Qualifications
& Professional memberships
Research
Grants
& Awards
Teaching
Service to
the University and Profession
Academic
Qualifications
- Doctor of
Philosophy (University of Sydney),
1997
- Bachelor
of Arts (Honours) (University of
Sydney), 1990
Professional
Memberships
- Executive Member of the Teaching, Learning and Psychology Interest Group (TLaPIG)
- Registered
Psychologist with the New South
Wales Psychologists Registration (RPsych NSW)
- Member of
the Australian Psychological Society
(MAPS)
- Member of
the Australasian Human Development
Association (AHDA)
- Member of
the Society of Australasian Social
Psychologists (SASP)
- Member of
the Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Research
Interests
Applied
Social and Developmental Psychology
- Contact and recategorization strategies to reduce prejudice
- Short and long-term prejudice reduction
- Bidirectional prejudice between minority and majority groups
- Controlled versus automatic processes in
prejudice formation
- The implicit and explicit measurement of
racial prejudice
- Strategies
to increase support for Affirmative
Action
- Understanding the transmission of modern
racism from parents to adolescents
Educational
Psychology
- Constructive feedback and its role in reducing
student plagiarism
- Investigating students' feelings and attitudes
towards group work and its assessment
- Evaluating modes of lecture delivery: student
satisfaction and performance
- Measuring
educational and navigational aspects
of WebCT
- Goal
setting as a predictor of tertiary
students' academic performance
Books
- White, F. A., Hayes, B., & Livesey, D. (2012). Developmental Psychology: From Infancy to adulthood (3rd Ed.,). Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
- White, F.
A., Hayes, B., & Livesey, D.
(2010). Developmental Psychology: From
Infancy to adulthood (2nd Ed.,).
Sydney: Pearson Education Australia
- White, F.
A., Hayes, B., & Livesey, D.
(2005). Developmental Psychology: From
Infancy to adulthood.
Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
Book Chapters
- Cranney, J., Morris, S., Martin, F., Provost, S., Zinkiewicz, L., J. Reece, J., Milne-Home, J., Burton, L., White, F., Homewood, J., Earl, J., & McCarthy. S., (2011). Psychological Literacy and Applied Psychology in Undergraduate Education, In J. Cranney, & D. Dunn, (Eds.) Educating the psychologically literate citizen: Foundational and global perspectives. New York: Oxford Universtiy Press
- White, F. A. (2011). The Social Psychology of intergroup harmony and the education of psychologically literate citizens. In J. Cranney and D. S. Dunn (Ed.,) Educating the Psychologically Literate Citizen: Foundational and Global Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
- White, F.
A., Lloyd, H.,
& Goldfried, J. (2007). Evaluating student perceptions of group
work and group assessment. In A. Brew and J. Sachs (Eds.,).
Transforming a University: The scholarship of teaching and learning in
practice (pp. 71-80). Australia: Sydney University Press.
- White, F.
A. (2000). The revised Moral
Authority Scale (MAS-R). In J. Maltby., C. A. Lewis., & A. P.
Hill (Eds.), Commissioned Reviews
on 300 Psychological Tests (pp.
746-748). Wales: Edwin Mellen Press.
Journal Articles
- Owens, C., & White, F. (2013). A five-year systematic strategy to reduce plagiarism amongst first-year psychology university students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 65, 14-21.
- White, F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. (2012). A dual identity-electronic contact (DIEC) experiment promoting short- and long-term intergroup harmony, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 597-608.
- Abu-Rayya, H., & White. F.A. (2010). Acculturation orientations and religious identity as predictors of Anglo-Australians' attitudes towards Australian Muslims. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34, 592-599.
- Cranney, J., Turnbull,C., Provost, S., Martin,
F., Katsikitis, M.,White. F. A., Voudouris. N.J., Montgomery, I. M.,
Heaven, P. C. L., Morris, S., & Varcin, K.J. (2009). Graduate
attributes of the 4-year Australian undergraduate psychology program. Australian Psychologist, 44,
253-262.
- White, F. A., Wooten, B., Man, J., Diaz,
H., Rasiah, J., Swift, E., & Wilkinson, A. (2009).
Adolescent
racial prejudice development: the role of friendship quality and
inter-racial contact. International
Journal of Intercultural Relations, 33, 524 - 534.
- White, F.
A., Charles, M. A., & Nelson. J.
