Meet our researchers

Senior Lecturer Angela Arnold-Saritepe
Research interests: behaviour analysis, traumatic brain injury, intellectual and developmental disabilities, relationships and sexuality, quality of life.

Associate Professor Sarah Cowie 
Research interests: behaviour analysis.

Professor Douglas Elliffe 
Research interests: behaviour analysis, choice, quantitative modeling, nonparametric statistics

Senior Lecturer Sarah Leadley
Research interests: behavioural interventions, paediatric feeding disorders, tube dependency, eating difficulties.

Senior Lecturer Rebecca Sharp 
Research interests: behaviour analysis, dementia, brain injury, small-n design.

Professor Suzanne Barker-Collo 
Research interests: clinical psychology.

Senior Lecturer Tania Cargo 
Research interests: tamariki wellbeing, parenting, suicide prevention, e-therapy, mātauranga Māori.

Professor Kerry Gibson 
Research interests: clinical psychology.

Lecturer Tai Kake 
Research interests: Māori mental health, cognitive impairment, psychosis, dementia/mate wareware, traumatic brain injury.

Professor Ian Lambie  
Research interests: clinical psychology, youth justice, criminal justice, child offending, child and youth mental health.

Associate Professor Gwenda Willis 
Research interests: correctional psych, recidivism risk assessment, strengths-based approaches, sexual abuse prevention.

Associate Professor Jeffrey Hamm 
Research interests: cognitive science.

Professor Michael Hautus 
Research interests: signal detection theory, psychophysical modelling, sensory evaluation.

Professor Barry Hughes 
Research interests: tactile and haptic perception, motor control, numerical cognition, braille.

Professor Anthony Lambert 
Research interests: anauralia, mental imagery, consciousness, attention, perception, memory.

Associate Professor David Moreau 
Research interests: cognitive neuroscience, neuroplasticity, brain dynamics, computational modeling, health interventions.

Professor Virginia Braun 
Research interests: critical health, gendered & reproductive bodies, sex & sexuality, feminist & critical qualitative.

Professor Nicola Gavey 
Research interests: gender, sexual violence, technology-facilitated violence, qualitative research, critical psychology.

Senior Lecturer Jade Le Grice 
Research interests: kaupapa Māori, gender, sexuality, reproduction, violence prevention. Secondary area: Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Psychologies.

Senior Lecturer Christopher Erb 
Research interests: cognitive control, developmental science, executive function, causal reasoning.

Professor Annette Henderson 
Research interests: infancy and early childhood, communication, cooperation, prosocial behaviour, parent-child interaction.

Senior Lecturer Samuel Mehr 
Research interests: auditory perception, infant and child development, music, language, citizen science, parenting. Secondary area: Cognitive Science.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Peterson 
Research interests: managing errors and failure, educational beliefs, growth mindset.

Professor Karen Waldie 
Research interests: child neurodevelopment, neurodiversity, gene-environment interactions, youth mental health.

Professor Quentin Atkinson 
Research interests: human evolution, psychology of religion, political psychology, culture, applied behavioural science.

Professor Russell Gray 
Research interests: evolutionary psychology.

Professor Nichola Raihani 
Research interests: evolution & human behaviour, cooperation, social cognition, conspiracy, paranoia, game theory.

Associate Professor Shiloh Groot 
Research interests: Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Psychologies. Secondary area: Social Psychology.

Lecturer Sarah Kapeli 
Research interests: Pacific, Māori, and Indigenous approaches, mixed-methods research, mental health literacy.

Senior Lecturer Sam Manuela 
Research interests: Pacific Psychologies, Pacific research methods, ethnic & cultural identity, well-being, mental health.

Professor Paul Corballis 
Research interests: cognitive neuroscience, EEG and event-related potentials, perception, attention, cognitive control.

Senior Lecturer Makarena Dudley 
Research interests: Māori health, dementia, mate wareware, cultural neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, kaupapa Māori.

Professor Ian Kirk 
Research interests: memory, cognitive control, EEG, MRI

Senior Lecturer Reece Roberts 
Research interests: memory, imagination, functional MRI, aging, dementia.

Senior Lecturer Katherine Storrs 
Research interests: neuroscience.

Professor Lynette Tippett 
Research interests: neuroscience.

Associate Professor Lixin Jiang 
Research interests: job insecurity; occupational health; workplace safety; stress intervention; meta-analysis.

Lecturer Lucy Xing 
Research interests: human resource management, organisational behaviour, leadership, feedback, performance management.

Professor Niki Harré 
Research interests: community psychology, sustainability, values, religion, universities.

Associate Professor Danny Osborne 
Research interests: collective action, political ideology, inequality, reproductive rights, longitudinal modeling.

Professor Nickola Overall 
Research interests: couple and family relationships, power, sexism, emotion regulation, communication.

Professor Chris Sibley 
Research interests: New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, social psychology, personality, political psychology.

Senior Lecturer Elaine Ballard 
Research interests: language, speech, cultural and linguistic diversity, multilingualism, NZ English.

Associate Professor Clare McCann 
Research interests: aphasia, language, speech science, cognition, capacity.

Associate Professor Anna Miles 
Research interests: speech pathology, dysphagia, voice, rehabilitation, assessment and imaging.

Professor Suzanne Purdy 
Research interests: auditory processing, electrophysiology, ear/hearing health equity, hearing loss, Indigenous peoples. Secondary area: Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Psychologies.

Lecturer Nuzhat Sultana 
Research interests: hearing sciences, speech-language intervention/therapy, neurodevelopmental conditions.