Our people in the School of Psychology
Leadership and Governance
Leadership
| Professor Gabrielle Weidemann (opens in a new window) Professor in Psychological Science | Interim Dean |
| Associate Professor Tania Perich (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychology | Acting Deputy Dean |
| Associate Professor John Cass (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Associate Dean (International) |
| Associate Professor Janet Conti (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology | Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) |
| Dr Renu Narchal (opens in a new window) | Associate Dean ( Engagement) |
| Associate Professor Karen Mattock (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Acting Associate Dean (Research) |
| Associate Professor Evelyn Smith (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychology | Associate Dean (HDR) |
| Mrs Lauren Marsh | Acting School Manager |
 | Dr Karen Moses (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology |
Head of Clinical Services (on leave) Clinical Partnerships Psychology Clinic Psychology Specialist Clinics |
Governance
| Associate Professor Michael Tyler (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Associate Professor in Psychological Science and Acting Director of Academic Programs (Years 1-3). |
| Dr Paul Strutt (opens in a new window) | Director of Academic Program |
| Dr Tuki Attuquayefio (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences | Academic Program Advisor (Years 1 to 3) |
| Dr Alina Ewald (opens in a new window)
Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | Academic Program Advisor (Years 1 to 3) |
| Dr Quincy Wong (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Academic Program Advisor (Year 4) |
| Dr Samuel Arnold (opens in a new window) | Academic Program Advisor (Years 5 to 6) |
| Dr Tim Marsh (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences | Curriculum Innovation Coordinator |
| Dr Cindy Harmon-Jones (opens in a new window) Lecturer in Psychological Science | HDR Coordinator |
| Dr Mac Mingon (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | STARS Coordinator |
Academic Staff
| Dr David Arness (opens in a new window) Lecturer in Psychological Sciences | Dr David Arness is a Lecturer in Psychological Science, whose research focuses on the common themes of optimal human performance, and a special interest in mindfulness and attention. |
| Dr Samuel Arnold (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Samuel Arnold is the Academic Program Advisor (Years 5 to 6) and a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science whose research interests include support for people with intellectual disability and autistic adults, psychometrics and assessment tool development. |
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| Dr. Tuki Attuquayefio (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences | Dr. Tuki Attuquayefio is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences whose research interests reside in data science, fMRI, psychology, eating behaviour and gut microbiome. |
| Associate Professor John Cass (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Dr John Cass is the Associate Dean (International) and Associate Professor in Psychological Science, whose research interests include visual perception and cognition, augmented reality and human-machine interaction, time perception and the relationship between attention and body dissatisfaction. |
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| Associate Professor Janet Conti (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology | Dr Janet Conti is the Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, a clinical psychologist and and AHPRA endorsed supervisor. She lectures in the postgraduate Master of Clinical and Professional Psychology programs, particularly in the area of psychological treatment interventions. Her research is focused on the eating disorder experiences and their treatment. |
 | Dr Martin Daly (opens in a new window) Lecturer in Psychology | Dr Martin Daly is a Lecturer, practicing Psychologist, and the Academic Program Advisor for the 4th year/Honours program, with broader research interests in theoretical unification and integration across the discipline, and the development of tailored ('eclectic') approaches to therapy for clients. |
| Dr Brooke Donnelly (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology |
(on leave till 2027) Dr Brooke Donnelly is the Associate Dean (Indigenous and Community Engagement) and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology. She is also a Clinical Psychologist, and her research interests include neurobiology and eating disorders. |
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| Dr Alina Ewald (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Alina Ewald is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science whose research interests include fathering, employee wellbeing, work-family balance, and gender equity and diversity in the workplace. |
| Dr Michael Gascoigne (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Dr Michael Gascoigne is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, whose area of research investigates cognitive deficits in clinical populations. |
