The University of Newcastle's School of Psychology Newsline: Grant success in the recent ARC Discovery Projects round

Monday 20 November 2017

Grant success in the recent ARC Discovery Projects round

Congratulations to researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle who secured ARC support for Discovery Projects in the 2018 funding round.

Dr Guy Hawkins, who is already holding a prestigious ARC-DECRA fellowship, landed a $327,000 Discovery Project grant to study the "value of time during decisions". The grant was awarded to Guy, as lead CI, and Scott Brown.

Scott is also an investigator on another successful ARC-DP grant via UNSW, to study applied aspects of Decision Making.

Finally, Juanita Todd is an investigator on a successful ARC-DP grant via Macquarie University, on "statistical learning and the adapting auditory brain."

You can click here to read more about these projects as well as other ARC funded projects.

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Left to right: Guy Hawkins, Juanita Todd, and Scott Brown.

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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