Student Research Supervision
Doctoral Student Projects
Masters Student Projects
Undergraduate Honours Student Projects
- Psychosocial benefits of intercultural music engagement and cross-cultural physical musicality (2022-2025). PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Can musical contact promote intercultural attitudes and connections between Chinese migrants and Australians? (2022-2025). PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Music with violent themes: From curiosity to passion (2019-2022). PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Processing violence and misogyny in extreme metal lyrics to optimise psychosocial benefits (2018-2021). PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- A neuropsychological investigation of creativity in the context of musical improvisation (2017-2020). PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- A systematic investigation of memory for melodies: How do musical features predict recognition performance? (2014-2017), PhD (Psychology), Co-supervisor
Masters Student Projects
- Musical predictors of acculturation and adaptation by international students in Australia (2021), Master of Research (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- The effects of learning a non-Western musical instrument on intercultural understanding (2021), Master of Research (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Psychosocial outcomes of traditional music listening in young adult migrants (2019), Master of Research (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Investigating cognitive, emotional, and social functions of violent music for its fans (2018), Master of Research (Psychology), Primary Supervisor
- Regulating anger through music: Relationship between genre, preference, and emotion regulation strategies (2017-2018), Master of Clinical Psychology, Primary Supervisor
- An investigation of empathy among fans and non-fans of violent music (2017), Master of Research (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Measuring creativity in an improvised jazz context: A preliminary tDCS study (2016), Master of Research (Psychology), Co-supervisor
Undergraduate Honours Student Projects
- Mixed emotions in response to violent music: Peaceful anger, joyful tension (2022), Honours (Psychology), Primary-supervisor
- The perceptual and emotional consequences of articulation in music (2021), Honours (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Acoustic features of music communicate basic and social emotions: Evidence from 750 music excerpts (2021), Honours (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Effects of violent music on prosocial thoughts, empathy, and prosocial behaviour (2020), Honours (Psychology), Primary-supervisor
- Type D Personality and the Regulation of Negative Emotions with Music (2019), Honours (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Investigating the role of violent music in activating aggressive cognitions (2017), Honours (Psychology), Primary Supervisor
- The effects of violent musical on aggressive driving, (2017), Honours (Psychology), Co-supervisor
- Effects of acoustic intensity on sound-source localisation of environmental warning signals (2015), Honours (Psychology), Primary Supervisor
- The salience of acoustic intensity and spectral complexity in auditory spatial localisation (2014), Honours (Psychology), Primary Supervisor
Teaching
- Macquarie University, Australia
- Psychology of Music (Discontinued)
- Real World Applications of Perception (Discontinued)
- Western Sydney University, Australia
- Perception
- Human Learning