psychology and are now undertaking specialist training in clinical psychology. Provisional psychologists are skilled in assessment and therapy. 

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Australia

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The ANU Psychology e-therapy Clinic is a centre for clinical practice & research in online psychology and an external training placement of the Psychology Clinic. Our aim is to provide the highest standards in online psychological assessment and treatment in a professional, responsive and caring environment for people living in rural and regional towns in NSW.

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Australia

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The Graduate Diploma in International Psychiatry gives medical practitioners the necessary knowledge and skills to provide up to date and quality care to patients with mental illness. The University of Melbourne has teamed up with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) to develop a compact, six-month diploma program that provides affordable quality psychiatry training to healthcare professionals in developing as well as developed countries. If you are a medical practitioner who wants to upskill your qualifications in psychiatry and provide the latest in quality mental healthcare to your patients, this is the course for you.

The Graduate Diploma in International Psychiatry has been developed for medical professionals worldwide who work with mentally ill patients in any capacity, or would like to develop their capacity to do so. It is particularly relevant to:

• Practising psychiatrists
• Practising medical doctors
• Primary care physicians (general practitioners/family physicians)
• Physician assistants.

This course is not suitable for non-medical practitioners. This course is designed to provide healthcare practitioners with the most up-to-date, relevant knowledge and skills to administer quality care to patients with mental illness. The subjects provide essential background theory and foundation knowledge, and cover the most common psychiatric disorders encountered in adult populations worldwide. The course builds upon pre-existing theoretical knowledge and addresses a wide range of psychiatric disorders, with a focus on an evidence-based management approach. In addition, there is a special focus on transcultural psychiatry and service delivery issues in diverse socioeconomic settings, thereby creating a uniquely global perspective on mental health.

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Australia

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Duration
1 Year Part Time

Type of Program
Graduate Diploma

The Masters of Psychiatry explores the range of psychiatric disorders that you will see in clinical practice and develop an in-depth understanding of the nature of these and how to effectively recognise and treat them. You will learn to apply robust theoretical  concepts and cutting edge evidence based research findings in your clinical practice. You will also develop a broad understanding of the sociocultural differences that exist in our community as well as geographical region and their relationship to individuals and mental illness.

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Australia

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Campus
Parkville

Duration
1 Year

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

Application
https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/master-of-psychiatry/how-to-apply/

The University of Melbourne's renowned Master of Psychiatry course is now being offered online using the latest technology and interactive learning platforms. Delivered by the Department of Psychiatry and fully accredited by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), this course is ideal for medical practitioners looking for the opportunity to advance their psychiatry knowledge, skills and career in psychiatry. As well as exploring the latest cutting-edge theoretical concepts in psychiatry and their relationship to clinical practice, you will also develop a broad understanding of the cultural and sociocultural differences that exist in our community and geographical region, and their relationship to individuals and mental illness.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the core principles and specialties of psychiatry in order to provide outstanding clinical care to patients. You will learn from the same leading academics and researchers who teach the on-campus courses, via an engaging and authentic online learning experience. This course will also provide you with a less traditional view of the field. You will explore the principles of hope, recovery and quality of life by hearing directly from patients suffering from mental health issues, and through the use of authentic case scenarios that emulate the clinical experience.

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Campus
Online

Duration
3 Years Part Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

The multidisciplinary PhD Program in Mental Health brings together graduate researchers addressing mental health from diverse disciplinary perspectives - psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology and community mental health, history and philosophy of psychiatry, general practice, paediatrics, psychiatric nursing, social work, among others. Launched in March 2018, the Program is a joint initiative of the University's School of Psychological Sciences, Centre for Mental Health, and Department of Psychiatry.

Their goal is to provide all University of Melbourne PhD students researching mental health with a platform to connect, share and discover new disciplines so that they can become fully-rounded researchers who can approach the field of mental health from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Host departments include:

• The Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences is one of the most highly regarded schools of psychology in Australia. The School attracts some of the best students nationally and internationally to its broad range of APAC accredited undergraduate, graduate, professional, and research programs. The School's teaching is underpinned by excellence in research across a range of fields, including cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, quantitative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and clinical science.

• The Centre for Mental Health is part of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and aims to improve mental health and mitigate the impact of mental illness at a population level. It does this through high quality, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, professional and community education, and mental health system development. The Centre contributes to evidence-informed mental health policy and practice in Australia and internationally through the work of its three units: 1) Global and Cultural Mental Health, 2) Mental Health Policy and Practice, and 3) Population Mental Health. The Centre's three units are involved in active and productive collaborations within the University and beyond. These relationships range from not-for-profit agencies like Mind Australia through to international NGOs such as the World Health Organization, and enables the translation of their research into policy and practice.

• The Department of Psychiatry is committed to the prevention of mental illness and improved quality of life for individuals affected by mental illness, both nationally and internationally. The Department has unique strengths around biological and translational psychiatry research which are internationally recognised. Together with clinical collaborations and involvement in mental health policy and practice, this provides a stimulating environment for learning and research training programs. Their research is driven by pure and applied questions that require cross-disciplinary approaches and partnerships with diverse community organisations especially those effected with mental illness. The research informs our teaching and clinical training and engagement with the wider community.

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Australia

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PHD Course

The Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age (AUPOA) conducts research focusing on mental and cognitive health in older age to advance knowledge, service delivery and care and help reduce stigma and discrimination associated with mental health problems and cognitive impairment in older age.

• The Stand Up & Go Study: Physical activity and sitting time reduction program for older community members

• RAndomised trial to imProve the quality of lIfe of people with Dementia (RAPID)

• INDIGO Study: physical activity and goal-setting intervention for sedentary older adults at risk of cognitive decline

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Australia

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The Centre for Women's Mental Health was established to provide expert clinical and therapeutic services for women, undertake research and provide education and training. THeir research is conducted within a population health framework that takes into account the complex influences on mental health, encourages a holistic approach to improving mental health and wellbeing, develops evidence based interventions that meet the identified needs of population groups, and spans the spectrum from prevention to recovery to relapse prevention.

Recognising mental health and mental illness are on a continuum, our research aims to improve mental health as well as reduce the prevalence and burden of mental health problems and mental illness. Our research agenda is informed by current national and international research priorities in women's mental health, identified gaps in research, and areas of clinical activity within the Women's.

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20 Flemington Rd Parkville Victoria

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Australia

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Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC) is a joint centre of Melbourne Health (North Western Mental Health) and The University of Melbourne (Department of Psychiatry). It comprises the Neuropsychiatry Unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), the Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Unit and Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit at Sunshine Hospital, and the Neuropsychiatry Imaging Laboratory located at the Alan Gilbert Building within The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. This website provides an overview of the major activities, scientific achievements and key publications that led to the creation of the Centre. The goals of MNC are:

• To improve our understanding of disorders of the brain and mind
• To improve the quality of care for patients with complex mental health problems and disorders
• To establish a Victorian neuropsychiatry centre of clinical, research and academic excellence, which ensures that specialised knowledge and skill become part of everyday clinical practice
• To provide neuropsychiatric training and education to mental health professionals and other health disciplines

Neuropsychiatry is the interface between basic and clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. It includes Neurobiological approaches to the study and treatment of psychiatric disorders (Biological Psychiatry) and the understanding of disorders in which cerebral or systemic pathology contributes to the mental state (Organic Psychiatry). Together with the most recent advances in medical imaging and information technology, we are now better placed to understand the structure and functioning of the brain in health and illness than ever before.

The staff at MNC focus on furthering our understanding of neurobiological, psychiatric and psychological factors involved in mental illnesses, through the application of new knowledge acquired from research in a clinical (patient-based) context. Research innovations are made possible by the specialised approach of MNC researchers across a number of disciplines. This includes fields as diverse as:

• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
• Neuropsychology
• Genetics
• Statistics
• Medical imaging,
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Engineering, and
• Information technology.

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Australia

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Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre conducts world leading research with focus on specific streams in Psychiatry/Psychology and Neuroscience. An overview of the research interests within the centre and the project work being carried out by our researchers can be found here:

• Psychosis & Developmental Neuropsychiatry

• Clinical Neuropsychiatry

• Depression and Anxiety Neuroscience

• Social Affective Neurodevelopment (SAND)

• Systems Neuropsychiatry

• Gene-Environment Neuropsychiatry (GENe)

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Australia

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Mindful Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health is the state-wide unit responsible for the delivery of postgraduate courses, training programs, professional development and research programs in child and adolescent mental health. Mindful is jointly auspiced by the University of Melbourne and Monash University and is funded by a Department of Health grant. We are located within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne and based at Travancore.
 

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Mindful – Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne Building C, 50 Flemington St, Travancore Vic 3032

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Australia

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Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to reducing the impact of trauma by building the capability of individuals, organisations and the community to understand, prevent and recover from the adverse mental health effects of trauma. Phoenix Australia is governed by a Board of Management which includes the Director of Phoenix Australia and brings together independent members, representatives of key partners: the Commonwealth Government's Departments of Veterans' Affairs and Defence and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.

The team at Phoenix is multi-disciplinary. Staff members are experts in their respective fields, and many are internationally recognised for their work in posttraumatic mental health. Phoenix's work in posttraumatic mental health is organised into three distinct areas: research; policy and service development; and education and training. This breadth of work enables Phoenix to actively integrate learnings from all of these activities, translating knowledge into practice and implementation, and offering clients end-to-end service. Phoenix's expertise ensures that clients and the community benefit from the most up-to-date knowledge of posttraumatic mental health.

• World-class research: program of research and evaluation aims to advance the knowledge of trauma and posttraumatic mental health. Our leadership in translating research into education and training initiatives and policy and service development advice promotes the best possible outcomes for people affected by trauma.

• Policy and service development: Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health works with organisations that have responsibility for people affected by trauma aims to ensure that proven interventions in posttraumatic mental health are promoted through their policies and practice.

• Education and training: research, develop and deliver education and training programs on mental health and posttraumatic mental health.

• Events and resources: develop and disseminate information about mental health and posttraumatic mental health through publications, resources, articles, conferences, forums, symposia and informed media commentary

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Level 3, 161 Barry Street Carlton Victoria 3053

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Australia

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The St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit has two broad areas of core research, namely optimizing mental health care, and integrating physical and mental health. The research is aligned with the clinical services. The Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age is part of the St Vincent's Aged Mental Health service and is a significant collaborative partner of the St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit. We also have strong research links with Swinburne University and the Cardiovascular Research Centre at Australian Catholic University.

The Unit's specific research activities include early psychosis, body image disorders, mental health promotion and prevention, epidemiology, strengths-based models of care, acute psychiatricbased care, psychopharmacology, transcultural mental health, international mental health, neuropsychiatry, psychotherapy (notably mindfulness and its applicability in people with physical
health problems), and psychosocial cancer care. The majority of the Unit's research is underpinned by a multidisciplinary collaborative approach and we are currently engaged in a number of research initiatives with other St Vincent's Departments and external organisations, nationally and internationally.

In addition to comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programs, St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit has a strong commitment to research support, development and training of both clinical and academic staff

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The Pyschosocial Research Centre (PRC) is an integral part of North West Area Mental Health Service and is committed to research, education and training, policy and practice development that will improve the wellbeing of people with mental illness and their families.  PRC focuses on psychosocial approaches to prevention, treatment and recovery, involving consumers and their families; increasing community participation and improving economic outcomes for people affected by mental illness. The work of PRC is in areas that have historically been neglected by mainstream psychiatry, but which continue to have a great impact on the life of the person experiencing mental illness. The aim of the Psychosocial Research Centre is to collaborate with consumers, their families, practitioners, managers, policy makers, academics and other stakeholders in the wider community in order to:

• Engage the perspectives of consumers, carers and advocates in the development of psychosocial policy, practice and research;
• Develop innovative psychosocial recovery programs and promote the expansion of pre-existing projects with successful outcomes;
• Undertake and encourage research and evaluation of psychosocial approaches to mental health;
• Build and disseminate the knowledge base of excellence in psychosocial practice;
• Deliver education and training to enable mental health services to implement psychosocial approaches;
• Develop policy that supports and promotes best practice in psychosocial mental health.

The Vision of the Psychosocial Research Centre is to generate and foster innovative, practice based psychosocial research, education and training, policy and practice development that will improve the wellbeing of people living with mental illness and the benefit of their families.

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Psychosocial Research Centre (PRC) Ground Floor 130 Bell St Coburg VIC 3058

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Australia

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The Melbourne Clinic is Australia's largest private psychiatric hospital providing 175 inpatient beds, standalone day program center and an outreach service. The Centre is recognised nationally and internationally for providing high quality, patient-centred care since opening in 1978. The Professorial Unit of The Melbourne Clinic conducts clinical and academic teaching for university students and psychiatric trainees, and a research unit under the auspices of both the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Healthscope, Melbourne Clinic.

The Professorial Unit provides specialised treatment for mood disorders with complex diagnostic management problems through a multidisciplinary team, which include biological, psychosocial and cognitive approaches. The Professorial Unit is committed to providing a synergy between clinical practice and research for best evidence practice in psychiatry, thus aiming to provide improved mental health outcomes for all patients.

The major focus of the clinical and research activity is to improve knowledge and skills, grounded in innovative scientific research, that translate to direct patient care. To do this the Professorial Unit initiates local research projects and forms research collaborations with other leading researchers both nationally and internationally. Projects include new and novel approaches in the treatment of major depression, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other associated disorders. Together with researchers and clinicians, the Professorial Unit conducts various studies including genetic markers for treatment response, clinical trials of new and adjunctive medications, and complementary therapies to improve treatment practice.

