Lab members
We are an interdisciplinary team comprising people with diverse backgrounds in psychology, physics, engineering, medicine, and biology. We work together and learn from each other in our efforts to understand the brain.
 | Professor Laura Jobson Email: Laura.Jobson@monash.edu Ph: +61 3 9902 9817 |
| Recent Graduates and Student Mentors | |
| Ms July Lies Interests include sleep disturbances, trauma, and mental health among refugees. Email: july.lies@monash.edu |
 | Megan Hansford Examining the influence of culture on the associations between social support and PTSD. Email: megan.hansford@monash.edu |
| Cassandra McEwen Examining the associations between moral injury, discrimination, resilience and mental health outcomes in refugee adolescents. Email: cassandra.mcewen@monash.edu |
| Ms Theoni Whyman Theoni is a Paakantji/Ngiyampaa woman. Her research interests include lateral violence, identity and social emotional wellbeing in Indigenous communities; Indigenous methodologies; qualitative research methods. Email: theoni.whyman1@monash.edu |
| Ms Victoria Gentile Victoria is a Yorta Yorta woman. Her interests include cultural identity, substance use, and social and emotional well being among Indigenous communities. Email: Victoria.Gentile@monash.edu |
| Prerika Sharma Research interests include false memories, mental health, clinical psychology, forensic psychology. |
| Elham Davoodi Broadly speaking, Elham's research interest is to study how people define themselves and the way this definition can affect depression and anxiety symptoms. Also, culture is a great factor that forms self ideas and experience of depression and anxiety. Therefore, she is curious to know more about self ideas, especially the implicit ideas the role of which have been highly controversial, in different cultures". Keywords: "self, culture, identity, depression, anxiety, clinical psychology" |
| Dr Julian Madsen Interests include mental health and culture, mental health and Middle East, Arab men and distress, mental health literacy, suicidality. Email: julian.madsen@monash.edu |
| Current Students | |
| Mr Samual Fisher Samual is a Wakka Wakka man and his research interests include Indigenous men’s social and emotional well being; Indigenous men’s support groups; Indigenous methodologies. Email: samual.fisher@monash.edu |
| Mr Rudi Taylor-Bragge Rudi is a Kulin man born and raised on his traditional Boonwurrung country of Euro Yuroke (St Kilda). Rudi is passionate about Indigenous health and has studied psychology and counseling to a Masters level. His connection to Country and people fuels his commitment to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and cites youth suicide as a desperate call for immediate action. Email: rudi.taylorbragge@monash.edu |
| James Li Research interests include PTSD, rumination, cultural differences and their relevance in psychological formulation and treatment. Email: james.li@monash.edu |
| Aneeha Singh Interested in co-designing scalable and integrated mental health and psychosocial support programmes with underserved communities. Email: aneeha.singh@monash.edu |
| Maddie Forrester Emotion regulation, mental health, and wellbeing among youth from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds |
| Jessica Ogden Sleep disturbance, trauma, intrusive memories, PTSD Email: jessica.ogden@monash.edu |
| Kaitlyn McVicar Kaitlyn is a proud Tagalaka woman. Her research interests include Indigenous mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, child protection, out-of-home care, developmental psychology, clinical psychology. Email: kaitlyn.mcvicar@monash.edu |
| Larissa Qiu Culture, trauma, emotion regulation and appraisals, mental health Email: larissa.qiu@monash.edu |
| Research Staff | |
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| Marcus Lai Cross cultural differences in posttraumatic mental health, neurobiology, cognition and emotional regulation. Email: marcus.lai@monash.edu |
| Joshua Wong Culture, trauma, mental health and clinical psychology. Email: josh.wong@monash.edu |
| Xin Kie Lee Interests include: Cross-cultural differences in posttraumatic mental health, social support, cognition, and emotion regulation. Email: xinkie.lee@monash.edu |
| Jess Wilson Research interests include cross-cultural differences in trauma experiences and outcomes, refugee and migrant mental health, emotion regulation, psychophysiology, and sleep. Email: jess.wilson@monash.edu |