The University of Newcastle's School of Psychology Newsline: Breaking news - SCAN staff and students’ are our stars this week!

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Breaking news - SCAN staff and students’ are our stars this week!

This week, SCAN staff and students have received numerous awards.

Firstly, Dr. Juanita Todd was awarded Supervisor of the Year Award at the NUPSA dinner on Sunday (15^th Nov) night!

Secondly at the same dinner, Patrick Cooper and Alex Conley, were both awarded Faculty Outstanding Postgraduate (Research) Student Awards! Both Patrick and Alex are supervised by Frini Karayanidis.

Thirdly, at the Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Conference of the Priority Research Centre (PRC) for Brain and Mental Health held at HMRI on Tuesday (17^th Nov), 4 students from Psychology received awards. In fact, psychology students scooped the pool!

Jade Frost (Sup Juanita Todd) from SCAN was awarded the Best Oral Presentation by the PRC.

Erin Fuller (Sup Deb Hodgson) from SCAN was awarded the Best Poster by the PRC

Jaime Rennie (Sup Frini Karayanidis) from SCAN was awarded the School of Psychology best poster prize

And in addition, Jane Goodwin (Sup Linda Campbell) from the Health and Clinical group was award the School of Psychology best presentation prize.

About the School

The School of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The University is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world and in the top 13 of universities in Australia (QS World University Rankings, 2017-18; Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-18).

The School is located at the Callaghan campus near Newcastle, about two hours drive north of Sydney, and the Ourimbah campus, about one hour north of Sydney. The School includes over 30 academic staff, over 800 undergraduate students, over 170 Masters students, and over 50 PhD students.

We have a strong record of research performance in four key research groupings: clinical and health psychology, social and organisational psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia assessment rated the School’s research as “well above world standard” in the areas of psychology and cognitive science, placing the School in the top third of psychology departments in Australia.

For more information about the School, please visit our webpages or contact us at psyc-admin@newcastle.edu.au

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