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Associate Professor

Telephone:	(61 8)  6304 5591
Facsimile:	(61 8)  6304 5834
Email:	j.pooley@ecu.edu.au
Campus:	Joondalup
Room:	JO30.209

 

Current Teaching

• Methods In Psychology

Background

• Academic (Edith Cowan University and Notre Dame University)

Awards and Recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

• 2011 - Recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
• 2011 - Recipient of a Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (VC Citations).
• 2003 - Recipient of the Australian National Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• 2003 - Recipient of the Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other

• 2002, 2006 - Nomination for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, awarded by the Edith Cowan University Postgraduate Association.

• Resilience- Individual, Family and Community.
• Community and Environmental Psychology.
• Scholarship or learning and Teaching.
• Resilience as an aid to personnel vetting.
• Cyclone Preparedness.
• Development of Resilience Scales

Staff Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2005 .
• Master, Edith Cowan University, 1998 .
• Post Grad Dip in Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, 1990 .
• Bachelor of Applied Science, Curtin University of Technology, 1989 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Family Relationship Centre - Joondalup (North Metropolitan Family Relationship Centre Consortium,  Anglicare WA,  Grant,  2009,  $58,000.
• Mandurah Family Relationship Centre,  Anglicare WA,  Grant,  2008,  $4,000.
• Family Relationship Centre - Joondalup (North Metropolitan Family Relationship Centre Consortium,  Anglicare WA,  Grant,  2008,  $22,000.
• Resilience: What is it and what are the Skills used by Families Affected by Mental Illness?,  Edith Cowan University,  Grant - Industry Collaboration,  2008,  $30,000.
• Ascertaining the Perceived Risks in the City of Perth,  City of Perth,  Grant,  2007,  $14,070.
• Promoting positive relationships after divorce and seperation,  Murdoch University,  Grant - Healthway,  2007,  $29,523.
• Family Relationship Centre - Joondalup (North Metropolitan Family Relationship Centre Consortium,  Anglicare WA,  Grant,  2006,  $40,712.
• Health and wellbeing assets map City of Joondalup,  City of Joondalup,  Grant,  2004,  $10,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Books

• Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., O'Connor, M., (2010), Indicators of Community Resilience: A Study of Communities Facing Impending Natural Disasters., 256, Germany.

Book Chapters

• Ferguson, C., Cohen, L., Pooley, JA., Guilfoyle, A., (2012), The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and speeding behaviour of young drivers. In Advances in Traffic Psychology, 149-156, London.
• Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., (2012), A Team Teaching Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Psychology. Teaching Psychology around the World: Volume 3. , 42-54, London.
• Pike, L., Cohen, L., Pooley, JA., (2008), Australian Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At Risk Populations. Resilience in Children and Youth, 264-288, Toronto.

Journal Articles

• Stambulich, D., Pooley, JA., Gately, N., Taylor, M., (2012), Some of my children are worth more than others: Perceptions of non-residential fathers with second families as to the fairness of the Australian Child Support Agency's handling of first family child support financial arrangements. Marriage and Family Review, 48(8), 769-791, DOI: 10.1080/01494929.2012.714721.
• Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., O'Connor, M., O'Conner, M., Taylor, M., (2012), Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to coping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian Cyclone communities. Psychological Trauma , 2012(30 April), 1-8, DOI: 10.1037a0028046.
• Soto, R., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Taylor, M., (2012), Students with ASD in mainstream primary education settings: Teachers' experiences in Western Australian classrooms. Austalasian Journal of Special Education, 36(2), 97-111, DOI: 10.1017/jse.2012.10.
• Ferguson, C., Harms, C., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Tomlinson, S., (2012), Crime Prevention: The Role of Individual Resilience within the Family. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 1-8, Oxon, UK, DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2012.707971.
• Doyle, J., Pooley, JA., Breen, L., (2012), A Phenomenological Exploration of the Childfree Choice in a Sample of Australian Women.  , 18(3), 1-11, DOI: 10.1177/1359105312444647.
• Stambulich, D., Pooley, JA., Gately, N., Taylor, M., (2012), "Some of My Children Are Worth More Than Others": Perceptions of Nonresidential Fathers with Second Families as to the Fairness of the Australian Child Support Agency's Handling of First Family Child Support Financial Arrangements. Marriage and Family Review, 48(8), 769-791, DOI: 10.1080/01494929.2012.714721.
• O'Brien, K., Cohen, L., Pooley, JA., Taylor, M., (2012), Lifting the domestic cloak of silence: Resilient Australian women's reflected memories of their childhood experiences of witnessing domestic violence. Journal of Family Violence, 28(1), 95-108, DOI: 10.1007/s10896-012-9484-7.
• Cohen, L., Ferguson, C., Harms, C., Pooley, JA., Tomlinson, S., (2011), Family systems and mental health issues: A resilience approach. Journal of Social Work Practice, 25(1), 109-125, DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2010.533754.
• Cohen, L., Pooley, JA., Ferguson, C., Harms, C., (2011), Psychologists? understanding of resilience: implications for the discipline of psychology and psychology practice. The Australian Community Psychologist, 23(2), 7-22.
• Griffiths, N., Pooley, JA., (2011), Resilience in Families with Same-Sex Parents. The Australian Community Psychologist, 23(2), 50-67.
• Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., (2010), Resilience: A Definition in Context. The Australian Community Psychologist, 22(1), 30-37.
• Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., O'Connor, M., (2010), Bushfire Communities and Resilience: What can they tell us?. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 25(2), 33-38, Canberra.
• Branch-Smith, C., Pooley, JA., (2010), Women firefighters? experiences in the Western Australian volunteer bush fire service. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 25(3), 12-18, Canberra.
• Munro, B., Pooley, JA., (2009), Differences in Resilience and University Adjustment between School Leaver and Mature Entry University Students. The Australian Community Psychologist, 21(1), 50-61.
• Cohen, L., Chang, P., Pooley, JA., Pike, L., (2008), A holistic approach to establishing an effective learning environment for psychology. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 7(1), 12-18, United Kingdom.

Conference Publications

• Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Ferguson, C., Harms, C., (2010), National security: A propositional study to develop resilience indicators as an aid to personnel vetting. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 35-43, Perth.
• Ferguson, C., Cohen, L., Pooley, JA., Guilfoyle, A., (2009), Elicitiing the beliefs of young drivers about driving risks: An analysis of two methodologies. Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference : Smarter, Safer Directions, 826-838, Sydney, New South Wales.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Psychology,  Post-traumatic Growth In Carers Of People With A Mental Illness..

Co-principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Improving Community Water Conservation Behaviour In Chachoengsao, Thailand.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An Exploration Of The Social Construction Of Ageing Based On Lived Experiences: Perspectives From The Western Australian And Welsh Community.

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Attitudes To Driving And Driving Behaviour In Young Novice Drivers..
• Doctor of Philosophy,  The Transition Experience To Boarding School For Male Aboriginal Secondary School Students From Regional And Remote Communities Across Western Australia.
• Doctor of Psychology,  The Construction Of Wellbeing For Sole Mothers: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Work, Welfare, Social Justice And Wellbeing For Sole Mothers..
• Doctor of Psychology,  Childhood Obesity: Investigating Factors That Influence Weight Loss Success Among Obese And Overweight Sevel To Twelve Year Olds..
• Doctor of Psychology,  The Relationship Between Residential Satisfaction, Sense Of Community, Sense Of Belonging And Sense Of Place In Western Australia Urban Planned Community..