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Occupational Identification and Multidisciplinary
Work Teams
Since 1995 I've been conducting research with Dr
Sandy Smith, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) looking at occupational
identity and multidisciplinary work teams. To date we've completed five
studies, with analysis of the final study underway. A manuscript reporting
one of these studies is in preparation, as is a literature review. Data
collection has been assisted by grants from the USQ
Science Faculty Affirmative Action Research Grant Scheme, the USQ Department
of Psychology, and the QUT
School of Psychology and Counselling.
Territoriality and Driver Behaviour
Also with Dr Sandy Smith, I've been awarded a grant
from the Motor Accident Insurance Commission of Queensland, investigating
whether the car is perceived as a primary territory, and the consequences
of this for driver behaviour. This grant is funding a PhD scholarship at
the QUT Centre for
Accident Research 
and
Road Safety - Queensland for Mr
Graham Fraine, whom I'm co-supervising. We have presented a number
of papers on this research at national and international conferences, and
a paper has been published in the refereed proceedings of one of these
conferences. Here's a photo of the three of us in a
very personalized
car.
Alcohol and Drug Studies
Since 1997 I have been engaged in writing a number of papers related to
alcohol and drug use in the workplace, and by young people, with Mr
Jeremy Davey of QUT. Five of these papers have been published, one
is in press and another paper, on exposure to health promotion messages
of year 12 students participating in Schoolies Week, is in preparation.
I'm currently working at the National
Centre in HIV Social Research, at the University of New South Wales,
on a project looking at initiation to injecting drug use among young people.
Sense of Community
With
Dr Sandy Smith I'm co-supervising Ms
Patricia Obst, a QUT PhD student investigating sense of community and
social identity theory. As part of this, we've done a study looking at
sense of community in science fiction fans; the logo for this study is
left. A paper based on this study is in submission, and a second paper
is in preparation. For more information on Trish's project, go here.
In addition, I'm associate supervisor for Ms Jacqueline de la Rue, a USQ
Health and Community Masters student looking at sense of community and
its relationship to length of residence of USQ residential college members.
Social Identity and Intergroup Contact
Since completing my PhD at the Centre
for Research on Group Processes at the University of Queensland, supervised
by Professor Michael A. Hogg, I
have been preparing journal articles based on my PhD research on changing
stereotypes and prejudice through intergroup contact, from a social identity
perspective.
Ingroup Identification and The Theory of Planned Behaviour
I am currently preparing papers based on two projects using the theory
of planned behaviour and social identity theory to predict intention to
purchase environmentally-friendly products. One is based on the graduate
diploma research project of Ms Billie-Ann Bambrick. In 1999 I also supervised
an honours student, Ms Mabel Posman, whose thesis investigates the two
theories in the context of predicting smoking and quitting smoking behaviour.
I'll be presenting a paper based on this at the Australian
Psychological Society annual conference, The Brain Games 2000, as part
of a symposium on applying social psychological theories to real world
problems.
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