Psychology
Postgraduate Research
A postgraduate research higher degree involves in-depth study and commitment to understand existing information, to develop new data or ideas, and with the careful assistance of your supervisor, to distil these into a well-structured and insightful research thesis. Your thesis will then be examined by experts from around the world for the significance of your contribution to your field of study.
You can choose to undertake a research higher degree in the School of Psychology after completing an honours degree or equivalent prior research learning. There are two important aims for research higher degrees:
- To complete a carefully supervised research program that represents a significant contribution to the particular field of study
- To provide training in undertaking research in your field of study.
Master of Philosophy (M Phil)
Students enrolled in the Master of Philosophy undertake a two year program of research in their field of study leading to a thesis that addresses a significant research question. The School of Psychology offers the opportunity to undertake research in a number of areas including:
- Clinical and health psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognition
- Social and developmental psychology
- Personality.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Candidates for the Doctor of Philosophy undertake a three year program of relatively independent study leading to a significant and original contribution to knowledge. The School of Psychology offers the opportunity to undertake research in a number of areas including:
- Clinical and health psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognition
- Social and developmental psychology
- Personality.
Current Research
Post-graduate research students work closely with our academic staff, research centres and groups, across a range of areas of Psychology Research. Current student projects are are listed below, grouped by Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology and Psychology.
Further Information
A large amount of information, including how to prepare during your undergraduate degree, potential research areas, scholarships and other support schemes, can be found in the Faculty of Science & Information Technology Research Students (RHD) website.
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- MPsych: Women's explanations and understandings of why some women do not accept, or delay seeking help, An Interpretive Phenomenological Study.
- PhD: Cognitive Vulnerability to Manic and Depressive Symptoms in Bipolar Affective Disorder
- PhD: Long-Term Memory Performance in Schizophrenia
- PhD: Executive functioning in childhood: Developmental trajectories in typical development, ADHA, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
- PhD: Facial Expression Processing in Individuals with Schizophrenia: Associations with Psychopathy, Symptomatology amd Emotion Regulation
- PhD: Differential Diagnosis or Comorbidity: Depression and Dementia in Community Dwelling Elderly Australians
- PhD: Affect Regulation, Substance Abuse and Negative Symptoms of Schizotypal Disorder
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- MPhil: Temporal interference effects in the visual temporal estimation tasks
- PhD: Application of Human Factors to the Coal Industry
- PhD: Forgetting and Retrieval Failure
- PhD: Body Modification as Self Injurious Behaviour for a Sub-Group of Individuals
- PhD: Optical mechanisms underlying spectacle lens compensation in the chick
- PhD: Cognitive Mechanisms of Broad Principles and Specific Rules in Contract Law
- PhD: Age Effects on Auditory Sensory Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
- PhD: The Neurocognitive Dysfunction after Overdose of Sedative Drugs
- PhD: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Components in Forming Attitudes and Values Relating to Australian Native Fauna and Flora
- PhD: An Investigation into Absolute Identification Performance: The Debates over Absolute vs. Relative Models and Learning Effects
- PhD: Modelling Choice Between Multiple Alternatives
- PhD: Animal stress defined by Immune-Endocrine interactions during parasite infections
- PhD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder: An Investigation of Compulsive Hoarding and Compulsive Buying
- PhD: Rethinking Self-Competence: Construction and Evaluation of the Social and Task Competence Scale
- PhD: A New Kind of Dynamics for Psychology
- PhD: Fluid intelligence and its role in the 21st Century
- PhD: Cortical Networks Underlying Response Inhibition
- PhD: The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Control
- PhD: Models of Myopia
- PhD: Virtures, Traits and Self Regulation in the Domain of Moral Behaviour
- PhD: Increasing volitional control in task switching to investigate the endogeneous reconfiguration of task sets
- PhD: Auditory Information Processing in Schizophrenia: Electrophysiological and Behavioural Evidence for a Pervasive Temporal Processing Impairment
- PhD: Investigating the Interplay between Meta-Cognitions and the Process of Member to Group Generalisation
- PhD: The development of Executive Function during childhood
- PhD: Distinguishing between Social, Communal and Interdependent Types of In-Group Identification
- PhD: Psychology (Memory Models)
- PhD: Contextual Processing Problems and Reduced Mismatch Negativity in Schizophrenia
- PhD: Imaging in Stroke
- PhD: Physical Maltreatment: What Makes a Mother Physically Maltreat an Infant PhD: Face and Facial Expression Processing in Autism
- PhD: The Efficacy of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Schizophrenia
- PhD: Investigating the Perceptual Processes Used in Perceiving Apparent Motion Using a Degraded Wagon Wheel Paradigm
- PhD: Assessing and Improving 3D Understanding
- PhD: The Development of Source-Monitoring in Children
- PhD: Development of norms using cognitive experimental psychology tests
- PhD: Animal Model Psychopatholgy
- PhD: Cognitive Control Processes in Task Switching
- PhD: Prenatal Exposure to Stress