| Associate Professor Emilee Gilbert (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Dr Emilee Gilbert is an Associate Professor in Psychological Science with expertise across a range of qualitative research methods, public health policies and practices, and the application of post-structural feminist theory to the analysis of issues surrounding gender, health and sexuality. |
| Professor Craig Gonsalvez (opens in a new window) Professor of Clinical Psychology | Dr Craig Gonsalvez is a Professor of Clinical Psychology with research and scholarly contributions to clinical psychophysiology, practitioner training and supervision, and the psychopathology of anxiety disorders. |
| Dr Cindy Harmon-Jones (opens in a new window) Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Cindy Harmon-Jones is a Lecturer in Psychological Science. Her research interests include motivation and emotion, including emotional experience and regulation, with a focus on approach motivated, negative emotions such as anger and cognitive dissonance. |
 | Dr Catie Lai (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Catie Lai is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science. Her research explores how everyday choices and decisions influence physical and mental health, with a particular focus on the psychological, neurobiological, and physiological mechanisms involved, such as the gut-brain axis. She also has a strong interest in health data analytics to uncover insights that can drive more efficient and effective healthcare, alongside promoting healthy aging. |
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| Dr Tim Marsh (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences | Dr. Tim Marsh is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Sciences whose research interests reside in the field of Moral Psychology with a particular focus on the social and psychological factors that contribute to beliefs and expression of intergroup prejudice. |
| Associate Professor Karen Mattock (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychological Science | Dr Karen Mattock's is an Associate Professor in Psychological Science and Director of Academic Program (Undergraduate Psychology) whose research interests are in infant and child language development, particularly in the areas of speech perception, babbling, bilingualism and infant-directed speech, as well as word learning in infants, children and adults. |
| Dr Andrew McKinnon Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology |
Dr Andrew McKinnon is a Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology. Andrew’s research interests are in the areas of older adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance, and their associations with depression and functional brain network integrity. |
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| Dr Mac Mingon Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Mac Mingon is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science. Mac’s research interest are in Science and Philosophy of Memory, Culture and Cognition, Indigenous Psychology, Neuroanthropology and E-Cognition. Mac describes his research as distinctively interdisciplinary, blending psychological, philosophical, and anthropological approaches in cognitive science projects. |
| Dr Karen Moses (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Dr Karen Moses is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Head of Clinical Services with research and practice expertise in anxiety disorders, exposure-based therapy, tele-health and training and supervision of clinical psychology interns. |
| Dr Renu Narchal (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Dr Renu Narchal is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, whose research interests and publications delve into the area of health and wellbeing, as well as the impact of life events on development from the point of view of migratory experiences and settlement issues. |
| Associate Professor Tania Perich (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychology | Dr Tania Perich is an Associate Professor in Psychology and whose research interests include bipolar disorder, depression, menopause, mental health and wellbeing, as well as the effectiveness of psychological therapies in the treatment of bipolar disorder and depression. |
| Associate Professor Evelyn Smith (opens in a new window) Associate Professor in Psychology |
Dr Evelyn Smith is an Associate Professor in clinical psychology. Evelyn's main research program has focused on the possible effects of obesity and associated correlates (inflammation, arterial stiffness, diabetes) on cognition, and whether cognition and cognitive processes impact on eating
behaviour and body image. She is also focused on developing or modifying treatments for obesity and eating disorders (attention training therapy, cognitive remediation therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, schema therapy). |
| Dr Paul Strutt (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Dr Paul Strutt is the Director of Academic Program (Years 1 to 3) and a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and an endorsed Clinical Neuropsychologist and clinical supervisor. He is Secretary of the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists – NSW Section. His research interests include modifiable risk factors for dementia, concussion, repetitive head injury and CTE, and neuropsychological outcomes following neurosurgery. |
