Victoria University honours its best
Congratulations to Dr Gina Grimshaw and associate professor Paul Jose who were recently awarded Research Excellence Awards from Victoria University.
Congratulations to Dr Gina Grimshaw and associate professor Paul Jose from the School of Psychology, who were recently awarded Research Excellence Awards from Victoria University.
The 2015 teaching and research excellence awards were presented at a function held at Parliament and hosted by Tertiary Education Minister Hon. Steven Joyce and Chris Bishop MP. It was attended by more than 300 people, including members of parliament, diplomats, notable Wellingtonians, local councillors and Victoria alumni.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford says Victoria is committed to recognising excellence in all aspects of University life.
“We are proud to acknowledge members of our teaching staff who approach their profession with creativity and innovation to inspire a love of learning in their students.
“These recipients illustrate the depth and impact of research undertaken at Victoria. They also show why we are the top university in New Zealand for research quality and why we have achieved a global standing exceeding that attained by 96 percent of the world’s 7,000 universities.”
The following citations were made of the award recipients:
Dr Gina Grimshaw
Senior lecturer, School of Psychology
Dr Gina Grimshaw leads the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience lab in the School of Psychology. Her team of postdoctoral, postgraduate, Honours, and undergraduate students study the cognitive and neurological processes that allow us to perceive, interpret and respond to emotional information and to control our emotional responses. She played an important role in establishing the cognitive neuroscience research facility in the School, which allows researchers to use neuroscience methods such as eye tracking, brain stimulation and recordings of neural activity to further our understanding of the mind. She has a strong commitment to public engagement, and shares her research through public talks and the media. Her research has been supported by the Royal Society’s Marsden Fund and the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand.
Paul Jose
Associate professor, School of Psychology and Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families
Dr Paul Jose conducts research on the contextual and individual factors that foster healthy development of children, adolescents and families. For example, his recent research has highlighted the importance of social connectedness, particularly family and school connectedness, in fostering positive youth development. Dr Jose has obtained over $6 million in external grant support for his research activities, obtaining funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Ministry of Social Development, the Health Research Council and two Marsden grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published more than 100 journal articles, books, book chapters and government reports based on the data collected over his 35 years in the field of developmental psychology. He is the current president of the Australasian Human Development Association and is an associate editor of the top-tier journal, Developmental Psychology.