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The research work and reputation of the School's staff are widely recognised nationally and internationally. Staff have extensive work experience in both public and private sectors. Staff members consistently have research published in leading psychological research journals and regularly attract grant funding from the national funding bodies (i.e. National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council). The general research strengths of the School include social, developmental, organisational, cognitive, clinical and forensic psychology. Some of the areas of current research within the School include:
- Occupational Stress Research Project
- Girls to Women Relationship Project - The effect of childhood experiences on women's adult relationships
- Couple Relationship Research Program: Promoting mutually satisfying and stable couple relationships
- Couple CARE: couple commitment and relationship enhancement
- Internet-based Delivery of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy versus Monitoring, Feedback and Support for Problem Gambling
- Newlyweds Research
- The Parents Under Pressure Program: Improving the futures of children living in homes with multiple problems such as substance abuse and emotional difficulties
- Family Interaction Program: Helping distressed families who have young children with behaviour problems
- Adult Learning
- Attention and Memory
- Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation
- Cognitive Development
- Emotion and Learning
- Enhancing Performance
- Reading
- Vision and Perception
- Service Delivery Project
For information about the research projects being undertaken by Doctor of Philosophy students go to the Research Higher Degree Projects page.