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Albert Road Clinic (ARC) is a private psychiatric hospital located close to Melbourne's city centre. ARC is an 80-bed facility, encompassing associated consulting suites, day program facilities and the University of Melbourne Professorial Psychiatry Unit. ARC's inpatient facilities include an Adult Psychiatry Unit, an Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit, a Psychogeriatric Unit and a
Parent Infant Psychiatry Unit. ARC also provides a series of Day Programs and Outreach services specific to these groups.

The Professorial Psychiatry Unit at ARC focuses on tertiary care of patients with diagnostically challenging or refractory mood or anxiety disorders, including in the post-partum period. The Unit is also responsible for the teaching program at ARC for final year MD students and RANZCP trainees, as well as involvement in the ARC electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) training program, the first accredited ECT training program in Victoria. Current areas of research interest include the phenomenology of mood and anxiety disorders, particularly in relation to course of illness; psychopharmacology; the provision of psycho education to patients and their families affected by mood disorders and outcome based research including the outcome of day programmatic treatment for borderline personality disorder. The
Unit also has an ongoing interest in the phenomenology and management of behaviours of concern following ABI.

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The Department of Psychiatry, leads the academic activity of the Mental Health Clinical Service Unit at Austin Health. There is a long tradition of excellence in teaching and research at the Austin Hospital that the Department is proud to sustain and develop. The rare diversity of clinical services makes Psychiatry at Austin Health both a sought after training experience and,  with the Melbourne Brain Centre on site, a unique research resource. The Department fosters research across the wide range of clinical services at Austin Health, but has particular strengths in the somatoform disorders, psychopharmacology and perinatal psychiatry.

Professor Richard Kanaan located at Austin Health explores the neuropsychiatry of somatoform disorders, binding psychosocial complexity with the objectivity of brain imaging, collaborating closely with the Melbourne Brain Centre. Anne Buist is Professor of Women's Mental Health, with a program of increasing awareness of perinatal women's mental health issues and educating health
professionals in their detection and management. She also studies child abuse and perinatal depression, drugs in breast milk, and improving outcomes for children using attachment theory.

Associate Professors Trevor Norman and James Olver work in the psychopharmacology of mood and anxiety disorders, stress and circadian rhythms, exploring pharmacokinetics and metabolism in the laboratory techniques, neurotransmitter involvement with positron emission technology, and their cognitive and motor effects using neuropsychology.

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Western’s Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) will pave the way for a range of career options, including further study required to become a psychologist.

Campus
Bankstown

Duration
4 Years

Study Mode
Full-time

The Doctor of Philosophy/Master of Clinical Psychology provides you with an opportunity to gain the highest level of research and practical training in clinical psychology. The two strands reflect and facilitate the scientific-practitioner model of practice. This degree provides an opportunity for exceptional students to gain the highest level of research training as well as specialised professional training in clinical psychology. Two strands reflect and facilitate the scientist-practitioner model of practice. The PhD in this combined program will engage future clinicians in research. Following commencement of the PhD, the Master of Clinical Psychology complements this study through academic coursework.

The combined degree provides thorough training in the knowledge, clinical and research skills necessary to understand dysfunctional behaviour and psychopathology, and to implement effective evidence-based interventions. This is achieved through the following:

1. The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree provides graduates with the training, education and capacity to complete a research project in a topic in clinical psychology at a high level of originality and quality. 
2. Specified coursework and 1000 hours of supervised placement within the Master of Clinical Psychology is designed to develop competent clinical psychologists with a thorough training in evidence-based clinical psychological theory and practice.

Campus
Bankstown

Duration
4 Years

Study Mode
Full-time

The Master of Clinical Psychology develops competent clinical psychologists by combining advanced academic knowledge with real-life experience to suit a variety of career needs and interests. The course provides thorough training in a range of mental health issues and equips you with the ability to implement effective evidence-based interventions that are tailored to clients' requirements.

Campus
Penrith

Duration
2 Years Full Time

Study Mode
Full-time

Assessing Psychology Practitioner Competence is a project that aims to design, develop, test, evaluate and refine competency-based assessment tools. This research program is a multisite collaboration initiative that commenced ten years ago, and grew out of a commitment from a small group of clinician researchers to address what was an important, but difficult and enduring problem: objective and valid assessment of practitioner competence in psychology.

The project has grown rapidly, and today includes eleven partner institutions across Australia, New-Zealand and the U.K. The research has made major contributions to the international literature on competence assessment in psychology and other health disciplines, has won major national grant awards, and has been disseminated in multiple national and international conferences. The instruments generated by our group are currently in use by more than 24 universities worldwide, and the research and its impact continue to grow.

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The Digital Research Lab brings together researchers in Psychology and Social Sciences to address issues in the online world and to develop online methods for research. The Digital Research Lab Cluster is a grouping of Psychology and Social Science researchers in the School of Psychology based at the Parramatta (Victoria Road) Campus of Western Sydney University who are investigating behaviour and life in the digital world. In addition to PhD students, there are around 20 4th year psychology students working on related topics at any given time. Most of the researchers are located in Building EH where the Digital Research Lab is located. The Digital Lab represents just one of the grouping of researchers working in the digital field at Western Sydney University there are many more, follow the links from the University's Research page.  For inquiries about the Digital Research Lab Cluster please contact Professor Craig McGarty.

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The Foundational Processes of Behaviour (FPB) Research Laboratories host world-class research focused on uncovering the fundamental mechanisms of the human brain and behaviour. Comprising of a team of internationally recognized researchers; the FPB initiative has become one of the most successful and productive research initiatives in the School of Psychology. Foundational Processes of Behaviour researchers utilize a diversity of predominantly experimental methods and seek to study human activity at multiple levels (observable cognitive and social behaviour, brain activity, and autonomic nervous system activity). Their research team is committed to:

• Excellence in research and theory building
• World class program for training graduate students
• Attracting competitive research funding
• Using science to improve the human condition

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The Baby Lab is non-profit Research Centre for pure and applied infant research on speech perception and language acquisition. 

BabyLab at Kingswood is a non-profit Western Sydney University Infant Research Centre for pure and applied infant research on speech perception and language acquisition. We conduct research with infants and children focusing on speech perception, speech production, and related skills such as literacy. Our researchers monitor babies' responses using state of the art equipment including eye tracking, heart rate and EEG technology. These studies provide a window into the mind of young babies acquiring the building blocks of language. BabyLab at Kingswood is a joint collaboration between the School of Social Sciences and Psychology (SSAP) and The MARCS Institute, and therefore all research is conducted in collaboration by SSAP and MARCS researchers.

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The Clinical and Health Psychology Research Initiative (CaHPRI) aims of CaHPRI is to further understanding of the interaction between psychological, social, and cultural factors in relation to mental and physical healthl evidence based psychological management of mental and physical health conditions; develop evidence as to appropriate training and supervision for psychological practice in relation to physical and mental health conditions Primary areas of interest within CaHPRI are broadly grouped as follows and cover the life-span - from children through to older adults:

• Clinical Psychophysiology: examining the interface between psychological disorders/states/conditions and how they are manifested via psychophysiological responses with the aim of improving assessment techniques and treatment outcomes.

• Assessment and Understanding of Psychological Illness: developing and examining clinical measurements and approaches to understanding the experience, course and recovery of psychological illness.

• Effectiveness of Psychological Therapies: researching the components of psychological interventions that result in recovery from psychological illnesses. Developing and examining individualised treatments to foster most optimal outcomes.

• Practitioner Training and Supervision: developing, assessing and evaluating competencies for interns and practising psychologists. Examining how training programs facilitate knowledge, skills, application development and reflective practice.

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The Western Sydney University Psychology Clinic provides individuals within the community with low-cost psychological treatment and testing services for children (6 years and above), adolescents and adults. The Psychology Clinic is staffed by provisionally registered psychologists currently undertaking post graduate training to become clinical psychologists. All provisionally registered psychologists are supervised by fully accredited and experienced clinical psychology supervisors. The collective qualifications and experience of the clinical team means that provisionally registered psychologists are provided with exceptional levels of support, supervision and training. They are committed to providing high quality care, offering specialised clinical assessment and treatment using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (CBT). 

The Psychology Clinic is staffed by provisionally registered psychologists currently undertaking post graduate training to become clinical psychologists. All provisionally registered psychologists are supervised by fully accredited and highly experienced clinical psychology supervisors. This ensures that clients receive the highest quality care whilst attending the clinic. The Psychology Clinic functions as a research and training facility, undertaking cutting edge research in the field of mental health and clinical supervision. This means that clients receive the most up to date and proven assessment and treatment methods.

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Western Sydney University Psychology Clinics Western Sydney University Ground Floor, Building O, Kingswood Campus, Second Avenue Kingswood

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Australia

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The Honours in Psychology enables students who have performed well at undergraduate level to deepen their knowledge of approaches, perspectives and traditions in psychology and undertake a significant research project. Honours is a means for connecting undergraduate study with supervised independent research by consolidating and extending work completed in the undergraduate program and providing an academic foundation for students continuing on to a Masters by coursework, a Masters by research, or a PhD. Students conduct a year-long, 30 UOC major independent research project (completed under the guidance of an academic supervisor), and write a thesis based on the project. In addition, students complete 18 UOC of advanced-level core and elective coursework in both Term 1 and Term 2. The research project may be undertaken in most areas of psychology such as:

• Psychopathology
• Behavioural neuroscience
• Cognitive science
• Cognition and perception,
• Forensic psychology 
• Social, personality and developmental psychology.

The coursework requirement includes content that encompasses history, professional ethics, evidence-based practice and advanced coverage of selected contemporary issues in psychology that reflect the expertise and research specialisations of School staff.

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Australia

Campus
Kensington

Duration
1 Year

Type of Program
Honours

The BPsych degree requires you to concentrate on Psychology courses across the undergraduate degree, with additional Psychology courses required at the undergraduate level. Psychological Science has an open structure which allows you to take the additional courses you need to complete your degree from anywhere across the University. These could of course be additional Psychology courses at level 3, but could equally be Arts or Science courses, or courses that allow you to complete one of the complementary Majors that are an optional component of the BPsychSc program such as Human Resource Management or Criminology. If you take Psychology from within the BSc, then you would take some additional courses drawn from other Science subjects such as Chemistry or Biology. Both the BSc and the BPsychSci can be combined with a wide range of other degrees such as Commerce or Law.

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Australia

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Campus
University of NSW

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

The Master of Psychology (Clinical) program began in 1971. The School's theoretical orientation has primarily been one of experimental empiricism, and the Clinical program adheres to the scientist-practitioner model for clinical training. The program has an emphasis on cognitive-behavioural approaches to the understanding and management of clinical programs. The program concerns itself with adult, adolescent and child clinical psychology, neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation.

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Australia

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Campus
Kensington

Duration
2 Years

Study Mode
Full-time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

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https://student.unsw.edu.au/fees

The Master of Psychology (Forensic) program was offered for the first time in 1998. The degree is unique among masters programs in forensic psychology at Australian universities in that both a school of psychology and a law school are involved in its teaching; each School at UNSW is a recognised leader in its field in Australia.

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Australia

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Campus
Kensington

Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

UNSW Bachelor of Psychological Science is a multidisciplinary degree concerned with the study of behaviour and its underlying mental and neural processes. This three-year, full-time degree provides a comprehensive education in various discipline areas such as biological, abnormal, cognitive, forensic, developmental and social psychology. Students develop their communication skills and apply psychological principles to personal, social and global issues.

The UNSW Bachelor of Psychological Science allows students to study for an accredited degree in Psychology at the same time as undertaking a major in a complementary field of study. Combining Psychology with a major in Marketing, Management or Human Resource Management provides an excellent background for careers in the business world.  Combining Psychology with Philosophy, Criminology or Linguistics prepares you for a variety of social science careers. Students with a specific interest in psychological and neuroscientific aspects of Psychology can combine with the study of vision science, neuroscience or physiology.

At the end of the second year, students can take the option to choose a course that will provide them with the pre-requisites to gain entry to the honours (fourth) year. This gives students access to courses providing the professional qualifications required to become a registered professional Psychologist. Majors include:

• Criminology

• Human Resource Management

• Linguistics

• Management

• Marketing

• Neuroscience

• Philosophy

• Vision Science

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Australia

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Campus
University of NSW

Duration
3 years full time

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

Application
https://www.futurestudents.unsw.edu.au/how-to-apply

UNSW Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) offers you the opportunity to study the human mind and behaviour. Learning with our world-leading academics, you’ll develop strong research, analytical and communication skills to prepare you for a career in psychology. The honours program covers fascinating topics of study from memory, cognition and neuroscience to forensic and social psychology.  The UNSW School of Psychology is regarded as the best in Australia. You can choose from a range of specialised electives relevant to your interests and our changing world including:

• Psychology and law 
• Psychology and work 
• Development disorders 
• Psychopathology 
• Health psychology 
• Language 
• Cognitive science 
• Neuroscience. 

In the fourth year of the program, you’ll conduct a major research project under the guidance of one of our expert academic supervisors. Your research project can be taken in most areas of psychology, depending on your preference. It culminates in a written thesis. Successful completion of this professional and highly competitive degree will prepare you for further study of the Master of Psychology degree. 

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Australia

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Campus
University of NSW

Duration
4 Years

Type of Program
Honours

Researchers in behavioural neuroscience in the School of Psychology have interests in the behavioural and brain mechanisms of learning, memory, and motivation. This research is conducted from behavioural, developmental, neurobiological, and computational perspectives. Current projects include:

• Behavioural and neural mechanisms of fear learning and extinction learning,

• Error-correction learning,

• Infantile amnesia, and

• Relapse to drug-seeking

• The Influence of Environmental Cues on Choice Between Actions

• Learning to Inhibit Acquired Fears

• Interactions Between Cues that Predict Positive and Negative Events

• Early Life Experiences

• Adolescence

• Individual Differences in Fear Expression and Inhibition

• False Memories In Laboratory Rodents

• Effects of Western Diet on Cognition in Rodents
• Learning to Inhibit Fear
• The Neural Substrates of Higher-Order Conditioned Fear
• Danger Changes the Way the Brain Processes Innocuous Information
• Oxytocin Impairs Fear Acquisition and Fear Inhibition: Mechanisms of Action in the Basolateral Complex of the Amygdal
• Bbrain mechanisms underlying learning and cognition
• The neural substrates underlying executive function

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Australia

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Academic staff in clinical psychology and psychopathology at UNSW conduct internationally-recognised research that focuses on a range of psychological disorders and the basic processes that underlie those disorders. Research topics include:

• Behavioural medicine

• Traumatic brain injury

• Childhood emotional and conduct disorders

• Post-traumatic stress disorder, 

• Assessment of anxiety and depression, 

• Eating disorders,  

• Dissociative processes,

• Refugee mental health, and

• Schizophrenia

• online treatments for depression and anxiety

• anxiety disorders.

Much of the clinical research is conducted in collaboration with the Psychology Clinic located within the School. The Clinic provides assessment and intervention for clients with a wide range of clinical problems including:

• Childhood and adult anxiety disorders
• Mood disorders
• Learning disabilities
• Brain injury
• Conduct disorders
• Eating disorders
• Relational problems and
• Many other problems. 

Research in clinical psychology and psychopathology at UNSW represents cutting edge advances in many fields of clinical psychology, and is widely acclaimed internationally. The work conducted by this research group has resulted in over $3 million in research funding in recent years, publication of over 200 journal articles, and receipt of numerous academic awards. Projects include:

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Hoarding Disorder

• Development, Assessment and Treatment of Callous-Unemotional Traits  

• Finding New Treatments for Socio-Emotional Disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury

• The Sociopath Amongst Us: The Neural Basis of Empathy Disorders

• Rumination in Depression

• Repetitive Thinking: A Transdiagnostic Process

• What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?

• Online Treatment for Depression and Anxiety

• Refugee Adjustment Study

• Tell Your Story: A Digital Intervention for Reducing Stigma in Traumatized Refugees

• Investigating Psychological Mechanisms Underpinning Refugee Mental Health

• Schizophrenia and Self-Suppression to Motor Actions and Inner Speech

• Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, cognitive processes, and treatment.

• Experimental and clinical investigation of dissociative processes: memory, trauma, and dissociation.

• Clinical and experimental hypnosis.

• Autobiographical memory in clinical disorders.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, visual hallucinations, the cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery, translational cognitive neuroscience, new methods to control traumatic imagery.

• Psychology of eating and weight, including body image, self-regulation, social influences, and weight bias and discrimination.

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Australia

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The cognition research research is comprised of many members of the academic staff is informed by cognitive principles, be it in the clinical, social, or even forensic and organisational domains. After all, Cognition is about how we analyse, integrate, and interpret information, which is relevant to most aspects of human behaviour. In addition to those whose research has a cognitive foundation, though, there are academics in the school whose research focuses directly on an understanding of cognitive processes themselves. This research includes analyses of:

• Memory
• Thought
• Language and
• Decision making.

They are widely published and have been very successful in attracting research funding from a number of different sources. It is probably fair to say the School of Psychology has one of the strongest groups of cognitive researchers in Australia. Current projects include:

• Understanding Working Memory
• Decision Making: Big and Small
• Computational Models of Cognition
• Neuroscience and Genetics of Resilience
• In Two Minds or Just One? Comparing Intuitive and Analytical Thinking
• How Do People Learn and Reason From Experience? Understanding Inductive Reasoning
• Considering Alternatives in Judgement and Decision-Making
• Inductive Reasoning in Generalization of Conditioned Fear
• Capture and Control: Overcoming Distraction by Reward-Related Stimuli
• Prediction Error Processing in Schizophrenia
• The Sociopath Amongst Us: The Neural Basis of Empathy Disorders
• Understanding the Dynamics of Conversation
• Motivated Attention & Perception
• How Do People Learn and Reason About the World?
• Decision Making in an Uncertain World
• Statistical and Computational Models in Psychological Science
• Irrational, Biased or Predictable? How Do We Make Decisions?
• The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
• Saving for Retirement? If Not, Why Not?
• Processing the Internal Structure of English Words
• Reading in Languages Other Than English
• Bilingual Processes
• The Relationship Between Lexical and Episodic Memory

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Australia

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The School of Psychology has two internationally recognised research groups in Developmental Psychology.

• Cognition and Development

• Developmental Psychopathology

• Early Learning Project

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Australia

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Forensic psychologists at UNSW provide postgraduate training to develop the field through the Master of Psychology (Forensic) program and offer practical clinical experience through the Wentworth Forensic Clinic. Our academics are widely published and have been very successful in securing grant funding and developing productive industry partnerships. The forensic psychology research group at the School of Psychology is expanding rapidly in both size and reputation.

• Eyewitness Testimony
• Eyewitness Identification
• Facial Composites
• Development, Assessment and Treatment of Callous-Unemotional Traits 
• Understanding Uncertainty in Forensic Science and the Law
• Examining and Strengthening Forensic Sciences
• Irrational, Biased or Predictable? How Do We Make Decisions?
• Refugee Adjustment Study
• Tell Your Story: A Digital Intervention for Reducing Stigma in Traumatized Refugees
• Investigating Psychological Mechanisms Underpinning Refugee Mental Health

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Australia

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The neuropsychology groups investigate how different cognitive abilities (such as perception, language, memory) and emotional capacities are organised in the human brain. The traditional approach to this is to study people who have clinical disorders that damage specific brain regions. At UNSW we:

• Work with people who have suffered brain injury from trauma.
• Work with people who have suffered a stroke affecting a particular brain region and people with dementia.
• Learn about brain processes by examining people with developmental conditions that affect the way they learn and interact with the world such as people with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Attention Deficit Disorders.

Using specialised techniques such as functional neuroimaging and electroencephalograpy (EEG) we are also able to examine how the healthy, normal brain activates in response to particular tasks, giving us a new window into understanding brain function by working with healthy adults. A major area of neuropsychology that we are currently examining falls under the umbrella of social cognition. Social cognition refers to the ability we have to understand the minds and intentions of others by interpreting the social cues that they use, such as their emotional expression. We also have researchers interested in perception, attention, memory and language. Work at UNSW is focused on three levels - theoretical understanding of brain processes underpinning human thought and behaviour; clinical understanding of how neuropsychological disorders affect the lives of people; and discovering new approaches to assessment and remediation of neuropsychological disorders

• Neuroscience and Genetics of Resilience
• Finding New Treatments for Socio-Emotional Disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury
• The Sociopath Amongst Us: The Neural Basis of Empathy Disorders

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Australia

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Researchers in perception in the School of Psychology have interests in a range of topics in vision including face perception, stereopsis, motion, lightness, colour, attention and binocular rivalry. The group has a large set of overlapping interests in a broad range of topics in vision, and employs a range of computational, behavioural, and neuroimaging approaches in studying visual processes. The group is extremely successful in securing external funding, and has a strong publication record in the top journals in vision, psychology, and general science  Projects include:

•  Perception of Gaze, Head and Body Direction
• Who Are You Expecting? Uncertainty and Bias in High-Level Vision
• Perceiving the Loudness of Sound Sources in the Environment
• Lightness, Shape and Illumination
• The Pleasure of Seeing: Perceptual Foundations of Aesthetic Experience
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Integration of Local and Global Scene Properties
• Objects of Our Attention

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Australia

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Academic staff in social and health psychology at UNSW conduct internationally-recognised research that focuses on a range of topics:

• Anger and aggression in humans,
• Cognitive dissonance,
• Positive emotional experience and wellbeing,
• Prosocial behaviour,
• Body dissatisfaction, weight stigma and eating behaviour,
• Mind-body interactions and health scares,
• Social cognition and behaviour, and
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in psychology.
• University Student Self-management, Success and Wellbeing
• The Psychology of Health
• Affective Inflences on Social Cognition and Behaviour
• Neuroscience and Genetics of Resilience
• Anger
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Motivating Functions of Emotions
• The Emotional Psychology of Blood Donors: Understanding and Using the Effective Key to Donor Return
• Positive Emotions and Wellbeing
• The causes and consequences of anger and aggression in humans
• Aggressive personality
• Biological correlates of anger and angry rumination
• Intergroup aggression
• Prejudice.
• Psychology of eating and weight, including body image, self-regulation, social influences, and weight bias and discrimination.

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Australia

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The Cognition and Development Group is headed by Professor Brett Hayes and focuses on developmental change in complex cognitive processes such as concept formation, categorization, reasoning and memory. We are also interested in the implications of fundamental research on human cognitive development for pre-school and primary education. Current projects include examining the development of inductive reasoning in young children and identifying factors that promote change in children’s scientific concepts. The group has an outstanding track record of success in securing research funding and has state-of-the are facilities for measuring perceptual and cognitive responses in young children. We also have a mobile testing laboratory for field research.

• The Early Development of Reasoning.
• How Does Children’s Recognition Memory Develop?

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The Developmental Psychopathology research group is headed by Associate Professor Eva Kimonis and broadly focuses on the development of antisocial and aggressive behaviour. Within this broad area there is a specialised focus on atypical development of moral emotions, which at it extremes manifests as callous-unemotional traits (i.e., lack of empathy, lack of guilt, uncaring attitudes, lack of concern about school/work performance). 

Children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits are at heightened risk for antisocial, aggressive, and criminal behaviour across the lifespan, and these traits are thought to precede adult psychopathy and to be preceded by a fearless temperament in early childhood. Current projects include:

• Examining emotional deficits in individuals with callous-unemotional traits across the lifespan
• Refining the measurement of callous-unemotional traits; and
• Testing whether early intervention improves emotional deficits and the antisocial and aggressive outcomes they are thought to mediate.

Within its state-of-the-art facilities, the research group is conducting cutting-edge innovative research to better understand the development of severe and persistent antisocial behaviour across the lifespan. Through its community partnerships with organisations including Karitane, this research has a translational focus in applying new knowledge gained to the development of targeted prevention and intervention programmes for young children with antisocial behaviour.

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The Early Learning Project at UNSW is directed by Dr Jenny Richmond.  Our research focuses on the development of learning, memory and emotion understanding during infancy and early childhood. We are particularly interested in how brain development drives the changes we see in encoding, retention, and retrieval and how infants and children come to share and understand emotion in others. Our studies combine eye-tracking, behavioural methods, and psychophysiology to understand the mechanisms that underlie developmental change.

• What Goes With What and Where - The Development of Relational Learning
• Catching Emotion From Others - Affective Empathy During Infancy and Early Childhood
• Back To The Future - How Do Children Learn To Use The Past To Think About The Future?

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Australia

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Brain Sciences UNSW is a research Institute comprised of researchers from the basic neurosciences, psychiatry, psychology, drug and alcohol, neurology, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering and mathematics. Its constituent members are based in the Faculties of Medicine, Science and Engineering, and a number of UNSW-affiliated independent research institutes:

• Neuroscience Research Australia
• Black Dog Institute and
• The Garvan Institute for Medical Research

Brain Sciences UNSW aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary research to enhance understanding of normal and abnormal brain functioning. Disorders of brain functioning, as manifest in mental illness and neurological disorders, one of the leading causes of disease disability and burden in Australia and worldwide.

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Brain Sciences UNSW UNSW Australia UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052

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The Moving Ahead Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Brain Recovery is the first centre worldwide to take a multidisciplinary, multisite approach to addressing the psychosocial rehabilitation of individuals following TBI.

Moving Ahead brings together key experts from a range of partner universities, hospitals and research institutes in Australia and overseas to address what is a growing problem. The physical, cognitive and emotional impairments that result from TBI can have a profound effect on an individual's quality of life. Severe TBI is associated with fewer employment opportunities, greater risk of depression, family stress, deteriorating relationships, and social isolation. While psychosocial remediation is essential, evidence for existing remediation techniques is limited. Moving Ahead aims to improve outcomes for those with a traumatic brain injury by developing empirically-supported treatments, addressing deficits in social skills, communication, mood, fatigue, self-awareness and self-regulation.

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The UNSW Salivary Bioscience Research Centre (SBRC) within the School of Psychology provides researchers and industry with access to high-quality saliva testing services. The minimally-invasive nature of saliva sample collection, and the broad range of potential measurements, enables oral fluids to be employed in a wide range of fields and disciplines. 

UNSW SBRC staff provide cutting-edge scientific and technical advice to help researchers incorporate the best and most appropriate salivary bioscience methods into their research. The mission of the SBRC is to expand capability for multidisciplinary salivary bioscience research within UNSW and across Australia by facilitating integration of salivary biomarkers into academic research. The SBRC will support UNSW researchers across diverse academic disciplines in pursuits to incorporate salivary biomarkers (e.g., stress and sex hormones, cytokines) into research activities by providing:

• Infrastructure
• Research collaboration
• Technical support and expertise
• Sharing of resources, and
• Competitive pricing for saliva testing supplies, kits, and services.