K. (2008). The role of persuasive arguments in changing
affirmative action
attitudes and expressed behavior in higher education. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 93,
1271-1286.
- White, F.
A., Owens, C., & Nguyen, M.
(2008). Using a constructive feedback approach to effectively reduce
student plagiarism among first-year psychology students. Symposium Proceedings,
UniServe Science
Conference, The University of
Sydney, Australia, 127-132.
- Church, A.
T., Anderson-Harumi, C. A.,
del Prado, A. M., Curtis, G., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Valdez-Medina, J. L.,
Mastor, K. A., White, F. A., Miramontes, L. A., Katigbak, M. S. (2008).
Culture, cross-role consistency, and adjustment: Testing trait and
cultural psychology perspectives. Journal
of Personality and Social
Psychology, 95, 739-755.
- Marx, B.
R., Job, R. F. S.,
White, F. A., & Wilson, J. C. (2007). Moral comprehension and
what
it might tell us about moral reasoning and political orientation. Journal of
Moral Education, 36(2),
199-219.
- McGrane,
J. A.,
& White, F. A. (2007). Differences in Anglo and Asian
Australians'
explicit and implicit prejudice and the attenuation of their in-group
bias. Asian Journal of Social
Psychology, 10(3), 204-210.
Show publications from 1996-2006 (click to show)
- White,
F. A., & Gleitzman, M. (2006). An examination of
family
socialisation processes as moderators of racial prejudice transmission
between adolescents and their parents. Journal of Family Studies,
12(2), 247-260.
- Church, A.
T., Katigbak, M. ., del Prado, A,
M.,Ortiz, F. A., Mastor, K.A., Hurami, Y., Tanaka-Matsumi, J.,
Vargas-Flores, J. J., Ibáñez-Reyes, J. White, F.
A.,
Miramontes, L. G.
Reyes, J. A. S., & Cabrera, H. F. (2006). Implicit Theories and
Self-Perceptions of Traitedness across Cultures: Toward
Integration of
Cultural and Trait Psychology Perspectives. Journal of Cross Cultural
Psychology, 37(6), 694-716.
- White, F.
A., Daly, M., &
Scott, K. (2006). Student evaluations of eLearning technologies in
undergraduate psychology: a blended model for the future.
Proceedings
of the 23rd Annual Ascilite Conference, Australia, 23, 863-870.
- Messer, B.
A. E., & White, F. A. (2006).
Employees' mood, perceptions of fairness, and organizational
citizenship behavior, Journal
of Business and Psychology, 21,
65-82.
- Livesey,
D., Keen, J., Rouse, J., & White. F. A. (2006). The
relationship
between measures of executive function, motor performance and
externalising behaviour in 5- and 6-year-old children. Human
Movement Science, 25,
50-64.
- Abbott,
G., White, F. A., & Charles, M A. (2005). Linking values and
organizational commitment: A correlational and experimental
investigation in two organizations. Journal
of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, 78
(4), 531-551.
- White,
F. A., Lloyd, H., Kennedy, G. & Stewart. C. (2005). An
investigation of undergraduate students' feelings and attitudes towards
group work and group assessment. Research
and Development in
Higher Education, 28,
616-623.
- White,
F. A., Sartore, G., Gallate, J., Cartwright, A., & Curthoys, I.
(2005). Digital videotaping (DVT): Evaluating an innovative mode of
lecture delivery in Psychology. Psychology
Teaching and Learning,
5, 23-31.
- White, F.
A. (2004). Developing as a research
supervisor. Synergy,
20,
11-13.
- White, F.
A. & Matawie, K. (2004). Parental
morality and family processes as predictors of adolescent morality. Journal
of Child and Family Studies,
13,
219-233.
- White, F.
A. (2002). A new scale: Goal Setting
and Behaviour Questionnaire (SGBQ). Educational
Psychology,
22,
285-304.
- White,
F. A., Howie, P., & Perz, J. (2000). Family processes and moral
thought in two contrasting samples of school aged adolescents. Ethics
and Behaviour, 10,
199-214.
- White, F.
A. (2000). Relationship of family
socialisation processes to adolescent moral thought. Journal
of
Social Psychology, 140,
75-91.
- White, F.
A., & Provost, S. (1999).
Assessing the Impact of Study Behaviour and Goal Setting on Academic
Performance. Teaching and
Learning Conference
(pp.295-302.).
Darwin: Teaching and Learning Development Office, Northern Territory
University.
