DrMatt Davidson

Matt has extensive teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, in both in-person and online settings. A passionate educator, Matt prioritises student engagement and critical thinking, using student feedback to continually refine his teaching.

At UTS, Matt designed and launched 96633 Resaerch Methods in Psychology, a core first-year subject in the new Bachelor of Psychology programs. From sole delivery of the subject in 2024, Matt now leads a teaching team of 5-6 sessional academics, with enrolments growing to over 350 students. 

At the University of Sydney,  Matt delivered live-lectures to 3rd year and Honours level psychology undergraduates. This included a series of 8 lectures in the Perceptual Systems unit (PSYC3013), incorporating live demonstrations, in-class experiments, and online polls to diversify the methods of student learning. Matt also convened an Advanced Seminar for the Honours cohort ("Can we measure Consciousness?"). These seminars were weekly discussions on a set paper, with an assessment each week in the form of a conference-style presentation.

In 2021, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków engaged Matt as an Invited International Specialist to design an advanced EEG analysis workshop for its International Doctoral Programme in Cognitive Neuroscience. He developed around 15 hours of original English-language lectures with hands-on MATLAB programming exercises. Delivered online, the workshop used live coding, shared problem-solving and frequent interaction to engage students and vary assessment formats.

During his PhD at Monash University, Matt tutored across a range of undergraduate units: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, Abnormal Psychology, Developmental and Biological Psychology, Research Design and Analysis, Research Methods and Theory, and Perception and Cognition.

Research supervision

Matt is a highly engaged supervisor who counts research mentoring among the most rewarding parts of his academic career. At UTS he is primary supervisor to three PhD candidates and one Master of Clinical Psychology candidate. He also co-supervises two PhD candidates at the University of Sydney and has supervised four Honours-level research projects at UTS.  Many of his students have co-authored peer-reviewed publications with him, and his students’ work has been recognised at international conferences.