Experience

Australian College of Applied Professions

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Associate Professor and Discipline Lead

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Southern Cross University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Lecturer

  • Dec 2018 - Jun 2021

  In my roles as Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Honours Course Coordinator, and Gold Coast Campus Lead, I conduct research in psychology, supervise honours students with their research, coordinate the honours programme, teach on campus and online, and lead staff involved in the honours programme and at the Gold Coast campus. My research continues to focus on wellbeing and health, with a sociocultural focus. My research has examined the role of savouring in times of stress at the individual- and dyadic-levels as well as the role of self-compassion in meaning in life for people who have experienced intimate partner psychological aggression. My current research is on the role of self-compassion in reducing fear of childbirth and I supervised 6 honours students in 2019 on various projects, all of which have publishable data. These projects include: wellbeing in school teachers; the cultural life script as a meaning framework; and savouring and physical health. Show less



Bond University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor/ Senior Lecturer

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2018

  Research Activities: My program of research applied traditional stress and coping theories, in addition to meaning-making theories, to examine adjustment to a broad range of traumatic and highly stressful life events with a focus on the interpersonal processes involved in searching for and finding meaning in stressful life events in couples, families and communities.Teaching: I have developed, lectured and coordinated the following courses: "Statistics and Data Analysis I"​; "Statistics and Data Analysis III"​; "Personality and Individual Differences"​ ; "Thesis 1: Research and Ethics Seminar"​ ; "Research Methods, Professional Practice and Ethics"; and "Motivation and Emotion"Research Supervision: I supervised the following projects to completion: 15 clinical psychology masters; 1 PhD; 15 honours and 25 postgraduate diploma.Administration: I was the 4th Year Psychology Programme Convenor and I coordinated the Psychology Research Seminar Series. I also carried out other administrative tasks as required. Show less

• Adjunct Lecturer

  • May 2008 - Dec 2008

  I coordinated and lectured the following courses: "Clinical Psychology" and "Personality and Individual Differences".



The University of Queensland

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor and Lead Tutor

  • Jun 2003 - Nov 2008

  I provided tutorials and assessed course work for the following courses: "Psychopathology"; "Social and Organisational Psychology"; "Psychotherapies and Counselling"; "International Student Support Program".

• Research Assistant

  • 2002 - 2005

  I analysed large data sets in the field of Health Psychology and assisted in data collection, grant writing, report writing, and journal article writing and preparation.