| Nicole Traynor (opens in a new window) Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science | Nicole Traynor is an Associate Lecturer in Psychological Science. Nicole’s research interest is in developmental psychology, with a particular focus on early childhood development. Nicole’s doctoral research was in infant-directed speech and how this speech register is involved in infants’ early language learning. |
| | Associate Professor Michael Tyler (opens in a new window) | Dr Michael Tyler is an Associate Professor in Psychological Science and acting Director of Academic Programs (Years 1-3). Michael investigates how speech perception is shaped by experience. This includes tracking development of perception in infants and children, and modelling how adults' learned categories of consonants and vowels influence their foreign-language perception and learning. He is the co-originator of the Perceptual Assimilation Model of Second-Language Speech Learning (PAM-L2). |
| Dr Emma Walter (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science | Dr Emma Walter is a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science with a background in individual differences and a primary focus in developing a research program based on understanding the complex nature of social and cognitive functioning in everyday life and identifying the mechanisms which may underlie impaired functioning in these areas. |
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| Professor Gabrielle Weidemann (opens in a new window) Professor in Psychological Science | Dr Gabrielle Weidemann is a Professor in Psychological Science who investigates associative learning and classical conditioning processes in human participants, specifically assessing the role of higher order cognitive processes in the acquisition and expression of predictive learning, conditioning and instrumental learning. |
| Dr Quincy Wong (opens in a new window) Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Dr Quincy Wong is the Academic Program Advisor (Year 4) and a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, with a research focus on social anxiety, cognitive processes, psychometrics and suicide prevention. |
Psychology Clinic
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| Dr Karen Moses (opens in a new window) | Head of Clinical Services, Western Sydney University Psychology Clinic |
| Reannen Baker (opens in a new window) | Practice Manager (Psychology Clinics) |
| Vanessa Croker (opens in a new window) | Clinic Coordinator for Psychology Clinics |
| Dr Rachel Ray |
Clinic Coordinator for the Child Development Clinic and Day Supervisor | |
| Bill Bouzianis (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| Dr Rudi Črnčec (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| Mira Kozik (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| May Lam (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| Andrea Malcolm (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| Dana Mitrovic | Day Supervisor | |
| Maria Reboredo (opens in a new window) | Day Supervisor |
| Suzanne Benson (opens in a new window) | Testing Supervisor |
| Anne Brown (opens in a new window) | Testing Supervisor |
| Dr Phil Ray (opens in a new window) | Testing Supervisor | |
| Joana Medina (opens in a new window) |
Senior Administrative Officer - Psychology Clinic (Acting) |
| Leanne Mifsud (opens in a new window) | Psychology Clinic Assistant |
| Helena Dlamini | Psychology Clinic Assistant |
Professional staff
 | Erynne Alvaro | Placement Assistant |
| Athifa Ansari (opens in a new window) | Business Analyst | |
| Reannen Baker (opens in a new window) | Practice Manager (Psychology Clinics) |
| Jody Cameron-Roy (opens in a new window) | Executive Assistant, Dean & Deputy Dean |
| Alison Dayes (opens in a new window) | Business Administrative Officer |
 | Alison Douglas (opens in a new window) | Executive Project Officer |
| Vicki Fox (opens in a new window) | Senior Research Administration Officer |
| Mrs Lauren Marsh (opens in a new window) | Acting School Manager |
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| Joana Medina (opens in a new window) | Senior Administrative Officer - Psychology Clinic |
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| Leanne Mifsud (opens in a new window) | Psychology Clinic Assistant |
 | Shazia Nadan (opens in a new window) | Governance and Compliance Officer |
 | Danielle Sherwin (opens in a new window) | Psychology Placements & Executive Project Support |
| Ritu Talwar (opens in a new window) | Placements Officer |
| Angela Tanovic (opens in a new window) | Placements Officer |
| Sue Veen (opens in a new window) | Engagement Officer |
| Chantelle Young (opens in a new window) | Research and HDR Officer |
Adjunct Staff
| Ms Patricia Aguayo | Adjunct Fellow |
| Ms Cathy Allen | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr David Bosanquet | Adjunct Fellow |
| Ms Celina Estacio | Adjunct Fellow |
| Ms Katherine Huang | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Mairwen Jones | Adjunct Fellow |
| Ms Laura Kampel | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Roy Laube | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Liquan Liu | Adjunct Fellow |
| Mr Michael MacDonald | Adjunct Fellow |
