AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

• Belief formation

• Developmental, personality and social psychology

• Emotion and mental health

• Evolutionary psychology

• Health psychology

• Language and reading

• Memory and cognitive processes

• Neuropsychology and neuropharmacology

• Organisational and applied psychology

• Perceptual processes and the psychology of music

• Person perception and perception in action

FACILITIES

• The Australian Hearing Hub is a state-of-the-art facility that encourages and facilitates interdisciplinary and collaborative research by uniting our leading academics and researchers and hosting multiple centres and clinics, including:

- Centre for Emotional Health

- KIT-Macquarie Brain Research Laboratory (MEG lab)

- Macquarie University Cognition Clinic for Reading

- Macquarie University Psychology Clinic

• First-class research and training facilities, including:

- Driving simulators and a flight simulator

- Laboratories for eye-tracking, event-related potentials, language acquisition, motion capture, perception experiments, preclinical neuroscience and trans-cranial magnetic stimulation

RESEARCH HUBS

• ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

• Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training

• Centre for Emotional Health

• Perception in Action Research Centre

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Psychology and cognitive science

From research into neurodevelopmental disorders and how brain function in recipients of cochlear implants is measured to human eating behaviour, and anxiety and depression, Macquarie’s psychology and cognitive science researchers are uniquely positioned to help shape the complex issues that define the future of humanity.

Macquarie is home to some of the best national and international psychology and cognitive science academics and researchers. The internationally respected research conducted by these experts is backed by first-class facilities, including the Centre for Emotional Health, the Cognition Clinic for Reading and the Australian Hearing Hub.

Our interdisciplinary research teams include clinical psychologists, cognitive psychologists, linguists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and speech pathologists who are leading the world in understanding and treating disorders such as anxiety, aphasia, autism, depression, dyslexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, prosopagnosia, schizophrenia, social phobia and specific language impairment.

As a higher degree research candidate at Macquarie, you will have the opportunity to conduct your research alongside several of the world’s finest scholars and have access to our psychology clinics and cognitive science laboratories located in the new Australian Hearing Hub. You will also have access to some of the region’s most outstanding facilities, including the world’s first child MEG (magnetoencephalography) system, the world’s first MEG system for children and adults with cochlear implants, and flight and driving simulators.

Highlights

• Macquarie is home to the KIT-Macquarie

Brain Research Laboratory, which houses

the world’s first child MEG system, and the

world’s first MEG system for children and

adults with Cochlear implants.

• Macquarie hosts the ARC Centre of

Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders,

bringing together research experts in belief

formation, language, memory, person

perception and reading.

• Macquarie partners with four European

universities in the Erasmus Mundus

PhD Program – International Doctorate

for Experimental Approaches to Language

and Brain.

• Macquarie is home to the online cognitive

test interface MOTIf.

SUPPORTYou will be provided with individualised support, as well as a range of opportunities, at all stages of your research degree, including:

• higher degree research learning skills advisers who provide valuable training options such as workshops in research communication, presentation skills, academic writing skills, thesis planning and more

• inspirational supervision and mentoring

• a candidature management plan that closely supports progress, commencement programs, work-in-progress reviews, and presentations providing opportunities for feedback from a panel of academics

• real-world engagement with opportunities for cotutelle and joint degrees

• financial support for a range of research-related activities

• world-class facilities

• a transformative research experience that fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Combined research and coursework programs in psychology

• Students who are interested in both doctoral-level research and professional psychological practice are encouraged to undertake a combined research and coursework program in psychology.

• PhD/Master of Clinical Neuropsychology

• PhD/Master of Clinical Psychology

• PhD/Master of Organisational Psychology

For further information on combined programs in psychology visit psy.mq.edu.au/courses/c_comdeg.htm

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The information in this document is correct at the date of publication but the University reserves the right to vary or withdraw any general information, program(s) and/or fees without notice.