The SBRC Spit Camp provides training in the basics of salivary analytes and related laboratory methods. It is designed for researchers that are new to salivary bioscience research and methods, providing both didactic content to learn basic strategies for incorporating saliva into your research and hand-on, supervised lab training on sample processing. 

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General enquiries to sbrc@unsw.edu.au Room 141, UNSW - Mathews Building (F23) Kensington NSW Sydney NSW 2052

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Australia

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The School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales has a very well-resourced Test Library, which is available to all Psychology Masters coursework and PhD students as well as to qualified staff in the School of Psychology. The Test Library transitioned to an online system in February 2020. 

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Level 8, Room 825 of the Mathews Building.

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Australia

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The UNSW Psychology Clinic provides a broad range of clinical psychology services to adults, young people, children and families at low cost. It has an emphasis on cognitive-behavioural approaches to the understanding and management of psychological issues, which are based on the most up-to-date clinical research and evidence.The clinic also maintains close liaison and consultation with referring agencies and other mental health services. The clinic functions as an advanced postgraduate teaching and training clinic within the UNSW School of Psychology, and is staffed by postgraduate Clinical Psychology Trainees under the supervision of Senior Clinical Psychologists and Clinical Neuropsychologists. The clinic is also actively involved in treatment research trials that the general public may become involved in if they choose.

The Psychology Clinic has established itself as a leading provider of evidence-based focused therapy, primarily cognitive and behavioural therapies for adults, children, young people and families. The Clinic provides individual therapy sessions and psychological assessments for a range of problems. There are also Group Programs available.

• Services for Adults: therapy sessions and neuropsychological assessment services of cognitive functioning fo memory problems, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, neurological illnesses, mental health and acquired brain impairments

• Services for Children and Families: therapy sessions and psychometric assessments

• Group Programs: including the adult 'Making the Most of Your Memory' Group, Adult Hoarding Treatment Group and Capable Kids Social Skills Training Group

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Dr Chien Hoong Gooi Psychology Clinic Director School of Psychology UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA

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Australia

Call (02) 9385 3042.

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The Wentworth Forensic Clinic (WFC) is a training clinic run by the University of New South Wales School of Psychology, providing opportunities for supervised training of students enrolled in the Master of Psychology (Forensic) program at UNSW. As well as providing assessment and therapy services, the clinic supports research, training and supervision for forensic psychologists and forensic psychology registrars.

As our clinic operates as a training facility for UNSW intern psychologists in the Master of Psychology (Forensic) program, they offer a host of forensic services that are provided by students under the direct supervision of a forensic psychologist/supervisor, including:

• Assessments
• Therapeutic Intervention: the most common interventions are individuals who commit offences, vctims/survivors and other legal concerns
• Supervision:  AHPRA accredited supervision training.
• Groups
• The international Family Connections program is an evidence-based program that provides peer support, psycho-education and skills anchored in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for partners, families, friends and carers of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or traits of BPD, as well as problems with emotion dysregulation. 

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303, 13-15 Wentworth Avenue, Surry Hills 2010

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Australia

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The Parent-Child Research Clinic is a Sydney-based Psychology clinic offering state-of-the-art treatments involving Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to parents of young children with challenging behaviours. The UNSW Parent-Child Research Clinic is a fee-for-service clinic and accepts referrals for children ages 7 and under with disruptive behaviour problems. We specialise in an evidence-based program called Parent-Child Interaction Therapy – found to be an effective approach for reducing problem behaviours in children ages 7 and under. We work with all families with children with disruptive behaviour but specialise in working with those who show limited prosocial emotions relative to other children their age. In addition to providing standard in-clinic treatment, we also offer Internet-delivered treatment in which interested and eligible families securely meet “face-to-face” with an experienced therapist over the Internet.

The UNSW Parent-Child Research Clinic also offers a 7-week group parenting program for all parents and carers of children aged 18 months to 5 years called Helping Our Toddlers, Developing Our Children’s Skills (HOT DOCS). HOT DOCS is evidence-based, structured, and supportive, and offers parents a problem-solving approach for everyday behaviour problems. 

Address
Level 8 Mathews Building UNSW Kensington Campus, Randwick NSW 2052

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Australia

Call (02) 9385 0376

The UNSW Psychology Clinic provides a broad range of clinical psychology services to adults, young people, children and families at low cost. It has an emphasis on cognitive-behavioural approaches to the understanding and management of psychological issues, which are based on the most up-to-date clinical research and evidence. The clinic also maintains close liaison and consultation with referring agencies and other mental health services.

The UNSW Psychology Clinic is part of  the UNSW School of Psychology. The clinic is staffed by both Clinical Psychologist Registrars who have completed a postgraduate qualification in Clinical Psychology, as well as Provisional Psychologists who are undergoing postgraduate training in Clinical Psychology and are under the supervision of Senior Clinical Psychologists and Clinical Neuropsychologists.

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Australia

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UNSW Forensic Psychology Clinic is a training clinic run by the University of New South Wales School of Psychology, providing opportunities for supervised training of students enrolled in the Master of Psychology (Forensic) program at UNSW.As well as providing assessment and therapy services, the clinic supports research, training and supervision for forensic psychologists and forensic psychology registrars.

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303, 13-15 Wentworth Avenue Surry Hills 2010

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Australia

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The Cognitive Neuroscience Unit (CNU) is a research group that uses cutting-edge technologies to explore the relationship between the brain, behaviour and cognition.  Based in the School of Psychology, and affiliated with the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED), the CNU has a strong neurodevelopmental focus. The CNU research examines both typically developing and atypically developing populations, such as autism spectrum disorder, language impairment and developmental coordination disorder. Through various clinical trials, the CNU also aims to develop novel interventions that use current neuroscience approaches and understandings. Research programs include:

• CNU Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab: explores how the human brain allows us to interpret our interpersonal world and manage our emotional lives. Taking a developmental perspective with a focus on childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, the lab investigates topics such as empathy, motor resonance, theory of mind, and emotion regulation. From a clinical perspective, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab also conducts research into  autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here the lab harnesses cutting-edge neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches, seeking to better understand the brain basis of ASD. There is also a focus on the translation of this work by developing novel brain stimulation protocols designed to target specific processes. Current clinical trials employ non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), to improve outcomes for people diagnosed with ASD.

• CNU Brain and Cognitive Development Lab: uses advanced neuroimaging techniques to enhance our understanding of neurodevelopment and how brain maturation relates to the development of cognitive functions. Using a range of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques including structural, diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) functional (fMRI) and resting state (rs-fMRI), the Brain and Cognition Lab investigates brain development in typical childhood, as well as when neurodevelopment goes awry such as neurodevelopment disorders (ADHD, autism etc). By applying these neuroimaging techniques, the lab aims to reveal how subtle individual neuroanatomical variation lead to diversity in human cognition, and ultimately to distinguish or predict differential cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes.

• CNU Language and Memory Lab: investigates memory and language functioning across the lifespan. The lab’s work with infants and children uses eye-tracking, pupillometry and EEG. With adults, the lab studies interrelationships between the brain, memory and language using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). The goal of the Language and Memory Lab is to advance knowledge about the role of memory in language. The lab also aims to contribute to the development of support programs for individuals with language difficulties, as well as methods that will facilitate language learning from infancy to adulthood.

• CNU Motor Cognition Lab: is conducting a series of world-first studies investigating the causal mechanisms that subserve individual differences in skill acquisition in childhood and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and ADHD. The lab combines highly novel experimental measures of action and cognition with a variety of neuro structural (diffusion MRI), functional (fMRI) and physiological (TMS, tDCS pupillometry) measures to gain new insight into the factors that contribute to motor development and its disorder. The goal of these studies is to inform the development of targeted interventions and circumvent the presentation of commonly observed psychosocial difficulties associated with reduced motor competence. These projects build on a body of work from the lab leader, Dr. Christian Hyde, but also bring together expertise of a number of members within the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. Together, this environment is ideal for producing high-impact, novel research.

• CNU Health Neuroscience Lab: aims to build a body of research in Australia on the neural mechanisms of executive functioning in health behaviour change, with the primary focus being on weight and smoking. The focus of the lab’s research is to explore the underlying mechanisms of health behaviour, particularly around impulsivity and inhibitory control. Using the latest approaches, the lab is exploring inhibitory control deficits and the potential impact of inhibitory control training on behaviour change.

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
Prof. Peter Enticott

Call +61 3 9244 5504

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The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD) explores what it's like to live with diabetes and works to raise awareness of diabetes across Australia. It's a national research centre that provides invaluable resources to clinicians and researchers, and has a significant impact on policy. The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes is the first national research centre in Australia and internationally, dedicated to investigating the behavioural, psychological and social aspects of diabetes. The Centre conducts applied research focused on the behavioural, psychological and social aspects of diabetes. The Centre produces a range of resources relevant to the behavioural and psychosocial aspects of diabetes.

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570 Elizabeth Street Melbourne VIC 3000

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Australia

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The Australian Centre on Quality of Life (ACQol) was established to study evidence-based measures for quality of life. ACQol formed a partnership with Australian Unity in 2001 to develop the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index - a national survey which uses several indicators to measure subjective life quality. The Centre is also home to data from the Australian Unity Longitudinal Wellbeing Study. This study follows-up the samples of Australians who respond to the annual cross-sectional surveys. ACQol also supports the International Wellbeing Group (IWbG) - an international collaborative network of researchers. The collective aim of the IWbG is to develop the Personal Wellbeing Index into a standard, cross-cultural measure of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). ACQol is committed to:

• Improving our understanding of life quality through both theory development and empirical research. Notable advances in understanding have been achieved through the development and evaluation of the theory of SWB homestasis, the discovery of SWB set-points, and the demonstration that SWB mainly comprises positive-activated mood (Homeostatically Protected Mood).
• Open-access: all reports and data resulting from the Australian Unity project, currently including 35 national, cross-sectional surveys, are freely available for download. The longitudinal data are currently being assembled into a single coherent file and will be available by the end of 2020. Cross-sectional data from other surveys are also available.
• Developing new research techniques and fostering collaborations with like-minded researchers: current SWB longitudinal research within the Centre is trialling novel techniques, such as micro-longitudinal research and smartphone apps. An emerging orientation within the Centre concerns the development of valid SWB measures for children.

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Australia

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The Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) conducts world-leading research on social development and its origins in early emotional life. The overall objective of SEED is to promote emotional health, from pregnancy through to adulthood and into the next generation. SEED hosts specialist research centres and programs in:

• Wellbeing

• Attachment

• Addiction and

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

We bring together life course, clinical and public health research and practice to describe the major milestones in emotional life, advise on the most effective approaches to intervening at the earliest opportunities in troubled pathways, and engage systems for translating this knowledge broadly. Research Themes include

• Lifecourse Sciences Theme: understanding the developmental origins of mental health and disorder

• Intervention Sciences Theme: designing interventions to promote emotional security and social connection

• Translation Sciences Theme: harnessing system-based approaches to disseminate effective interventions

• Intergenerational-Early Childhood Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from infancy to preschool

• Childhood to Adolescence Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from childhood into adolescence

• Adolescent to Young Adulthood Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from adolescence into young adulthood

• Innovation Hub: understanding the developing social brain

• Interpersonal Neuroscience

• Behavioural Medicine: exploring body, mind and emotion

• Data Sciences: data Analytics for Social Sciences

• ACQOLSpecialist Research Centre: nderstanding, monitoring and promoting Subjective Wellbeing

• DCSCSpecialist Research Centre: supporting children and young people living with neuro-developmental challenges

• CEDAARSpecialist Research Centre: monitoring and preventing drug use and violence in young people

To become a SEED research student you need to have a clear vision of what you want to investigate. This could be the origins of social and emotional health, emotional regulation in children, or understanding positive youth development. In just a few steps you could be finding new and better ways to deliver preventative intervention or promoting a secure start to emotional life for all children.

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Deakin University 221 Burwood Highway Burwood VIC 3125

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
Gwyn Morgan

Call +61 3 9244 5815

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The Deakin Child Study Centre (DCSC) is a multidisciplinary research centre with a focus on understanding neurodevelopment from the early years of childhood through to adolescence. Through their research and dedication to translating science into practical outcomes, our ultimate goal is to enhance the lives of young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, helping them develop to their full potential. The Deakin Child Study Centre strives to reach the one in five children who have a disability, developmental challenge or vulnerability, to develop practical and sustainable evidence-based strategies. They include all children and create programs that are culturally sensitive and inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

DCSC aim to see the meaningful participation of children with disability or developmental challenges through community-integrated interventions. They place a particular emphasis on providing these children with resources and support to enable meaningful participation and engagement in organised physical activities (OPAs); principally occurring in community settings consistent with the lives of the children and their families. With a focus on developing child-centred interventions, they are dedicated to working with the community to ‘make the world fit for all kids’, where children of all abilities feel secure to thrive socially and emotionally. With access to community-based interventions complementing and enhancing best practice clinical care, our research and pilot studies have shown that children with disabilities and developmental challenges gain developmental, clinical and health benefits.

The aim is to provide the community with training and technological innovations connecting individuals, families and professionals to work together with a common goal: ensuring every child with a disability or developmental challenge has the best possible opportunity to reach their full developmental potential.We combine research, clinical expertise and technology with like-minded partners and peak bodies to create evidence-based, accessible and innovative resources. Key projects include:

• AllPlay: the AllPlay programs are supported by a digital development team that uses information and communication technologies to optimise AllPlay research and intervention activity. The AllPlay digital platform leverages the power of web, app, wearables, gaming, virtual reality, social media and software engineering to deliver innovative, engaging and best-practice digital solutions.

