PSYC1030x Team
Associate Professor Blake McKimmie
Blake is the course coordinator for PSYC1030x. Blake won a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2010 and a University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award in 2016. He currently teaches a large introductory psychology course and a second year elective about psychology and law. He is a leading instructor of the award-winning course: CRIME101x.
Dr Wen Wu
Wen is the project officer for PSYC1030x. Wen graduated with her PhD from the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. Her research examines the theory behind the development of expertise in everyday judgement and decision making. Wen was the winner of the faculty round of the Three Minute Thesis in 2012. She has coordinated the course "Judgement and Decision Making”.
Mx Anna Morris
Anna is the Learning Designer for PSYC1030x. She develops massive open online courses at the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITALI) at The University of Queensland. She received an Award for Excellence in Leadership 2016 - Highly Commended, from The University of Queensland as part of the UQx project team. She has been a lecturer in the creative industries and was formerly a medical student.
Lecturers
Professor
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter is the Founding Director of the Early Cognitive Development Centre within the School of Psychology. Her research focuses on social and cognitive development in infants and young children. She has been the recipient of several teaching and research awards including an Australian Award for University Teaching and a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.
Dr Nicole Nelson
Nicole Nelson is a developmental psychologist whose research centres on how children and adults learn about and understand emotional expressions, including how we integrate facial, postural and vocal expression cues; incorporation of situational information into emotion understanding; the role of movement in expression recognition; and how cultural information informs our understanding of others’ expressions.
Associate Professor
Mark Nielsen
His research interests lie in a range of inter-related aspects of socio-cognitive development in young human children and non-human primates. His current research is primarily focused on charting the origins and development of human cultural cognition.
Professor
Nancy Pachana
Nancy is a practising clinical geropsychologist and neuropsychologist. Her research focuses on older adults and spans a range of clinical neuropsychological topics such as anxiety in later life, early assessment of dementia, and improving training in geriatric mental health service provision. She was awarded an Australian Davos Connection Future Summit Leadership Award in 2010, and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2014.
Lecture script contributions
Professor Virginia Slaughter
- Infancy
- Attachment
- Language development
Dr Nicole Nelson
- Adolescence
- Moral development
Associate Professor Mark Nielsen
- Social development
- Cognitive development
Professor Nancy Pachana
- Later life development
Lecture script and slide development
Associate Professor Blake McKimmie
Dr Wen Wu
Mx Anna Morris
Project management and finance
Catherine Bennett
Stella Win
Media team
Matthew Petersen
Arun Ketsirat
Dean Law
Daniel Greenup
Laura Packer
Maxine Shewan
Technical team
Aneesha Bakharia
Sai Sun
Ankith Konda
Special thanks
Neville Smith
Wendy Chalmers
Faye Nitschke
Linda McDonald
Meg Cridland
Tamara Butler
Mark Horswill
Carrie Finn
Karen Perkins
Jennifer English
Anthea Groessler
Joshua McKimmie
Maisie McKimmie
Alex McKimmie
Nicole Roe
Barbara Masser
UQx Director
John Zornig