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Below is a directory of Post-Grad members of SASP (well, those who have sent in their information - for any of you post-grads out there who aren't listed in the directory, send your information to Jonathan Gerber).

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Name: Glenda Blackwell
Uni Address: School of Psychology, James Cook University, Douglas, Townsville,
Queensland, 4814.
Email:
Glenda.Blackwell@jcu.edu.au
Uni Phone:
(07) 4781 5118 but not always available there; Mobile: 0402064866
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: social psychology, neuropsychology, mood and emotion, music, counterfactuals

Supervisor/s: Dr. Ben Slugoski; Dr. Michele Surbey
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):
Poster presentation at 2002 APS conference
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: walk, long coffee sessions/lunches with friends, laugh a lot, work on
programmes eg. anger management , substance abuse, at the local prison, tutor first year students.

Name: Rowena Brown
Uni Address: Centre for Organisational Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, 4072
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Email:
rowenabr@psy.uq.edu.au
Uni Phone:
(07) 3346 7278
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: Stress and coping responses to technological change, computer mediated communication

Supervisor/s: Dr. Julie Duck, Dr. Nerina Jimmieson
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: Travel, spend time with friends, play guitar, draw/paint

Name: Maree Burns
Uni Address:
Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand.
Email:
m.burns@auckland.ac.nz
Uni Phone: +64 9 3737599 ext 6309
Home page (if you have one): N/A
Research interests: Critical psychologies, gender, health, eating disorders, body management
Supervisor/s: Dr Nicola Gavey and Dr Virginia Braun
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):
Publications

Burns, M. (2000). ‘What’s the word?’ A feminist poststructural reading of the NZ Family Planning Association’s Sexuality Booklet. Women’s Studies Journal, 16, 116-142.

Burns, M. (in press). Interviewing as embodied communication. Feminism and Psychology.

Burns, M. (forthcoming). Theorising interviews as embodied interactions: Implications for ethical feminist research. [Abstract] Australian Journal of Psychology.

Conferences

Burns, M. (2002). Questioning the eating disorder hierarchies present in discussions of anorexia and bulimia: Implications for ethical practice. Paper presented at the Therapeutic Interventions in Eating Disorders Conference. Brisbane, Australia, September 7-8.

Burns, M. (2002). Embodied Reflexivity in Interviewing. Paper presented at the Inciting Dialogue at the Edges of Human Science Research: International Human Science Research Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 19- 22.

Burns, M. (2002). Theorising interviews as embodied interactions: Implications for ethical feminist research. Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 25-28.

Burns, M. (2002). Critical research and social change: the interface between theory and practice. Invited workshop: Issues in critical psychology. Auckland, New Zealand. August 21st.

Burns, M (2001). The Paradox of Health and Bulimia. Paper presented at “Rethinking Gender and Power: A Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference”. Belfast, Northern Ireland. August 30-31.

Burns, M. (2001). An Unhealthy Alliance? Contemporary health rhetoric and bulimia. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Reconstructing Health Psychology: Critical and Qualitative Approaches. Birmingham, UK. August 23-25.

Burns, M. (2001). Discursive constructions of bulimia and bulimic practices. New Zealand Health Psychology Conference. Auckland, NZ. February 19-21.
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:
Running, netball, tennis, snow/water skiing, spending time with friends and family, enjoying good food and good wine, reading, movies.

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Name: Shona Crabb
Uni Address:
Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005

Email:
shona.crabb@psychology.adelaide.edu.au
Uni Phone:
don't have one :-(
Home page (if you have one):
Nup
Research interests:
Critical and discursive psychology, particularly in relation to 'risk', the body, health and illness, and gender.

Supervisor/s:
Dr Amanda LeCouteur and Dr Deborah Turnbull
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Crabb, S. (2002). Discursive strategies employed in women’s talk about breast cancer screening. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Adelaide, Australia, 25-28 April.

Crabb, S. (2002). 'Fiona farewells her breasts': An account of breast cancer prevention in New Idea. Proceedings of the 1st Australian Postgraduate Students' Critical Psychology Conference (Nov 15-16, 2002), 62-77. Sydney: University of Western Sydney Press.

Crabb, S. & LeCouteur, A. (2003). Discourses of breast cancer prevention and risk management in popular media. Paper presented at the Third Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology. Auckland, New Zealand, 10-12 April.

Crabb, S. & LeCouteur, A. (2003). Discourses of responsibility in popular media accounts of breast cancer prevention. Paper presented at the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists’ 32nd Annual Meeting. Sydney, Australia, 24-27 April.
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: Hanging out at the pub with friends, seeing bands, reading, going to the movies, travelling (when I can!), going to the gym...

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Name: Maree Daly
Uni Address:
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic
Email:
m.daly@latrobe.edu.au
Uni Phone:
(03) 9479 5150
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests:
self-concept - change, structure & the relationship with psychological health/well-being
Supervisor/s:
Dr's Helen Lindner & Michael Halloran
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:
I try very very hard to not think about psychology and to pretend that I can have a balanced life that incorporates friends/family/pets & undertake the associated activities without guilt(!)

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Name: Jackson Eaton

Uni Address: Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia

Email: ged@tartarus.uwa.edu.au

Uni Phone: (08) 9380 1425

Home page (if you have one):

Research interests: social cognition, person perception, prejudice, stereotyping, evaluation and automatic behaviour

Supervisor/s: Dr Vance Locke

Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: go to gigs, listen to music, shop for old stuff, garden pot plants, watch arthouse/independent films, go on road trips, sleep.

Name: Jaklin Eliott

Uni Address: University of Adelaide, Department of Medicine

Email: jeliott@mail.rah.sa.gov.au

Uni Phone: (08) 8222 2014

Home page (if you have one):

Research interests: End of life medical decision making by patients, hope, autonomy, social constructionism, discursive analysis, bioethics

Supervisor/s: Professor Ian Olver, Professor Ian John

Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Presentations

Australian Qualitative Research: Issues of Rigour in Qualitative Research, Melbourne, 6-10 July, 1999. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) Constructions of do-not-resuscitate decision making by cancer patients: a discourse analytic study

Discursive construction of knowledge group 4th Biennial International Conference: Narratives for a New Millennium, Adelaide, 23-27 February 2000.  (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) The consequences of hope: constructions of hope and the experience of cancer

Royal Adelaide Hospital Grand Rounds Seminar, Adelaide, 5 June 2000. Hope and the cancer patient

Counselling Association of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 June 2000. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) Constructions of hope and the experience of cancer

International Psycho-Oncology Society: Fifth World Congress of Psycho-Oncology: A new Millennium, a new moment, Melbourne, 3-7 September 2000.  (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) The consequences of hope: constructions of hope and the experience of cancer

Clinical Oncological Society of Australia: Communication and cancer, Adelaide, 29 November – 1 December 2000. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) The family impact on individual DNR decision-making: a qualitative study

Clinical Oncological Society of Australia: Communication and cancer, Adelaide, 29 November – 1 December 2000. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) ‘Do-not-resuscitate’ vs ‘Good palliative care’: A qualitative study of cancer patients’ speech

Australian Qualitative Research: Critical issues in Qualitative Research, Melbourne, 3-7 July 2001. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) Is hope out there? Questioning the empirico-realist approach to hope

Discourse and rhetoric unit, University of Adelaide, seminar presentation, Adelaide, February 2002. Legitimating do-not-resuscitate orders: a qualitative study of cancer patients' speech

University of South Australia Forensics Group, Adelaide, 6 March 2002. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) Legitimating do-not-resuscitate orders: a qualitative study of cancer patients' speech

8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Adelaide, 25-29 April, 2002. (Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N.) Legitimating do-not-resuscitate orders: a qualitative study of cancer patients’ talk

Medical Staff Society Research Prize: Grand Rounds, Royal Adelaide Hospital (finalist), Adelaide, 25 June 2002. Legitimating do-not-resuscitate orders: a qualitative study of cancer patients’ talk

International institute of Hospice Studies, Flinders University Symposium for Higher degree research students, Adelaide, 15-16 July 2002. Rational and emotional persons: the ideal and the real in patients' decision-making at the end of life

Australian Association for Social Research (forthcoming): Multi-disciplinary teams: the ties that bind us, the ties that blind us (Eliott, J., Olver, I.N., & Barrett, R.J.)

