BPsych (Hons), GCertEd (Tertiary Teaching), MHEd, PhD (Psychological Science)
Student Experience Coordinator
Lecturer, GIHE
Contact details for Dr Jason Lodge
Teaching responsibilities
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
- 7013GIH: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education – Course Convenor
- 7018GIH: Blended Learning – Course Convenor
Staff development workshops
- ICT use in higher education
- Learning and teaching
Research expertise
My research concentrates on the psychology of learning. Specifically, I am interested in the cognitive and emotional factors that influence learning and behaviour and how these processes can be better incorporated into higher education policy and practice. I am also interested in the ways changing communication channels introduced through technological developments are influencing learning.
Recent research grants
2011-2013: Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in higher education institutions. Karen Nelson, Gordon Joughin, Glyn Thomas, Jason Lodge, John Clarke. Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Funding: $220,000
2011-2013: Addressing the second year slump phenomenon: How badly are our students suffering and what can we do to address it? Sarah-Jane Gregory, Ann McDonnell, Jason Lodge. Griffith Grant for Learning and Teaching. Funding: $19,000
2010-2011: Using online communities to increase engagement with postgraduate students on clinical externships. Esben Strodl, Robert Schweitzer, Jason Lodge. QUT Learning and Teaching Development Grant. Funding: $3,000
Potential research projects
Higher degree research students and collaborators are invited to contact me in relation to the following areas of research:
Psychological science
- Emotion & cognition interaction
- Selective attention
- Decision making
- Preference formation
Learning in higher education
Information and communication technology in higher education
Student experience in higher education
Selected publications
Lodge, J. M. (in press). Strategies for increasing student engagement and retention within the first year of professional programs. International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education.
Smyth, E. & Lodge, J. M. (in press). Orientation Online: An online introduction to university for assisting commencing students transition to higher education. International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education.
Lodge, J. M. (2011). What if student attrition was treated like an illness? An epidemiological model for learning analytics. Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, Hobart, Australia.
Lodge, J. M., O’Connor, E. L., Ryan, C., Bath, D., & Hansen, L. (2011). Introductions to the profession: Expectations and transitions of beginning psychology students at three universities. 46th Australian Psychological Society Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Lodge, J. (2011). Lost in the noise: The rising tide of digital information and how to manage it. Tertiary Education Management Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
Lodge, J., Smith, C., Bath, D., & Bourke, J. (2011). What do learning analytics really tell us about student learning and how do the data inform practice? Higher Education Research & Development Conference 2011, Gold Coast, Australia.
Lodge, J. (2011). Beyond Transition pedagogy: Modelling the next generation of strategies to enhance the first year experience. Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference.
Lodge, J. & Cottrell, D. (2011). If you blink, you will like it: Mere exposure to random geometric shapes in RSVP streams. 38th Experimental Psychology Conference, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Lodge, J. (2010). Communicating with first year students; so many channels but is anyone listening? A practice report. International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 1(1), 100-105. doi:10.5204/intjfyhe.v1i1.23
Lodge, J. & Cottrell, D. (2010). Processing fluency and distractor devaluation: does the processing of repeatedly presented distractors influence subjective liking? 37th Experimental Psychology Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia.
Lodge, J. (2010). The benefits of using social networks to increase student engagement – not so obvious? Higher Education Research & Development Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia.