Meet the Research Team

We come from all over the world--Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand, and the United States--and are united by our curiosity and passion. We seek to understand the world and change it for the better.
Click on any researcher to learn more about their work and background.

Dr. Winnifred Louis

Principal Researcher
​Identities & Norms in Action

Tulsi Achia

PhD Candidate
Solidarity & Allyship

Robin Banks

PhD Candidate
Discrimination Law and Prejudice

Dr Léïla Eisner

Honorary Research Fellow

Norm Perception and Social Change
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Zoe Gath 

Honours Student

Collective Gridlock and Moral Conviction

Madeleine Hersey

Honours Student

Watch This Space!

Eunike M. Himawan

PhD Candidate

Group Aggression and Mass Crime

Christoph Klebl 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 

Structural Climate Policies and Social Change 

Austin Manchadi

Research Assistant
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Peace Psychology and Environmental Movements
Honours Student

Watch This Space!
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Peacebuilding and Children's Rights
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Future Orientation and Climate Action
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Lecturer 

 Sustained Group-based Efforts and Social Change 
PhD Candidate

Terrorism, Radicalization and Deradicalization

​PhD Candidate

Global Pro-inclusion Norms and Social Change
PhD Candidate

Terrorism Studies and Social Identity


Stuart Wilkinson

 Provisional Psychologist 

Compassion and Social Change

PhD Candidate
Message Framing & Meat-Eating

Tianyi Zeng (Andrea)

Research Assistant

Environmental Movements and Social Change ​

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Religious Collective Action

Social Change Lab Alumni

Learn more about Winnifred's former PhD, Masters, and Honours students. Hover over their images to see their names and thesis topics. Click through to learn where they are now and what they've been up to lately. 

Want to join us?

If you are interested in... 
  • visiting the lab, please check out our visitor information.  We welcome exchange students and collaborators.
  • doing a PhD in the Social Change Lab, please consider Winnifred Louis’s supervision style and, if that sounds right for you, get in touch.
  • collaborating with one or more researchers in the lab, please contact them directly.  Winnifred is often happy to over-commit to exciting new projects.

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