Dr Boris BIZUMIC

Research & supervision

Key Interests: Ethnocentrism, prejudice, group processes, personality, narcissism, attitudes, authoritarianism, cross-cultural research, psychometrics, scale development

Current Teaching

PSYC3026 - Personality and the Assessment of Individual Differences (Course coordinator and lecturer)

PSYC2001 - Social Psychology (Course coordinator and lecturer)

 

Past Teaching:

PSYC1004 - Psychology II: Understanding People in Context (2007-2012)

PSYC1005 - Life Issues: Applying Psychology (2010-2011)

PSYC2001 - Social Psychology (2009-2011)

PSYC3023 - Special Topics in Psychology (2009-2011)

 

Prof Michael PLATOW

Research & supervision

Key Interests : Social psychology including fairness, marginalizing racism, social influence, leadership, group-based trust, helping

Current Teaching

PSYC3002 (The Social Psychology of Group Processs and Social Change)

• Students will be introduced to the social and psychological process of social categorization into groups, the interdependencies between individuals and groups, and the cognitive, attitudinal and behavioural consequences of both social categorization and social interdependence. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to examine current understandings of group interactions (e.g., deviance, norms, & decision making), pro-social behaviours (e.g., cooperation, helping, trust, & fairness), social change and collective action, social influence, and stereotyping and prejudice. The course, itself, strongly integrates theory with laboratory and field data, allowing students to gain a solid understanding of contemporary insights into a range of social behaviours.
• A key feature of this course is its emphasis on the importance of theory in developing an understanding of group life. This emphasis on theory, however, is balanced by a rigorous laboratory program designed to complement the lectures, while simultaneously providing hands-on lessons in experimental social psychology. Throughout the course, students will design an experiment; complete a Human Research Ethics Application; and write a formal research report Introduction, hypothesis, Methods and Results. Students will learn key features of social-psychological experimental design, including the manipulation and measurement of variables of interest, scale construction, hypothesis testing, data interpretation, as well as abstract methodological concepts such as “mediation” and “moderation”.
• Critically, this course not only provides students with a supported and structured environment in which to gain a deep understanding of the social psychology of group life, but it equips students with a variety of graduate attributes (also known as employability skills) identified by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations as important for the development of a productive workforce. Specifically, students develop an ability to communicate effectively and contribute to scholarship in social psychology; to solve problems, take individual initiative, and think critically; to understand ethical values in research; and to make sense of evidence. Achieving at high levels in this course requires good self-management, planning and organization skills.

PSYC4005 (Honours Special Topics in Social Psychology)

Dr Kate REYNOLDS

Research & supervision

Key Interests : Social psychology including stereotyping and prejudice; the interface of social and organizational psychology; self-categorization and personal identity

Current Teaching

2001    PSYC1002 Introduction to Organisational Psychology (Course co-ordination and lecturer)

2002    PSYC1002 Introduction to Organisational Psychology (Course co-ordination and lecturer)

2003     PSYC1002 Introduction to Organisational Psychology (Course co-ordination and lecturer)

2008     PSYC1005  Life issues:  Applying Psychology (1st Year) Who will lead and why? (3 Lectures and Lab)

2008     PSYC8003  Assessment and Selection in Human Resource Management (Post-graduate) (Planning and Co-ordination)

2009     PSYC8003 Assessment and Selection in Human Resource Management (Post-graduate) (Planning and Co-ordination)

2010     PSYC8003 Assessment and Selection in Human Resource Management (Post-graduate) (Planning and Co-ordination)

2012     PSYC3023 Industrial and Organisational Psychology (Co-ordination and lecturing with Colin Ridby)

During 2002-2005 my role also was to establish and co-ordinate postgraduate offerings in Applied Social and Organisational Psychology (involved responsibility for PSYC8001 Research Methods in Action; PSYC8002 The social psychology of organisations; PSYC8003 Best practice in Human Resource Management).

Professor Mike SMITHSON

Research & supervision

Key Interests : Decision science including uncertainty; risk; social dilemmas; fuzzy logic; statistical methods

Current Teaching

• coordinator PSYC2009 ( Quantitative Methods in Psychology )
• coordinator PSYC4005F ( Honours : Methodology )

Dr Emina SUBASIC

Research & supervision

Key Interests: Social identity and self-categorization processes in: social change and political solidarity; social influence, power, leadership and prejudice; individuality and personality

Current Teaching

2012 PSYC1005 Life Issues: Applied Psychology

2012 PSYC1004 Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context, Introduction to Social Psychology

Past Teaching Responsibilities

2011 PSYC3023 - Special Topics: Leadership and Social Change

2011 PSYC1004 - Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context, Introduction to Social Psychology

2010 PSYC3023 - Special Topics: Leadership and Intergroup Relations 

2010 PSYC1004 - Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context, Introduction to Social Psychology

2009 PSYC1004 - Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context, Introduction to Social Psychology

2009 PSYC1005 - Life issues: Applied Psychology, "Is Prejudice Inevitable?"

 

Dr Dirk VAN ROOY

Research & supervision

Current Teaching

• Co-coordinator: PSYC2001 (Social Psychology )
• Coordinator: PSYC3018 (Advanced Research Methods )

 

Dr Ken MAVOR

Research & supervision

Key Interests : Social psychology including categorization; personal and social identity; attitudes; religious orientation; self-complexity and well-being.

Former faculty members

Professor John TURNER