• Inclusive Sports program: aims to enable children of all abilities and disabilities to participate in sport together, and ultimately enjoy the physical, social, emotional and cognitive benefits of sport and recreation. Generously funded by a grant of $400,000 from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) over one year, the Inclusive Sports program aims to enable children of all abilities to participate in sport together and ultimately enjoy the physical, social, emotional and cognitive benefits of sport and recreation. There are three components to this overall study: a desktop review, community survey and coaches inclusion program.

• Comparing the effect of non-invasive brain stimulation on different brain regions for reducing social symptoms in autism spectrum disorder (2017–2018)

• The development of the social brain in early childhood (2017–2021)

• The neurobiological basis of motor impairment in developmental coordination disorder: Evidence for compromised mirror neuron activity? (2016–2017)

• An investigation of neuroplasticity in autism spectrum disorder using brain stimulation and neuroimaging (2016–2017)

• Calm Kids – does the treatment of anxiety in children with ADHD improve outcomes?: A large-scale randomised controlled trial (2016–2019)

• Sleeping sound with autism spectrum disorder – tailoring a brief sleep intervention for autism: A randomised controlled trial (2016–2019)

• Sleeping Sound in Adolescence: A pilot study (2016–2018)

• Sleeping sound special needs: A feasibility pilot study (2016–2018)

• Impact of sleep intervention in ADHD: Translational randomised trial (2014–2017)

• Mindful choices for parents of children with ADHD (2017–2018)

• Joy of Moving: Getting children moving: An evaluation of the effectiveness of the "Joy of Moving" program in Australian primary school aged children (2017-2020)

• Digital operations platform

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
Samantha Lewis

Call +61 3 9246 8291

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The Deakin University Centre for Drug use, Addictive and Anti-social behaviour Research (CEDAAR) conducts research into the psychological, biological, socio-political, and clinical aspects of Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) use, other addictive behaviours, and consequent harm. The centre conducts federally and state-funded research on substance use, gambling, prevention, treatment, harm reduction and related problem areas such as violence, criminal justice settings, and characteristics of rural addictive behaviours.

They multidisciplinary centre is strongly linked to the Deakin University Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED), as we look to understand many of the problems associated with addictive behaviours and related harms from a developmentally informed perspective. Our aim is to use these understandings to inform our evidence-based policy, treatment, and prevention interventions, as well as providing service to the community. Their approach is structured around three research questions - What matters in predicting, preventing, and reducing harm from AOD use, other addictive behaviours, and anti-social behaviour? What works to prevent and reduce harm from AOD use, other addictive behaviours, and anti-social behaviour? What translates into sustainable policy, prevention and treatment programs?

• Prevention: prevention science applies life-course and developmental systems research to design and evaluate interventions that enhance healthy child and youth development and prevent substance use, gambling, and other addictive behaviours. Program models being designed and evaluated include family (Behaviour Exchange Systems Training), school (Resilient Families) and community interventions (Communities That Care; Smart Generations). The cross-national International Youth Development Study is used to evaluate and advocate for effective state policies.

• Epidemiology: this stream examines the prevalence of substance use, gambling, and other addictive behaviours in different groups within the Australian population to determine trends in usage patterns and investigates factors that might influence these trends over time. Understanding trends in the use of alcohol and gambling by Australian adolescents and adults is a key focus in this stream.

• Policy, evaluation and monitoring: this stream focuses on understanding and evaluating government and organisational policy as well as monitoring and evaluating the impacts of alcohol, gambling, and other addictive behaviours on the community. Research undertaken by the researchers in this stream aims to positively inform policy at a national and local level.

• Psychological and social studies of addiction: the work of this stream is to develop a deep understanding of some of the key underlying psychological and social processes involved in the development, maintenance and treatment of addiction.  Factors such as impulse control, emotion dysregulation, reward sensitivity, negative affect, motivation, trait aggression, family processes and social identity are all key candidates. Our group draws on innovative methodologies such as Ecological Momentary Assessment, Eye Tracking, Cognitive-Neuro behavioural tasks to address key research questions that matter.

• Treatment: this stream involves the development, evaluation and translation of innovative evidence-based treatments for addiction.  Specifically we draw on trans-diagnostic approaches, e technology and cognitive interventions for addiction.

• Crime and antisocial behaviour: this stream focuses on research related to the prevention of antisocial behaviour and crime, as well as interventions for those who engage in antisocial and offending behaviour. Researchers in this stream focus on a range of different offence types and associated prevention and intervention strategies, however there is a strong focus on the relationship between aggressive and violent behaviour and addictive behaviours, such as substance use and gambling.

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Australia

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Peter Miller

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The Science of Adult Relationships Laboratory (SoAR) focuses on understanding the underlying systems that regulate the way people interact in their relationships. Drawing on some of the major theories in social psychology and personality, SoAR studies relationships across the entire span of adulthood, including the transition to young adulthood. SoAR aims to gain insight into the processes that govern the functioning of close relationships and their outcomes. Using established and cutting-edge methodological approaches, our research targets a wide variety of contexts including important life events, transitions and emerging social issues that can impact on relationships. We are a collaborative group of researchers with interests that reflect the broad diversity of close relationships in contemporary society. We aim to bridge the gap between science and practice by making our research accessible to academic and therapeutic communities, as well as the general public. We guide our research by widely-studied theoretical approaches in the relationship sciences. Specifically, these are:

• Attachment theory

• Ideal standards model

• Interdependence theory

• Transactional models of stress-coping

• Models of diathesis-stress and stress-buffering.

More recently, we have extended our theoretical lens to include models of approach-avoidance motivation and models of dehumanisation. We have also advanced our own theoretical models in relationship functioning and relationship acceptance. While we integrate various theoretical approaches within our different areas of research, our research is predominantly framed from an attachment theory perspective. Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969/1982) is a theory of human bonding that was developed to explain how infants and young children adjusted to prolonged separation from, or the loss of, a primary caregiver (often their mother). Since then, attachment theory has been applied to the study of many different types of close relationships and has become one of the most widely applied theories to the study of adult relationships (Gillath, Karantzas, & Fraley, 2016). To this end, attachment theory serves as a rich framework in which to scientifically study adult relationships. Focus areas include:

• Evaluating relationship partners: drawing primarily on the ideal standards model of relationships, this research focuses on understanding how people’s perceptions of their romantic partners against their ideals shape the way they think, feel and behave in their relationships. We are especially interested in the factors that predict perceptions of one’s partner as living up to, or falling short of one’s ideals, and the consequences of these perceptions.

• The dark side of romantic relationships: this research investigates aspects of romantic relationships that are seen as negative or harmful to both the functioning of a relationship and the wellbeing of romantic partners. Examples of such behaviours include sexual coercion and interpersonal dehumanisation. Although this area of research can include extreme and very explicit instances of negative relationship behaviours, such as physical abuse, we focus more on the subtle expressions of these phenomena. We are interested in the everyday occurrences and outcomes of these negative relationship behaviours, as well as the individual differences and situational factors that affect people’s propensity to either be the perpetrator or victim of negative interpersonal behaviour.

• The impact of life transitions: this research focuses on how major life transitions influence people’s romantic, familial and peer relationships. Whether disruptions to relationships, as a function of life transitions, produce particular negative adjustment or mental health outcomes. We are also interested in understanding how life transitions can benefit relationships and the factors that protect against deterioration in relationships as a function of major life transitions and stressors.

• Chronic illness and ageing families: this research explores how relationship processes help to explain how individuals, couples and families cope with the stressors and challenges associated with experiencing chronic illness and having to care for an older parent. We place emphasis on understanding how care and support are provided within couples and families, as well as the factors that predict how people respond to giving and receiving support. We also investigate the mental health and relationship consequences of chronic illness and aged care in couples and families. Our research in this area has been funded by beyondblue and, most recently, the Australian Research Council.

• The interplay between behavioural systems: this research focuses on how the major systems of behaviour that govern human interaction jointly determine relationship functioning and how people respond to relationship threats and stressors. We specifically focus on how the attachment, caregiving and sexual behavioural systems operate to influence couple's issues related to partner support, conflict and sexual functioning. In recent years we have also begun to investigate how systems associated with managing reward and punishment influence behaviours and motivations in relationships.

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
Gery Karantzas

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Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology) combines professional training with the research training of a full Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Students initially apply to the Master of Psychology (Clinical). On completion of the coursework of the first year of the program, application may be made to transfer to the Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology).

The University of New England is committed to maintaining its strong research culture, underpinned by high research training standards. The University Doctor of Philosophy Rules provides the framework for the University's highest level award. They provide the rigorous processes that are essential for the maintenance of academic quality and integrity in the University's operations, and that reflect the University's values of providing a formative, respectful, inclusive, flexible and innovative environment for the delivery of high quality research training for its students. Eligible Australian and New Zealand students who meet the criteria for entry to this course will not incur fees and will be funded under the Australian Government's Research Training Program (RTP) for the normal duration of the course. International Students incur tuition fees.

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Australia

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Duration
4 Years Full Time

Type of Program
PHD Course

The Master of Professional Psychology provides selected psychology graduates with a fifth year of professional training in psychology. This includes 300 hours of practical training at a worksite identified by the student and meeting the supervision and experience requirements of the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council. The course is delivered online and can be studied full-time or part-time. Graduates of the course complete an additional one-year Psychology Board of Australia approved internship to be eligible for general registration as a psychologist in Australia.

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Australia

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Campus
Armidale

The Bachelor of Psychology with Honours is our premier course designed for high-performing students who are aiming for a professional career in Psychology. It is an accredited, integrated, four-year Honours course that requires a high ATAR for initial entry [Rule (a)]; or admission only to the Honours year, based on a completed three-year Bachelor degree that includes a three-year sequence in Psychology that has been accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council [Rule (b)]*. However you can also transfer to this course from other courses, such as the Bachelor of Psychological Science, with sufficient grades in first and second year Psychology.

The first three years of the course build a foundation in Psychology, including units as diverse as Social Psychology (the study of human social behaviour), Biopsychology (the study of the brain), Psychological Testing (conducting tests of human abilities and skills), and Abnormal Psychology (the study of mental illness). In addition, an optional Minor in Criminology is available within the first three years. The fourth year is an integrated Honours year, in which you specialise in areas of study that match your strengths and career interests. The Honours year (which may be done part-time) includes components on psychological testing, clinical interviewing and interventions, ethics, research skills, and an elective reading unit. Students also complete a supervised research thesis.

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Australia

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Armidale

Duration
4 years

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

The Master of Professional Psychology provides an excellent opportunity for students to undertake training in professional psychology skills. The Master of Professional Psychology allows students to undertake this training by distance and can be completed part time (up to four years) allowing for flexible study in this training.

The Master of Professional Psychology prepares students to help fill the need for psychologists in Australia. Rural areas in particular suffer from workforce shortages, and our programs equip students for practice in rural as well as urban areas. The Master of Professional Psychology allows students to undertake a one-year internship following the Masters which will allow them to apply for General Registrations as a Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia. The UNE clinical programs offer students stimulating, practically-oriented training. In the first year, students receive extensive training in assessment and evidence-based treatments. Graduates of the Master of Professional Psychology may undertake internships in a wide variety of settings and, once registered as Psychologists, a range of diverse career opportunities is available (including work in private practice or within agencies where their skills are in high demand).

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Australia

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Armidale

Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

The Master of Psychology (Clinical) at UNE will train Psychology graduates and registered, experienced Psychologists in the professional specialisation of clinical psychology. The course is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) and involves 1000 hours of clinical placements. The first year of the course is undertaken full-time on-campus, with the exception of those students admitted under Rule (c)*, who can only study this course online, in full-time or part-time mode.

Completion of the course will enable graduates to apply for general registration as a Psychologist (if they do not already hold this). Subsequent supervised practice will lead to endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist by the Psychology Board of Australia.

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Australia

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Armidale

Duration
2 Years Full Time

Type of Program
Masters Degree Research

The program is not encumbered by political/government outcomes and provides a high standard of integrity and ethics in research of Australian military families. It acknowledges people's contributions and intellectual property and promotes trust and confidence within the Military and Veterans as well as the general community regarding research. The program aims to:

• Encourage and promote research, education and the advancement of health and well-being of partners and families of Australian Military personnel;
• Encourage and develop the work of researchers and scientists in the fields of positive psychology, stress, appraisal and coping, resilience and emotional intelligence, together with any variable that affects the health and well-being of partners and families of Australian Military personnel,
• Support and encourage the research aspirations of University post graduate students and members by assisting them with access to families of the Australian Military population;
• Promote the importance of high quality and innovative clinical and scientific research in the field of the health and well-being of partners and families of the Australian Military within Australia;
• Promote and raise awareness of research into the health and wellbeing of families of Australian Military personnel with a view to improving outcomes in the areas of care and prevention of mental health and psychosocial problems;

The group has developed a measure to assess distress in partners of Australian combat veterans (POVS-DSR). This scale is available for researchers, please contact Dr Gail V. MacDonell see details below.

