Department of Psychology
Doctoral students
Read about our recent and current doctoral students and their research interests at the Department of Psychology.
| Name | Research topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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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