Special Awardee Colloquium
Lowe Theatre, L1, Redmond Barry Building, Parkville VIC 3052
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Welcome to the MSPS Colloquium with Postgraduate Student Research Excellence Awardees: Dr Valentina Bianchi, Dr Gezelle Dali, Po-Han (Terry) Kung and Jesse Tse.
About Dr Valentina Bianchi
Dr Valentina Bianchi is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and a current Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Functions of Emotion in Everyday Life (FEEL lab). This paper was included as the final empirical chapter of her PhD thesis, titled The Psychology of Secrecy in Everyday Life (submitted in July). Val’s research broadly encompasses information regulation, emotion and emotion regulation in everyday life.
About Dr Gezelle Dali
Dr Gezelle Dali is an early career researcher with expertise in cognitive neuroscience and drug and alcohol related cognitive dysfunction. Her PhD (2023, the University of Melbourne) investigated the neural correlates of error awareness and the role of error awareness in adaptive behaviour in healthy and drug-using cohorts, and was awarded the MSPS Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis. Presently, Gezelle is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Addiction Medicine at the University of Sydney where she undertakes research on the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol use disorder.
About Po-Han (Terry) Kung
Po-Han (Terry) Kung is a MPsych (Clinical) / PhD candidate at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. His research combines ultra-high field MRI and computational approaches to investigate the neural underpinnings of psychological processes that maintain psychopathology, including depression, anorexia nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. His current PhD project explores brain mechanisms involved in the cognitive processing of negative self, food, and body image-related beliefs in people experiencing binge eating.
About Jesse Tse
Jesse Tse is a PhD candidate at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. Her research lies at the intersection of social and clinical psychology, looking into the public’s perceptions of mental disorder through the social lens. Specifically, she investigates the breadth of people’s concepts of mental disorder, which is the range of phenomena that people view as disordered, and how that influences and are influenced by other mental health variables.