• MacDonell, G. V., Bhullar, N., & Thorsteinsson, E. B. (2016). Depression, anxiety, and stress in partners of Australian combat veterans and military personnel: A comparison with Australian population norms. PeerJ, 4, e2373. doi:10.7717/peerj.2373
• MacDonell, G. V., Thorsteinsson, E. B., Bhullar, N., & Hine, D. W. (2014). Psychological functioning of partners of Australian combat veterans: Contribution of veterans’ PTSD symptoms and partners’ caregiving distress. Australian Psychologist, 49, 305-312. doi:10.1111/ap.12069
• MacDonell, G. V., Bhullar, N., & Thorsteinsson, E. B. (2013, November 20-22). Mental health outcomes of partners of Australian combat veterans: A comparative study with Australian population norms. 2013 Narratives of War Symposium – Traces of War, the University of South Australia, Magill Campus.
• MacDonell, G. V., Marsh, N. V., Hine, D. W., & Bhullar, N. (2010). Development and psychometric evaluation of a measure to assess distress in partners of Australian combat veterans. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44, 839-845. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00048674.2010.488214

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Australia

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A/ Prof Einar B. Thorsteinsson

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UNE’s environmental psychology group comprises academic staff and students who are interested in how psychological principles can be applied to understand and help solve problems related to environmental sustainability. They are actively researching in these areas and are recruiting enthusiastic Honours, Masters, and PhD students to undertake research in all areas of environmental psychology. Students working with us learn about theories of human motivation and behaviour change, and receive hands-on training in research design, statistics, and report writing.

The research projects cover a broad range of environmental issues including climate change communication, air pollution, coal seam gas, and management of invasive animals.

1. Climate Change

• Phillips, K., Hine, D.W., & Phillips, W.J. (2019). How projected energy price and personal values influence support for a 50% renewable energy target in Australia. Energy Policy, 129853-860. DOI: 10.106/j.enpol.2019.02.064.
• Hine, D.W., Phillips, W.J., Driver, A.B. & Morrison, M. (2018).   Audience segmentation and climate change communication. Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.001.0001.

2. Air Quality

• Bhullar, N., Hine, D.W., Marks, A., Davies, C., Scott, J.G., & Phillips, W. (2014). The affect heuristic and public support for three types of wood smoke mitigation policies. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 7, 347-356.
• Reeve, I., Scott, J.G, Hine, D.W., & Bhullar, N. (2013). "This is not a burning issue for me": How citizens justify their use of wood heaters in a city with severe air pollution problem. Energy Policy, 57, 204-211.

3. Risk Perception

• Xue, W., Hine, D.W., Loi, N., Thorsteinsson, E.B. & Phillips, W.J. (2014).  Cultural worldviews and environmental risk perceptions:  A meta-analysis.  Journal of Environmental Psychology, 40, 249-258.
• Gifford, R., Scannell, L., Kormos, C., Smolova, L., Beil, A., Boncu, S. Corral V., Gunther, H. Hanyu, K., Hine, D.W. et al. (2009) Pessimism and optimism in environmental assessments of laypersons in 18 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29, 1-12.

4. Invasive Species and Natural Resource Management

• Hine, D.W., Sharp, T. & Driver, A.B. (2019).   Using audience segmentation and targeted social marketing to improve landholder management of invasive animals.  In P. Martin, T. Alter, D.W. Hine, T. Howard (Eds.), Community-based control of invasive species.  CSIRO. ISBN: 9781486308873
• Hine, D.W., McLeod, L.J. & Driver, A. (2018).  Designing behaviour change interventions for invasive animal control:  A practical guide.  Canberra: Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. ISBN: 978-1-925727-06-07.

5. Coal Seam Gas

• Hine, D.W., Clarke, K., Marks, A.D.G., & Morgan, M.I. (2018).  Feelings about fracking:  Using the affect heuristic to understand public opposition to coal seam gas production.  Risk Analysis, 39, 586-598.  DOI: 10.1111/risa.13168
• Morgan, M. I., Hine, D.W., Bhullar, N., Dunstan, D.A. & Bartik W. (2016).  Fracked:  Coal seam gas extraction and farmer’s mental health.  Journal of Environmental Psychology,47, 22-32.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.04.012

6. Statistics and Methodology

• Hine, D.W., Corral-Verdugo, V., Bhullar, N., & Frias-Armenta, M. (2015).  Advanced statistics for environmental research:  Multi-level and structural equation modelling.  In R. Gifford (Ed), Research Methods for Environmental Psychology. Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley.  ISBN: 978-1-118-79533-0
• Hine, D.W., Kormos, C., & Marks, A.D.G.  (2015).  Agreeing to disagree:  A practical guide to survey research in environmental psychology. In R. Gifford (Ed), Research Methods for Environmental Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.   ISBN: 978-1-118-79533-0

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Australia

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Dr Amy Lykins

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The UNE Psychology's eye-tracking laboratory. eye-tracking is a cognitive methodology that records and analyses visual attention and processing to different types of stimuli presented on a computer. These data can tell us what attracts people's attention and what doesn't, what people want to avoid looking at, and how people problem-solve tasks (including decision-making and declarative memory). Our state-of-the-art Applied Science Laboratories D6 eye-tracker, complete with Gazetracker 9.0 presentation and analysis software, is easy to use.  The Gazetracker software also allows for the presentation and analysis of static images, video, and Internet websites. Completed projects in the lab include:

• How visual attention to different sizes of models relates to body image,

• How psychopathology is associated with visual attention to emotion-inducing images,

• How sexual orientation influences attention to nude male and female models,

• How sexual inhibition and sexual excitation directs attention to explicit vs. non-explicit erotic images, and

• How cognitive dissonance related to the “meat paradox” is associated with attention to different types animals.

• Sexual orientation

• Sexual decision-making

• Meat paradox

• Environmental psychology, climate change, and natural hazards

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Australia

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A/Prof Amy D. Lykins

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This project is the first longitudinal study of the genetic and environmental influences on variability in the Australia-wide NAPLAN scores (National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy, assessed at grades 3, 5, 7 and 9.  These NAPLAN tests are designed by educational authorities, are objective, and have been administered Australia-wide since 2008, and are unquestionably the most valuable national database on school achievement available.  Our ongoing twin analyses of these data are providing a more solid base for public policy debates on educational policy and practice.

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
Dr William Coventry

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The UNE Psychology Clinic provides assessment and therapeutic services to the general community and to UNE staff and students. Our services are for children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. The clinic provides a training and research facility for the postgraduate Clinical Psychology Program students, all of whom have provisional registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. All provisional psychologists in the clinic are supervised by registered and experienced clinical psychologists, including Dr Amanda Jefferys, Ms Alice Hone and Dr Clara Murray. In order to access services at the clinic, clients are provided with consent forms as their sessions may be video recorded for training purposes of the student only. Recordings are de-identified, stored securely and destroyed following the conclusion of the student's placement at the clinic. If at any time a client chooses to not have their session recorded, they have the option of being referred to an alternative service. Services offered

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessments 
• Cognitive, intellectual and memory assessments
• Neuropsychological assessments
• Anger management
• Anxiety and phobias
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression
• Eating disorders
• Grief and loss
• Headache and pain
• Learning, behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents
• Relationship problems
• Sexual difficulties
• Trauma/stress

The UNE Psychology Clinic accepts referrals from medical practitioners, paediatricians, school counsellors, psychologists, mental health clinicians, social workers, psychiatrists, neurologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, dietitians and Community Services. Self-referrals are also accepted, with the exception of ASD referrals which must be made in writing by a primary healthcare provider.

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Ground Floor Tablelands Clinical School 110 Butler Street Armidale NSW 2350

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Australia

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The G-lab (Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory) is directed by Dr Graham Jamieson and serves as a research facility specialising in the use of non-invasive human electrophysiology in the study of all aspects of human psychological life. Previously experimental psychology has compartmentalised the study of human mental life into cognitive, affective and social subdivisions. The development of human neuroscience has shown that these domains are never separated in the operations of the human brain.

Our lab employs a sophisticated suite of complex-systems or neural-networks analysis methods which integrate data from electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), traditional behavioural and contemporary phenomenological measures. The lab is equipped with:

• 2 X Neuroscan SynAmps2
• 64 channel EEG systems
• 2 X Neuroscan 40 channel NuAmps systems
• A 16-channel BioPac amplifier system for recording heart rate
• EOG
• GSR/SCR and
• EMG
• Multiple Polar Heart rate wrist monitors.
• Traditional EEG biofeedback ProComp2 (Thought Technologies) amplifier
• Cortical source (sLORETA) based neurofeedback we have 2 X Mitsar 19-channel EEG systems.

All our recording systems are highly portable and are often employed in a mobile capacity offsite enabling us to take our research to participants located in regional communities who could not otherwise attend our campus-based laboratory. Our lab seeks both to test and to apply the latest developments in theoretical neuroscience, identified under the umbrella term “Interoceptive Predictive Coding” (see Tsakiris, M. and De Preester, H. eds., 2018. The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness. OUP) as the most comprehensive framework available for the study and understanding of how cognitive, affective and social processes are integrated in the working of the human mind brain-body system. Strategic research include:

• Neuromodulation strategies for the prevention and treatment of trauma-related dissociation.
• Clinical applications of rhythmic sensory entrainment in functional neural networks (also in conjunction with Virtual Reality lab).
• Neural networks regulating conscious states and state transitions (sleep, hypnosis, meditation, religious experience).
• Mindfulness training, flow and sports performance.
• Human sexuality and sexual response (also in conjunction with Biospsychology lab).

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Australia

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The Bachelor of Psychological Science (Advanced) aims deepen your understanding of theoretical methodologies – but with opportunities to participate in work integrated and project based learning, you’ll develop valuable connections with industry and other professionals to improve employment outcomes when you graduate. This fascinating and evolving field will prepare you to work in a broad range of industries where you can positively impact the lives of others. Understanding the science behind human behaviour, the human brain and its effect on the way we act and why form the foundation of psychological science. This fascinating area of study covers a broad range of areas such as memory, decision-making and developmental studies.

The Advanced Psychology program has been uniquely designed to combine professional practice skills courses, research training and work integrated learning. You will have access to guest lectures from practicing psychologists, problem-based workshops and video material to give you well-rounded perspective of the range of areas within psychology.​ They are globally recognised for excellence in scientific research meaning you will learn from award winning academics who are research leaders in their field including Professor Scott Brown who was recently named Australia’s leading researcher in cognitive science (The Australian’s 2019 Research magazine). The University of Newcastle's top researchers in psychology teach into your program and you will have opportunities for one-on-one discussions with some of the top researchers in the country.

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Australia

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Campus
Callaghan Campus Ourimbah

Duration
3 years full time

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

Annual Fee
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-students/study-essentials/fees-scholarships

Application
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-psychological-science-advanced#tab-how-to-apply

The University of Newcastle’s Master of Professional Psychology offers a professional qualification for those who wish to practice as a registered psychologist. This will enhance your theoretical skills and learn to use relevant principles and methods to assist people with a range of behavioural problems, taking into account social and cultural diversity, current relevant legal frameworks, mental health practice standards and codes of ethical practice. Courses to support your drive and direction include:

• Applied Psychological Interventions
• Psychological Treatments and Interventions
• Professional & Ethical Practice
• Clinical Psychology of Special Groups: Intellectual Disabilities/Older Adults

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Austria

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Type of Program
Masters Degree (Coursework)

The Bachelor of Psychological Science covers a wide range of subject areas. In your first year you will examine the influences on behaviour and personality plus the mechanisms of behaviour such as emotions, perception, learning and memory. Second year expands on these topics to include areas of the biological basis of behaviour, while in third year you will study core topics in more depth. Throughout the degree you will learn about:

• Research methodology
• Stratistics
• Cognition and information processing
• Social psychology and personality
• Clinical and abnormal behaviour
• Neuroscience
• Psychopharmacology
• Perceptual processes and learning theory
• Developmental psychology

This fascinating area of study covers a broad range of areas such as memory, decision-making and developmental studies. In addition to learning about a diverse array of psychology fields, the Bachelor of Psychological Science at The University of Newcastle also encompasses statistical analysis and research methodologies to provide you with comprehensive skills that can be utilised across a variety of career paths. Your study of psychology will help you become an expert in human behaviour and give you the skills to make a positive impact in the lives of others.

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Australia

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Duration
3 years full time

Type of Program
Undergraduate Degree (Bachelors)

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https://www.newcastle.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-psychological-science#tab-how-to-apply

The Cognitive Science Research Group research a diverse range of topics including decision making, human memory, cognitive development, skill acquisition, attention, multitasking, spatial cognition, animal cognition and evolutionary psychology. They have particular strength in mathematical modeling and pursue research that integrates behavioural and neuroscience measures, and which makes use of cutting-edge statistical and computational methods.

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Australia

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The Health and Clinical Psychology Research Group conducts fundamental and applied research into factors associated with psychological well-being and physical health across the lifespan. Research programs within the group are focused on understanding the psychology underlying the causes of mental and physical ill-health, developing interventions for prevention and treatment, and exploring strategies to enhance and promote positive physical and mental wellbeing. A variety of research methodologies are employed including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Examples of current research include but are not restricted to:

• Post-traumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth
• Childhood anxiety
• Reducing smoking and other health risk behaviours (for disadvantaged sub-groups such as people with mental illness)
• Promoting resilience among adolescents, and the possible impact on psychological well-being and health risk behaviours
• Interpersonal relationships and psychological health
• Perinatal psychological health and postnatal depression
• Promoting healthy diets
• Genetic disorders and development
• Mindfulness-based interventions

The Health and Clinical Psychology Research Group holds regular seminars and workshops throughout the year. 

