A/Pr Grace Wang
Name | A/Pr Grace Wang |
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Email Address | grace.wang@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Associate Professor (Psychology) |
Qualifications | BA(Psych) Auckland, MSc Auckland, PhD Auckland |
Department | School of Psychology and Wellbeing |
Affiliations | Centre for Health Research |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-031X |
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Biography
Grace Wang is an Associate Professor of Psychology, within the School of Psychology and Wellbeing. Prior to her academic career, Grace was a registered addictions clinician, working with people with addiction and mental health issues. Her research interests include mental health, addiction, and cognitive neuropsychology. She is particularly interested in the bio-psycho-social mechanisms underlying substance use and addictive behaviours.
Fields of Research
- 520203. Cognitive neuroscience
- 520205. Psychopharmacology
- 520301. Clinical neuropsychology
- 520304. Health psychology
- 520499. Cognitive and computational psychology not elsewhere classified
BA(Psych)
Auckland
2008
MSc
Auckland
2009
PhD
Auckland
2021
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Instrument Design and Development for Measuring Health Literacy: Traditional Chinese Medicine in Managing Chronic Pain | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
What Factors Contribute to the Well-being of Female Employees with Young Kids? Investigating the Interplay of Flexible Working Arrangements, Supportive Organizations, and Workplace Friendships. | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Feasibility of a Web-based Positive Psychology Intervention for Adults of Sri Lankan Heritage Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Neuromorphic Computing Techniques for Machine Learning | Associate | Doctoral | 2023 |
Modelling of Spatiotemporal Brain Data for Patterns Recognition and prediction using Spiking Neural Networks | Associate | Doctoral | 2019 |
Neuromorphic computation models for modelling multisource spatiotemporal brain data | Associate | Doctoral | 2017 |
Healthy Living After Stroke | Principal | Masters | 2019 |
Perceived expressed emotion in people with substance use disorder | Principal | Masters | 2019 |
An Investigation of the Effect of Mindfulness Training on Immunological Biomarkers and Memory Recall | Associate | Masters | 2018 |
Exploring the effect of mindfulness training for care staff in residential aged care facilities in Aotearoa/New Zealand | Principal | Masters | 2017 |
Deep spiking neural network architecture for the classification of spatio-temporal data | Associate | Doctoral | 2023 |
Risk and Reward in Methamphetamine Users and Nicotine Smokers | Associate | Doctoral | 2021 |
Sentiment Analysis for Detection of Depressive Users on Social Networks | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2024 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Proactively eliminating quality issues in Construction 4.0 | Building Research Association of New Zealand. Fei Ying, Grace Wang, Michael O’Sullivan, John Tookey. | 2023 |
Enhance retention in opioid treatment program in regional, rural and remote areas | Toowoomba Hospital Foundation. Maxine O’Brien, Grace Wang, Allan Pascoe, Daniel Spencer | 2023 |
Youth Education Programme: Managing Stress and Building Resilience to Substance Use | Queensland Police: Community Based Crime Action Committee Fund. Grace Wang, Yong Goh, Gavin Beccaria, Lorelle Burton | 2022 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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Associate editor | Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse | ||
Associate editor | BMC Psychiatry |