Publications

Eliott, J.A., & Olver, I.N. (1999). Cancer patients’ speech on “do not resuscitate” decision-making: A discourse analytic study. (Abstract). Proceedings from the conference: Issues of Rigour in Qualitative Research, 1999: A90. Melbourne: Association for Qualitative Research.

Eliott, J., & Olver, I.N. (2000) Counselling Association of South Australia Newsletter, Spring 2000, 10, 1-2.  The consequences of hope: Constructions of hope and the experience of cancer.

Eliott J.A., and Olver I.N. (2002) The discursive properties of ‘hope’: A qualitative analysis of cancer patients’ speech. Qualitative Health Research, 12 (2), 173-193.

Eliott, J. & Olver I. (In press). "Perceptions of 'Good palliative care' orders: A discursive study of cancer patients' comments." Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Olver, I.N., & Eliott, J.A. (2000) Autonomy and end-of-life decision making. (Abstract). Journal of the Psychological, Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer, 9 (5) (Supp), A147.

Olver, I.N., Eliott, J.A., & Blake-Mortimer, J. (2002) Cancer patients’ perceptions of Do Not Resuscitate Orders. PsychoOncology, 11 (3), 181-187.

What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: Spend time with my two preschool children, Glyn and Ceridwen, and occasionally, my husband Alan.  I write poetry (who doesn't?), work out, but not as much as I should (yeah yeah), and try to learn Spanish.

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Name: Jonathan Gerber 
Uni Address: Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109
Email:
jgerber@psy.mq.eduau
Uni Phone:
(02) 9850 6713
Home page (if you have one):
www.ocs.mq.edu.au/~jgerb000
Research interests: Rejection, Motivation, Group Pessimism Bias
Supervisor/s: Professor Ladd Wheeler, Dr Julie Fitness, Professor Kipling Williams
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):  see webpage
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:  Play Nintendo, cook, play piano

Name: Tim Grice 
Uni Address: University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072
Email:
grice@psy.uq.edu.au
Uni Phone: (07) 3346 9305
Home page (if you have one):
http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/people/personal.html?id=555
Research interests: Multiple Group Identities, Identification Compatibility and Organisational Identification
Supervisor/s: Professor Cindy Gallois
Publications/Conference presentations (if any): 

Grice, T., Paulsen, N., Jones, E., Bordia, P., & Tourish, D. (2002). The effects of multiple identifications on employee attitudes and perceptions.  Paper presented at the April 2002 Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Adelaide, SA. 
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:  Ruminate

Name: Judith Griffiths
Uni Address:
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD
Email:
j.griffiths@mailbox.gu.edu.au
Uni Phone: 
(07) 555 28944
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests:
Collective self esteem in children, intergroup attitudes, threat, ethnic attitudes.
Supervisor/s: 
Professor Drew Nesdale (Griffith University), Professor Anne Maass (University of Padua, Italy)
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):  

EAESP 2002 " The development of a collective self-esteem scale for children"
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:
Reading (anything not connected to my Ph.D.), going to the beach, playing tennis.

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Name: Katherine Hodgetts
Uni Address:
Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005.
Email:
katherine.hodgetts@psychology.adelaide.edu.au
Uni Phone: (0
8) 8303 3855

Home page (if you have one):
NA
Research interests:
Discursive psychology, critical analysis of gender and masculinities, gender equity in education.
Supervisor/s:
Dr Amanda LeCouteur and Assoc. Prof. Martha Augoustinos
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Hodgett, K (2002). Arguments of 'fairness' and 'practicality': Justifying resource allocation for 'gifted' students. Conference proceedings of the 1st Australian Postgraduate Students' Critical Psychology Conference. Sydney: University of Western Sydney Press.

