Meet our researchers
Meet the academic staff who lead our major research themes and programmes.
Behaviour Analysis
Dr Angela Arnold-Saritepe
Behaviour analysis, traumatic brain injury, intellectual and developmental disabilities, relationships and sexuality, quality of life.
Dr Sarah Cowie
Behaviour analysis.
Professor Douglas Elliffe
Behaviour analysis, choice, quantitative modelling, nonparametric statistics
Dr Sarah Leadley
Behavioural interventions, paediatric feeding disorders, tube dependency, eating difficulties.
Dr Rebecca Sharp
Behaviour analysis, dementia, brain injury, small-n design.
Clinical Psychology
Professor Suzanne Barker-Collo
Clinical psychology.
Dr Tania Cargo
Tamariki wellbeing, parenting, suicide prevention, e-therapy, mātauranga Māori.
Professor Kerry Gibson
Clinical psychology.
Dr Tai Kake
Māori mental health, cognitive impairment, psychosis, dementia/mate wareware, traumatic brain injury.
Dr Ian Lambie
Clinical psychology, youth justice, criminal justice, child offending, child and youth mental health.
Dr Gwenda Willis
Correctional psych, recidivism risk assessment, strengths-based approaches, sexual abuse prevention.
Cognitive Science
Dr Jeffrey Hamm
Cognitive science.
Professor Michael Hautus
Signal detection theory, psychophysical modelling, sensory evaluation.
Professor Barry Hughes
Tactile and haptic perception, motor control, numerical cognition, braille.
Professor Anthony Lambert
Anauralia, mental imagery, consciousness, attention, perception, memory.
Dr David Moreau
Cognitive neuroscience, neuroplasticity, brain dynamics, computational modelling, health interventions.
Critical Psychology
Professor Virginia Braun
Critical health, gendered and reproductive bodies, sex and sexuality, feminist and critical qualitative.
Professor Nicola Gavey
Gender, sexual violence, technology-facilitated violence, qualitative research, critical psychology.
Associate Professor Jade Le Grice
Kaupapa Māori, gender, sexuality, reproduction, violence prevention. Secondary area: Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous psychologies.
Developmental Psychology
Dr Christopher Erb
Cognitive control, developmental science, executive function, causal reasoning.
Professor Annette Henderson
Infancy and early childhood, communication, cooperation, prosocial behaviour, parent-child interaction.
Dr Samuel Mehr
Auditory perception, infant and child development, music, language, citizen science, parenting. Secondary area: Cognitive Science.
Dr Elizabeth Peterson
Managing errors and failure, educational beliefs, growth mindset.
Professor Karen Waldie
Child neurodevelopment, neurodiversity, gene-environment interactions, youth mental health.
Evolutionary Approaches to Behaviour
Professor Quentin Atkinson
Human evolution, psychology of religion, political psychology, culture, applied behavioural science.
Professor Russell Gray
Evolutionary psychology.
Professor Nichola Raihani
Evolution and human behaviour, cooperation, social cognition, conspiracy, paranoia, game theory.
Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Psychologies
Dr Shiloh Groot
Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous psychologies. Secondary area: Social psychology.
Dr Sarah Kapeli
Pacific, Māori, and Indigenous approaches, mixed-methods research, mental health literacy.
Associate Professor Sam Manuela
Pacific psychologies, Pacific research methods, ethnic and cultural identity, well-being, mental health.
Neuroscience
Professor Paul Corballis
Cognitive neuroscience, EEG and event-related potentials, perception, attention, cognitive control.
Associate Professor Makarena Dudley
Māori health, dementia, mate wareware, cultural neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, kaupapa Māori.
Professor Ian Kirk
Memory, cognitive control, EEG, MRI.
Dr Reece Roberts
Memory, imagination, functional MRI, aging, dementia.
Dr Katherine Storrs
Neuroscience.
Professor Lynette Tippett
Neuroscience.
Organisational Psychology
Dr Lixin Jiang
Job insecurity; occupational health; workplace safety; stress intervention; meta-analysis.
Dr Lucy Xing
Human resource management, organisational behaviour, leadership, feedback, performance management.
Social Psychology
Professor Niki Harré
Community psychology, sustainability, values, religion, universities.
Dr Danny Osborne
Collective action, political ideology, inequality, reproductive rights, longitudinal modelling.
Professor Nickola Overall
Couple and family relationships, power, sexism, emotion regulation, communication.
Professor Chris Sibley
New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, social psychology, personality, political psychology.
Speech Science
Associate Professor Elaine Ballard
Language, speech, cultural and linguistic diversity, multilingualism, NZ English.
Professor Clare McCann
Aphasia, language, speech science, cognition, capacity.
Professor Anna Miles
Speech pathology, dysphagia, voice, rehabilitation, assessment and imaging.
Professor Suzanne Purdy
Auditory processing, electrophysiology, ear/hearing health equity, hearing loss, Indigenous peoples. Secondary area: Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Psychologies.
Dr Nuzhat Sultana
Hearing sciences, speech-language intervention/therapy, neurodevelopmental conditions.
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