Staff Research Interests
The Faculty of Human Sciences offers exciting opportunities for research in a wide variety of fields including advanced medicine, education, e-learning, linguistics and psychology. Follow the links below to find out more about the research interests and outputs of each area.
Australian School of Advanced Medicine
Department of Education
Department of Linguistics
Department of Psychology
Institute of Early Childhood
Institute of Human Cognition & Brain Science
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC)
Department of Education
Education staff maintain active research programs in a range of areas reflecting the specialisations of the Department. Their research productivity is reflected in the conference papers, journal articles, book chapters and books written by staff. In addition, staff have a strong record of attracting competitive grants and consultancies.
The research projects of staff frequently include opportunities for involvement of higher degree research students. Support for higher degree research students is a key priority. Involvement in consultancies is another key feature of the research programs. Staff also have key roles in policy analysis and development activities.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
Department of Linguistics
Linguistics at Macquarie is an extensive research-oriented Department that welcomes opportunities for collaboration with individual students and scholars, other departments, organisations and institutions worldwide. As the disciplinarily most diverse department of Linguistics in Australia, and very possibly worldwide, its research areas and the expertise of its staff span the canvas of language-focused inquiry: textual and descriptive, cognitive and experimental, social and discursive, applied and instrumental. Its orientation to promoting basic, applied and policy-related research, and their linkages, ensures the maintenance of connection between inquiry and practice.
Its four broad Areas of Research Concentration include:
- Lexis, Language Variation & Sociolinguistic Description
- Applied Linguistics and Language in Education
- Discourse Studies
- Normal and Disordered Processes in Speech & Language
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
Department of Psychology
Our internationally recognised research programs span such fields as animal cognition and behaviour; cognition and perception; neuropsychology; learning; clinical, counselling and organisational psychology; social, personality, and developmental psychology; health psychology; and many others. Faculty and graduate students conduct research in collaboration with a variety of nationally and internationally recognised organisations, including NHMRC, DOCS, Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, the Australian Research Council, and Australian Rotary Health Research.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
Institute of Early Childhood
Staff of IEC maintain active research programs in a range of areas reflecting the specialisations of the Institute. Their research productivity is reflected in the conference papers, journal articles, book chapters and books written by staff. In addition, staff of IEC have a strong record of attracting competitive grants and consultancies.
The research projects of staff frequently include opportunities for involvement of higher degree research students. Support for higher degree research students is a key priority of IEC. Involvement in consultancies is another key feature of the research programs within IEC. Staff also have key roles in policy analysis and development activities.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
Institute of Human Cognition & Brain Science
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science & Macquarie University Special Education Centre
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) was established in 2000 with funding from the Australian Research Council with funding for up to nine years under the Council's Special Research Centre scheme. Our remit is to carry out research and research training in cognitive science with particular emphasis on three general domains of cognition: Belief, Visual Cognition and Language. A major thrust of the MACCS research program is to carry out studies of people with acquired or developmental disorders of one or other of these domains as a way of learning more about the normal processes of cognition.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
Macquarie University Special Education Centre
Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC) provides a unique environment where some of Australia's leading scholars conduct research and development in special education.
Current research projects have been initiated with the aim of providing effective empirically-based solutions to contemporary problems in special education. MUSEC researchers have continually asked how educational 'best practices' for children with special needs can be made more efficient, better supported, more strategic and thus easier to implement.
Research productivity is evidenced by the quality and quantity of research publications generated each year and MUSEC staff have a strong record of attracting competitive grants and consultancies. The wide range of staff research interests provides exceptional opportunity for the involvement of higher degree research students.
The active dissemination of research findings to other researchers, policy makers and practitioners has resulted in MUSEC consistently meeting one of the greatest challenges of any educational research organisation, that of substantially influencing special education practice at local, national and international level.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs
School of Advanced Medicine
The Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University offers post fellowship sub-specialty training for doctors. The school has brought together a group of world class researchers, clinicians and educators to create an innovative competency-based training program with a focus on future trends in medicine. The major teaching hospital will be the 183-bed Macquarie University Private Hospital which is due to open mid-2009. Together, the school and the hospital will set new standards in clinical care, medical education and research. Central to our activities is research in the Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University.
The Macquarie University Neuroscience Centre currently has a dynamic group of young scientists researching hypertension, stroke and the central nervous system under the leadership of one of Australia's foremost neuroscientists, Professor Paul M Pilowsky. In 2009, the research group will be moving to a state of the art purpose built laboratory in the new clinical building.
Research Overview
Staff Research Interests and Outputs