- White, F.
A. (1997). Measuring the content of
moral thought: The Revised Moral Authority Scale (MAS-R). Social
Behaviour and Personality, 25,
321-334.
- White, F.
A. (1996). Sources of influence in
moral thought: the new Moral Authority Scale (MAS). Journal
of
Moral Education, 25,
421-439.
- White, F.
A. (1996). Parent-adolescent
communication and adolescent decision-making. Journal
of Family
Studies, 2(1), 41-56.
- White, F.
A. (1996). Family processes as
predictors of adolescent’s preferences for ascribed sources
of Moral
Authority. Adolescence,
31,
133-144.
Conference Proceedings
- L. Karlov, M. Charles, F. White (2012). Analytical thinking: How to effectively target thinking early in undergraduate tertiary education, EDULEARN12 Proceedings, pp. 353-362.
Conference
Presentations
- White, F.A., Bliuc, A-M., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. The Harmony Project and successful intergroup contact: A qualitative and quantity triangulation analysis to discover the dynamic processes. Society of Australian Social Psychologists 42nd Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 12-14, 2012.
- Chu, E., White, F.A., & Gonsalkorale, K. Trippin' down memory lane: An experimental test of identity-discontinuity and cultural background on nostalgia. Society of Australian Social Psychologists 42nd Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 12-14, 2012.
- Abu-Rayya, H.M., & White, F.A. Inter-group relations among
Australian Muslims and Anglo-Australians: An interactive acculturation
perspective. The 69th Midwest Political Science Association
Conference, Chicago, USA, March 31- April 2, 2011.
- White, F.A. Psychological Literacy & Global Citizenship: Perspectives
from the Social Psychology of intergroup harmony. American Education
Research Association Conference, New Orleans, USA, April 8-12, 2011.
- White, F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. The harmony project: A dual identity
contact experiment involving Muslim and Catholic high school
students. Society of Australian Social Psychologists 41st Annual
Conference, Manly, Australia, April 14-17, 2011.
- White, F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. A dual identity-extended contact (DIEC)
experiment promoting harmony between Muslim and Catholic high school
students. Invited Presentation. Melbourne School of Population Health,
University of Melbourne, May 6, 2011.
- White, F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. The development of inter-group
harmony amongst Muslim and Catholic adolescents: A longitudinal
fieldwork experiment. 17th Biennial Conference of the Australasian
Human Development Association, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 4-6, 2011.
- White, F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H.M. Promoting harmony between Muslim and
Christian students: A dual identity-cooperative contact study. The
16th General Meeting of the European Association for Social
Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, July 12-16, 2011.
- Abu-Rayya., H., & White F. A. (July, 2010). The acculturation orientations of Australian Muslims and Anglo-Australians: Implications for intergroup relationships. The XXth Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Melbourne.
-
White, F. A. (July, 2010). Perspectives from the social psychology of intergroup harmony. The 4th International Conference on Psychology Education (ICOPE): Invited Symposium titled 'Psychological literacy and global citizenship: Why should psychology educators care?' The University of New South Wales.
-
Owens, C., & White, F. A. (July, 2010). Improving scientific writing and reducing plagiarism using an online mastery exercise. The 4th International Conference on Psychology Education (ICOPE). The University of New South Wales.
- White, F. A., Owens, C., & Nguyen, M.
(October, 2009). Reducing student plagiarism and improve scientific
writing: Phase 2 of a constructive feedback approach. The 44th Annual
Australian Psychological Society Conference, Darwin, Australia.
- White F. A., & Abu-Rayya., H. (July,
2009). Attitudes of
Anglo-Australians towards Australian Muslims: The role of acculturation
orientations. The 16th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human
Development Association, Adelaide.
- White. F.A., & Abu-Rayya, H. (April, 2009).
Anglo-Australians’
acculturation orientations and outgroup attitudes towards Australian
Muslims. Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference,
Melbourne.
- White, F.
A., Owens, C., & Nguyen, M.
(October, 2008). Using a constructive feedback approach to effectively
reduce
student plagiarism among first-year psychology students. The UniServe
Science Conference, The University of Sydney, Australia.
- White, F.
A., Owens, C., & Nguyen, M.
(September, 2008). Using constructive feedback to effectively reduce
student plagiarism and improve scientific writing. The 43rd Annual
Australian Psychological Society Conference, Hobart, Australia.
- Curtis, G.
J., White, F. A. Church, A. T.,
Anderson-Harumi,
C. A., del Prado, A. M., Tanaka-Matsuma, J., Valdez Medina. J. L.,
Mastor, K. A., Miramontes, L. G., &, Katigbak, M. S. (December,
2007). Cross-role consistency of traits, and psychological adjustment
in Australia and five other cultures: Comparing trait and cultural
psychology perspectives. Paper Presented to the 5th Australian
Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Sydney.
- Tadros,
M., White, F. A., Ciarrochi, J., & Blackledge, J.T. (August,
2007).
The impact of cognitive defusion on prejudiced thoughts and behaviour.
The International Conference on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT), Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Contextual Behavioral Science.
University of Wollongong.
- White, F.
A., & Weitzel, C.
(July, 2007). An experimental comparison of the efficacy of
intergroup
bias reduction models: Group size matters. The Xth European Congress of
Psychology, Prague.
- Rouse, J.,
Livesey, D., & White, F.
A. (July, 2007). The role of higher order cognitive functions on moral
development. The 15th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human
Development Association, Sydney.
- Anderson-Harumi,
C. A.,
Church, A. T., del Prado, A. M., Curtis, G., Tanaka-Matsumi, J.,
Valdez-Medina, J. L., Mastor, K. A., White, F. A., Miramontes, L. A.,
Katigbak, M. S. (July, 2007). Cross-role trait consistency and
adjustment: A six-culture study. Contribution to the symposium Trait
and cultural psychology perspectives in cross-cultural personality
research, the IV Latin American Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, Mexico City.
Show conference presentations from 1996-2006 (click to show)
- White,
F.A., Daly, M., & Scott,
K. (December, 2006). Student evaluations of eLearning technologies in
undergraduate psychology: a blended model for the future.
Proceedings
of the 23rd Annual Ascilite Conference, Australia.
- Miramontes,
L. G., Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Winskel, H., Vargas-Flores, J.,
Iborez-Reyes, J., Reyes, J. A. S., White, F. A., Ortiz, F. A.,
&
Del Prado, A. M. (August, 2006). Culture and everyday explanations of
behavior. Contribution to the symposium Trait and cultural psychology
perspectives in cross-cultural personality research. A. T. Church
(Chair), presented at the 114th Annual Convention of the American
Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
- White, F.
A. (July, 2006). Understanding
adolescent racial prejudice development. ISSBD, Melbourne.
- Rouse,
J., Livesey, D., & White. F. A. (July, 2006). The
relationship
between Theory of Mind, Executive Functioning and Fluid Intelligence in
3-to-5-year old children. ISSBD, Melbourne.
- White, F.
A.,
Lloyd, H., Kennedy, G. & Stewart. C. (June, 2006). Student
perceptions of group work and its assessment. Best Practice Forum, The
University of Sydney, Sydney.
- McGrane,
J., & White.,
F.A. (April, 2006). Measuring ambivalent attitudes by unidimensional
unfolding. Australian Journal of Psychology, Society of Australasian
Social Psychologists Conference, ANU, Canberra.
- McGrane,
J.,
White., F.A. (April, 2006). Psychologists’ misunderstanding
of
measurement and its impact upon the assessment of social attitudes.
Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, ANU, Canberra.
- Doumani,
D. M., & White, F. A. (April,
2006). Reducing
prejudice towards Aborigines: The relevance of culturally salient
stereotypes in adapting the accuracy motivation paradigm. Society of
Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, ANU, Canberra.
- White,
F. A., Owens, C., & Daley. M. (2005, November). Evaluating the
functional and educational aspects of WebCT in undergraduate
psychology, The College of Sciences and Technology Teaching and
Learning Showcase, The University of Sydney, Sydeny.
- White,
F. A., Lloyd, H., Kennedy, G. & Stewart. C. (2005, November).
Student perceptions of group work and its assessment. The College of
Sciences and Technology Teaching and Learning Showcase, The University
of Sydney, Sydney.
- White,
F.A., Lloyd, H., Kennedy, G. &
Stewart. C. (2005, July). An investigation of undergraduate students'
feelings and attitudes towards group work and group assessment. HERDSA
Conference: Higher Education in a Changing World, Sydney, Australia.
- White,
F.A. (2005, July). Adolescent racial prejudice development: the role of
friendship quality and inter-racial contact. Australasian Human
Development Conference, Perth, Australia.
- Miramontes,
L. A.,
Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Winskel, H., Vargas-Flores, J.,
Ibanez-Reyes, J., Reyes, J. A. S., & White, F. A. (2005,
March).
Culture and explanations of everyday behavior. Contribution to the
symposium Trait Psychology in Cross-Cultural Perspective, conducted at
the Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference, Pullman,
Washington.
- Livsesy,
D., Keen, J., Rouse, J., & White,
F.A. (2005, Feb). The relationship between measures of executive
function, motor performance and externalizing behaviour in 5 year-old
children. Presented at the 7th Motor Control and Human Skill
Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.
- Church, A.
T.,
Katigbak, M. S., del Prado, A. M., Ortiz, F. A., Vargas-Flores, J.,
Ibanez-Reyes, J., Miramontes, L. G., White, F. A., Reyes, J. A. S.,
Mastor, K. A., Harumi, Y., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Cabrera, H., Pe-Pua, R.
(2004, August). Individual and cultural differences in implicit trait
theories. Contribution to the invited symposium Personality and Person
Perception, Y.-T. Lee (Chair), presented at the 28th International
Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.
- Del Prado,
A. M.,
Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Ortiz, F. A., Mastor, K. A., Harumi, Y,
Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Vargas-Flores, J., Ibanez-Reyes, J., White, F. A.,
Miramontes, L. G., Reyes, J. A. S., Cabrera, H. F. (2004, July-August).
Implicit trait beliefs, self-construals, and self-monitoring across six
cultures: testing elements of an integrated cultural trait psychology.
Poster presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American
Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- White,
F.A.,
Lloyd, H., Kennedy, G., & Stewart, C. (2004). Student attitudes
towards group work and group assessment: results and recommendations.
Uniserve Science CST Showcase, Sydney University.
- White, F.
A., Sartore, G., Gallate, J., Cartwright, A., & Curthoys, I.
(2004,
April). Digital videotaping (DVT): Evaluating an innovative mode of
lecture delivery in Psychology. PLAT 2004, University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland.
- White, F.
A., Sartore, G., Gallate, J.,
Cartwright, A., & Curthoys, I. (2003). Digital videotaping
(DVT):
Evaluating an innovative mode of lecture delivery in Psychology.
Faculty of Science Teaching and Learning Showcase, The University of
Sydney.
- White,
F.A., (2003, July). Generational
differences
in adolescent and parent implicit and explicit racial attitudes, 13th
Australasian Human Development Conference, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
- Abbott,
G., & White, F.A., (2003, April). Organisational commitment and
work values: Testing models through underlying turnover intention,
Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Sydney.
- Davies,
A., & White, F.A., (2003, April). The effect of communication
medium and task type on group polarisation and persuasive
argumentation, Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference,
Sydney.
- White,
F.A., (2002, July). Learning racism: A
family
socialization perspective, Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
Conference, Adelaide.
- White,
F.A., (2001, July). Family
processes and parents' racial attitudes and their influence on
adolescent racial attitudes, 12th Australasian Human Development
Conference, Melbourne
- Young, T.
L., & White, F. A.
(2001, July). Organisational support and reciprocation wariness in the
exchange relationship at work, Society of Australasian Social
Psychologists Conference, Melbourne.
- Perz, J.,
Stevens, K.,
& White, F.A. (2000, October). Successful flexible Psychology
programs across UWS, 35th Australian Psychological Society Conference,
Canberra.
- White,
F.A., & Provost, S. (2000, April).
Academic self-efficacy and goal setting behaviour as predictors of
tertiary students' academic performance. Society of Australasian Social
Psychologists Conference, Perth.
- White, F.
A. (1999, July).
Developmental and gender differences in the content of moral thought:
Kohlberg reformulated, 11th Australasian Human Development Conference,
Sydney.
- White, F.
A. & Provost, S. (1999, June).
Assessing the Impact of Study Behaviour and Goal Setting on Academic
Performance, Teaching and Learning Conference, Darwin.
- White,
F. A. (1998, September). The importance of assessing 'content over
form' of moral thought for the professional context, 33rd Australian
Psychological Society Conference, Melbourne.
- White,
F.A.
(1998, April). Parental morality and the adolescent. Society of
Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- White,
F.A. (1997, September). A family socialisation model of the content of
adolescent moral thought, British Psychological Society Social
Psychology Conference, Sussex, United Kingdom.
- White,
F.A.
