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Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Neuopsychology
  • Psychobiology
  • Psychological assessment

Available to supervise research students

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About Emra Suleyman

Dr Emra Suleyman is currently a part-time Lecturer in Psychology for the College of Sport, Health & Engineering. Since graduating from her Doctorate in Clinical Neuropsychology in 2011, Dr Suleyman has focused or teaching and research in the area of cognition, psychological assessment and psychobiology.

Dr Suleyman has combined her research interests to consider psychological syndromes and their relationship with gut health, and focused on assessment efficacy of psychological functioning in both clinical and healthy populations. She has co-founded the research group CogPart, and has supervised four PhD students since its inception in 2013, in addition to numerous Honours students.

Dr Suleyman is passionate about teaching, and is a convenor of numerous units in both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology at Victoria University. As a registered Psychologist, Dr Suleyman is able to offer valuable insight into career pathways for graduate psychologists, and places high value on the role of evidence-based clinical practice.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate Clinical Neuropsychology (Monash University)

Key publications

Year Citation
2023 Van, Bael., Ball, M., Scarfo, J., & Suleyman, E. (231201). Assessment of the mind-body connection: preliminary psychometric evidence for a new self-report questionnaire. BMC Psychology, 11(1),

doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01302-3

2023 Sambol, S., Suleyman, E., Scarfo, J., & Ball, M. (230601). A true reflection of executive functioning or a representation of task-specific variance? Re-evaluating the unity/diversity framework. Acta Psychologica, 236

doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103934

2023 Wilson, L. A., Scarfo, J., Suleyman, E., Rehm, I. C., & Baldwin, P. A. (230215). A latent factor approach to the Saving Inventory - Revised: Congeneric evaluation of construct and content validity. Journal of Affective Disorders, 323 (689-697).

doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.12.013

2023 Ganci, M., Butt, H., Tyrrell, J., Suleyman, E., & Ball, M. (230201). The effect of Blastocystis sp. and Dientamoeba fragilis on psychological symptom severity in a sample of clinically diverse males and females. Current Psychology, 42(5), (4017-4030).

doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-01700-z

2022 Ganci, M., Suleyman, E., Butt, H., & Ball, M. (221201). Associations between self-reported psychological symptom severity and gut microbiota: further support for the microgenderome. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1),

doi: 10.1186/s12888-022-03947-7

2022 Sambol, S., Suleyman, E., Scarfo, J., & Ball, M. (220201). Distinguishing between trait emotional intelligence and the five-factor model of personality: additive predictive validity of emotional intelligence for negative emotional states. Heliyon, 8(2),

doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08882

2019 Ganci, M., Suleyman, E., Butt, H., & Ball, M. (191101). The role of the brain-gut-microbiota axis in psychology: The importance of considering gut microbiota in the development, perpetuation, and treatment of psychological disorders. Brain and Behavior, 9(11),

doi: 10.1002/brb3.1408

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

PhD scholarship for Biodata project
From: Bioscreen, PVC (Research and Research Training)
Other investigators: Dr Michelle Ball, Prof Dorothy Bruck
For period: 2014-2018
$164,000

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
4 PhD Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (4) Associate supervisor

Careers

Details of this Researcher's career are currently unavailable.