| 2024 |
Ms Gabrielle Picard for "Cognitive Impacts of Hearing Difficulties: Influences of Couple Dynamics"
Supervisors: Professor Greg Savage and Dr Paul Strutt, Macquarie University
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| 2023 |
Ms Kate McKay for "Enhancing Ecological Validity of Gaze-Cueing Stimuli is Associated with Increased Gaze Following for Older but not Younger Adults"
Supervisor: Prof Julie Hnery, University of Queensland
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| 2022 |
Dr Monica Cations for "Long-term Psychological Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Older Women"
Supervisor: Professor Hannah Keage, University of South Australia
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| 2021 |
Not awarded |
| 2020 |
Jamel El Ahmad for "Age-related differences in decision-making style during the coronavirus pandemic"
Supervisor: A/Prof Phoebe Bailey and A/Prof Gabrielle Weidemann Western Sydney University.
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| 2019 |
Ms Sara McCord for “Effects of Action Video Game Training on Executive Function in Older Adults.”
Supervisor: Dr Lewis Bizo, University of New England
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| 2018 |
Ms Brianna Morante for “Ageism in the workplace: The indirect effect of identifying as a late-career worker upon engagement and intended retirement age.”
Supervisor: Dr Rachel Margaret Roberts, University of Adelaide
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| 2017 |
Dr Honnie Gorrie for “Relationship Between Activity Types and Cognitive and Emotional Functioning with Advancing Age.”
Supervisor: Professor Nancy A. Pachana, The University of Queensland
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2016
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Ms Laura Turner for "The Needs and Experiences to Driving and Driving Cessation for People with Parkinson's disease and their Families: Developing Approaches to Improve Outcomes"
Supervisor: Professor Nancy A. Pachana, The University of Queensland
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| 2015 |
No award presented
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| 2014 |
Traci Ann Carse for "Older Workers and the Dark Side of Engagement"
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Griffin, Macquarie University
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| 2013 |
Dr Sofia Robleda Gomez for “Quality of life and well-being in Australian adults aged 50 years and over.”
Supervisor: Professor Nancy A. Pachana, The University of Queensland
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| 2012 |
Ms Susan Bretherton for "Influence of stress, optimism and perceived control on the psychological adjustment of older adults"
Supervisor: Dr Louise McLean, Monash University
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| 2011 |
Mr Piers Bayl-Smith for “Ageism in the workplace: The indirect effect of identifying as a late-career worker upon engagement and intended retirement age.”
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Griffin, Macquarie University
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| 2010 |
Vincent Chan, University of New South Wales
Age-related differences in social and non-social prospective memory
Supervisors: Dr Phoebe Bailey and Assoc Prof Julie Henry, assisted by Prof Peter Rendell
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| 2009 |
Alexa Muratore, University of New South Wales
Predicting retirement preparation through the design of a new measure
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Earl
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| 2008 |
James Peter Thompson, University of Adelaide
The self-regulation of the driving behavior of older drivers: A longitudinal assessment
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jane Mathias and Dr Matthew Baldock
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| 2007 |
Jennifer Burke, University of Adelaide (co-winner)
Neuropsychological differentiation of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: A meta-analysis
Supervisor: Jane Mathias
Paula Nicolaou, Curtin University (co-winner)
Identifying needs, burden, and distress of carer’s of people with frontotemporal dementia compared to Alzheimer’s Disease
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Egan, Dr Natalie Gasson and Dr Robert Kane
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| 2006 |
Christopher Hatherly, Australian National University
Peripheral vision attention in ageing: An evaluation of the Useful Field of View
Supervisor: Kaarin Anstey |
| 2005 |
Melanie Burkhardt, Murdoch University
The Relationship between Androgens, apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Status and Cognitive Functioning in Elderly Men with and without Alzheimer’s Dementia
Supervisor: Jonathan Foster |
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2004
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Penny Wareham, University of New South Wales
The effects of prose complexity and familiarity on elite young and elite elderly adults’ recall of prose
Supervisor: Peter Birrell
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2003
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Rhonda Shaw, James Cook University
Age-related decline in verbal, visual and spatial memory
Supervisor: Edward Holmes
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2002
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Christina Feldman, University of Western Australia
An over-reliance on gist memory and a deficit in verbatim memory: Evidence from false memories
Supervisor: Jonathan Foster
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2001
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Eyal Gringart, Edith Cowan University
Age Discrimination in Hiring Practices against Older Adults in Western Australia
Supervisor: Edward Helmes
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1999
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Fiona Kenvyn, University of Ballarat
The Effect of Former Occupation on Suicide Ideation and Suicide Attitudes in Retirees
Supervisor: Lisa Hopes
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1997
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Carolyn Boyd, Flinders University of South Australia
Predictors of Depression amongst Institutional- and Community-Dwelling Elders: Influence of Behavioural Competence and Perceived Control
Supervisor: Mary Luszcz
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1995
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Kathryn Collins, Flinders University of South Australia
Elderly Women’s Use of Relativistic Operations in Everyday Problem Solving
Supervisor: Mary Luszcz
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1993
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Kaarin Anstey, University of Sydney
Primary Ageing, Secondary Ageing and Intelligence
Supervisor: Lazar Stankov
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