(1997, July). Developmental differences in ascribing influence to
sources of moral authority, 10th Australasian Human Developmental
Conference, Adelaide.
- White,
F.A. (1996, September) Measuring the
content of moral thought, 31st Australian Psychological Society
Conference, Sydney.
- White,
F. A. (1996, May) Family processes and the nature of adolescent moral
thought, 25th Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Canberra.
- White,
F. A. (1996, April) Family processes and the nature of adolescent moral
thought, 9th Australasian Human Developmental Conference, Perth.
- White,
F.A. (1995, September) The nature of parent-adolescent discrepant
perceptions of their family system, 30th Australian Psychological
Society Annual Conference, Perth.
- White,
F.A. (1995, April)
Parent-adolescent communication dyads and the phenomena of social
influence, 24th Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Hobart.
- White,
F.A. (1994, September) The Moral Authority Scale (MAS): - A new
measure, 29th Australian Psychological Society Conference, Wollongong.
- White,
F.A. (1994, July) Reconceptualising moral reasoning and the Moral
Authority Scale (MAS), 8th Australasian Human Developmental Conference,
Melbourne.
Psychological
Measurement Scales Developed *
- The
revised Moral Authority Scale (MAS-R)
- The Goal
Setting and Behaviour Questionnaire
(GSBQ)
- The
Cultural Issues Scale (CIS)
- The Modes
of Lecture Delivery Scale (MLDS)
- Attitudes
Towards Peer Evaluation (ATPE)
- Attitudes
Towards Group Work Assessment (ATGA)
- Student
Evaluation of E-learning in Psychology
Survey
*
Please email
for a copy of any
of these scales.
Grants
& Awards
| 2013 |
$30,000 |
Bridging Support Grant (USyd) titled “The Continuum of Contact” (Fiona White) |
| 2012 |
$227,000 |
Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Strategic Priority Project Grant titled "Academic integrity in Australia - understanding and changing culture and practice" (Drs Abhaya Nayak, Deborah Richards, Judi Homewood, Leanne Cameron, Ian Solomonides, Nicholas McGuigan, Roger Vallence, Fiona White, Caleb Owens, Donald McCabe) |
| 2012 |
$10,000 |
Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award for Support of the Student Experience for the "Constructive Feedback and Plagiarism Reduction Program" conducted in first-year Psychology (Fiona White and Caleb Owens). |
| 2011 |
$25,000 |
Widening Participation Grant, University of Sydney: "Student diversity: What do we know about our students and how does it affect our teaching?" (Meloni Muir, Helen Drury, Fiona White, Kellie Morrison, Garth Tarr) |
| 2010- 2012 |
$199,742 |
VicHealth Grant: "Developing an intervention to promote effective racial socialisation strategies for parents and teachers". Priest, N., Paradies, Y., White, F., Davis, E., & Kowal, E. |
| 2009-
2011 |
$100,000 |
ARC
Discovery Project: "Cooperative dual
identity: A new approach to promote ethnic harmony between Muslim and
non Muslim Australians" |
2009
|
$42,612
|
Feedback in
the Sciences: What is wanted, what is given, and how it can be improved
amongst a diverse student population (Drs Meloni Muir, Miriam Frommer,
Fiona White, Vanessa Gysbers)
|
2008
|
$10,000
|
University
Teaching Improvement and
Equipment Scheme (TIES) Grant: "Using a constructive feedback approach
to effectively reduce student plagiarism and improve scientific writing"
|
2007
|
$10,000
|
University
Teaching Improvement and
Equipment Scheme (TIES) Grant:
"An innovative audio-visual library and database to enhance interactive
learning in Psychology and the wider University"
|
2006
|
$4,000
|
Faculty
of Science Excellence in Teaching
Award
|
| 2005 |
$12,000 |
Teaching
Development Fund, Fac. of Science,
USyd. "Developing interactive elearning materials for Intermediate
Psychology" |
| 2004 |
$12,000 |
Teaching
Development Fund, Fac. of Science,
USyd. "Flexible modes of delivery for first year Psychology" |
| 2003 |
$25,000 |
Teaching
Improvement Fund, Fac. of Science,
USyd . "Managing group work and assessment" |
| 2003 |
$1,200 |
Overseas Travel Grant awarded by the Fac.
of Science, USyd. "Generational differences in adolescent and parent
implicit and explicit racial attitudes" |
| 2000 |
$8,000 |
UWS
Macarthur ARC Small Grant awarded by
Research and Research Degrees Committee. "The role of family processes
in the transmission of racial prejudice" (White) |
| 2000 |
$18,594 |
UWS
Macarthur Teaching Committee.
