Dr Sonya Winterbotham

NameDr Sonya Winterbotham
Email Addresssonya.winterbotham@unisq.edu.au
Job TitleLecturer (Psychology)
QualificationsBA USQ, GDipPsychSt USQ, BSc(Hons) USQ, PhD USQ
DepartmentSchool of Psychology and Wellbeing
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2059-7620
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BA
USQ
1999
GDipPsychSt
USQ
2013
BSc(Hons)
USQ
2014
PhD
USQ
2020

Current Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCommenced
Sleeping the way to better mental health for ADHD adolescentsAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2025
Exploring the experiences of students with ADHD and learning disabilities and the use of AI in Australian UniversitiesAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2025
Increasing persistence of women in early career sales rolesAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2024
Investigating the Lived Experience Following a Stillbirth since the 1960sAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2023
Mitigating the Costs of Caring: The development of a digital application to support caregivers of youth with mental health concerns.Associate SupervisorDoctoral2022

Completed Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCompleted
Parental style and executive functioning in ADHD: Effects on driving risk and licencingAssociate SupervisorMasters2025
The Influence of Values on Caregiving for Older Adults in Rural and Urban AreasAssociate SupervisorMasters2023

Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities

Eastgate, Lindsay, Bialocerkowski, Andrea, Creed, Peter, Hood, Michelle, Machin, Michael Anthony, Brough, Paula and Winterbotham, Sonya. 2024. "Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities." Education + Training. 66 (7). https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-07-2022-0273

Students managing work and study role boundaries: a person-centred approach

Creed, Peter A., Hood, Michelle, Bialocerkowski, Andrea, Machin, M. Anthony, Brough, Paula, Kim, Sujin, Winterbotham, Sonya and Eastgate, Lindsay. 2023. "Students managing work and study role boundaries: a person-centred approach." Frontiers in Psychology. 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1116031

Real change or more of the same? Analysing Australian media's portrayal of intellectual disability during the NDIS rollout

Winterbotham, Sonya, Knight, Bob G. and du Preez, Jan du. 2023. "Real change or more of the same? Analysing Australian media's portrayal of intellectual disability during the NDIS rollout." Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13080

An evaluation of the factor structure of the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) and the creation of the SAWS-15 as a short measure for personal wisdom

Leeman, Trilas M., Knight, Bob G., Fein, Erich C., Winterbotham, Sonya and Webster, Jeffrey Dean. 2022. "An evaluation of the factor structure of the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) and the creation of the SAWS-15 as a short measure for personal wisdom." International Psychogeriatrics. 34 (3), pp. 241-251. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220004202

Organisational career growth: implications for future perceived employability in students who work

Creed, Peter A., Hood, Michelle, Bagley, Louella, Brough, Paula, Bialocerkowski, Andrea, Machin, M. Anthony and Winterbotham, Sonya. 2022. "Organisational career growth: implications for future perceived employability in students who work." International Journal of Educational Research. 112, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.101950

Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement

Creed, Peter A., Hood, Michelle, Brough, Paula, Bialocerkowski, Andrea, Machin, M. Anthony, Winterbotham, Sonya and Eastgate, Lindsay. 2022. "Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement." Journal of Education and Work. 35 (3), pp. 256-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2048250

Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: a serial indirect effects model

Creed, Peter A., Hood, Michelle, Bialocerkowski, Andrea, Machin, M. Anthony, Brough, Paula, Bagley, Louella, Winterbotham Sonya and Eastgate, Lindsay. 2022. "Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: a serial indirect effects model." Journal of Education and Work. 35 (6-7), pp. 735-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2126967

I’m still in the blue family: gender and professional identity construction in police officers

du Plessis, Carol, Winterbotham, Sonya, Fein, Erich C., Brownlow, Charlotte, du Preez, Jan, McKenna, Bernard, Chen, Peter, Beel, Nathan and du Plessis, Graham. 2021. "I’m still in the blue family: gender and professional identity construction in police officers." Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. 36, pp. 386-396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-020-09397-9

Planning for caregiving of adults with intellectual disability: Australian perspectives

Winterbotham, Sonya. 2020. Planning for caregiving of adults with intellectual disability: Australian perspectives. PhD Thesis Doctor of Philosophy. University of Southern Queensland. https://doi.org/10.26192/7fkn-7t42

Rural and urban older adults perceptions of mental health services accessibility

Knight, Bob G. and Winterbotham, Sonya. 2020. "Rural and urban older adults perceptions of mental health services accessibility." Aging and Mental Health. 24 (6), pp. 978-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1576159

The impact of a Student vs Worker identity on work-study conflict and facilitation in university students

Machin, Tony, Winterbotham, Sonya, Creed, Peter, Hood, Michelle, Brough, Paula, Bialocerkowski, Andrea and Eastgate, Lindsay. 2019. "The impact of a Student vs Worker identity on work-study conflict and facilitation in university students." Nelson, Karen and Field, Rachael (ed.) 5th Students Transitions Achievement Retention & Success Conference (STARS 2019). Melbourne, Australia 07 - 10 Jul 2019

Older parents caring for adults with intellectual disability

Winterbotham, Sonya, Knight, Bob G. and du Preez, Jan. 2019. "Older parents caring for adults with intellectual disability." Innovations and Advances in Ageing Well: Joint Conference of the NZ Psychologists of Older People and the Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology & Ageing Interest Group in partnership with the Auckland University of Technology Centre for Active Ageing (2019). Auckland, New Zealand 28 - 29 Jun 2019 Aukland, New Zealand.

Re-evaluating the factor structure of the self-assessed wisdom scale (saws)

Leeman, Trilas M., Knight, Bob G., Fein, Erich C. and Winterbotham, Sonya. 2019. "Re-evaluating the factor structure of the self-assessed wisdom scale (saws)." Innovations and Advances in Ageing Well: Joint Conference of the NZ Psychologists of Older People and the Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology & Ageing Interest Group in partnership with the Auckland University of Technology Centre for Active Ageing (2019). Auckland, New Zealand 28 - 29 Jun 2019 Aukland, New Zealand.

Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016

Beel, Nathan, Jeffries, Carla, Brownlow, Charlotte, Winterbotham, Sonya and du Preez, Jan. 2018. "Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016." Psychology of Men and Masculinity. 19 (4), pp. 600-611. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000137

Psychosocial wellbeing in active older adults: a systematic review of qualitative literature

Winterbotham, Sonya and du Preez, Jan. 2016. "Psychosocial wellbeing in active older adults: a systematic review of qualitative literature." International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 9 (1), pp. 96-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2015.1122075