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Professor Rebecca Collie

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Educational psychology, Teacher and student wellbeing, Specialist studies in education
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Teaching and Instruction

Learner and Learning

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

educational psychology

well-being

motivation (psychology)

achievement

teacher wellbeing

teacher motivation

social and emotional development

student engagement

Rebecca is an Adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology in the UNSW School of Education. She is also a Professor of Learning Sciences at Monash University.

Dr Siyuan Chen

Faculty: Engineering
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Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being)

Health and Support Services

Workplace Safety

Keywords:

Affective Computing

Social Signal Processing

multimodal fusion

computer vision

deep learning

human computer interaction

psychophysiology

Dr Siyuan Chen is a researcher in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Sydney. She obtained her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering f

Emeritus Professor Bettina Meiser

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer Genetics, Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Social and Community Psychology, Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis, Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
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Cancer and Related Disorders

Behaviour and Health

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Health and Support Services not elsewhere classified

Health Education and Promotion

Mental Health Services

Dr Kelly Grace Garner

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Cognitive and computational psychology, Cognitive neuroscience, Memory and attention, Decision making, Learning, motivation and emotion
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

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My research focuses on attention, distraction, and the habits that shape how we engage with the world around us.

Dr Eduardo Benitez Sandoval

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics, Design Innovation
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Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Keywords:

social robotics

human robot interaction

design of social robots

robots

robot

Dr. Eduardo B.

Professor Angela Marissa Nickerson

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Professor Angela Nickerson is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognised researcher in refugee mental health.

Associate Professor Belinda Jayne Liddell

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology), Cognitive Science, Mental Health, Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies, Migrant Cultural Studies
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Mental Health

Expanding Knowledge in Languages, Communication and Culture

Research interests:

Dr Christopher Nolan

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience), Behavioural neuroscience, Cognitive and computational psychology, Memory and attention, Decision making, Learning, motivation and emotion, Reinforcement learning
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

I am a computational neuroscientist interested in embodied intelligence; how brains have evolved to satisfy complex needs in complex environments.

Dr Erin Goddard

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Vision science, Sensory processes, perception and performance, Neurosciences, Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Cognitive neuroscience
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

neuroscience

sensory processing

functional neuroimaging

I received my PhD in 2011 from the University of Sydney, before completing postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University in Sydney, and at McGill University in Montréa

Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Behavioural neuroscience, Biological psychology, Central nervous system, Learning, motivation and emotion, Decision making
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Behaviour and Health

Keywords:

behavioural neuroscience

decision-making processes

associative learning

avoidance learning

individual differences

I lead the Brain•Mind•Behaviour Lab at UNSW School of Psychology.

Associate Professor Tracy Lyn Durksen

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Specialist studies in education, Applied and developmental psychology, Educational Psychology, Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators, Specialist Studies in Education
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Teaching and Instruction

Learner and Learning

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

education & educational research

educational psychology

professional development

teacher beliefs

motivation (psychology)

undergraduate pre-service teachers

early childhood education and care

child development

Tracy Durksen, B.A. (Hons), B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.

Professor Michael Matthew Kasumovic

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Evolutionary Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Genomics, Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
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Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Health Related to Ageing

My research explores how the social environment shapes the evolution of individual traits and behaviours.

Dr Swapnil Shivajirao Pawar

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Learning, Memory, Cognition and Language, Process Control and Simulation, Educational Psychology
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Education and Training not elsewhere classified

Health: Clinical (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Co

Keywords:

cognitive load detection

emotions

working memory

latent psychological processes

medical errors

Dr Pawar graduated in Anaesthesia from PGIMER, Chandigarh in India and trained as an Intensivist in Australia.

Associate Professor Adrienne Withall

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Psychology of ageing, Cognition, Clinical neuropsychology, Health equity, Epidemiology, Mental health services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander epidemiology, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based research, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing, Social determinants of health
SEO tags:

Neurodegenerative Disorders Related to Ageing

Health Inequalities

Social Structure and Health

Indigenous Health

Mental Health Services

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

Keywords:

cognitive enhancement

biopsychosocial

alcohol and other drug treatment

injury prevention

older person

indigenous community

Research Interests:

Professor Emery Schubert

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Music, Psychology
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The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and danc

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

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Dr Michael Araki

Faculty: Business
Fields of Research (FoR): Testing, assessment and psychometrics, Entrepreneurship, Personality and individual differences, Econometrics
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Technological and Organisational Innovation

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

creativity

innovation

entrepreneurship

individual differences

personality traits

Michael Araki is a Lecturer at UNSW Business School. His research interests involve knowledge and its use in creative and entrepreneurial ways.

Professor Gavan Patrick McNally

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology), Neurosciences, Mental Health
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

I am a behavioural neuroscientist.

Professor Peter Lovibond

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Learning, motivation and emotion, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

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Dr Katya Numbers

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biological psychology, Neurosciences, Epidemiology, Psychology of ageing
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Neurodegenerative Disorders Related to Ageing

Health Related to Ageing

Mental Health

Ageing and Older People

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

subjective memory complaint

activities of daily living

stereotypes

Professor Tom Denson

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Social and Community Psychology, Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

aggression

violence

intimate partner violence

anger

emotion regulation

emotions

I am a Professor in the School of Psychology at UNSW. I am an experimental social-personality psychologist.

Associate Professor Simone Reppermund

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology), Epidemiology, Mental Health, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Psychiatry
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Neurodegenerative Disorders Related to Ageing

Health Related to Ageing

Ageing and Older People

Mental Health

Keywords:

neuropsychiatry

mental health

mental health services

ageing

health service use

Simone is a UNSW Scientia Associate Professor within the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health. Her area of research is cognitive disorders with a focus on mental health and ageing.