Awards

• Shayne Loft & Luke Strickland: ARC Discovery Project “Modelling How Humans Adapt to Task Demands in Safety-Critical Workplaces".
• Shayne Loft, Troy Visser, Jason Bell: DST grant from the Research Network for Undersea Decision Superiority Program on “Measuring and Augmenting Mental and Team Performance in Future Submarine Control Rooms”.
• Shayne Loft, Stephanie Chen, Troy Visser, Jason Bell, and Gavin Pinniger (from Human Sciences): DST grant “Human Performance in a Maritime Command Team: Toward a Methodology to Assess the Impacts of Anticipated Information Integration and Technology Change”.
• Ben Grafton: ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) to investigate the cognitive basis of anxiety-linked heightened negative expectancies
• Ullrich Ecker and Shayne Loft secured ARC Future Fellowships. Ulli’s project will be on “Combating Misinformation – Designing a Toolkit to Address a Global Problem”. Shayne’s project will be on “Adapting Automation Transparency to Allow Accurate Use by Humans”.
• Vanessa Bowden & Shayne Loft: Part of a team that has secured a Neurotrauma Research Program Grant titled “Improving the executive decision-making process using non-invasive brain stimulation in older adults: A step towards reducing traffic accidents”, administered by Murdoch University.
• Casey Lister and Nic Fay: UWA Research Collaboration Award entitled “The origins of language: A study of Indigenous sign languages and language creation among Australian Aboriginal Peoples”.
• Laura Dondzilo and Julie Ji: Cockell Research Awards for mental illness research. Laura will collaborate with the University of Muenster in Germany on the project “Efficacy of a novel self-appraisal induction in Body Dysmorphic Disorder”. Julie will collaborate with Uppsala University in Sweden on the project “Investigating ‘flashforward’ mental imagery of self-injury as a proximal risk barometer and modifiable treatment target’.
• Jeneva Ohan: Two Rotary grants: “Engaging Parents in Online Interventions for their Child’s Behaviour Problems by Using Action Planning” and “Mindful Self-Compassion for LGBTQ youth: A multi-site randomized controlled trial” (led by Ashleigh Lin).
• Liz Pritchard was appointed to the Psychology Board for Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.
• School affiliates Jo Badcock and Georgie Paulik-White have published a new textbook, “A Clinical Introduction to Psychosis” that is aimed toward trainee clinical psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists.
• Professor Stephen Lewandowsky: Humboldt Research Award to carry out research in cooperation the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin.
• Guy Curtis: TEQSA Academic Integrity Award, in collaboration with a team from UniSA, QUT, and International College of Management.
• Former staff member Kim Kirsner: UWA Academic Staff Association's Philippa Maddern Award.
• Lies Notebaert: First prize in UWA Rising Stars three-minute thesis competition for her presentation “The importance of being flexible; Resilience in a changing world”
• Ari Antonofsky & Shayne Loft: Research Grant “HMAS Choules – Human Factors in Maintenance Dependability” from the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group in the Department of Defense.
• Andrew Page: Part of a team awarded a grant under the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources’ Rural Research and Development for Profit program for “Closing the Loop, Black Soldier Fly technology to convert agricultural waste into high quality fertiliser and soil improvers”.
• Jeneva Ohan: 2018 Brightwater Care Group Award for her project “Acquired Brain Injury and Early Onset Dementia”.
• Nicolas Fay: part of a team that obtained a Defence Science and Technology Group Award for a project “Understanding information and trust: From the individual to the population”, hosted at the University of Melbourne.
• Troy Visser and David Badcock: DSTG Award for a project entitled “Colour digital displays and night vision search performance”.
• Vanessa Bowden, Shayne Loft, Jason Bell, and Troy Visser: Faculty of Science infrastructure funding for a Detection Response Task System.
• Ben Grafton: Association of Psychological Science Rising Star Award
   

