PhD students
Meet our Psychology PhD students and explore their research topics.
To find out more about our PhD students, their Psychology research, and how to contact them, visit their individual profile pages via the links below.
Aaron Hissey
The stability of maladaptive personality traits and their impact on others
Apoorva Sriram
Examining the Impact of Parent-Child Interactions on the Social Understanding of Children with Autism in India
Awatea Moxon
Understanding the Relationship between Whakapapa Knowledge and Psychological Wellbeing
Chelsea D'Cruz
Cis-heteronormativity in LGBTQIA+ Communities
Cheryl Kennedy
The Development of Negative Symptoms and the Impact of Social Stress in Adolescents
Elise Callagher
“I’m Back to Myself Again”: A Lived Experience-Centred Approach to Cognitive Recovery After Concussion
Emma Pitt
Exploring Environmental Influences in the Relationship between Parent Anxiety and Child Emotion Regulation
Georgia Westfall
Effort, Motivation and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex: A Neuropsychological Study of Brain Tumours.
Imogen Scholfield
“What does your tattoo mean?” Investigating the intersection between tattoos, wellbeing, and deliberate bodily damage
Joanna Mete
Cognitive control mechanisms in anxiety
Juan Pablo (John) Vega
What's his deal? Understanding Social Deviance and Norm Breaking in Intra-group Settings
Laura Kranz
The role of cognition and emotion in science communication
Laurel Keats
Autobiographical memory and young people's depressive symptoms across time
Lee Bravestone
Queering Ambivalent Sexism: Developing a new, more inclusive sexist ideology measurement
Mei-Jing Lin
Adults Automatic Imitation and Theory of Mind Processing
Olivia Nop
Sexism and victim blaming in sexual assault in religious communities
Sahina Hossen
Non-suicidal Self injury across New Zealand and Indian cultures
Stephanie Huang
Exploring the Effects of Environmental Complexity on the Brain
Zoe Greer
A Critical Look at the Influence of Language on Personality Science