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Previous winners

2023

Dr Amie Foran MAPS

Dr Omidreza Ghasemi

Dr Simone Mahfouda MAPS

Dr Melanie Muniandy

2022

Brittany K. Rurak, Murdoch University
Dr David Foxe MAPS, The University of Sydney
Hannah Jarman MAPS, La Trobe University

2021 Dr Rachel Menzies MAPS, Universiry of Sydney
2020

Ms Sasha Quayum MAPS, Flinders University
Thesis title - An investigation into the mechanisms underlying the memory amplification effect

Dr Eleni Demetriou MAPS, University of Sydney
Thesis title - An empirical evaluation of executive function in autism spectrum disorder

Dr Michael Wilson MAPS, University of Western Australia
Thesis title - Executing deferred tasks in dynamic multitasking environments

Dr David Reilly Assoc MAPS, Griffith University
Thesis title - Sex differences in cognitive abilities and educational outcomes: Examining the contribution of sex-role identification

2019

Dr David Preece, Edith Cowan University
Title - Measuring Emotional Reactivity, Alexithymia, and Emotion Regulation as Clinically Relevant Emotional Constructs: Theoretical Considerations and the Development of New Psychometric Measures

Dr Gabrielle King, University of New South Wales
Thesis - Individual Differences in Rate of Extinction and Relapse​

Dr Alana Fisher, University of Sydney
Thesis - Enhancing Treatment Decision-Making In Bipolar Ii Disorder: Development And Evaluation Of A Treatment Decision-Aid For Patients And Their Families

2018 Dr Kate Bartel, Flinders University
Thesis - Protective and risk factors for adolescent sleep health

Dr Stephanie Wong, Macquarie University 
Thesis - The prefrontal cortex and episodic memory in dementia syndromes

Dr Hannah Thomas, University of Queensland 
Thesis - Bullying and cyberbullying among Australian adolescents: Definition, prevalence, clinical correlates, and dimensional measurement
2017 

Dr Caitlin Cowan, University of New South Wales
Thesis - Microorganisms to the rescue: The use of a probiotic treatment to reduce developmental vulnerability in rats

Dr Sophie Schneider, Macquarie University
Thesis - Body dysmorphic disorder in adolescents: Presentation, correlates, and sex differences

Dr Gemma Sharp, Flinders University 
Thesis - Predictors and outcomes of labiaplasty

2016

Dr Kelly Allen, University of Melbourne
Thesis - In pursuit of belonging: A socio-ecological perspective of school belonging in secondary school settings

Dr Jasmine Fardouly, University of New South Wales
Thesis - The impact of appearance comparisons through social media on young women's body image

Dr Travis Wearne, Macquarie University
Thesis - Inhibitory regulation of the prefrontal cortex in an animal model of methamphetamine behavioural sensitization: implications of the maintenance of chronic psychoses

2015

Dr Michael Bowen, University of Sydney
Thesis – Defensive aggregation to predatory threat in the laboratory rat: Behavioural, neural, pharmacological and epigenetic correlates

Dr Amy Dawel, Australian National University
Thesis – Face emotion processing and attention to eye-gaze: Typical development and associations with psychopathic traits and callous unemotional (CU) traits

Dr Benjamin Grafton, University of Western Australia
Thesis – Always look on the bright side of life: The attentional basis of positive emotional disposition

2014

Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenan, Swinburne University of Technology
Thesis - Thinking, perceiving and regulating feeling: An investigation of neurocognition, social cognition and emotion regulation in bipolar disorder

Dr Joanna Fardell, University of Sydney
Thesis - Chemotherapy and cognitive function: An animal model of the long-term impact of chemotherapy on cognition

Dr Fiona Kumfor, University of New South Wales
Thesis - Emotion processing and its interactions with memory: Evidence from the dementias

2013

Dr William Harrison, University of Queensland
Thesis – Influences on voluntary eye movements on object perception in peripheral vision

Dr Caroline Moul, University of New South Wales
Thesis - The Development and Assessment of a Differential Amygdala Activation Model in Psychopathy

2012

Dr Amy Lampard, University of Western Australia
Thesis title - An evaluation of the cognitive-behavioural theory of bulimia nervosa

Dr Amy Morgan, University of Melbourne
Thesis title - Promotion of self-help strategies for sub-threshold depression: An e-mental health randomised controlled trial

Dr Jillian Pearsall-Jones, Curtin University
Thesis title - An investigation of motor and attentional deficits in children and adolescents using the monozygotic co-twin control design.

Dr Quincy Wong, University of New South Wales
Thesis title - The role of ruminative thinking in social phobia

2011

Renita Almeida, University of Western Australia
Thesis title – An analysis of Embedded Figures Test performance in individuals with autistic-like traits

Bronwyn Graham, University of New South Wales
Thesis title – Fibroblast Growth Factor-2: A novel enhancer of memory

Paula Wye, University of Newcastle
Thesis title – Smoking in mental health hospitals: Policies, practices and perceptions

2010 

Dr Phoebe Bailey, University of New South Wales
Thesis: The social cognitive neuroscience of empathy in older adulthood

Dr Elizabeth Newnham, University of Western Australia
Thesis: Informing best practice in mental health: Using feedback to improve clinical outcomes

Dr Kiley Seymour, University of Sydney
Thesis: The neural basis of visual feature binding

Dr Emma Thomas, Australian National University
Thesis: Aligning identity, emotion and beliefs to boost commitment to international development and cooperation

2009 

Dr Lauren Staples, University of Sydney
Thesis: Predator odour-induced learning and anxiety in rats: A behavioural and neural investigation

Dr Alishia Williams, University of New South Wales
Thesis: Experiential Features of Intrusive Memories in Depression and the Role of Cognitive Avoidance in Intrusion Maintenance

Dr Mitchell Byrne, University of Wollongong
Thesis: Medication Alliance: Development and implementation of a mental health staff training program for the enhancement of patient medication adherence

2008 

Dr Jason Bell, University of Western Australia
Thesis: An analysis of global shape processing using radial frequency contours

Dr Nadine Kasparian, University of Sydney
Thesis: When melanoma runs in the family: An empirical examination of the psychological and behavioural characteristics of individuals with a family history of melanoma

Dr Jee Hyun Kim, University of New South Wales
Thesis: Extinction of conditioned fear in the developing rat

2007 

Dr Wayne Warburton, Macquarie University 

Dr Simon Wilksch, Flinders University 

2006 

Dr Ruth Brunsdon, Macquarie University

Dr Emma Collier-Baker, University of Queensland

Dr Jason Gallate, University of Sydney 
2005 

Dr Rachel Guthrie, University of NSW
Thesis: A prospective psychophysiological study of posttraumatic stress

Dr Alina Morawska, University of Queensland
Thesis: Efficacy and effectiveness of self-directed behavioural family intervention

Dr Anina Rich, University of Melbourne
Thesis: An investigation of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying lexical-colour synaesthesia

(inaugural award)