College of Education, Psychology and Social Work (Psychology)
Friday 17th April 2026 - 1:30pm
Live stream
Program
Entry of Academic Procession
The Chancellor, Deputy Chancellors, Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, members of the University Council and staff of the University will enter in academic procession.
Australian National Anthem
Indigenous Opening
Opening of Proceedings
Presentation of Graduates
Closing of Proceedings
Departure of Academic Procession
The Chancellor, Deputy Chancellors, Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, members of the University Council and staff of the University will exit in academic procession.
Officers of the University
Chancellor
Mr John Hood
Deputy Chancellors
Ms Elizabeth Perry AM
Mr Douglas Gautier AM
President and Vice-Chancellor
Professor Colin J Stirling
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor Romy Lawson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Ray Chan
Vice-President (Corporate Services)
Mr Mark Gregory
General Counsel & University Secretary
Mr Marc Davies
College Vice-President and Executive Deans
Business, Government and Law
Professor Michael Gilding
Education, Psychology and Social Work
Professor Deborah West
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Peter Monteath
Medicine and Public Health
Professor Jonathan Craig
Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Michelle Miller
Science and Engineering
Professor Alistair Rendell
PHD Students
| Name | Supervisors | Thesis | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Emily Foster Mann | Associate Professor Kerry Bissaker & Dr Loretta Bowshall-Freeman | Surviving or thriving: Early career teachers' stories of work and life in rural Australia. | The Australian teaching profession is in crisis; attracting, recruiting, and retaining teachers are a significant concern, especially in rural, regional, and remote areas. Although research, reports, and reviews have examined this issue, the voices of early career teachers rarely contribute to the broader conversation surrounding the profession. This research explores six early career teachers’ stories as they reflect on their experiences of working and living during one school year in rural, regional, and remote Australia. Findings from the early career teachers highlight the complex interrelated personal and contextual factors that enable some to thrive and flourish, while others experience challenges and survive. This research contributes resonant comprehensive understanding of early career teachers’ experiences and growth across four states in rural, regional, and remote Australia, the holistic support they need, and offering insights for educational stakeholders to better select, support, and sustain teachers working and living in these unique areas. |
| Tammie Rebecca Foster | Professor Robyn Young & Professor Neil Brewer | The Intersection of Autism and Law: Remorse Assessments and Diagnosis Considerations in Sentencing | This thesis explored how autism-related characteristics affect legal evaluations of remorse in autistic offenders. It highlights significant misconceptions within the criminal justice system, where social communication differences can lead to misinterpretations of emotional expressions, impacting assessments of moral character. Key findings revealed disparities in custodial sentences for autistic individuals where perceptions of remorse influence judicial decisions. Autistic offenders were viewed as less remorseful, resulting in longer sentences compared to their non-autistic counterparts. The research emphasises the profound impact of societal perceptions on legal outcomes and advocates for greater judicial awareness and education. By identifying biases and misconceptions, this work calls for the development of tailored evaluation methods to ensure fair treatment and equitable sentencing practices for autistic individuals in the legal system. |
| Peter John Mader | Dr Andrew Bills, Dr Bev Rogers & Professor Robert Hattam | Principal associations: the struggle for political agency in neoliberalising policy regimes | My thesis investigates the contested terrain of public education policy in South Australia (1995-2020) between the bureaucracy who formulate it and principal associations who advocate for its improvement. Using Bacchi’s ‘what’s the problem represented to be’ framework (2009) as a theoretical foundation for a genealogy, I reveal how principals have been constituted and constituted themselves by expanded accountabilities and diminished autonomy across three major reforms. Despite being constrained by this rendering, school leaders contested and resisted this subjugation through the political work of principal associations. Expanding upon Thomson’s (2008) idea that the question of resistance needs to take seriously the “collective professional organisations” (p. 86) of principals, my examination of one principal association’s political struggle to improve public education policy establishes limitations and possibilities. Using Apple, Foucault and Mouffe, I propose some plausible options for principal associations to expand their political work to disrupt the neoliberal project. |
| Joshua Luke McGreen | Professor Eva Kemps & Professor Marika Tiggemann | The roles of cognitive biases, cravings, and inhibitory control in unhealthy beverage and food consumption | Excessive consumption of soft drinks and unhealthy foods has been recognized as a major public health concern. Current strategies to curb such consumption, including soft drink taxation, have not been altogether successful. Notably, such strategies do not address the underlying mechanisms driving soft drink and unhealthy food consumption. Thus, the overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate the underlying mechanisms associated with soft drink and unhealthy food consumption, and assess the effectiveness of interventions targeting these mechanisms for reducing such consumption. The present thesis identifies key targets for potentially reducing soft drink consumption, namely implicit positive evaluations of soft drinks, inhibitory control, and cravings for soft drinks. Furthermore, the thesis provides comprehensive evidence that inhibitory control is linked to food consumption and that targeting this mechanism robustly reduces food consumption. Thus, this thesis offers a valuable and unique contribution to understanding and potentially addressing a significant public health concern. |
| Lok Sum Mui | Professor Raj Shekhawat, Professor Niranjan Bidargaddi Parameshwar & Jameel Muzaffar | Teleaudiology as an Avenue for Transforming the Future of Hearing Care in Australia | Teleaudiology refers to the remote delivery of audiological services by leveraging telecommunications and digital technology. Although the benefits of teleaudiology are well recognised, many clients and clinicians show hesitation about its use. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, teleaudiology uptake in Australia has been slow despite a growing body of evidence on its clinical applications. A more thorough understanding of stakeholders’ perceptions is crucial to further teleaudiology implementation in the post-pandemic landscape. Aiming at enhancing teleaudiology service delivery through evaluation of web-based and smartphone-based interventions with the incorporation of elements of human-centred design, this thesis presents a series of five studies using mixed methods encompassing three aspects of hearing care: awareness, assessment, and intervention. Findings indicated that teleaudiology continues to prove a viable and effective means of delivering hearing care during and beyond the pandemic, while ongoing collaborations between stakeholders are required to overcome the barriers to teleaudiology uptake. |
| Desiani Natalina Muliasari | Associate Professor Amy Hamilton, Associate Professor Shane Pill & Dr Rozi Binte Rahmat | Transforming Indonesian teachers' understanding and implementation of critical pedagogy of place as a foundation to foster students' critical and creative thinking | This research addresses the need to foster critical and creative thinking (CCT) in Indonesian primary education through the lens of Critical Pedagogy of Place (CPoP). Focusing on Grade 1 classrooms in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, the study investigates how CPoP can support CCT using a community-based action research approach. It engaged 12 primary school teachers, exploring their understanding, intentions, and classroom implementation of CPoP. Key findings reveal varying levels of teacher engagement with CPoP, from basic adoption to deeper integration that fosters critical inquiry and student-centred learning. However, challenges such as overcrowded classrooms, time constraints and traditional teaching practices limited its full potential. The study highlights the importance of sustained professional learning and flexible teaching strategies to overcome these barriers. Its findings have practical implications for curriculum development, particularly within the Merdeka curriculum, showing how place-based education can nurture CCT and contribute to meaningful educational reform in Indonesia's schools. |
| Bohua Zhang | Professor Helen McLaren, Dr Yunong Huang, Dr Alhassan Abdullah & Dr Georgina Maddox | The Effects of Production on Recollection and Familiarity: Evidences from Electroencephalography | My doctoral dissertation investigates the effects of reading aloud on recollection and familiarity using EEG in immediate and delayed testing, exploring mechanisms and applications of the production effect (PE). It comprises four studies: (1) A systematic review of mechanisms and factors influencing the recognition-based production effect, highlighting distinctiveness as the dominant factor in within-subject PE. (2) EEG exploration of reading aloud in immediate testing, revealing its enhancement of recollection (LPC old/new effect) but not familiarity, supporting the distinctiveness account (Experiment 1 published in Cortex). (3) EEG investigation of delayed testing (one week and one month), confirming the role of distinctiveness/recollection in the delayed PE. (4) Qualitative research identifying six themes reflecting the practical value of reading aloud for memory enhancement. Overall, the dissertation advances theoretical understanding of the PE and provides practical insights for utilizing reading aloud as a memory strategy. |
Graduates (in order of appearance) - published as of 7 April 2026
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Matthew Brownbill | BACHELOR OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE (PSYCHOLOGY) |
| Lilyann Coote | BACHELOR OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE (PSYCHOLOGY) |
| Harry Amanatidis | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Drew Baker | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Sebastian Bathe | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Elliah Grace Baxter | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Lachlan Bruce | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Madison Bruno | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Louisa Chwaja | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Hailey Colledge | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Lila Davies | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Rachel Dixon | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Byron Drage | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Preston Fernandez | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Cameron Flaherty | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Lucia Franks | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Olivia Freund | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Kachina Georgi | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Ethan Gilby | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Prosper Hakizimana | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Charlotte Hams | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Talia Harrington | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Zara Harvey | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Chloe Hughes | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Brooke Jacques-Dempsey | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Malintha Jayasuriya | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Evan John | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Tayla Johnson | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Macy Kempster | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Jessica Lamouza | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Alexandra Lobban | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Mikayla Mackereth | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Mary Mantjaris | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Mikayla Norman | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Calandra Ogar | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Ella O'Malley | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Summer Page | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Eleanor Pike | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Cheyenne Ramsey | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Tehan Schoeman | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Tia Skelton | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Sabrina Small | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Abbey Streng | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Leilani Thornton | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Evelina Tunno | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Lesley Ventura | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Oliver Walsh | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Bryan Wang | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Sian Woods | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Zhengnan Chen | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES |
| Amanda Davidson | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES |
| Michael Turner | BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES |
| Yvette Davey | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE |
| Katherine Bakopoulos | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Isabella Baldwin | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Abbey Brooks | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Mackenzie Cox | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Ebony Eldridge | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Rupert Fulljames | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Farahnaz Haidari | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Chelsea Hearl | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Sarah Jolly | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Madeleine Kent | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Lily Pearl | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Nicolas Perrotta | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Jasnoor Raina | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Ebony Ramke | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Shea Robinson | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Mishkat Tahir | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE |
| Isabella Anestopoulos | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Ahlyza Yehoshuah Bagorio | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Niharika Biji | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Jordyn Callea | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Alex Cartney | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Katie Dyson | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Bree Elliott | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Catherine Evele | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Simran Fatania | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Jasmine Hodge | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Simone Kelley | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Jessie Lau | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Alyssa McKay | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Zali Middleton | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Caitlin Muir | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Vanessa Nguyen | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Tom Rowntree | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Liana Sainsbury | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Ben Senior | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Ella Simpson | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Lucy Stark | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Asha Tamms | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Sarah Thorpe | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Katie Tsimogiannis | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Eliza Vezis | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Bronte Ward | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| Isabella Banna | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY (ADVANCED) |
| Lauren Cadieux | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY (ADVANCED) |
| Chloe Macdonald | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY (ADVANCED) |
| Tara Maland | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY (ADVANCED) |
| Leah Alexiou | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Caroline Baker | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Simela Dimitriou | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Hannah Goodburn | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Hayley Grant | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Amina Gredelj | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Arabelle Hsi | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Heidi Lewis | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Kaylee Meyer | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Amelia Munt | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Olivia Puccini | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Jade Rokvic | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Marie Staecy Jennifer Thomas | MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Robert Allen | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Alexandra Canty | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Nikita Dahm | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Isaiah Fabbro | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Amelia Kimpton | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Joseph Laranjeira | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Tess Rutherford | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
| Sara Sulibi | MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) |
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