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2025 APS Prize winners

The APS Prize is awarded to each student who gains first place at the end of an accredited fourth-year program in psychology through an Australian higher education provider. The APS is thrilled to announce our 2025 APS Prize winners below.

Full Name Higher education provider Thesis Title
Ms Arlene Liew ACAP University College “Pillar of My Life”: An interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Tai Chi and Recovery from Problematic Alcohol Use
Ms Ella Dingle Australian Catholic University From Experienced to Internalised Binegativity: Associations with Sexual Satisfaction in Bi+ People from a Minority Stress and Strengths Perspective
Ms Madeleine Marks Bond University Navigating the Unknown: Can Acute Intermittent Hypoxia Improve Spatial Navigation?
Mr Kieran George Central Queensland University A Systematic Review of Sleep Hygiene Interventions in Physically Demanding Occupations
Mr Mark Walker Charles Darwin University Kinesiophobia in Athletes: The Cognitive Role of Catastrophising and Overgeneralising
Ms Kylie Hammond Charles Sturt University Physical Activity Performed with Others and Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Sense of Belonging
Ms Jessica Lindquist Curtin University Waiting for Eating Disorder Treatment: Associations between Waitlist Duration and Eating Disorder Symptoms, Treatment Beliefs, and Treatment Completion
Ms Swathi Nirmal Deakin University Investigating Utopianism and Anti-Utopianism as Moderators of the Relationship between Environmental Identity and Climate Action
Mr Jesse Boadle Edith Cowan University The Mediating Role of the Body-Mind Connection on the Relationship Between Attachment and Emotion Regulation in Adults.
Ms Jacinta Jackson Federation University “Have you tried objectifying yourself? I bet the weight would fall right off”: Interpersonal Objectification, Self-Objectification, Resilience, and Women’s Eating Disorder Symptomology
Lucinda Hodge Flinders University Genetic Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in the COVID-19 Era
Ms Rachel Halverson Griffith University Understanding Individual Differences in Alcohol Craving: Expanding the bioSocial Cognitive Theory (bSCT) of Addiction
Miss Sienna Mcdonald ISN Psychology Evaluating Smiling Mind: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Its Effect on Resilience in Intervention Studies
Miss Chantelle Mayahle James Cook University Beyond the Virtual Classroom: How Belonging, Needs Satisfaction and Relatedness Influence Motivation in Online Tertiary Students
Brooke Conoley La Trobe University Understanding Measures of Adjustment in Adults with Acquired Brain Injury: A Cognitive Interviewing Study
Mr Jeff He Macquarie University Remote High-Ventilation Breathwork Does Not Outperform Psychoeducation at Improving Mood, Anxiety, or Interoception
Ms Anneke Rose Monash University Frailty in the Chronic Period Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Association with Long-Term Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of a Longitudinal Cohort
Ms Brieanna Ritchie Murdoch University “Support Should Enhance, Not Control”: Optimising Support Work for Autistic Children Through a Person-Centred Framework
Miss Isabella Farid Queensland University of Technology Beliefs about Emotions and Mental Health: Investigating the Mediating Effect of Emotion Regulation
Ms Jade Tjia RMIT University Psychometric Validation of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory Short Form in Working Adults
Ms Kathryn Edgeworth Southern Cross University Exploring the Relationship Between Pleasure and Depression: Validating the Pleasure in Life Scale
Ms Xujuan Lin Swinburne University of Technology From Trauma to Clutter: The Mediating Role of Possession-Self Fusion in the Relationship between C-PTSD and Hoarding
Ms Rasika Bains The Australian National University Does Repetition Suppression Explain Auditory Sensory Suppression?
Ms Sarah Gibson The Cairnmillar Institute Social Media and Postpartum Anxiety: The Role of Social Comparison
Miss Zoe English The University of Queensland Pain as a Message: Psychosocial Factors Shaping How Adolescents Navigate Non-Traumatic Knee Pain
Ms Christina Zaverdinos The University of Sydney A Novel Task to Investigate the Role of Expectancy and Biased Mechanisms Underlying Causal Illusions
Ms Livinia Xia-Bednikov University of Adelaide Cue Utilisation as a Mediator of Driving Time and Performance: A Longitudinal Study with Experience as a Moderator
Ms Anastasia Davy University of Canberra How Psychologists Diagnose Intellectual Disability When IQ Tests Fail: An Interpretive Description Study
Ms Kassandra Tilley University of Melbourne Cognitive Trajectories in First Episode Psychosis, Clinical High Risk, and Healthy Controls: A Ten-month Longitudinal Study
Mr Christopher Squadrito University of New England Testing a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Goal Commitment and Affect: Randomized Between-Groups Analysis
Ms Alyssa Lim University of New South Wales How do Individual Differences in Infantile Amnesia confer Vulnerability/Resilience to Anxiety? An Examination of Brain Biomarkers
Miss Ella McConnochie University of Newcastle Better Gut Health: An Explanation for Lower Brain Fog Amongst Vegans and Vegetarians?
Mr Maxwell Stein University of Notre Dame Australia Judge and Jury: Arbitrating Young Men’s Romantic Relationships on Reddit
Ms Alyssa De Conno University of South Australia Cyberbullying and Mental Health Among 95,035 Australian Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Hope and the Moderating Role of Social Support
Ms Shelley Norris University of Southern Queensland Understanding the Prevalence and Biopsychosocial Determinants of Pain Among Rural Cancer Survivors
Ms Tess Archer University of Tasmania The Effect of Spelling Error Type and Author Gender on Perceptions of the Message Author
Ms Elizabeth Stitt University of Technology Sydney Mnemonic Strategy Efficacy in Memory Recall: The Influence of Affective Symptoms
Ms India Pizzirani University of the Sunshine Coast Caught in the Educational Bottleneck: Exploring the Impact of Perfectionism and Psychological Needs Satisfaction on Distress in Psychology Honours Students
Miss Rose Atkinson University of Wollongong The Relative Impact of Angular and Positional DVP on Cybersickness in Head-Mounted Display-Based Virtual Reality
Mr James Hoppe Victoria University The Psychosocial Differences of Conspiracy Belief Profiles
Miss Sara Tsovolos Western Sydney University ‘Flagging Red’: Exploring Adolescent and Young Adult Psychosocial Risks Identified through the e-HEEADSSS Assessment