PhD (& other student) Training
During his time at Flinders University, Neil Brewer has supervised 19 PhD completions as principal supervisor, and another 6 as an active co-supervisor. He currently supervises two students as co-supervisor.
The following PhD graduates have transitioned to careers in academia, research or clinical practice. They include (most recent first):
| Zoe Michael: Marie Georgopoulos: | Clinical psychologist, Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) Postgrad clinical training |
| Katie Logos: | Lecturer, University of Adelaide |
| Alliyza Lim (co): | Current Postdoc, Flinders University, & clinical psychologist |
| Carmen Lucas: | Current Postdoc, Flinders University |
| Rebecca Flower (co): | Lecturer, La Trobe University |
| Tomoko Nishizawa: | Clinical Psychologist |
| Nicole McCallum: | West Australia government |
| Yong Hwee-Nah (co): | Research Scientist, Nanyang Techological University, Singapore |
| Adella Bhaskara (co): | Research Scientist, DSTO |
| Ambika Nagesh Vagadia: | Clinical Psychologist |
| Darren Hedley (co): | Associate Professor, La Trobe University |
| Tiffany Lavis | Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide |
| Tick Zweck: | Senior Lecturer, Tabor (S. Aust) |
| Anna McKinnon (co): | Clinical Psychologist & Macquarie University |
| Paul Halford: | Retired |
| Matt Palmer: | Associate Professor, University of Tasmania |
| Jim Sauer: | Associate Professor, University of Tasmania |
| John Barnes: | Universitetslektor, Örebro Universitet |
| Amber Keast: | Clinical Psychologist |
| Nathan Weber: | Associate Professor, Flinders University |
| Carolyn Semmler: | Professor, University of Adelaide |
| Michelle Tuckey: | Professor, University of South Australia |
| Natalie Skinner: | Research Fellow, University of South Australia |
| Helen Braithwaite: | Researcher, University of California Irvine |
A number of these PhD graduates – Nathan Weber, Jim Sauer, Matt Palmer, Nicole McCallum, Carmen Lucas, Katie Logos, plus Ruth Horry from the UK – also spent time working on Neil Brewer’s Australian Research Council projects as postdoctoral fellows and made amazing contributions to the success of those projects.
PhD Student awards
Between them these guys have deservedly accumulated many awards during their PhD, for their thesis or for publications that resulted from their thesis work. The awards include:
- APA’s Division 21 Raymond Nickerson Best Paper Award for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (Matt Palmer)
- APA’s Division of Experimental Psychology Young Investigator Award in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (Nathan Weber)
- Australian Psychological Society (S. Aust.) College of Clinical Psychologists best overall student (Tomoko Nishizawa)
- Australian Society of Traumatic Stress Studies New Researcher Award (Anna McKinnon)
- Maconochie Prize, College of Forensic Psychology of the Australian Psychological Society for best psychology-law PhD thesis (Nathan Weber)
- Maconochie Prize runner-up, College of Forensic Psychology of the Australian Psychological Society for the best student thesis at doctoral, masters or honours level (Helen Braithwaite)
- Maconochie Prize runner-up S. Aust section, College of Forensic Psychology of the Australian Psychological Society for the best student thesis at doctoral, masters or honours level (Carolyn Semmler)
- SARMAC Conference postgraduate student paper award (Ambika Nagesh)
- 15 PhD student International Conference Travel Awards from Flinders University
Other supervision
Neil Brewer has also supervised 8 Master theses and around 70 undergraduate 4th year honours theses at Flinders University.