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The Sensory, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Research Group embraces contemporary questions in sensory, cognitive and affective function in human and animal models of brain and behaviour. With a focus on early identification, problem prevention, functional restoration and maintenance across the lifespan, this research group address issues at multiple levels of analysis and using various methodologies including neuropsychological testing, psychophysics and behavioural tasks, measures of brain structure and function using electrophysiology and magnetic resonance imaging, and molecular biology and immunology. They collaborate extensively with other members of the school and clinical researchers with this cross disciplinary approach already leading to pivotal insights in:

• Vision
• Central auditory processing
• Pain
• Executive functioning in both typical (development, ageing) and atypical (e.g., schizophrenia, stroke) groups.

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Australia

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The Social and Organisational Psychology research group is a multidisciplinary research group that employ a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods in the field and in the laboratory to investigate complex psychological relationships between individuals, groups, and cultures (e.g., family and group members, organisational units and broader organisations, social and cultural contexts). The group includes researchers who specialise in: 

• Social and cross-cultural psychology: identity, prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup emotions)
• Organisational psychology: leadership, safety culture, organisational change, and selection and 
• Personality psychology: psychometrics, morality, resilience, and stress).  

The Social and Organizational Psychology research group has a 'basic psychology' arm with a solid track record of highly cited research publications and competitive research grants and an 'applied psychology' arm with an established profile of research consultancies and industry engagement. The group collaborates extensively with other members of the School, enjoys a large number of international research collaborations, and offers research supervision to students from a variety of areas.

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Australia

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The University of Newcastle's Social Psychology Laboratory focuses on the social psychological processes that influence how people relate and respond to social groups and their members. Key research topics in our lab include stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination.

The Lab is based in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia assessment rated the School’s research as “above world standard” in the area of “psychology and cognitive science” and “well above world standard” in the specific area of “cognitive science.” The University is ranked among the top 150 universities in the world and in the top 10 in Australia (QS World University Rankings, 2017; Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17; Higher Education Research Data Collection 2014).

Our staff are located at the Callaghan campus near Newcastle, about two hours drive north of Sydney, and at the Ourimbah campus, about one hour north of Sydney. We have our own fully equipped suite of four research rooms at Callaghan and two rooms at Ourimbah. We carry out dyadic and small group studies as well as computer-based and psychophysiological recordings. They also conduct studies in the field and using web-based survey software. We have access to over 500 research participants via the School of Psychology's Psychology Research Participant Pool and Participant Volunteer Register. They run weekly research lab group meetings and also host visits from overseas and domestic researchers and offer hands-on research experience to several research volunteers.

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The Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research (CBMHR) is focused on increasing our understanding of the brain and mind across the lifespan, in the absence and presence of disease. The Centre hosts three platforms for research:

• Preclinical Neurobiology Hub (PNR) is a branch of the life sciences that brings together many disciplines including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology,and medicine, to study the development and function of the brain.
• The Psychological Processes Hub is a multidisciplinary hub working on cognitive science, health and clinical psychology, sensory, cognitive and affective neuroscience and social and organisational psychology
• The Mental Health Hub is a collective of clinical researchers and clinicians including but not limited to affective disorders, lifestyle and substance use, development, ageing and cognition, psychosis and neuroscience, psychosocial and mental health services, nursing and allied mental health, and mental and physical health. The SISTAQUIT™ trial aims to improve health providers’ skills and when offering smoking cessation care to pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

The Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research (CBMHR) is a cross-disciplinary group of leading researchers from diverse fields, united by a common goal: To understand (and modify) brain function and factors that influence mental health problems at the molecular, cellular, systems, behavioural, and social levels of analysis. CBMHR's three cornerstones are to foster inter-disciplinary research excellence, support, train, and promote the next research leaders and engage the public via open forums.

The CBMHR provides leadership in the integration of basic science and clinical research, to foster the transfer of discoveries from ‘bench to bedside’, and allow clinical questions to drive the focus of basic research. Clinical translation and innovation are the cornerstones of transformative technology and practices, generating both economic and social benefits.

The CBMHR houses a substantial program of community intervention (e.g. through CRRMH and Centre for Resources Health and Safety) creating scope for social and community benefits – improving wellbeing, overcoming barriers to accessing care for mental health conditions – as well as economic benefits such as improved productivity and participation. The CBMHR has been a crucial driver for community engagement by convening community/public forums to raise awareness of the CBMHR’s research, and to discuss important neurological and mental health problems. These forums have provided information to improve health and encourage community participation and support for both basic and clinical research programs.

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Bowman Building, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308

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Australia

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The Psychology Clinic provides both a service to the community and a training facility for the postgraduate students within the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle. The Clinic offers assessments and a range of programs using specific psychological interventions targeted at particular client groups. The programs are carried out by staff and postgraduate students who are closely supervised. Students are training for their Master of Clinical Psychology degree. All students hold either provisional registration or full registration as psychologists with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. All students are closely supervised by experienced clinical psychologists.

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Psychology Clinic Behavioural Sciences Building University of Newcastle University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308

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Australia

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Cognitive Basis of Atypical Behaviour are a group of multidisciplinary researchers with strengths in these two domains of psychology. We combine expertise in cognitive psychology with applied research to:

• Breakdown and operationalise the cognitive components contributing to effective psychosocial functioning
• Identify healthy volunteer models and devise objective tools to test these models;
• Investigate the individual differences in cognitive and affective styles related to psychosocial functioning; and,
• Investigate how cognitive language processes, such as semantic processing, link through to their application in social settings.

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Australia

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The FLINT (Family, Learning and Interaction) research theme at Early Start brings together researchers with expertise in infancy, attachment, parent-child conversation, parental mental health, the home learning environment, early literacy, and the role of fathers, to address important questions about interactive processes in development. We ask how infants make sense of the busy world around them, and how parents and carers support their child’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Projects include:

• It all counts: Talking about numeracy at home: by the time children begin formal schooling, there are already considerable individual differences in early literacy and numeracy skills. A child who is behind when school begins struggles to catch up. We are studying the ways in which parents and carers talk about numeracy in the home with very young children. The aim of this research is to better understand the range of ways parents/carers and children can or might talk about concepts like counting, size and shape comparisons, distance, time, and patterns, during play, book-reading, and everyday activities in the home. This research will inform the development of an intervention for families who need support and guidance as their children develop numeracy knowledge and confidence. 

• Parent-child Interactions: Parent-child interactions provide the primary social learning context for children. Our research brings together clinical and developmental staff and research methods to better understand the ways in which parental mental health and wellbeing is associated with the way parents play and talk with their children. Our research aims to understand and adapt existing evidence-based interventions, such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, to better meet the needs of high-risk families, and to foster parent-child attachment bonds.

The quality of parent-child interaction has long been recognised as critical in children’s development during the early years. Through observational research in Wollongong Infant Learning Lab (WILL) at Early Start, we ask questions about parent-child interactions in the home environment that contribute to the emergence of early learning, literacy and numeracy and socio-emotional well-being. Through our alignment with the establishment of Northfields Clinic at Early Start, we ask questions about the ways in which families experiencing vulnerability or disadvantage interact. We believe that intervening in early interactive processes provides a unique opportunity for prevention.

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Australia

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Food and Movement Research is a research group that brings together a cross-disciplinary team from Health and Society and Education. The overall aim of this group is to consolidate excellence in childhood nutrition and physical activity research (in the birth to 10 years age group). Our research focuses on wellness, early intervention, and population-level approaches to healthy eating and movement behaviours. The objectives of this group are to:

• Make a significant contribution to the Early Start ‘engagement frontier’ of Play-Based Research by undertaking novel research in the Discovery Space on nutrition and physical activity promotion

• Contribute to the creation of engaging Discovery Space exhibits/programs, which embed healthy eating and movement behaviours in play-based experiences

• Support the group’s ECRs/HDRs, through mentoring from senior members

• Boost the research output of the group

• Develop impact statements for our research theme

• Increase the international reputation of Early Start as a place to undertake public health nutrition and physical activity research

• Contribute to UOW teaching curricula by communicating our research back to Faculty staff and offering student placements

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Australia

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Foodways research is the critical analysis of what, how, and why we eat. We strive to understand the intersection of food, environment and society, from local through to global perspectives, through aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to promote inclusion and connection through food. 

Our research brings novel and diverse approaches to complex issues around food, including community and key stakeholders’ perspectives to provide a new lens to disrupt and reform current food systems policies and processes. Our aim is to increase food autonomy, food system sustainability, and overall health and well-being. Foodways research fosters systematic evidence-based approaches to:

• Enhance approaches to food education;
• Integrate foodways considerations within sustainable urban designs;
• Improve food communications (media/ social media networks); and
• Explore the health and social impacts of integrating community services with foodways and citizen driven alternative food networks

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Australia

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Our research group aims are to understand, and fundamentally improve, our community’s engagement in positive health behaviours. As a group we have particular expertise in the areas of experimental health research, behaviour change theory, individual differences and health, translation of evidence into practice and randomised controlled trials of health behaviour change interventions. Our research contributes to the development of theory, but also has significant impact on policy and clinical practice.

All of our members are actively involved in conducting nationally and internationally focused work in the areas of applied health behaviour change research. We have secured over $18 million in external competitive funding in the last 5-years and have very high publication rates. Reserch Programs include:

• Improving the health of people living with mental illness (Kelly, Deane, Robinson, Caputi, Magee): an integrated program of behaviour research focused on improving the health of people accessing mental health and substance use treatment programs. Their research in this area has received over $3.5 million dollars in external competitive funding (NHMRC, Cancer Institute, NSW Ministry of Health, Heart Foundation) and over $1.5 million in research consultancies. It has also resulted in a range of UOW, State and National awards for research excellence.
• Sport-based interventions for physical and mental health (Vella, Deane, Allen, Swann, Magee): the use of organised sports as a pathway to behaviour change and improved health. By leveraging our significant partnerships with the governing bodies of the most popular sports in Australia (as well as the Australian Sports Commission, Black Dog Institute and the Australian Drug Foundation) we have sought to use sport as an engaging and innovative intervention vehicle for positive health behaviour. Our work in this area has received over $2million in Category 1 funding, postdoctoral fellowships and internal funding from the UOW Global Challenges program.
• Mobile communication-related health (Croft, Loughran, Verrender): the unprecedented update of mobile telecommunications has led to extensive concern relating to potential health effects on the community. These range from direct impacts of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) to indirect impacts such as self-reported hypersensitivity to EMFs (EHS) and effects of usage patterns on well-being. Croft and Loughran have been awarded two consecutive NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) in this area ($5M), the only NHRMC CREs led by UOW. This research involves close collaboration with community, government and industry within Australia, and internationally and the World Health Organisation. It has also resulted in several international awards for research excellence.

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Australia

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The Inclusive Community Based Research Group (ICBRG) is a network of researchers with a shared passion for collaborative and inclusive research that benefits the community. The group supports staff and postgraduate research students from the Faculty of Social Sciences to work with community partners to conduct research that is accessible, inclusive, empowering and works to return research results in an accessible form. Projects include:

• Talking Mats: An inclusive research tool for people with Dementia: Dr Lyn Phillipson is an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Fellow investigating the outcomes and experiences of people with dementia who are recipients of Home Care Packages. She is also an accredited Talking Mats trainer and has received an IRT Research Foundation grant to explore the use of Talking Mats to aid care planning and assess social care-related outcomes for home care package recipients. 

• Social science researcher perspectives of research engagement and impact: researchers in the social sciences who are engaged in research with marginalised, vulnerable or hard to reach communities offer a unique perspective of research engagement and impact. In the current climate of increasing accountability for research impact, understanding these perspectives is critical for engaging and supporting researchers to undertake and document their research in such a way that meets these requirements. This study utilises a qualitative design to explore the perspectives of social science researchers at the University of Wollongong. The results of this study are helping to inform the UOWs approach to supporting staff as they respond to these new research impact requirements.

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Australia

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Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis in Education, the Arts and Social Sciences build an active and vibrant research culture around language, linguistics and semiotics. Projects our group are working on include:

• School literacy transitions

• Southern Spanish accents

• Discourse analysis of argument texts

• Analysis of policy documents

• Blended learning environments

• Discourses about animals and food.

The Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis in Education, the Arts and Social Sciences (IDEAS) research group is building an active and vibrant research culture around language, linguistics and semiotics, bringing together productive researchers from across different faculties and units. We foster collaborative team-based research, tapping into and developing emerging synergies which investigate leading edge issues in contexts relevant to the fields of Education, and the Humanities/Arts and Social Sciences more broadly. Their IDEAS activities include: 

• Big IDEAS – research seminars

• Developing your IDEAS – ‘how to’ workshops to mentor and incubate projects

• Nutting out IDEAS – methodology workshops

• Presenting big IDEAS – conferences and colloquia

• Student IDEAS – fortnightly HDR presentations and workshops

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Australia

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Multimodal Imaging of Brain Function are a group of researches that focus on a variety of research questions within the scope of Biological Psychology and Neuroscience, addressing the following clinical and behavioural areas:

• ADHD (Barry, Clarke, Johnstone)
• Cannabis use and Schizophrenia (Solowij, Schira, Greenwood)
• Arousal and Inhibition (Barry, Johnstone) and Visual Perception and Action (Palmisano, Schira, Barry, Miellet).

The core activity of this group is exploring and establishing advanced methods that integrate several, often complementary, imaging modalities, such as EEG, fMRI and blood biochemistry.

