Student PhD Topics

 

  • Bibrowska, Sophie
    "Getting ready for work":  A group program with unemployed people to evaluate the practice of attunement.
    Supervisor: Ross Williams/Allan Patience
  • Cassar, Kylie
    Perceptions, beliefs and management of diabetes among Australians of Maltese, Vietnamese and Anglosaxon ethinc groups.
    Supervisor: Gordon Emmerson
  • Bliss, Angela
    An investigation into the role of melatonin in relation to psychogenic and nocturnal vasomotor symptoms during menopause.
    Supervisor: Dot Bruck
  • Bloomfield, Leonie
    A Theory of Masculinity: The importance of social cultural and psychological factors in explaining risk factors and illness among men.
    Supervisor: Gerard Kennedy
  • Borg, Victoria
    The role of family environment, social support and coping strategies in the life satisfaction of Maltese adolescents
    Supervisor: Adrian Fisher
  • Callander, Rosemary
    Successful coping with a diagnosis of breast cancer
    Supervisor: Cynthia Fan
  • Deans, Cecil
    An investigation into the responses & coping resources of registered general nurses who have been recipients of aggressive behaviour in the workplace.
    Supervisor: Suzie Dean
  • Elzo Fabian

             Supervisor:  Gerard Kennedy

  • Evers, Kaylene
    An investigation & comparison of the psychosocial effects of multiple sclerosis.
    Supervisor: Adrian Fisher
  • Fahey, Carmel
    The psychodynamics of false-self personality: Destructive effects of power inequalities.
    Supervisor: Ross Williams
  • Field, Jan Masters
    A comparison of Behavioural Responses to Anxiety between Professional Pilots of Different Cultures.
    Supervisor: Adrian Fisher
  • Field, Samantha
    Burnout in health professionals "Who cars for the carers?" Qualitative techniques.
    Supervisor: Marion Kostanski/Ross Williams
  • Gilley, Timothy
    Enhancing learning readiness in early childhood within the family: Evaluation of theory and practice in a multicultural context.
    Supervisor: Suzie Dean/Cynthia Fan
  • Graham, Anne
    Pathways in young adulthood: Experiences following a suicide attempt.
    Supervisor: Ross Williams
  • Grimwade, Jo

             The Social & interpersonal processes in seeking child psychology services.
             Supervisor: Suzie Dean

  • Gruis, Michael
    The relationship between health status, health locus of control beliefs and daydream patterns of adult medical patients.
    Supervisor: Denise Charman
  • Hanley, Francine
    A qualitative study to investigate a "postural model" for the psychology of the female body.
    Supervisor: Sue Moore/ Anne Graham
  • Heilberg, Marie
    Life threatening illness: Longitudinal study of trauma.
    Supervisor: Denise Charman
  • Jackson, Kathy
    Children's Expression of Emotion in 4 cultures: What do parents worry about?
    Supervisor: Cyntha Fan
  • Jones, Lisa
    Perceptions of success outcomes and the effects of payment on satisfaction in psychologists supervision relationship
    Supervisor: Heather Gridley/Dot Bruck
  • Kershaw, Kerri
    Psychosocial implications of living with chronic illness: focus on Huntington's Disease.
    Supervisor: Isaac Prilleltensky

 

  • Killmier, Helen

 

  • Kouzma, Nadya
    The Interactions between academic stress, coping and cognitive appraisals and attributions, self-esteem and depression.
    Supervisor: Gerard Kennedy
  • Michaelson, Reina
    Evaluation of a school-based sexual abuse prevention program for adolescents
    Supervisor: Denise Charman
  • Mills, Robyn
    Empowering Health Professionals to Empower Patients: observing, developing and implementing intervention strategies for a psychological empowerment program.
    Supervisor: Gordon Emmerson 
  • Mulcahy, Jane
    The optimal post trauma duration of psychological intervention with chronic back pain sufferers
    Supervisor: Denise Charman
  • Quartermain, Susan
    Disclosure of sexual abuse: The effect of age and the child/perpetrator interpersonal relationship and its relationship to level of psychological functioning
    Supervisor: Suzie Dean
  • Palermo, Josie
    The Influence of Gender (Masculinity/Feminity) on career achievement in hierarchical organisations.
    Supervisor: Jenni Rice
  • Saflekas, Steve
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and executive dysfunction in children
    Supervisor: Alan Tucker
  • Satyen, Lata
    Cognitive Psychology - Effect of video game playing on divided attention encoding and retrieval processes in memory
    Supervisor: Keis Ohtsuka
  • Saunders, Jane
    The psychology of difference: a phenomenological approach to cultural identity and reconciliation
    Supervisor: Ross Williams
  • Saunders, Wendy
    Decision-making model of behaviour in office fires.
    Supervisor: Wally Karnilowicz
  • Schmidt Neven, Ruth
    An enquiry into how professionals from multiple discfiplines construe and learn to change their constructs and narratives of the human and mental health problems of their clients.
    Supervisor: Isaac Prilleltensky
  • Shearson, Kim

 

  • Smyrnios, Stephanie
    Social functioning social cognition & executive functions in children with Asperger's Syndrome 
    Supervisor: Alan Tucker
  • Vittorino, Renzo
    Acculturation and family relationships among Spanish speaking Latin American Immigrants in Victoria.
    Supervisor: Suzie Dean
  • Walker, Sally
    Risk and protective factors associated with body image in adolescent males.
    Supervisor: Marion Kostanski
  • Walpole, Lynette
    Midwives experiences and responses to managing pregnancy loss.
    Supervisor: Bernadette Hood/Anne Graham
  • Williams, Patricia
    A training needs analysis of the personnel selection task: a consideration of EEO and quality issues
    Supervisor: John Alder

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