| Mr Christopher Mahoney | Adjunct Fellow |
| Professor Craig McGarty | Adjunct Professor |
| Professor Tanya Meade | Adjunct Professor |
| Ms Melissa Monteiro | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr James Morandini | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Meg Smith | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Dean Spirou | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Janina Szyndler | Adjunct Fellow |
| Mr Pete Techakesari | Adjunct Fellow |
| Dr Michele Wiese | Adjunct Fellow |
| Ms Alice Yu | Adjunct Fellow |
Higher Degree Research candidates
| Candidate | Supervisory Panel and Thesis Title |
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Aastha Ahuja (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert (60%), Dr Renu Narchal (40%) Thesis Title: Understanding the Experience and Impact of Pregnancy Loss for Mothers. |
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Rokshana Akhter (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: Dr Renu Narchal (60%), Dr Fran Doyle (20%), Prof. Craig Gonsalves (20%) Thesis Title: Mental Health Literacy for externalising disorders in migrant and non-migrant parents living in Australia |
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Nicole Anderson (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Evelyn Smith (60%), Dr Travis Wearne (40%) Thesis Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Cognitive-behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy And A Waitlist Control For Patients With Obesity, Binge-eating Disorder (BED) And Emotional Dysregulation In The Public Hospital Setting |
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Isabel Fraser (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: Dr Tania Perich (60%), Prof. Jane Ussher (40%) Thesis Title: Exploring the Experience of Psychological Interventions for Women with Bipolar Disorder During the Perinatal Period |
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Holly Hammond (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Evelyn Smith (60%), Dr Emma Walter (40%) Thesis Title: Adolescent Gender Dysphoria: A conceptual and empirical integration |
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Lauren Elizabeth Heywood (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Janet Conti (70%), Prof. Phillipa Hay (30%) Thesis Title: How Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa Navigate Changes in Identity Throughout Treatment and the Impact That These Identity Negotiations May Have on Overall Treatment Efficacy |
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Mark David Lathouwers (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Gabrielle Weidemann (70%), Dr Liquan Liu (30%), Dr Michael Tyler (0%) Thesis Title: On the additivity of statistical and prosodic cues for spoken word segmentation. |
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Khadija Malik (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert (50%), Dr Renu Narchal (30%), Dr Sarah Duffy (20%) Thesis Title: A psycho-social analysis of the construction and experience of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Secondary Infertility among adult women in Pakistan. |
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Krishna Poudel (full time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert , A/Prof. Karen Mattock, Dr David Arness (External supervisor: Deborah Sims UTS) Thesis Title: A Mixed Methods Study To Identify Intersectional Inequalities In Access To Healthcare In Childhood Cancer In Australia |
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Holly Eva Ratajec (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: Dr Michael Gascoigne (60%), A/Prof Mourad Tayebi (40%) Thesis Title: Characterizing the Neurodegeneration Associated with Alzheimer's Disease Using Multimodal Techniques |
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Luna Rybak (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert Thesis Title: TBC |
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Olga Soumpassakis (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert (65%), A/Prof. Janet Conti (10%), Dr Amie Matthews (25%) Thesis Title: Australian Woman's discursive constructions of the Lived Experiences of Domestic Violence |
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Nicholas Szafraniec (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: Prof. Tanya Meade (60%), A/Prof Janet Conti (40%), Lauren Kirsten (0%) Thesis Title: Consultation Liaison Psychology: A Review into the role of Clinical Psychology in the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry setting in Australia |
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Stephanie Watts (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Steve Cumming (60%), Dr Quincy Wong (30%), A/Prof. Emilee Gilbert (10%) Thesis Title: Females and Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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Alana Jane Weithaler (part time) |
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Karen Mattock (40%), Dr Liquan Liu (35%), Dr Renu Narchal (25%) Thesis Title: A Mothers use of Infant-Directed Speech to her Baby in Utero during the Second and Third Trimester of Pregnancy and the Influences of Maternal Fetal Attachment |
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