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Below you will also find information for students wishing to join the lab.
Below you will also find 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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, attend more 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 publications & 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).
There is an opportunity for international and domestic students to apply to complete a PhD on collective action and political gridlock. Learn more on how to apply here. :)
Please check carefully whether applications for international PhD students make sense for you, due to COVID - international applicants should indicate in their cover email that they have reviewed the information online regarding the language and visa requirements and high fees for international PhD students. Please 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, first class honours is usually required to get a scholarship in psychology, though it's sometimes possible to get a scholarship 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, especially if you are going to take a crack at a PhD without a scholarship.
In your email, 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.
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 curiosity-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. Honours students interested in working with me in 2023 should know that I will be leading a group thesis project in the work placements stream next year. I am still learning what that entails.
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, attend more 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 publications & 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).
There is an opportunity for international and domestic students to apply to complete a PhD on collective action and political gridlock. Learn more on how to apply here. :)
Please check carefully whether applications for international PhD students make sense for you, due to COVID - international applicants should indicate in their cover email that they have reviewed the information online regarding the language and visa requirements and high fees for international PhD students. Please 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, first class honours is usually required to get a scholarship in psychology, though it's sometimes possible to get a scholarship 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, especially if you are going to take a crack at a PhD without a scholarship.
In your email, 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.
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 curiosity-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. Honours students interested in working with me in 2023 should know that I will be leading a group thesis project in the work placements stream next year. I am still learning what that entails.
Volunteering with the Social Change Lab
We will have significant opportunity for undergraduate students to undertake volunteer activity in the lab in 2023: please email Winnifred in early February if interested. We seek students with skills in video-editing for translation activities; students with skills in research and writing for various projects including policy and stake-holder mapping and literature summary projects; and students with office/admin experience to support a complex array of new projects and team-members. We also have some traditional volunteer spaces: 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: describe your skills, preferred activities, and motivation in half to 1 page.
If you have great grades (including in statistics), you can 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 positions, but could see you become a co-author on the paper if it eventually gets published.
We will have significant opportunity for undergraduate students to undertake volunteer activity in the lab in 2023: please email Winnifred in early February if interested. We seek students with skills in video-editing for translation activities; students with skills in research and writing for various projects including policy and stake-holder mapping and literature summary projects; and students with office/admin experience to support a complex array of new projects and team-members. We also have some traditional volunteer spaces: 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: describe your skills, preferred activities, and motivation in half to 1 page.
If you have great grades (including in statistics), you can 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 positions, but could see you become a co-author on the paper if it eventually gets published.