Hodgetts, K. & LeCouteur, A. (2003). Constructing a 'Crisis" in Boys' Education: Repertoires of Malae Disadvantage in Schools. Paper presented at the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists 32nd Annual Meeting. Sydney, Australia, 24-27 April.

What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:  Belly dance, laugh at funny words ("nodule" is a current favourite) and tend to my worm farm (some of my best friends are invertebrates).

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Name: Melissa Lehmann

Uni Address: Psychology Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3084, VIC
Email:
melissalehmann@ozemail.com.au
Uni Phone:
(03) 9479 3880
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: group dynamics, self-cat/social identity, subjective
uncertainty
Supervisor/s: Michael Platow, Margaret Foddy
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

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What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: now that would be telling!
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Name: Catherine Philpot
Uni Address: Depart. of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4068
Email:
philpot@psy.uq.edu.au
Uni Phone: (07) 3365 7428
Home page (if you have one):
n/a
Research interests: intergroup forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Supervisor/s: Dr Matthew Hornsey
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Philpot, CR, & Hornsey, MJ. Intergroup forgiveness: Does an official apology help? SASP, 2004
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: sleep, eat and other basic life functions

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Name: Natalie Robinson
Uni Address: Psychology and Counselling Beams Road Carseldine QLD 4034
Email:
n.robinson@qut.edu.au
Uni Phone: (07) 3864 4685
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: The impact of Attitudes,
Norms and Message Framing on sun protective behaviour (and advertising); Social Identity theory/ Self categorisation theory; The Third person effect; The Theory of planned behaviour

Supervisor/s: Dr Katy White and Dr Carol Masel
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

SASP 2001
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: I love to travel and catch up with friends.

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Name:  Ja Kyoung Son
Uni Address: 
The Psychology Department, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Email: 
jk.son@psych.usyd.edu.au
Uni Phone:
(02) 93513227
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: 
Stress and coping
Supervisor/s: 
Dr. Brian Crabbe (Supervisor) and  Dr. Alan Craddock (Associate Supervisor) 
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:

Name: Tomoko Sugiura
Uni Address:
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales
Email: 
t.sugiura@student.unsw.edu.au
Uni Phone:
Not there much, so please email
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: 
Individual differences, Social psychology (particularly cross-cultural adjustment and its implications in personal, work, academic lives. Social identity, adjustment to new social environment), epidemiology, public mental health.
Supervisor/s: 
Dr. Andrew Pirola-Merlo
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Publications:

1. Sugiura, T., Sakamoto, S., Tanaka, E., Tomoda, A., & Kitamura, T. (2001) Labeling effect of Seishin-Bunretsu-Byou, the Japanese translation for schizophrenia: an argument for relabeling. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 47(2) 43-51.
2. Sugiura, T. Sakamoto, S. Kijima, N., Kitamura, F., & Kitamura, T. (2000) Stigmatizing Perception of Mental Illness by Japanese Students: Comparison of Different Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 188 (4), 239-242.
3. Sugiura, T., Hasui, C., Aoki, Y., Sugawara, M., Tanaka, S., Sakamoto, S., and Kitamura, T. (1998). Japanese psychology students as psychiatric diagnosticians: Application of the RDC and the DSM-IV criteria of mood and anxiety disorders to case vignettes. Psychological Reports, June, 771-781.
4. Hasui, C., Sugiura, T., Tanaka, E., Sakamoto, S., Sugawara, M., Kitamura, T., & Aoki, Y. (1999). Reliability of Childhood mental disorder: Diagnoses by Japanese Psychologists. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 53, 57-61.
5. Sakamoto, S., Sugiura, T., Hasui, C., Kitamura, F., Tomoda, A., Tanaka, E., Kijima. N., Tanno, Y., & Kitamura, T. (1998). The investigation of factors generating the prejudice against mental illness: social and psychological approaches. (in Japanese) Journal of Mental Health, 44, 5-13
6. Hasui, C., Sakamoto, S., Sugiura, T. Tomoda, A., Kitamura, F., & Kitamura, T. (1999). The negative attitudes towards mental illness: a preliminary study of stigmatization and correlates. (in Japanese) Psychiatric Diagnosis Quarterly, 10 (3), 319-328
7. Hasui, C., Sakamoto, S., Sugiura, T.,& Kitamura, T. Stigmatization of mental illness in Japan: Images and frequency of encounters with diagnostic categories of mental illness among medical and non-medical university students. The Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 28, 253-266
8. Hasui, C., Sakamoto, S., Sugiura, T.. Miyata, R., Fujii, Y., Koshiishi, F., & Kitamura, T. Burden on family members of the mentally ill: A naturalistic study in Japan. (2002). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 43, 219-222.

