Research Seminar: Laura Wall
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Laura Wall has worked at the University of Newcastle since 2015 as a casual academic and research assistant in Psychology (2015-2019), as a post-doctoral research fellow in Health Economics (2019-2021) and as a research associate in Psychology (2022). Since 2023, she has been working across two roles in the School of Psychological Sciences; as a Lecturer (0.5) in Business Psychology and as a research associate (0.5) studying perceptual inference and decision-making in persons with schizophrenia.
Her research uses and develops techniques from cognitive, mathematical and computational psychology as well as health economics to improve the measurement of cognition, decision making and preferences.
Her PhD explored cognitive deficits in people with schizophrenia through the linear ballistic accumulator (LBA) model of decision making and proposed a new framework for joint modelling across multiple tasks to improve measurement with fewer data points.
She has collaborated on numerous projects examining consumer and research participant preferences in health across settings including oncology, surgery, antenatal care, mental health and telehealth, through discrete choice experiments (DCE). Many of these projects and collaborations are ongoing.
Her research spans the translational pathway from basic to applied research. She uses and develops sophisticated statistical techniques from mathematical psychology to understand and improve the measurement of cognition and decision-making. She also uses established measures to understand decision-making in clinical settings and provide outcomes that can lead to recommendations for practice change and impact.
The Seminar
In this event in a series, speakers from within the Hub, the University, and the broader research community tell us about their research. Our Research Seminar Series involves speakers covering a broad range of themes surrounding our Hub’s interests, so we’ll hopefully all learn something interesting. Whether you want to learn to inform your own research or to simply satisfy a personal curiosity, we hope to see you there.
Attend In-Person or Online
Where: Steve Howard Room 5206, Level 5, Melbourne Connect
Online: Join the zoom here Meeting ID: 881 8112 1134 Passcode: 081124