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Dr Myra Taylor

Dr Myra Taylor

Dr Myra Taylor

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5728  
Email: myra.taylor@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO30.127  

 

Background

  • 2011-current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lifespan Resilience Research Group, School of Psychology and Social Science, Edith Cowan University
  • 2008–2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow,Centre for Child and Adolescent Related Disorders, Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia
  • 2002–2007: Associate Acting Deputy Director: Centre for Child and Adolescent Related Disorders and Research Associate ARC Discovery Project Grant Manager (AD/HD), University of Western Australia
  • 1999–2002: Full-time Doctoral Candidate, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • 1997–1998: Full time Master Candidate,Exeter University, England
  • 1993–1996: Year 2 Teacher,Dominican Convent School, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 1990–1993: Year 4 Teacher: St Olaf’s School, Utah, USA

Awards and Recognition

National and International Research Positions

  • 2007 University of Western Australia Post-Doctoral Re-Entry Research Fellowship.
    Risk, reputation and graffiti: Developing a new model and intervention for reducing graffiti.

Other

  • 2002 Western Australian Institute for Education Research (WAIER) Cameron Prize.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Youth Crime
  • Implications of crime
  • Child and adolescent learning, emotional and behavioural disorders
  • Resilience across the lifespan
  • Early childhood development
  • Ageing
  • Domestic violence

Staff Qualifications

  • MSocSc (Master of Social Science), Edith Cowan University, 2011 .
  • PGradDip (Post Graduate Diploma), Edith Cowan University, 2007 .

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

  • Taylor, M., Khan, U., (2012), A comparison of police processing reports for juvenile graffiti offenders: Societal implications. Police practice and research: an intenational journal, online(x), 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2012.743714.
  • Taylor, M., (2012), As long as your're resilient you'll succeed: School disaffected adolescents' perspectives on their willingness to engage in high injury-risk graffiti-writing activities. The International Journal of School Disaffection, 9(2), 39-51.
  • Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., O'Conner, M., Taylor, M., (2012), Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to copping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian Cyclone communities. Psychological Trauma Theory: Research Practice and Policy, ONLINE, , 1-8.
  • 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.
  • Taylor, M., Khan, U., (2012), Graffiti offenders' patterns of desistance and persistence in crime: New insights into reducing recidivist offending. The Police Journal, 85, , 5-28.
  • 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 Agrency's handling of first family child support financial arrangements. Marriage and Family Review, 48(8), 769-791.
  • 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 domestic violence. Journal of Family Violence, Online, , DOI: DOI 10.1007/s10896-012-9484-7.
  • Taylor, M., Marais, I., Cottman, R., (2012), Patterns of graffiti offending: Towards recognition that graffiti offending is more than kids messing around. Policing and Society: An international journal of research and policy , 22(2), 152-168.
  • Houghton, S., Durkin, K., Ang, R., Taylor, M., Brandtman, M., (2011), Measuring temporal self-regulation in children with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 27(2), 88-94 .
  • Taylor, M., Khan, U., (2011), Skate-park builds, teenaphobia and the adolescent need for hang-out spaces: The social utility and functionality of urban skate parks. Journal of Urban Design, 16(4), 489-510, DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2011.586142.
  • Taylor, M., Marais, I., (2011), Not in my back schoolyard: School and skate-park builds in Western Australia. Australian Planner, 48(2), 84-95, DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2011.561825.
  • Taylor, M., (2011), Hanging with the Hoodies: Towards an understanding of the territorial tagging practices of prolific graffiti writers seeking an adolescent non-conforming social identity. International Journal of Child & Adolescent Health, 4(3), 223-232.
  • Taylor, M., Goldman, S., (2011), When empathy mails to eventuate in the counselling therapeutic session: Implications for the training and practice of students. International Journal of University Teaching and Faculty Development, 1(3), 171-182.
  • Taylor, M., Marais, I., Cottman, R., (2011), Patterns of graffiti offending towards recognition that graffiti offending is more than kids messing around. Policing and Society, n/a(n/a), 1-17, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2011.605128.