Grants
Across my career I have received over $4,143,978 in research funding for projects on human memory (e.g., autobiographical memory, individual and collective memory, memory and ageing, source monitoring, repression, confession) and on hypnosis and hypnotic phenomena (e.g., posthypnotic amnesia, information processing in hypnosis, hypnotic analogues of clinical disorders, measurement). This includes continuous ARC funding from 1998 to 2016. In addition, I am a Chief Investigator of the $21 million ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
Competitive Research Grants (External, Australian Competitive Grants Category 1)
- ARC Discovery Projects Grant, 2013-2015, “Is it better to remember with others or to remember alone, especially as we age” ($297,759; with C.B. HarrisF & G. Savage, Macquarie University, S. Rajaram, Stony Brook University, & D. Balota, Washington University in St Louis).
- ARC Future Fellowship, 2012-2016, “Why remembering together is crucial as we age” ($803,734 plus $482,364 matching funds from Macquarie University).
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, 2011-2017 ($21 million; with S. Crain, G. Rhodes, J. Hodges, M. Coltheart, A. Castles et al.).
- Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Grants Program, 2012, “What are the support systems that help people to remember successfully in daily life?” ($49,495; with C.B. HarrisF, G. Savage, & J. Sutton, Macquarie University).
- ARC Discovery Projects Grant and Australian Research Fellowship, 2007-2011, “From autobiographical memory to collective memory: An interdisciplinary study of individual and group cognition” ($410,000; with J. Sutton, Macquarie University).
- ARC Discovery Projects Grant, 2004-2008, “Forgetting and remembering the past: Inhibition and facilitation of autobiographical memories” ($270,000; with M.A. Conway, University of Durham).
- ARC Discovery Projects Grant, 2004-2006, “Is reading automatic: Investigating hypnotic elimination of the Stroop effect” ($150,000; with M. Coltheart, Macquarie University, & D. Besner, University of Waterloo).
- ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, 2001-2006, “Forgetting emotional events from the past: Extending theories of forgetting to autobiographical amnesia” ($377,883; 5 years salary plus $10,500 per annum research funds).
- ARC Large Grant (concurrent), 2001-2003, “Forgetting emotional events from the past: Extending theories of forgetting to autobiographical amnesia” ($107,450).
- ARC Strategic Partnership with Industry – Research and Training, 2000-2002, “The psychological benefits of a cochlear implant: Predicting and maximizing successful adjustment to hearing recovery by cochlear implant recipients” ($159,803; with J.L. Henry, & R.A. Bryant, UNSW, & S.D. Shaw, Cochlear Ltd).
- ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000, “Autobiographical amnesia: An investigation of hypnotically created personal forgetting” ($186,309; 3 years salary plus $6,000 per annum research funds).
Competitive Research Grants (External, Other Organisations)
- Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, International Science Linkages Bilateral Program Grant, 2010, “Social remembering and distributed cognition in older couples” ($7,500; with J. Sutton & C.B. HarrisF, Macquarie University, & R. Dixon, University of Alberta).
- Australian Psychological Society Visiting Fellowship, 2002/2003, “Re-evaluating hypnotisability and its measurement inside and outside hypnosis” ($2,924; with E.Z. Woody, University of Waterloo).
- Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences Oscar Rivers Schmalzbach Foundation Grant, 1999, “Interviewing strategies and confession to crime” ($5,000; with K.M. McConkey, UNSW).
- Australian Psychological Society Grant-in-Aid, 1999, “Childhood repression and memory bias: Do children and adolescents selectively inhibit self-related negative information?” ($1,961; with K. Salmon, UNSW).
- Australian Psychological Society Grant-in-Aid, 1997, “Autobiographical amnesia: Can posthypnotic amnesia be used to influence personal memory?” ($1,982).
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Cross Program Support Scheme, 2014, “Understanding multiple components of self: Agency and body representation in healthy and impaired cognition” ($20,000; with V. PolitoF, R. ZopfF, M. Williams, & R. Langdon, Macquarie University).
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Cross Program Support Scheme, 2014, “Belief formation, hypnosis and rDLPFC” ($16,505; with M. Coltheart, R. Langdon, R. CoxF, & P. Sowman, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Faculty of Human Sciences Open Access Journal Assistance Grant, 2013 ($1,942; with V. PolitoP, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Faculty of Human Sciences Equipment Grant Scheme, 2013, “Three kits of portable, six line, high definition audio recording equipment for research involving interviews off an on campus” ($6,330; with C. HarrisF, P. Van Bergen, D. McIlwain, J. Sutton, A. CongletonF, Macquarie University, & M. Meade, Montana State University).
