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DrPoppy Watson

Senior Lecturer

Discipline of Psychology

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Discipline of Psychology
  • + 61 2 9514 5572 (Work)
  • University Technology Sydney, Psychology, Faculty of Health, Room 10.26, 100 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

Poppy is helping with the development of the Undergraduate Psychology Programme (launched in Feb 2024). She developed and coordinated the first year Developmental Psychology Subject and the second year Health Psychology Subject. She regularly supervises honours and PhD students in her lab.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Therapeutic Dragon Taming: the effectiveness of a therapeutically applied Dungeons and Dragons group program in a community mental health setting
    30 Jun 2030
    Lead supervisor
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    96636 Health Psychology
    11 Aug 2025
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING GRANT
    Broadening first year Psychology students’ outlook and confidence to explore diverse career possibilities
    1 Jun 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sign-Tracking to Food Cues: Evidence of the Relationship Between Attention to Food Brand Logos and Unhealthy Eating Behaviours
    31 May 2024
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Role of Motivation in Attentional Disengagement from Signals of Threat in Anxiety.
    31 May 2024
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The role of personality traits in dream recall and nightmare frequency
    31 May 2024
    Lead supervisor
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    96631 Developmental Psychology
    12 Feb 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Habit-like attention: The effect of outcome revaluation on attentional prioritisation of reward-related stimuli
    1 Dec 2023
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Caffeinated and in Control: An Investigation into the Effects of Caffeine on Attentional Control
    1 Oct 2023
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Effect of Mindfulness on Attentional Control
    1 Oct 2023
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Subclinical Depression
    1 Oct 2022
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Attention disengagement in anxiety: Are individuals scoring higher in self-reported anxiety slower to disengage Attention from cues that signal threats?
    1 Oct 2022
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) Effect as a Function of Gambling Behaviour
    1 Oct 2022
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Attentional disengagement impairments: Do heavy drinkers show addiction- specific and generalised reward-based attentional biases?
    1 Oct 2021
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Effects of Caffeine on Attentional Control
    1 Oct 2020
    Lead supervisor
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    PSYC5005 Behavioural Neuroscience
    1 Mar 2020 - 31 Oct 2023
    PSYC5005