Conference presentations:
1. Sugiura, T., Bochner, S., & Bird, K. (2001). Cross-cultural adjustment compared: Australian expatriate managers in Tokyo and Japanese expatriate managers in Sydney. Presented at the 4th Industrial/Organisational Psychology Conference. 21-24. June, 2001. Sydney, Australia.
2. Sugiura, T. (2000). Cross-cultural adjustment and academic adjustment of international students. Presented at the 11th ISANA National Conference. 5-8 December, Sydney, Australia.
3. Sugiura, T. (1998) Labeling effect of psychiatric disorders: Seishin-bunretsu-byou (schizophrenia) and Dai-utsu-byou (major depression). Meaning of relabeling of seishin-bunretsu-byou in Japan. Presented at National Institute of Mental Health, Chiba, Japan.
4. Sugiura, T. (1997) The use of operational diagnostic criteria by Japanese psychology students. Presented at The 61st Conference of Japanese Psychological Association. Poster presentation. 16-18 September, Hyogo, Japan.
5. Sugiura, T., Kijima, N., Sugawara, M., Aoyama, H. & Kitamura, T.(1997) Reliability and Validity of Junior Temperament and Character Inventory Parent version in Japanese translation. Presented at The 6th Conference of Japanese Personality Psychology Association. 10-11 October, Tokyo, Japan.
6. Piira, T., Sugiura, T. & Champion, G.D. (2002). A systematic review of parent roles and behaviours in children's pain management. Presented at the 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, April, Sydney. Australia
7. Piira, T., Sugiura, T. & Champion, D. (2002) Systematic review of parental roles for children in pain. Presented at the 10th World Congress on Pain, August, San Diego, USA.

What I do when I'm not doing social psychology:Try to make  a contribution to psychology by connecting Japanese researchers with Australian researchers (I would like to be doing more of this). I also assist Japanese psychologists publish in English medium journals, translate materials J <->E. Other than that, I am a walker. You would find me on streets of Sydney or in the bush in Blue Mountains. I also love my plants so I spend time with nursing them.

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Name: Chris Tanti
Uni Address: La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3086
Email: C.Tanti@latrobe.edu.au
Uni Phone: (03) 94792257
Home page (if you have one):
Research interests: development of self and social identity
Supervisor/s: Margaret Foddy and Michael Platow
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):

Social Identity and Development: The Effect of Social-Context and Cognitive Development on Social Identity in Adolescence, presented at SASP 2002
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: raising three children

Name: Andy Towers
Uni Address: Massey Univeristy, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Email: A.J.Towers@massey.ac.nz
Uni Phone: (06) 356 9099 ext. 2046
Home page (if you have one): Nope
Research interests: Regret in decision making, temporal consistency in decision making behaviour, influences on student procrastination.
Supervisor/s: Dr Ross Flett and Dr Stephen Hill
Publications/Conference presentations (if any):
Towers, A. J., and Flett, R. A. (2004). What went wrong? The Decision Appraisal Model of regret. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Towers, A. J., and Flett, R. A. (2004). A recipe for academic paralysis: Predicting student procrastination. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Towers, A., and Flett, R. (2004). A recipe for academic paralysis: Predicting student procrastination. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Auckland, New Zealand.
Alpass, F., and Towers, A. (2004). Health disparities between older workers and retirees. Poster presented at the annual conference of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Wellington, New Zealand.Adolescence
, presented at SASP 2002
What I do when I'm not doing social psychology: Ring doorbells and run away. Run after people ringing my doorbell.

 

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