People
Join the Lab
If our research interests you, don’t be afraid to reach out and see if you might join our lab. We are always looking for colleagues with similar interests, and students who want to gain more experience in these topics.
Twice a year, we recruit research interns to gain more experience in conducting research. Typically, there are only a small number of these positions, and we preference students with at least third or fourth year training in psychology or related fields. If you are interested, please send a recent CV and transcript to the Evolution Lab Director, Dr Khandis Blake (khandis.blake@unimelb.edu.au).
If you are interested in completing a PhD in the Evolution Lab, please send a recent CV, transcript and writing sample to the Evolution Lab Director, Dr Khandis Blake. Also ensure you let Dr Blake know what your research interests are.
Current Members
- Dr Khandis Blake
Director of Lab
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
+61 3 9035 5733
- Sylvia Harmon-Jones
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Economic inequality, romantic and childhood attachment, early life adversity, and development
- Auguste Harrington
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Masculinity
- Jacob Kuek
Laboratory Manager
- Lindsie Arthur
PhD Candidate
Hormonal contraceptives, menstrual cycle, female competitiveness, status seeking, mating behaviour.
- Tomas Cartmill
PhD Candidate
Radical extremism, deradicalization, political ideology, emotions
- Macken Murphy
PhD Candidate
Mating behaviour, mate value, inequality, infidelity
- Wahidah Pan
PhD Candidate
Beauty, physical attractiveness, self-objectification, status seeking, status anxiety, feminism
- Sulaman Sarwar
Masters Student 2022
- Mark Leak
Honours Candidate 2023
Intimate partner violence, attachment theory, romantic relationship dynamics, personality psychology, social psychologyy
- Ash Neilson
Honours Candidate 2023
Masculinity, behaviour change implementation, emotional repression, heteronormativity, forensic psychology, personality dynamics
- Sarah-Ann Moh
Honours Candidate 2023
Cross-cultural psychology
- Kabir Manandhar Shrestha
Research Data Specialist (MDAP)
Natural language processing, machine learning, deep Learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data science, computer vision
- Valerie Marinko
Database Analyst
- Robert Capp
Research Intern
evolutionary theory, intra-sexual competition
- Lu Korth
Research Intern
- Michelle Li
Research Intern
- Claire Lin
Research Intern
- Meila Wong
Research Intern
Gender and sexuality norms
- Alsa Wu
Research Intern
Interpersonal influences, menstrual cycle, sex hormones
Collaborators
Dr Gulnaz Anjum, Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan
Dr Tania Reynolds, The University of New Mexico
A/Prof Kathleen Casto, New College Florida
Professor Steven Gangestad, University of New Mexico
Professor Rob Brooks, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Professor Thomas Denson, University of New South Wales, Sydney
A/Prof Michael Kasumovic, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Dr Siobhan O’Dean, University of Sydney
Dr Stephen Whyte, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Barnaby Dixson, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Isabel Krug, University of Melbourne
Dr Scott Griffiths, University of Melbourne
Professor Brock Bastian, University of Melbourne
Dr Julia Stern, University of Bremen
Dr Ruben Arslan, University of Leipzig