Projects
The School of Psychology and Social Science has an active research profile, results of which are used to inform the School's degree programs. Staff in the three main discipline areas of the School all conduct research in either their areas of expertise, or in the scholarship of teaching and/or professional practice. Staff also conduct research, in collaboration with industry partners, that is relevant to their respective professions and disciplines. Some staff undertake research on their own, while others collaborate with researchers from the School, or partners from outside of the School and the university. Many staff in the School focus their research activities through one of the School’s research centres, the Social Justice Research Centre, the Lifespan Resilience Research Group, the Cognition Research Group, and the Psychopathology Research Group.
Social Justice Research Centre
- Evaluation and advice for the It Takes a Village: Multicultural Early Learning Program (ITaV)
- Face-to-Face: Exploring communication access to government services
- Gender, status and empowerment: A study among women who work in Sri Lanka’s export processing zones (EPZs)
School based
- Communication difficulties in Indigenous Australians after stroke
- Factors that contribute to the resilience of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals
- Reading the language of the body: A creative investigation of somatic symptoms in relation to trauma in women who have experienced childhood rape
Cognition Research Group
- Building financial literacy and retirement savings engagement by developing a financial education program for the workplace
- Development of computer game to facilitate the acquisition of arithmetic skills
- Effects of live versus recorded music and stories of salivary biomarker indicators of pain, anxiety, and immune function in palliative care cancer patients
- Re-evaluating self-reports of memory: Do affect and personality moderate the accuracy of subjective memory complaints?
- The role of automaticity in the development and transfer of cognitive skills
- The role of cognitive reflection on saving behaviour
- The role of expertise in judgement and decision making