• Danielle Fynn: Runner-up in the UWA 3-minute-thesis competition.
• Alex Berry: Australian Psychological Society’s Prize in Psychology (highest honours mark) and the H.L. Fowler Prize in Psychology (best honours thesis).
• Simone Harrington: Finalist for the Aboriginal STEM Student of the Year Award at the 2019 WA Premier's Science Awards!
• Anna Jorgensen: UWA Professional Staff Award for Service and Support for her tireless work with the Specialist Mentoring Program.
• Kim Eaton: Winner of the 2018 APS College of Clinical Psychologists Student Prize.
• Anu Bharadwaj: Best Scientific Poster Award at the European Association for Work & Organizational Psychology Conference 2019 in Italy.
• Michael Wilson: 2018 Early Career Award from the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science, and a UWA GRS publication prize (best in Social Science Quantitative), for his journal article “Remembering to Execute Deferred Tasks in Simulated Air Traffic Control: The Impact of Interruptions”, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
• Bree Mitchelson: Dr Peter Livesey PhD award for her research project “Role of attention control and neuro-endocrine stress response in vulnerability and resilience to chronic and traumatic stress”.
• Priyanjali Mithal: WA Government Science Industry PhD Fellowship.
• Savannah Moscarda: UWA Student Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Fiona Allanson: West Australian’s 50 most-talented young people in WA

• Jeneva Ohan: UWA Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in External Engagement, for her efforts to close the Indigenous training gap in psychology, and the development of a professional development resource for psychology high-school teachers in WA.
• Carmela Pestell: Neurotrauma Research Program grant for the project “A validation study to predict poor outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury” (with Fitzgerald et al.).
• Shayne Loft, Simon Farrell, Troy Visser: Defence Science and Technology Group of the Department of Defence (Navy) grant, “Predicting change in operator perceptions of automation reliability and the misuse and disuse of automated recommendations over time”.
• The ParkC research group (A/Prof Andrea Loftus (Director), Prof Natalie Gasson, Prof Romola Bucks [UWA], Dr Meghan Thomas [Dept of Health]; and Emily Corti [RA]) received an Acknowledgement of Contribution for their ongoing collaboration with the Parkinson’s Nurse Specialist Service in their research endeavours.
• Diana Tan: BrightSpark Research Collaboration Award from the Raine Foundation to work with Sasha Baron-Cohen’s group at Cambridge University on the project "Investigating biological markers of autism using longitudinal cohort studies in the UK and Australia".
• Carmela Pestell: Nominee in the prestigious Community TAB Community Service Award.
• Ben Grafton: Awarded an Alumni Fund Grant for the project titled “The UWA PhD Student Resilience Pilot Project”.
• Pat Dunlop: UWA Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Jason Bell and Ullrich Ecker: Featured in UWA Student Guild’s Best Unit Guide.
• Romola Bucks and Johanna Badcock: Elected Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science—The Association for Psychological Science elected a total of 102 Fellows from across the globe, in this round, on the basis of their “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application”. Four of the 102 Fellowships were awarded to academics working in Australia, and half of those went to UWA psychologists.
• Alice Mason and Patrick Dunlop: Selected as members of the Australian Academy of Science EMCR Forum’s Representative Network for the Australian Brain Alliance.
• Yong Foo: 2018 ARC CCD Postdoctoral Exchange Award to visit David Perrett at University of St Andrews, UK.
• Clare Sutherland: ARC CCD Postdoctoral Exchange Award to visit Jeremy Wilmer in Wellesley College, USA.
• David Badcock: Selected as a member of the Science Advisory Board for the Sarich Neuroscience Institute.
• Julie Ji: Recipient of a prestigious Forrest Fellowship.
• Pat Dunlop and Djurre Holtrop: DFES grant titled “Recruiting for the future: Best practice recruitment for Emergency Service volunteers.
• Nic Fay: Defence Science and Technology Group grant to work with A/Prof Amy Perfors, Melbourne University.
• Shayne Loft and Jason Bell: Defence Science and Technology Group grant investigating automation transparency effects on UXV command and control.
• David Badcock: Defence Innovation Partnership grant from the Australian Department of Defence, led by Anna Ma-Wyatt at the University of Adelaide, “Realising the benefit of augmented reality devices in military applications”.

• Savannah Moscarda: UWA Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Jemma Collova: won a competitive APR internship with the Australian Department of Innovation, Industry and Science, in the Innovative Metrics division. She will be working for 4-5 months in Canberra on a project looking at how best to measure and promote successful positive innovation, as well as building new links between academia and government. During this time, Clare Sutherland will be her academic mentor.
• Kate Derry and Matthew Robson: UWA Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Doug MacFarlane: Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake an 18-month research program at the University of Cambridge.
• Yong Foo: Endeavour Postgrad Fellowship to visit Shinichi Nakagawa at UNSW for 6 months.
• Laura McLaughlin Engfors: ARC CCD Student Exchange Award to visit Wellesley College, USA.
• Ee Pin Chang: Best Student Poster Prize at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference in Hobart.
• Shenooka Nanthakumar: 2017 Student Prize for the APS College of Clinical Psychologists (CCP), which includes an invitation to present a poster of her research at the 2019 APS College of Clinical Psychologists National Conference.
• Robert Green, Khan Collins, Kris Singh: Award of honourable mention on the Dean’s List for outstanding postgraduate theses (awarded to less than 5% of PhD theses).

