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Doctoral students

Read about our recent and current doctoral students and their research interests at the School of Psychology.

Name Research topic Email
Luisa Ape-Esera Process evaluation of the SAFE adolescent programmes for Maori and pacific Youth who are sexually abusive ape001@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Momina Ashraf A Cross-Cultural Study of Religiosity and Sexism a.ashraf@auckland.ac.nz
Michelle Banicevich The Effects of Post-Reinforcer Events on Preference Pulses: Implications for the Law of Effect m.banicevich@auckland.ac.nz
Adrienne Bartle Stepmother Experience of Relationship with Stepchildren abar175@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Hamish Douglass McKenzie Bartle Successful completers of sex offender treatment hbar047@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Lynda Bavin An analysis and evaluation of key elements for enhancing the effectiveness of health promoting messages in fictional television series. lbav001@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Tessa Brudevold Iverson Life-long Learners: Enhancement of International Key Competencies and Student Engagement in School  
Sharon Lorraine Buxton Emotional processing in individuals with Parkinson's disease s.buxton@auckland.ac.nz
Sarah Syeda Carne Using psychological theory and exercise to improve physiological/psychosocial functioning of obese children s.carne@auckland.ac.nz
Navjot Chahal Long-term Functional and Neuropsychological Outcomes of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH) Survivors in NZ najvot_g@hotmail.com
Annabel Clarke A Fatigue Management Group Intervention in Stroke Patients annabel.clarke@xtra.co.nz
Sarah Cowie What do reinforcers do to behaviour? scow028@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Susan Joyce Cowie Postnatal depression and relapse s.cowie@auckland.ac.nz
Angela Moana Curtis-Clark Qualitative Experiences of Being a Step-Grandparent b.d.c.eng@xtra.co.nz
Kelsey Deane Factors that influence individual differences in youth development program outcomes k.deane@auckland.ac.nz
Maia Eremin Constructing autism: the experiences of parents of children with autism m.eremin@e-design.co.nz
Christina Uapo Fa'alogo Lilo Development of a mental health outcome measure for Pacific Island service users ctup001@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Virginia Farnsworth-Grodd A randomised control trial of two treatment modalities for Performance Anxiety and their impact on participants  
Marisa Finn (nee Loft) Self-Regulation Intervention to Promote Sleep in Employees m.finn@auckland.ac.nz
Erin Gaab Children's End of Life Care  
Isabelle Haberling Genetic Influences on Handedness and Cerebral Asymmetries in Identical and Non-Identical Twins i.haberling@auckland.ac.nz
Alexandra Louise Haynes (nee Rowell) Effectiveness of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Anxiety ahay043@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Lindsay Hearne The Cognitive Neuroscience of Synaesthesia l.hearne@auckland.ac.nz
Elizabeth Howells Violence Attitudes: Attitudes towards punishment  
Julia Ioane Who are Pacific Island Youth Offenders?  
Sandu Iordache Disturbing Dreams of Dying People andu_iordache@yahoo.com
Sarina Jennifer Iwabuchi Plasticity of Functional Lateralisation and Interhemospheric Communication sarinaiwabuchi@gmail.com
Lana Jago CHF: Enhancing Patient Understanding to Improve Adherence l.jago@auckland.ac.nz
Cunmei Jiang Processing of Pitch Variations in Music and Language: from the perspective of congenital amusia c.jiang@auckland.ac.nz
Jamie Kampen Psychosis jkam007@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Beatrice Kim Developing a multidimensional model and measure of ethnic identity measure that can reliably predict behavioural outcomes b.kim@auckland.ac.nz
Alevtina Koulikova Alzheimer's Disease and EEG Correlates of Memory Change akou005@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Sylvia H S Leao Voice disorders in teachers: Prevalence, risk factors and vocal loading s.leao@auckland.ac.nz
Jade Sophia Le Grice Maori perspectives on fertility, reproduction, and pregnancy j.legrice@auckland.ac.nz
Veema Lodhia Perceptual processing in autistic spectrum disorder v.lodhia@auckland.ac.nz
Penelope Mansell Evaluation of an Intervention with Step Couples  
Narisa Evelyn Marrett Experimental analysis of behaviour n.marrett@auckland.ac.nz
Victoria Martin The Role of the Anterior Hippocampus in successful encoding of imagined future events victoria.martin@gmail.com
Rachael Mayne The relationship between childhood trauma and abuse and later psychological problems in childhood and ado  
Angus Anderson Maxwell Psychosis: Changes in self experience prior to first psychotic episode a.maxwell@auckland.ac.nz
Nicole Laura McCloud Daughters’ relationships with fathers following separation n.mccloud@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Daniel Joseph McCombe Study model predicting various forms of mental illness d.mccombe@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Karen McLellan The experiences of Māori with aphasia and their whānau k.mclellan@auckland.ac.nz
Sarah McNeil The effectiveness of relationship self-regulation smcn025@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Felipe Salvador Medina Rodriguez The evolution of complex cognition: specialists or generalists fmedinaro@gmail.com
Vicki Mobley Experiences of stepfamily relationships in New Zealand vickimobley@xtra.co.nz
Sasha Moses A longitudinal investigation into early brain changes and cognitive functioning in people with early Huntington's Disease  
Kieron Mottley Outcomes of meta-level behaviour and awareness in animals and humans. kmot007@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Valerie Van Mulukom Episodic simulation of future experiences: evolutionary and neural perspectives vvanmulukom@gmail.com
Cecile Muller Attitudes towards prenatal genetic testing c.muller@auckland.ac.nz
Michelle Ong Body image of Women 50-60 years of age mong013@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Georgina Parr Interhemispheric transfer times in schizophrenics compared to matched control subjects georginaparr@gmail.com
Bradley Patten Teleportation in Virtual Environments - Spatial Navigation's Final Frontier bradley.patten@gmail.com
Mei Peng The Variation of Human Olfactory Sensitivity mpen038@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Ryan Perry Re-defining social worldview beliefs as schemas: Development and validation of a new measure for one component of the Dual Process Model. r.perry@auckland.ac.nz
Pikihuia Pomare Engaging Maori children and whanau in culturally responsive Mental Health Services  
Sally Prebble Autobigraphical memory and sense of self in Alzheimer's disease spre019@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Reece Pierre Roberts The Effect of Visual Attention on Repetition Blindness rrob042@ec.auckland.uniac.nz
Loshni Rogers Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients' Post Treatment  
Maria Sampson Exploring relationships between attachment style, gender and mental health in a community mental health centre  
Barbara Shaffer Authoritarianism and the Impact of Threat bshaffer@mtaloy.edu
Julia Shaw (nee Somervell) Youth Development with At-Risk Adolescents: The Development and Evaluation of a Pilot Programme jsha107@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Matthew Shepherd Evaluation of Usability and Effectiveness of a Computer-Administered CBT Programme for the Treatment of Adolescent Depression in Primary Care m.shepherd@auckland.ac.nz
Myoung Shin Visual Orienting j.shin@auckland.ac.nz
Kate Stewart Devlopmental and Psychsocial Functioning after Heart Surgey in Infants kate.e.stewart@gmail.com
Marie Anne Strachan The effects of cognitive behavioural treatment on symptoms of marie.strachan@gmail.com
Kiri Tamihere-Waititi Process evaluation of the Maori Youth Programme at SAFE ktam020@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Tamsin Taylor  Testing contentment as a positive emotion to improve self-regulation capacity during health behaviours ttay012@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Callum Thorpe Arterial spin labelling - clinical applications / Facilitation of clinical decision making for temporal lobe epilepsy utilising functional magnetic resonance imaging c.thorpe@auckland.ac.nz
Jan Kristin Trayes Stage Challenge: what are the ingredients of a natural high? j.trayes@auckland.ac.nz
Sarah Watson Psychological impact of inherited cardiac conditions for families spay001@ec.auckland.ac.nz
Sarah de Wattingnar Evaluation of Te Whetu Tawera's Reduction of Violence Programme sdewattingingnar@gmail.com
Julie Maria Wharewera Therapy for Maori Mental Health Service users j.wharawera-mika@auckland.ac.nz
Carolyn Wu Sensorimotor Integration Facilitated by Musical Training carolyn.wu@creative.auckland.ac.nz
Helen Vykopal (nee Buckland Wright) Clinical Trial of a Memory Rehabilitation Intervention for People Recovering from Head Trauma misshlbw@hotmail.com
Casey Wilson (nee Mendiola) Meaning of Self-Harm in Adolescent Girls oohlala007@hotmail.com
Yunfei Zhao A study of post-divorce functioning and divorce experience of Chinese immigrants living in New Zealand yzha395@ec.auckland.ac.nz


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