Got a question? Interested in working with us? Got an idea for a research partnership? Want us to speak at your event or to your team? Drop us a line and start the dialogue. Below you will also find more information for students wishing to join the lab.
Winnifred Louis
MC-407
School of Psychology
McElwain Building
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072
Australia
Email: wlouis@psy.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3346 9515
You can contact all other researchers in the Social Change Lab through contact details on their individual researcher pages. Thanks!
MC-407
School of Psychology
McElwain Building
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072
Australia
Email: wlouis@psy.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3346 9515
You can contact all other researchers in the Social Change Lab through contact details on their individual researcher pages. Thanks!
Supervision for PhD and Honours: information from Winnifred for students wishing to join the Social Change Lab
For PhD students, my supervision style is to have regular meetings, early deadlines, and clear guidance. I like my students to aim to write more, aim at higher level journals, collect more data, go to more conferences and international and national summer schools, learn more about teaching well, take ethics seriously, attend lab group regularly, play a leadership role in their postgrad cohort, and in general attempt to be high achievers. I provide lots of support and structure, and my focus is on helping students to achieve jobs as well as pubs & awards. I am willing to supervise across a wide range of topics. My own research expertise is in the areas of social influence, peace psychology and political decision-making, health decision-making, and prejudice/intergroup conflict.
In particular, I value two kinds of candidates:
Although it isn’t a major feature of the lab’s research now, I would also like to signal a commitment to heritage language retention research (e.g., for immigrants or Indigenous Australians).
If you are interested in a July 2021 start date, I am happy to be contacted in early 2021. At present UQ is actually refusing to accept applications for international PhD students, due to COVID .... once this is remedied, and before contacting me, if applicable, you would review the information online regarding the language and visa requirements and high fees for international PhD students. Note that even when international applications for scholarships are open, they are difficult to obtain and not always very generous, so it’s a significant commitment to take on! For Australian domestic students, it usually takes a first class honours to get a scholarship in psychology, though it's sometimes possible with a high IIA. I am open to self-funded candidates, but be sure to explain in your intro email your awareness of the costs / fees and the rationale for pursuing research higher degree training, esp. if you are going to take a crack at a PhD without a scholarship.
If you are still interested, I would ask you to send in a copy of your academic transcript, your updated CV, as well as any English-language publications that you might have written, a proposal for your research, and ideally 1 or 2 reference letters to support your application, three months before the application due date.
For potential honours students, my supervision style is to provide plenty of structure, early deadlines, and clear guidance so that motivated students can put themselves in a position to achieve excellent results.
I prefer to work with students who work hard, and I welcome curiousity-driven, research-oriented or social-justice-oriented students most. At this point in my career, I am seeking honours students to work with me on projects in political and environmental decision-making primarily. Students interested in working with me in 2021 should email me, on w.louis@psy.uq.edu.au .
For PhD students, my supervision style is to have regular meetings, early deadlines, and clear guidance. I like my students to aim to write more, aim at higher level journals, collect more data, go to more conferences and international and national summer schools, learn more about teaching well, take ethics seriously, attend lab group regularly, play a leadership role in their postgrad cohort, and in general attempt to be high achievers. I provide lots of support and structure, and my focus is on helping students to achieve jobs as well as pubs & awards. I am willing to supervise across a wide range of topics. My own research expertise is in the areas of social influence, peace psychology and political decision-making, health decision-making, and prejudice/intergroup conflict.
In particular, I value two kinds of candidates:
- Curious: loves learning; loves ideas; wants to be an academic because of the autonomy & freedom to pursue groovy research;
- Passionate: passionate about social justice; smart and self-motivated; wants to pursue research to change to the world (maybe academia, maybe aiming for government or NGOs).
Although it isn’t a major feature of the lab’s research now, I would also like to signal a commitment to heritage language retention research (e.g., for immigrants or Indigenous Australians).
If you are interested in a July 2021 start date, I am happy to be contacted in early 2021. At present UQ is actually refusing to accept applications for international PhD students, due to COVID .... once this is remedied, and before contacting me, if applicable, you would review the information online regarding the language and visa requirements and high fees for international PhD students. Note that even when international applications for scholarships are open, they are difficult to obtain and not always very generous, so it’s a significant commitment to take on! For Australian domestic students, it usually takes a first class honours to get a scholarship in psychology, though it's sometimes possible with a high IIA. I am open to self-funded candidates, but be sure to explain in your intro email your awareness of the costs / fees and the rationale for pursuing research higher degree training, esp. if you are going to take a crack at a PhD without a scholarship.
If you are still interested, I would ask you to send in a copy of your academic transcript, your updated CV, as well as any English-language publications that you might have written, a proposal for your research, and ideally 1 or 2 reference letters to support your application, three months before the application due date.
For potential honours students, my supervision style is to provide plenty of structure, early deadlines, and clear guidance so that motivated students can put themselves in a position to achieve excellent results.
I prefer to work with students who work hard, and I welcome curiousity-driven, research-oriented or social-justice-oriented students most. At this point in my career, I am seeking honours students to work with me on projects in political and environmental decision-making primarily. Students interested in working with me in 2021 should email me, on w.louis@psy.uq.edu.au .
Volunteering with the Social Change Lab
Most semesters, we accommodate up to four undergraduate students for volunteer research activity in the lab. Whether through attending lab meetings, helping honours or PhD students with data collection or coding, or doing literature reviews, you can acquire experience that will help you prepare for honours or contemplate a research career. Email Winnifred to express interest.
If you have great grades (including in statistics), you can even apply to be mentored to help write up old data sets over the summer or winter breaks. This would be heaps more work and commitment than other volunteering but could see you become a co-author on the paper if it eventually gets published.
Most semesters, we accommodate up to four undergraduate students for volunteer research activity in the lab. Whether through attending lab meetings, helping honours or PhD students with data collection or coding, or doing literature reviews, you can acquire experience that will help you prepare for honours or contemplate a research career. Email Winnifred to express interest.
If you have great grades (including in statistics), you can even apply to be mentored to help write up old data sets over the summer or winter breaks. This would be heaps more work and commitment than other volunteering but could see you become a co-author on the paper if it eventually gets published.