• Ullrich Ecker, Patrick Dunlop, Romola Bucks, Werner Stritzke, Carmela Pestell, Neil McLean, Andrew Page, Lisette Kanse: Vice-Chancellor recognition of Consistently Excellent Units.
• Ben Grafton & Andrew Page, with Stephen Houghton and colleagues (including WA Dept of Education): Healthway grant to deploy cognitive bias modification within WA Schools to enhance resilience in students transitioning to high school.
• Carmen Lawrence: ARC Discovery Project grant (led by Petra Tschakert) “Locating Loss from Climate Change in Everyday Places”.
• Andrew Page and Karina Jorritsma as part of the UWA Centre for Transformative Work Design team: Award from the State Government to investigate the range of workplace factors that contribute to mental health and wellbeing in FIFO workers.
• Lies Notebaert: UWA Research Collaboration Award “The attentional basis of individual differences in clinical versus non-clinical worry”.
• Alice Mason: UWA Research Collaboration Award “Sleep, reward and selectivity: do rewards enhance sleep-dependent memory consolidation?“.
• Flavie Waters and Melissa Ree: High Commendation in the Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Category, National Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Awards, for the WA Clinical Research Centre ‘Sleep Well, Feel Well With a Mental Illness’.
• Clare Sutherland (with David White, Amy Burton): Best Article Award in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) for their paper “Choosing face: The curse of self in profile image selection”.
• Ben Grafton: Raine Medical Research Foundation Cockell Research Collaboration Award.
• Colin MacLeod (with Lies Notebaert, Ben Grafton): ARC Laureate Fellowship for his project titled “Differentiating the cognitive basis of unproductive vs productive worry”.
• Troy Visser: UWA Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Ullrich Ecker: UWA Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Teaching Award.
• Donna Bayliss, Jason Bell, Troy Visser, Gilles Gignac, Nic Fay, Pat Dunlop, Lisette Kanse, Romola Bucks, Werner Stritzke, Carmella Pestell, Neil McLean: Outstanding teaching evaluations.
• Jeneva Ohan (with Alina Morawska, Karen Turner, Matthew Sanders): Mental Health of Young Australians Grant from Australian Rotary Health for “Using Social Norms to Engage Parents in Interventions for the Child's Behaviour Problems”.
• Sue Byrne (with Simon Wilksch, Tracey Wade): Mental Health of Young Australians Grant  from Australian Rotary Health for “A randomised control trial of an efficacious school-based eating disorder risk reduction program”.
• Shayne Loft and Troy Visser: Defence Science and Technology Group grant for “Human performance in the submarine command team”.
• Pat Dunlop and Djurre Holtrop (with Marylène Gagné, Alex Luksyte): Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre funding for “Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering”.
• Carmela Pestell (with James Fitzgerald from PATCHES, Telethon Kids, and others): Australian Government Award “Drug and Alcohol Program Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Diagnostic Services and Models of Care Grant  Opportunity”.

• Luke Strickland: Award of honourable mention on the Dean’s List for outstanding postgraduate theses.
• Jemma Collova: Best PhD poster at ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Conference.
• Anu Bharadwaj: Raine Annual Scientific Meeting best ECR presentation award.
• Mark Shelton, BPhil (Hons) in Computer Science and Psychology: Prestigious ACS 1962 prize as the best Information Technology and Computing graduate this year across all WA Universities.
• Briony Swire: Award of honourable mention on the Dean’s List for outstanding postgraduate theses.
• Louise Delane: Award of honourable mention on the Dean’s List for outstanding postgraduate theses.
• Laura McLaughlin-Engfors: 2017 Graduate Women WA Joyce Riley Bursary.
• Ken Tan: Newton Fellowship to work at the University of Nottingham.
• Nadia Cunningham: APS College of Clinical Psychologists Student Prize.
• Sarah Heppell: School Psychologists Association Early Career School Psychologist of the Year Award.
• Prue Hepple: Peter Beumont Young Investigator Award at the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders National Conference in Sydney.
• Belinda Cham: APS College of Organisational Psychologists Postgraduate Student Award.
• Gina Chatellier: Best Paper: Symposium award APS 12th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference in Sydney.
• Jane Chong: Best Paper: Individual Research Paper award APS 12th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference in Sydney.
• Tim Ballard: UWA Graduate Research School Publication Prize (Social Science Quantitative)
 