In a world where research techniques develop at great speed, the aim of this group is to advance the use of such techniques at UOW so that our research remains cutting edge, competitive and relevant. Projects include:

• MRI guides EEG source localisation: while EEG provides great temporal resolution (ms) but poor spatial resolution (ca. 6 cm), fMRI allows great spatial resolution (sub mm) but poor temporal resolution (ca. 1 s). By combining these two techniques some of these disadvantages can be overcome. Further, head models, guided by high quality MRI anatomy scans of individual subjects helps to significantly improve the precision of EEG source modelling.

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Tge group provides opportunities for its researchers to be immersed in qualitative methodology and theory as they: consider how different approaches and theories may apply to their research, learn from expert researchers, and network with experienced and novice researchers. Through an ongoing program of qualitative research, we examine critical perspectives of the relationships between and among play, pedagogy and curriculum. As a group we ask:

• How are pedagogies evolving in the context of global changes in technology?
• How do these pedagogies impact on children’s opportunities to play? Use learning spaces?
• What literacy practices are necessary for participation?

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Australia

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Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab is part of the School of Health and Society in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The goal of the PowerLab is to enhance understandings of how people and equity orientated changes in urban environments can enable population wellbeing and human flourishing across the life course. They do this by working with policymakers, practitioners and the public to coproduce, collaborate and communicate evidence for positive change. Their research includes:

• Environments for healthy equitable ageing
• Green space and child health
• Diabetes prevention and management
• Obesity and chronic disease in China

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Australia

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Within the Self-Regulation and Cognitive Development (SRCD) theme, experts from Education and Psychology conduct interdisciplinary research to understand processes underlying early self-regulation and cognitive development, with the practical goal of informing practices to support children's development, learning and well-being. 

The specific objectives of this group are:

• To generate insights into early self-regulation development, including the diverse factors that influence its development, and the outcomes that are influenced by self-regulation
• To create positive and productive changes in early childhood education and care practices that underpin children's learning and development
• To contribute to Early Start’s program of community engagement through our focus on translational research
• To make a significant contribution to the Early Start Engagement Frontier of monitoring and observation for development and early learning
• To support the next generation of researchers (early career researchers, PhD students) in this area
• To increase international awareness of our researchers, and promote understanding of Early Start as a place of innovation for the benefit of children and those who care for them

For established researchers, future or current research students, organisations, centres or groups interested in collaborating with any member(s) of the team, you can contact the Theme Leader, Associate Professor Steven Howard, or any of the theme members (below) directly. Projects include

• An Early Start to Self-Regulation: A Longitudinal Study: a major area of collective research for our group involves the longitudinal follow-up of 300+ children from their final year of preschool into the early years of primary school. This will help generate understandings of how early self-regulation (and related abilities) develop, ideal ways to understand a child’s self-regulatory development, and the outcomes associated with a child’s self-regulation development.
• Monitoring to Optimise Development and Early Learning (MODEL): drawing from the expertise of a number of theme members, the Early Years MODEL seeks to develop, validate and disseminate tools to support early years practice, including monitoring children’s learning, development and wellbeing. The research and development priorities for the Early Years MODEL are the creation of valid and reliable tools for monitoring and intentional developmental assessment of children from 3 to 6 years of age in the foundational domains of (1) self-regulation, (2) language & communication, (3) social & emotional development, (4) numeracy & early STEM, and (5) physical development (initially fine motor skills). The tools are being developed in close consultation with educators and are designed to be playful, brief, valid and reliable in educators’ hands, and provide actionable information about children’s development, while at the same time being freely and easily available.

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The Pedagogical Laboratory for Education is an Australian first research group that is a central hub for the collection, analysis and dissemination of best practices research in the area of teaching and learning. The innovation of Pedagogical Laboratory for Education is that it is a truly interdisciplinary group that focuses on teaching and learning and professional practice, conducted within a variety of setting. With a strengths/synergy model, the research group will be able to adapt to the changing needs and issues housed under teaching and learning.

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ACCESS research integrates analysis of environment, culture, society and space to identify and analyse the place-based, multi-dimensional challenges and opportunities that emerge as environments, cities, economies and communities are differentially transformed across space and place; and to explore how decision-making and action to address these challenges and opportunities can be imagined and enacted at multiple scales and across institutions and communities. 

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Australia

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The Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR) is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence. With over 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions world-wide, the electromagnetic energy (EME) that powers this technology is ubiquitous, as is community concern about the possibility of associated health effects. Responding to this concern, ACEBR was founded in 2013 to promote Australia's EME health, both in the immediate future, and through the development of human research capacity in this field into the future. Since April 2018 ACEBR has been working to a five-year research agenda addressing the most important aspects of the non-ionising EME health debate.

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Australia

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Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values do deliberative, qualitative and conceptual research about contentious, controversial or challenging issues in public health and health services. Their areas of speciality include:

• Issues in health technology (digital health, artificial intelligence in relation to health, health and the internet-of-things, health technology assessment, data analytics)

• Overdiagnosis and overtreatment

• Infectious disease control (pandemics, emerging diseases, zoonoses)

• Health and the human-animal-environment

• Disaster management preparedness for humans and their animals

• Aging (technology and aging, animals and the elderly, overdiagnosis and overtreatment of illness in old age)

• Health inequalities and inequities (social justice, health justice for culturally and linguistically diverse communities, cultural safety, inclusion and marginalisation)

• Methodological research in deliberative democracy and empirical ethics 

ACHEEV is an outward-looking research centre. We collaborate with communities, organisations, individuals and other researchers on areas of common interest, locally, nationally and internationally. If you are interested in community engagement, public engagement and research activities related to health and wellbeing, we would love to hear from you.

• Scholarships are available to both Domestic and International students;

• The Graduate Research School can assist potential PhD students with their application;

• If you are looking for an Honours project please contact a team member who has similar interests to discuss the possibility of supervision;

• If you are interested in pursuing partnership opportunities, please contact our Director.

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Australia

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The Centre for Higher Education Research, Innovation and Impact provides access to meaningful and engaging educational experiences is a strategic objective for all universities. Globally, there are many challenges and pressures facing the Higher Education (HE) sector, such as a growing and diverse student profile, diminishing staff-student ratios, and quality imperatives to provide meaningful learning experiences for all students. As education providers, universities need to ensure that teachers employ pedagogical approaches that promote student-centred learning and leverage digital technologies to provide an overall innovative high quality learning experience.

The research foci of this group seek to advance knowledge to inform solutions for these ‘wicked problems’ through its research in a diverse range of complementary areas to ultimately make a positive impact on student engagement and learning. Projects our group are working on include examining the student experience, e.g., how they experience university life, how students learn online, what is the quality of that learning, etc., and investigating the teacher experience, e.g., exploring teaching and design practices.

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Australia

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The Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence is a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence. The Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence is working to develop a national research and policy framework that ensures quality and safety in the implementation of medicinal cannabis use in the community. ACRE is generously funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council through the Centre of Research Excellence scheme.

• Research: ACRE’s multi-disciplinary research is gathering the information necessary to inform best clinical practice and to guide government around the use of medicinal cannabinoids in Australia.
• Publications: access book chapters, journal articles, editorials and commentaries, and reports contributed to and produced by ACRE investigators and members
• Researchers: ACRE research team shares combined experience that includes public health care, pharmacovigilance, clinical pharmacology and drug development, clinical and basic human/animal research skills, environmental and translational research.
• Resources: Access resources on medicinal cannabinoids produced by ACRE including the NSW Cannabis Medicines Prescribing Guidance to provide interim information to support NSW medical practitioners in prescribing cannabis medicines.
• Clinical Trials: information on Australian-based clinical trials in cannabinoids currently managed by ACRE Investigators and our Affiliated Researchers.

Address
Hunter Medical Research Institute C/- The University of Newcastle University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia

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Australia

Call 02 4042 0585

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The Centre for Occupational, Public and Environmental Research in Safety and Health (COPERSH) is a research centre in the School of Health and Society. The vision of the Centre is to address new, emerging and complex health and safety problems in occupational, public and environmental settings through collaborative research with university and industry partners. They aim to address new, emerging and complex health and safety problems in occupational, public and environmental settings. To achieve this vision COPERSH aims to

• Partner with industry, university and government to conduct high-quality leading-edge research that addresses current and future risks to occupational, public and environmental health and safety.
• Build research capacity in the occupational, public and environmental health and safety workforce to lead generational change in managing new and complex issues.
• Produce high quality employable graduates who can think in imaginative and creative ways to address occupational, public and environmental health and safety issues.

The Centre is currently undertaking a number of major research projects across a broad range of topics. These include;

• Centralised management and real-time interpretation of emissions based maintenance data for diesel fleets: this project centres on the development of a complex data management system that allow the transmission of diesel engine emission analysis and key engine parameters to a centralised interpretative system. It also includes an assessment of the financial/economic/environmental/productivity gains to the industry from investing in an emission based maintenance program for diesel fleets.
• 3D facial modelling and recognition for automatic selection of worker respiratory protective equipment: this project aims to deliver a simple and effective means of matching the best available fit of a respirator to a worker’s facial features.
• A near real-time sensing solution for Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) in underground crushers: this project aims to develop a near real-time sampling and analysis system to provide a visual and audible alarm to warn workers of potentially high exposures to RCS adjacent to underground ore crushers.
• Innovative control solutions for Respirable Crystalline Silica to protect workers against exposure to silica: this project builds on current maintenance technologies to project educational material for specific activities so that a worker understands the safety measures that should be in place before commencing a specific activity.

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Australia

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Northfields Psychology Clinic (NFC) has been providing high quality mental health services to the community for over 35 years, and in 2018 we launched a dedicated space for children and families within the Early Start building at UOW (NFC@ES). This facility  supports Early Start’s endeavours to help children flourish and realise their potential. Both facilities provide psychological assistance that is safe, supportive and effective, with a focus on providing high quality, affordable psychological services to all of our clients.

Northfields Psychology Clinic has a range of individual and group therapy options available for people of all ages, and treatments at our Clinic are provided by provisional psychologists who are currently undertaking advanced postgraduate study in Professional and Clinical Psychology including Masters and Doctorate degrees. All Psychologists are provisionally registered with the Psychology Board of Australia, and receive regular professional supervision from fully qualified registered Clinical Psychologists.

1. HSC WELLBEING AND STUDY SKILLS PROGRAM: psychologists at UOW's Northfields Psychology Clinic are running a program designed for Year 12 students to help manage the stress of the HSC, exams, and how to focus on effective study.
2. NFC ONLINE: Northfields Psychology Clinic are offering all of our consultations over the telephone and online free of charge for the duration of the COVID-19 situation.
3. Group therapy has numerous benefits, whether provided as a sole source of treatment or as an adjunct to ongoing individual intervention. 

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Building 22 (view on map) University of Wollongong NSW 2522

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Australia

Call (02) 4221 3747

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The Ethics & Well-being Hub seeks to develop and integrate expertise across social, personality, clinical, and developmental psychology—along with research in emotion, neuroscience, and decision making—to better understand how people make ethical decisions, how these decisions are shaped by processes within and around them, and how these factors influence their quality of life and mental health.

The Hub is innovative in its goal of linking the psychological study of morality and emotion processes. In doing so, it examines how benefiting others can also benefit the self and contribute to human flourishing. Hub researchers seek to develop an understanding of how acting ethically and experiencing well-being and personal meaning are intertwined. Taking seriously the interaction of the individual and their social context, it will generate new knowledge on how individual health and welfare interacts with the social and cultural environment, and on the central importance of ethical behaviour to the ‘good life’.

The Ethics & Well-being Hub is a unique initiative with a critical mass of researchers that will enable strong intellectual and social innovation. The lab pages for further information on students, collaborators, and research projects include:

• Functions of Everyday Emotions Lab
• Behavioural Ethics, Affect and Meaning Lab
• Social / Personality Laboratory
• Evolution, Conflict, and Equality Lab
• Moral Psychology Lab
• Personality Processes Lab
• Physical Appearance Research Team
• Social Action Laboratory

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Australia

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The Centre for Mental Health aims to improve mental health and mitigate the impact of mental illness at a population level. It does this through high quality, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, professional and community education, and mental health system development. The Centre for Mental Health aims to improve mental health and mitigate the impact of mental illness at a population level. It does this through high quality, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, professional and community education, and mental health system development. The Centre contributes to evidence-informed mental health policy and practice in Australia and internationally through the work of its four units:

• Global and Cultural Mental Health
• Mental Health Policy and Practice
• Population Mental Health
• Recovery and Social Justice

The Centre’s four units are involved in active and productive collaborations within the University and beyond. These relationships range from not-for-profit agencies like Mind Australia through to international NGOs such as the World Health Organization, and enable us to translate our research into policy and practice.

Address
Health Hub, Level 1, Brownless Biomedical Library The University of Melbourne (Parkville Campus)

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Australia

Call (03) 8344 5890

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The Complex Human Data Hub aims to use technologies to build a new kind of psychological science - one that is intimately tied to the real world. We combine this rich data with sophisticated computational modelling, which enables us to better explain, predict, and influence human behaviour on multiple levels, from individuals to populations. One goal is to produce actionable knowledge and technology for behaviour change in fields ranging from health to national security to sustainability. The Complex Human Data Hub aims to build a more comprehensive, ecologically valid and translationally relevant psychological science by:

• Drawing big data from wearable sensors, the internet of things, ecological momentary assessment and online social networks
• Building big models of psychological processes using advances in Bayesian techniques, machine learning and computational linguistics
• Crossing different levels of analysis - from individuals to groups to populations.

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Aruba

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