Dr Carrie Barber
ext: 6685 or email: ccbarber@waikato.ac.nz
> Perinatal mental health, especially depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy, and the adjustment to parenting; Child clinical psychology, especially the efficacy of mental health treatment for childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and the effects of relationships and attachment on development.
Associate Professor Douglas Boer
ext: 5157 or email: drdoug@waikato.ac.nz
> Risk assessment of violence related to sexual, spousal and general interpersonal violence; culturally appropriate risk assessment; sex offender and violent offender treatment; treatment and assessment of intellectual disabled offenders; expert witness testimony related to offender risk and treatment efficacy.
Associate Professor Samuel Charlton
ext: 6534 or email: samiam@waikato.ac.nz
> Road safety and transportation psychology; driver distraction; fatigue; road design.
Dr Cate Curtis
ext: 8669 or email: ccurtis@waikato.ac.nz
> Social and community psychology; mental health and well-being, particularly women's; social construction and stigmatisation of mental health/illness; self-harm (including suicidality); Psychology of girls and women.
Professor Mary Foster
ext: 8400 or email: psyc0182@waikato.ac.nz
> Behavioural psychology; applied behaviour analysis (including behaviour change, precision teaching, fluency); experimental analysis of behaviour (including schedule control of behaviour, memory, preference measurement, behavioural economics, and the sensory abilities of animals (psychophysics)); animal welfare (including assessing needs and enrichment).
Associate Professor Darrin Hodgetts
ext: 6456 or email: dhdgetts@waikato.ac.nz
> Social Issues (e.g. homelessness and poverty), media, health inequalities, community life and bloke culture.
Dr Robert Isler
ext: 8401 or email: psyc2255@waikato.ac.nz
> Applied physiological psychology and human performance; road safety, driver training and education; teenage driver issues.
Bridgette Masters
ext: 8298 or email: bridge@waikato.ac.nz
> Evaluation of Māori service programmes that contribute to Māori health and development.
Dr James McEwan
ext: 8295 or email: jmcewan@waikato.ac.nz
> The development of perceptual abilities and bodily movements in infants and adults.
Dr Eric Messick
ext: 8294 or email: ericm@waikato.ac.nz
> Severe and challenging behaviour; Applied behaviour analysis; Psychiatric diagnoses; Autism; Conduct disorder; Multisystemic therapy; Evidence-based practice; Behavioural economics; Models of disability.
Linda Waimarie Nikora
ext: 8200 or email: psyc2046@waikato.ac.nz
> Culture, change, resilience and Māori development.
Professor Michael O'Driscoll
ext: 8899 or email: psyc0181@waikato.ac.nz
> Work attitudes and values; the impact of job stress on workers; work-life balance.
Associate Professor John Perrone
ext: 8292 or email: jpnz@waikato.ac.nz
> Visual perception; illusions; visual aspects of driving or flying; human visual navigation; Robot vision systems; computer models of the visual system.
Professor Jane Ritchie
ext: 8402 or email: psyc0123@waikato.ac.nz
> Child-rearing patterns and effects of physical punishment; body image and eating attitudes and behaviours; violence in New Zealand.
Dr Neville Robertson
ext: 8300 or email: scorpio@waikato.ac.nz
> Violence, particularly violence against women and children; institutional responses to violence (police, courts, health, social services etc.); Community Psychology.
Kyle Smith
ext: 8872 or email: smithk@waikato.ac.nz
> MNZPsS, MICP Assessment and treatment in adult mental health, anxiety disorders, post-natal depression, group treatment approaches, scientist-practitioner model, clinical psychology in practice, supervision of clinical practice.
Dr Nicola Starkey
ext: 6472 or email: nstarkey@waikato.ac.nz
> Neuropsychology; Psychological assessment; Young drivers; Animal behaviour and welfare.
Dr Ottilie Stolte
ext: 6454 or email: ottilie@waikato.ac.nz
> Training schemes; Labour force reintegration; Initiatives for the long-term and disadvantaged unemployed; Community development; Outcome measurement and funding issues in the not-for-profit sector; The everyday experiences of homeless people in Hamilton and Auckland.
Associate Professor Bill Temple
ext: 6402 or email: psyc0125@waikato.ac.nz
> The behaviour, preferences and abilities of farmed and pest animals.
Dr Jo Thakker
ext: 6809 or email: jthakker@waikato.ac.nz
> Clinical psychology; cultural psychology; substance abuse; forensic psychology, in particular sexual offending.
