B Arts, B Arts (Honours), PhD

Lecturer, School of Psychology

Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council

Contact details for Dr Debra Bath

Research expertise

• Educational and applied cognitive psychology
• Specifically, how students learn in relation to memory, schema development and long-term retention, particularly in the university setting
• Epistemological beliefs (beliefs about the nature of knowledge) and their relationship with key educational concerns such as lifelong learning critical thinking, and ethical and moral reasoning
• Grief educationin the workplace as a prevention strategy for complicated and disenfranchised grief
• Understanding community responses to grievers, as well as perinatal loss and grief

Current teaching areas

• 1001PSY Introductory Cognitive and Biological Psychology
• 1009PSY Introduction to Psychological Science and Society

Publications

• Bath, D.M. (under review). Predicting support of grieving persons: A Theory of Planned Behaviour perspective. Death Studies.
• Bath, D.M., and Smith, C.D. (under review). The relationship between epistemological beliefs and the propensity for lifelong learning. Studies in Continuing Education.
• Smith, C., and Bath, D. (2006). The role of the learning community in the development of discipline knowledge and generic graduate outcomes. Higher Education, 51, 259-286.
• Bath, D., Smith, C.D., Stein, S. and Swann, R. (2004). Beyond mapping and embedding graduate attributes: bringing together quality assurance and action learning to create a validated and living curriculum. Higher Education Research and Development, 23, 313-328.
• Bath, D.M. (2004). Remembering, knowing and schematisation: Theoretical and practical perspectives. In Sergio P. Shohov (Ed.) Advances in Psychology Research: Vol. 27 (pp. 23-45). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers