PhD students
Meet our Psychology PhD students and explore their research topics.
To find out more about our PhD students, their Psychology research, and how to contact them, visit their individual profile pages via the links below.
Aaron Hissey
The stability of maladaptive personality traits and their impact on others
Alana Haenga-O'Brien
Exploring Rangatahi Māori Understandings of Wairuatanga and Hauora
Annabelle Wride
Developing a Theory of Intimate Partner Aggression in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Annalisa Hughes
Cultural Context and Crime: How should the sociocultural environment feature in psychological explanation and practice for forensic purposes?
Apoorva Sriram
Examining the Impact of Parent-Child Interactions on the Social Understanding of Children with Autism in India
Awatea Moxon
Understanding the Relationship between Whakapapa Knowledge and Psychological Wellbeing
Elizabeth McLean
The life experience of adolescent Māori females in the New Zealand criminal justice system.
Feryl Badiani
The Puzzle of Hinduism: Understanding the polytheistic existence of Hinduism from a cultural evolutionary lens.
Fin Johnson
Kia mau i te WeHI! The design, development, and validation of the Wellbeing Hononga Index (WeHI) – a new self-report measure of Māori wellbeing
Fiona Grattan
Making sense of sex positivity
Grace Nock
Understand online child sexual exploitation and abuse: Using a mixed methods approach to inform theory and prevention development.
Joanna Mete
Cognitive control mechanisms in anxiety
Jordan Payne
Mechanisms of Psychological Distress in Rural New Zealand.
Juan Pablo (John) Vega
What's his deal? Understanding Social Deviance and Norm Breaking in Intra-group Settings
Konstantina Vasileva
Imagery is more than meets the eye: a new look at mental imagery processing in working memory
Kylie Sutcliffe
Scalable approaches to improving access to psychological therapies among high school students in Aotearoa New Zealand
Laura Kranz
The role of cognition and emotion in science communication
Laurel Keats
Autobiographical memory and young people's depressive symptoms across time
Lee Bravestone
Queering Ambivalent Sexism: Developing a new, more inclusive sexist ideology measurement
Linda Fatialofa
A Preliminary Descriptive Model for Youth Offending
Manjuparna Raychaudhuri
Trajectory profiles of youth engaging in repeat offending
Mei-Jing Lin
Adults Automatic Imitation and Theory of Mind Processing
Michaela Dresel
Social cognitive development in infants
Olivia Nop
Sexism and victim blaming in sexual assault in religious communities
Tyler Ritchie
Indigenous perspectives on multiculturalism.