College of Education, Psychology and Social Work (Psychology)
Friday 17th April 2026 - 1:30pm

Live stream

Ceremony details

Program

Officers, College Vice-Presidents and Executive Deans

Graduates

PHD students

University Medals

Digital Ceremony Booklet

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.

Indigenous Opening

Australian National Anthem

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 Chancellor
Ms Leanne Liddle

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 Jonathan Pheasant

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 Romy Lawson

Medicine and Public Health
Professor Jonathan Craig

Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Tracy Humphrey

Science and Engineering
Professor Ray Chan

PHD Students

Name	Supervisors	Thesis	Citation
Xin Luo	Principal Supervisor: Mike Nicholls Associate Supervisor: Oren Griffiths Adjunct Supervisor: Jiang Qiu	By thesis entitled: Attentional Biases in Anxiety and Depression: Behavioural and Neural Evidence from Ensemble Perception	In daily life, we can quickly perceive the overall emotional tone from a crowd, for example, whether it's relaxed, happy, or depressed. This ability helps us understand our surroundings and adjust our behaviour accordingly. Attention plays a key role in this process. Interestingly, our own emotional state can also subtly influence the direction of our attention, leading different people to perceive and interpret the same social situation in different ways. This study focuses on how emotional states such as anxiety and depression influence our perception of group emotions. By combining behavioural experiments, eye tracking, and electroencephalography (EEG) techniques, we observed that emotional regulation abilities and brain resource allocation modulate attentional biases during the perceptual process. This finding reveals the subtle interaction between emotion and attention. It enhances our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying anxiety and depression, opening up new avenues for intervention in affective disorders.
Zijun Zhao	Principal Supervisor: Mariette Berndsen Associate Supervisor: Lydia Woodyatt Associate Supervisor: Emma Thomas	By thesis entitled: Why do people engage in online shaming? A social identity approach	This thesis conceptualises online shaming as a group-based phenomenon shaped by shared social identities and multiple motives. A scoping narrative review integrates multidisciplinary literature into four psychological goals—punishing the perceived wrongdoer, deterring wrongdoing, seeking social acknowledgement, and creating change. Topic-modelling of a Twitter shaming event confirms these goals and highlights intragroup and intergroup dynamics. Two experiments testing a social identity leadership–followership paradigm show general resistance to shaming punishments but demonstrate that leadership cues can mobilise shaming in specific contexts. Collectively, the four studies indicate that online shaming embodies collective behaviour driven by punishment, deterrence, acknowledgement, and social change motives, fulfilling identity-based needs comparable at times to online activism. The findings refine theoretical understanding of online shaming’s group processes and offer practical guidance for the press, platforms, and policymakers in addressing its contextual harms and benefits.
Nepheli Beos	Principal Supervisor: Eva Kemps Associate Supervisor: Ivanka Donnelley	By thesis entitled: Impact of Social Media on Body Image, Physical Activity, Eating Habits, and Use of Muscle-Building Substances Among Young Men	The thesis aimed to further our understanding of the relationships between social media and body image, physical activity, eating habits, and use of muscle-building substances among young adult men. Using a range of study designs, it was found that exposure to appearance-related social media content leads to negative body image outcomes and greater intentions to engage in appearance-altering behaviours among young adult men. The thesis calls for stricter guidelines and policies for social media influencers and the development of more appropriate social media literacy programs. These will have a positive impact on the overall well-being of young adult men, and young people more broadly.
Nicole Alexandra Stuart	Principal Supervisor: Eva Kemps Associate Supervisor: Peter Catcheside Joint Associate Supervisor: Hannah Scott	By thesis entitled: Using novel electroencephalographic methods to better understand sleep-wake and cognitive performance under simulated night shift work conditions.	This research explores two sleep and alertness monitoring techniques, the Odds Ratio Product (ORP) and Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrodes (TCRE), and their potential for measuring alertness and predicting cognitive performance. Traditional methods for monitoring fatigue and sleep are limited, often detecting problems only after performance declines. Through controlled lab studies, this research showed that while conventional sleep scoring captured overall sleep improvements, ORP revealed more subtle changes in alertness and cognitive function during night shifts. TCRE offered clearer, more reliable recordings than standard electrodes. Importantly, better sleep didn’t always mean better wakefulness, challenging long-held assumptions. These findings lay the groundwork for smarter fatigue monitoring systems and deepen our understanding of how sleep and alertness interact. This work has broad potential applications for supporting shift workers and managing workplace performance and safety.

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)