2016 staff awards

• Elizabeth Newnham: UWA Faculty of Science Rising Star, 3rd prize.
• Mark Hurlstone: School of Psychological Science Early Career Research Funding Achievement Award.
• Shayne Loft: School of Psychological Science Mid-Career Research Funding Achievement Award.
• Elizabeth Newnham: School of Psychological Science Early Career Publication Impact Award.
• Shayne Loft: School of Psychological Science Mid-Career Publication Impact Award.
• Shayne Loft, Troy Visser and Jeneva Ohan: Defence Science and Technology Group grant for “Improving Warfighter Situation Awareness: Selection, training and intervention strategies to increase battlefield performance & survivability”.
• Karina Jorritsma, Mark Griffin, Sharon Parker, and Daniela Andrei: Defence Science and Technology Group grant for “Future submariner performance and endurance implications for a crewing concept”.
• Clare Sutherland, Gill Rhodes and Romina Palermo: ARC Discovery Project grant for “Who may judge a book by its cover?”.
• Sue Byrne: UWA Research Collaboration Award for “Defining the role of the intestinal microbiota in Anorexia Nervosa: A feasibility study”.
• Lies Notebaert: UWA Faculty of Science Early Career Publication Award.
• Shayne Loft: Defence Science and Technology Group grant for “Optimising human-automation interaction in UAV command and control settings”.
• Shayne Loft and Troy Visser: Defence Science and Technology Group grant for “Automated track motion analysis to aid the submarine track manager: Optimising operator trust and behavioural reliance in the human-machine dialogue”.
• Shayne Loft: 2016 U.S.A Department of the Defence (Office of Naval Research Global) Visiting Science Program grant for “Adapting task automation to maximize human-system integration”.
• Elizabeth Newnham: Department of Health 2016 New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support Award.
• Carmela Pestell (with Jade Sheen, Sue Littler, Debra Dunstan, Rachel Roberts, Reg Nixon): Innovation and Development Grant from the Federal Office for Learning and Teaching for “Risk aware: enhancing students’ clinical competence in risky environments through blended simulation-based learning”.

2016 Faculty of Science Rising Star Award (3rd Prize) winner Dr Elizabeth Newnham with Deputy Dean Prof Brendan Waddell

• Jessica Tearne: Best Paper Award, Annual Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Response in Hong Kong
• Michael English: Margot Prior Prize for Best Student Paper at the December 2016 Australian Society for Autism Research Conference
• Sarah George: UWA Graduate Research School Publication Prize (Social Science Quantitative) – joint winner
• Tim Ballard: UWA Graduate Research School Publication Prize (Social Science Quantitative) – joint winner
• Kirsten Panton: Best Student Poster Award at the 2016 Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision
• Azhani Amiruddin: 'Best Data Blitz Presentation' at the 3rd Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience meeting
• Anna Jorgenson: Australian Psychological Society Prize in Psychology
• Anna Jorgenson: H. L. Fowler Prize in Psychology
• Riona Johnston: A. J. Marshall Memorial Prize

2016 Australian Psychological Society Prize in Psychology H.L. Fowler Prize in Psychology and winner Anna Jorgensen with School of Psychological Science Head of School, Professor Romola Bucks

2016 A. J. Marshall Memorial Prize winner Riona Johnston with School of Psychological Science Head of School, Professor Romola Bucks

2015 staff awards

• Professor Colin MacLeod: Australian Psychological Society (APS) Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award
• Ullrich Ecker: UWA Faculty of Science Rising Star, 2nd prize
• Troy Visser: UWA Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award
• Gilles Gignac: UWA Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award
• Romola Bucks, Pat Dunlop, Carmela Pestell, Shayne Loft, Allison Fox and Ullrich Ecker: Outstanding teaching evaluations.

2015 Faculty of Science Rising Star Award (2nd Prize) winner A/Prof Ullrich Ecker with Dean Prof Tony O’Donnell

2015 Australian Psychological Society (APS) Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award recipient Prof Colin MacLeod, with Ms Leanne Lindard MP (Member for Nudgee) and Prof Mike Kyrios FAPS (APS President).

• Megan Bell: UWA Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award
• Michael Wilson: UWA Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award
• Denise Parker: UWA Guild Students’ Choice Teaching Award