- Macquarie University Faculty of Human Sciences Equipment Grant Scheme, 2013, “Stand for TMS coil” ($5,609; with P. Sowman & M. Coltheart, Macquarie University).
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Belief Formation Program Funds, 2013, “Belief in memory” ($25,728; with A. CongletonF & R. CoxF, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Research Development Grants Scheme, 2012-2014, “Memory scaffolding across the lifespan: Does remembering together across generations protect memory?” ($49,968; with P. Van Bergen, D. McIlwain, & G. Savage, Macquarie University, & E. Reese, University of Otago). This was the top ranked application in this round.
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Cross Program Support Scheme, 2012, “Belief in memory” ($40,000; with G. Savage, R. CoxF, J. Sutton, N. BullotF, C.B. HarrisF, E. ConnaughtonP, A. CordonnierP, A. SelwoodP, M. TemlerP, K. WilliamsonP, & P. KeilR, Macquarie University, M. IrishF, UNSW, & D.R. Addis & A. DevittP, University of Auckland).
- Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme, 2012, “When and how does remembering with others help memory, especially as we age?” ($25,000).
- Human Sciences Perspectives Series Workshop Funding Scheme, 2012, “Scaffolding memory across the lifespan” ($8,000; with C.B. HarrisF, K. WilliamsonP, A. CongletonF, R. CoxF, P. Van Bergen, & J. Sutton, Macquarie University).
- CCD Belief Formation Program Funds, 2012, “Memory cues versus memory context” ($17,642; with C.B. HarrisF & J. Sutton, Macquarie University, & A. O’Connor, St Andrews University).
- CCD Belief Formation Program Funds, 2012, “Computerisation of experimental flowsheets and scoresheets” ($5,377; with R. CoxF, V. PolitoP, A. JanczukR, J. Sutton, C. HarrisF, A. CongletonF, C. Richardson, M. Ockenden, & S. Saunders, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme, 2011, “When and how does remembering with others help memory?” ($25,000).
- Macquarie University New Staff (and Return from Parental Leave) Grant, 2010, “Can remembering together help memory, especially as we age?: Comparing collaborative recall of younger and older couples and strangers” ($19,834). This was the top ranked application in this round.
- Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme, 2010, “Recreating delusions and confabulations in the laboratory: Using hypnosis to apply and extend the two-factor theory of delusions” ($14,835; with R. CoxF, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Research Innovation Fund, 2007-2010, “From the neuron to the self: Human nature and the new cognitive neurosciences” ($249,756; with T. Bayne, M. Coltheart, S. Crain, R. Langdon, C. Mackenzie, P. Menzies, & J. Sutton, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant, 2009, “Transcranial magnetic stimulation” ($73,870; with M. Williams, M. Finkbeiner, W. Thompson, G. Savage, & B. Johnson, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant, 2009, “Remote eyetracker for testing special populations” ($47,908; with S. Crain, A. Castles, R. Palermo, G. McArthur, R. Thornton, P. Marsh, J. Brock, G. Savage, A. Rich, R. CoxF, D. Rowe, A. Gamble, R. Langdon, R. Rapee, J. Hudson, H. Lyneham, & M. Porter, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology International Visiting Research Fellowship, 2008-2009 ($6,000 for Professor Peter Halligan, University of Cardiff).
- Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant, 2008, “Storage area network for MACCS” ($73,000; with M. Coltheart, S. Crain, M. Williams, A. Rich, B. Edwards, L. Nickels, G. McArthur, A. Castles, R. Langdon, R. Palermo, S. Kinoshita, & V. Coltheart, Macquarie University).
- Macquarie University Macquarie Research Development Grant, 2007-2009, “Developing and testing a comprehensive hypnotic analogue of clinical delusions” ($49,510; with R. Langdon, Macquarie University).
- University of New South Wales Faculty Research Support Grant, 2003, “Remembering and forgetting in the self-memory system” ($6,000; with M.A. Conway, University of Durham).
- University of New South Wales University Research Support Program, 2002, “Personal and interpersonal source monitoring of genuine and constructed autobiographical memories” ($8,000; with E. Holmes & C.R. Brewin, University College London).
- University of New South Wales University Research Support Program, 2001, “Suppressing thoughts and feelings about the past: Are repressive copers good suppressors?” ($7,000).
- ARC Small Grant, 2000, “Repression and memory bias: Self-discrepancy theory and repressors’ processing of negative, self-related material” ($12,000).
- ARC Small Grant, 1999, “Repression and memory bias: Do repressive copers selectively inhibit self-related negative information?” ($15,000).