Graduates
Current Supervision (3)
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Christopher Duncan (2023)
Indigenous Secondary Pre-Service Education Perspectives of Enablers and Barriers to University Retention and Completion.
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Michael Reynolds (2024)
Enablers of Success for Indigenous Australian University Completion.
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Rebecca Lozina (2024)
Impact of the Deadly Start Literacy Intervention Program on Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian Preschool Children: An Analysis of Multiple Stakeholders' Perspectives.
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Cathryn Emmerson (2025)
Through the looking glass: Exploring the effectiveness of peer review of teaching and its impact on
academic professional development.​
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Doctoral Completions (30)
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Dr Georgia Durmush (2022)
Empowering Indigenous thriving: Identifying conceptions of wellbeing and enabling the voice and agency of Indigenous youth in higher education. [PDF]
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Dr Cathy Tikoft (2021)
Transition to Secondary School for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Students in High Ability Settings. [PDF]
Dr Lynette Riley (2017)
Conditions of Academic Success for Aboriginal Students in School. [PDF]
Dr Lucy Hobby (2016)
Promoting potential: A mixed method study evaluating the impact of differing school settings on high achieving students’ academic and psychosocial outcomes. [PDF]
Dr Michelle Nemec (2016)
Enhancing emotional literacy: A critical participatory action research case study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives and effects of a whole school approach. [PDF]
Dr Fabri Blacklock (2014)
Beyond fabrication of Australia’s history: A documentation and multi-method, critical analysis of Ngarabal and Biripi elders’ perspectives and experiences of Australian history.
Dr Chandrasena Wanasinghe (2014)
Development and use of diagnostic tests to evaluate students’ misconceptions in Chemistry and finding the remedial measures to minimise these conceptions. [PDF]
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Dr Natasha Magson (2013)
Creating Socially Inclusive Communities: A Multi-Method Study Evaluating the Relations between Social Capital, Biopsychosocial Constructs, and Economic Outcomes in Disadvantaged Settings. [PDF]
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Dr Peter McKenzie (2011) DCA
Hidden talent: contributions of Aboriginal musicians of the New England Tablelands to contemporary Aboriginal culture and cultural revitalisation. [PDF]
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Dr Samantha Hornery (2011)
Positive pathways to reading for disadvantaged children. [PDF]
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Dr Anthony Dillon (2011)
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A diagnosis for children, or a cure for parents, teachers, and clinicians. [PDF]
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Dr Janet Mooney (2011)
Teaching Aboriginal studies: A critical analysis of core Aboriginal studies teacher education courses and their impact on schooling. [PDF]
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Dr Linda Finger (2010)
Beyond Bullying Primary Schools Program: Implementing an Effective Whole-school Program to Manage Bullying, Enhance Prosocial Behaviour and Boost Student Well-being in the Upper Primary Grades. [PDF]
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Dr James Neill (2009)
Enhancing Life Effectiveness: The impact of outdoor education programs. [PDF]
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Dr Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews (2008)
Seeking resolutions for the inequities within Indigenous education: unearthing causal psychosocial constructs that impact upon educational outcomes. [PDF]
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Dr Marjorie Seaton (2008)
The big-fish-little-pond effect under the grill: Tests of its universality, a search for moderators, and the role of social comparison. [PDF]
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Dr Charles Leung (2008)
Domain specificity between types of peer support and multi-dimensional self-concept. [PDF]
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Dr Genevieve Nelson (2008)
The socio-economic and psychological determinants of student academic outcomes in Papua New Guinea. [PDF]
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Dr Cory Middleton (2008)
Mental Toughness: Conceptualisation and Measurement. [P​DF]
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Dr Jinnat Ali (2006)
Developing a standardised measure of student motivation for use in diverse cultural settings. [PDF]
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Dr Roberto Parada (2006)
School bullying: Psychosocial determinants and effective intervention. [PDF]
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Dr Alan Barnett (2006)
The impact of transformational leadership style of the principal on school learning environments and selected teacher outcomes. [PDF]
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Dr John Wylie (2005)
The influence of self-concept on non-traditional student persistence in higher education. [PDF]
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Dr Jean Healey (2005) EdD
Violence and bullying in schools : new theoretical perspectives and the Macarthur model for comprehensive and customised intervention. [PDF]
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Dr Rose Dixon (2005)
Moving out: The impact of deinstitutionalising on salient affective variables, social competence, and social skills of people with mild intellectual disabilities. [PDF]
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Dr Louise Ellis (2004)
Peers helping peers: The effectiveness of a peer support program in enhancing self-concept and other desirable outcomes. [PDF]
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Dr Gail Brown (2004)
The efficacy of question-answering instruction for improving Year 5 reading comprehension. [PDF]
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Dr Leanne Cowin (2004)
The self-concept of nurses and its relationship to job satisfaction and retention. [PDF]
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Dr Danielle Tracey (2003)
Self-concepts of preadolescents with mild intellectual disability: multidimensionality, measurement, and support for the big fish little pond effect. [PDF]
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Dr Upali Jayasinghe (2003)
Peer review in the assessment and funding of research by the Australian Research Council. [PDF]
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MEd (Honours) Completions (5)
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Anne Ndaba (2016)
Investigating Aboriginal Perceptions of Literacy Needs. Elucidating Innovative Approaches to Engage Aboriginal Youth and Adults in Literacy Learning. [PDF]
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Lyn Riley (2014)
Positive pathways to Aboriginal employment: Enabling Aboriginal peoples’ futures through effective psychosocial interventions that enhance Aboriginal employment, self-concept, motivation, and wellbeing.
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Debra Wray (2006)
HSC Aboriginal Studies: Strengths, Limitations, and Impact upon Aboriginal Students’ Self-Concepts and Educational Outcomes. [PDF]
Karen Pack (1999)
The Importance of Student Self-Concept in Developing Positive Life Choices.
Janet Mooney (1998)
Crisis in Indigenous Australian Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Recent Government Policies.
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Honours (Psychology) Completions (9)
Brendon Correy (2010)
When the working week is done, bullies just want to have fun? Explicating the relation between the bullying of young adults in a weekend social context and alcohol and drug use, engagement in risky behaviour, and psychosocial constructs
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Liz Angel (2009)
Nurses’ motivation and self-concepts
Natalie Evans (2009)
Where have all the fathers gone? Elucidating paternal perceptions concerning the nature, causes, and treatment of ADHD for primary and secondary students
Lucy Griezel (2007)
Out of the school yard and into cyber space: Elucidating the nature, gender and developmental differences, and psychosocial consequences of traditional and cyber bullying for Australian secondary students
(Honours First Class, University of Western Sydney Medal)
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Natasha Magson (2007)
Motivation matters: A critical cross-cultural and gender analysis of students’ achievement goal orientations and the explication of a new domain-specific model of student motivation
(Honours First Class, University of Western Sydney Medal)
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Melinda Williams (2004)
Transtheoretical model of change in relation to physical activity for adolescents
(Honours First Class)
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Genevieve Nelson (2003)
Similarities and differences in motivation and processes of learning between Papua New Guinea and Australian school students
(Honours First Class, University of Western Sydney Medal)
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Alison O’Mara (2003)
Evaluating self-concept interventions from a multi-dimensional perspective: A meta-analysis
(Honours First Class, University of Western Sydney Medal)
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Linda Finger (2002)
Do my self-beliefs lead me to bully or be bullied? An investigation into the causal relations between bullying, victimisation, and self-concept
(Honours First Class)