Associate ProfessorIan Johnston

Undergraduate teaching 2026:

• PSYC2015 Brain and Behavioural Psychology
• PSYC1003 

Honours student projects 2026:

• TBA
• TBA
• TBA

PhD students 2026:

• Mr Mehdi Ayati: Using Virtual Reality Environment to Investigate Cognitive Function and Psychological Disorders.
• Ms Georgina Caspar: Assessing support for adopters of dogs from RSPCA NSW shelters. Are we doing enough to care for the carer?
• Ms Madelaine Pankhurst: Wearable brain technology for concussion monitoring and intervention: a stakeholder-based market and proof-of-concept study
• Ms Kin Wills: Securing a Fragile Bond: An Attachment-based Interventional Study for Shelter Dogs to Support Dog-Owner Relationships Post Adoption.

MPhil students 2026:

• Mr Adam Bennett: Detecting and treating cognitive impairment using Virtual Reality
• Mr Adrian Chiu: Cognitive factors behind individual differences in the Gambler's Fallacy, and their impact on gambling behaviour.

Sample of previous projects supervised:

• Honours students:
  • 2025: Ms Dorothy Yu: Gender differences in egocentric and allocentric spatial cognition.
  • 2025: Ms Dorothy Kwong: Executive control in the implmentation of intentions to engage in health behaviours: Effect of ADHD on increasing physical activity.
  • 2025: Ms Eve Anderson: The effect of ADHD on social media use: Exploring the role of motivation to use social media.
  • 2024: Ms Ella Henry:Chemotherapy has a Detrimental Effect on Goal-Directed Behaviour as Tested ThroughPavlovian-Instrumental Transfer and Stimuli Specific Satiety in Rats
  • 2024: Mr Mervyn Ovnis: Exploring the Experience of Burnout in RSPCA Staff - A Mixed-Method Study using the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey.
  • 2023: Mr Kiano Ramcharan: The Effects of a One-Week TikTok Reduction Intervention on Attention Deficits.
  • 2023: Ms Milica Yeh: Ring a Bell? The Effect of Music During Encoding and Retrieval on Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Memory
  • 2023: Ms Chloe Pullman: Investigating the Relationship between COVID-19 and Cognitive Impairment using the Relation-Monitoring Task
• PhD/MPhil students:
  • Dr Weiye Chen (PhD, 2025): Translating Chemobrain: Executive Function Impairments in Rodent Models of Chemotherapy
  • Dr Carla Haroutonian (PhD, 2024): Association between sleep microarchitecture and memory utilising high density EEG (hdEEG) in a population of older adults with mild cognitive impairment.
  • Ms Antigone Matsos (MPhil, 2019): Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairments: Targeting neuroimmune processes as potential treatments