"Psyflex: Foundations for flexible Psychology Program across UWS"
(Perz, Stevens & White) |
| 1999 |
$29,894 |
UWS
Macarthur Teaching Committee.
"Implementation and integration of flexible teaching methods into the
UWSM psychology undergraduate program" (Perz, Stevens & White) |
| 1999 |
$5,000 |
UWS
Macarthur New Researcher Grant awarded
by the Research and Research Degrees Committee. "The use of goal
setting behaviour and students’ academic performance" (White) |
| 1997 |
$6,000 |
New
Staff Project Grant awarded by the
University of Newcastle's. "Family processes and their influence on
adolescent" |
| 1995 |
$14,500 |
The Margaret Stewart Fund Scholarship,
awarded by the University of Sydney. "Family processes as predictors of
adolescents' prescriptions for sources of moral authority" (White) |
Teaching
Responsibilities
- Social and
Developmental Psychology (PSYC2013)
- Personality (PSYC2014)
- Social
Psychology (PSYC3017)
- Current
Approaches in Advanced Social
Psychology (Honours Seminar)
Current PhD
Supervision
| Student |
Research Project |
| Maram Abu-Rayya |
Identity, psychological well-being, and school adjustment among Australian Muslim adolescents (Ass. Sup) |
| Eileen Chu |
Cultural wisdom, multiple identity formation and prejudice (Prim.Sup) |
| Andrea Van Dommelen |
The role of social identity complexity, inclusiveness and structure intergroup relations (Ass. Sup) |
| Betty Luu |
Friendship and attachment (Ass. Sup) |
Postgraduate Completions
| Student |
Research Project |
| Chris Hunt |
Threat to masculinity and gender-role conforming behaviour (USyd, PhD) |
| Renee Glass |
Psychological reactions to contemporary dance (UWS, PhD) |
| Susan Kench |
Alexithymia and fantasy proneness (UWS, Masters) |
| Joshua McGrane |
The significance of
attitudinal ambivalence to attitude theory and measurement (USyd, PhD) |
| Ben Marx |
Understanding the relationshsip between moral reasoning and liberalism-conservatism (USyd, PhD) |
| Stephen Pomfrett |
The concept of career (USyd, Masters) |
| Jane Rouse |
Moral judgement, theory of mind and executive functioning in pre-school
children (USyd, PhD) |
| Tammy Schwartz |
Immigration and its effects on coping amongst an elderly South African sample (UWS, Masters) |
| Wendy Thomas |
Social support networks as a stress buffer (UWS, Masters) |
| Bozena Zawic |
Family expressiveness as a variant of culture (UWS, Masters) |
Administration
and Service to the University and
Profession
Profession
- Member of
the Organising Committee for the
2010 International Conference on Psychology Education (ICOPE2010)
- Committee
member of the Teaching Learning and
Psychology Interest Group (TLAPIG)
- Member of
the Australasian Human Development
Association (AHDA) Executive Committee
- Member of
the Organising Committee for the
2007 Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA) Conference
- Member of
the Australian Psychology Education
Network (APEN)
- Member of
the Australian Learning and Teaching
Council (ALTC) Discipline-Based Initiative (DBI) Team to improve
student learning outcomes in the professional and service teaching of
Psychology
University
- Associate Dean, Bachelor of Liberal Arts and
Science (BLAS)
- Member of
the Undergraduate Degree Structure
Working Group
- Academic
Board Nominee
- Associate
Dean of Liberal Studies (August
2005- March 2006)
- Member of
the CREO (Committee for Regional
Education at Orange) task force
- Member of
the Working Party on Cultural
Diversity in Learning and Teaching
Faculty
- Member of
the Faculty of Science Learning and
Teaching Committee
- Member of
the Special Consideration Working
Party
- Member of
the Science 'Think Tank' Working
Party on e-learning
- Member of
Teaching Development Fund Review
committee
- Member of
Teaching Equipment Grant Review
committee
- Member of
the Women's Forum: exploring
strategies for promotion
School
- Associate
Head, Learning and Teaching
- Chair of
the Learning and Teaching Committee
- Member of
the Head of School Advisory
Committee (HoSAC)
- Member of
the School of Psychology Board
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