Associate Professor, Social Psychology, The University of Queensland
Winnifred graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.Sc. in psych and a minor in socio-cultural anthropology, having done her honours thesis on stereotyping and subtyping (with Ken Dion and Kerry Kawakami). She went to McGill and did an MSc with Don Taylor on responses to discrimination and a PhD with him on decision-making in conflict. She came to UQ in 2001 to work with Debbie Terry on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Winnifred obtained a continuing position at UQ In 2005, received tenure and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008, then to Associate Professor in 2013.
Winnifred is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals, book chapters, peer-reviewed conference papers, and scholarsly reports. She has been awarded over $1m of competitive grant funding, and is the recipient of national and international awards for excellence in teaching.
She is happy to give talks to community groups at the drop of a hat, and to corporate groups with more lead time and incentives. Her research interests focus on the influence of identity and norms on social decision-making. She has studied this broad topic in contexts from political activism to peace psychology to health and the environment.
Comic: how to have better arguments about the environment (or anything else)
May 27, 2019 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
From climate change to armed conflict, our world is struggling with urgent global issues. But disagreements about how to solve them can spiral out of control. The only way to resolve intractable conflicts is to overcome...
The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them
Mar 30, 2017 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of the common mistakes we...