BSocSc(Psych), PG Dip Psychology, PC-RESMET(SE)

Lisa Limbrick is undertaking a PhD in the area of gender and reading. Her research will investigate varying methods of identifying and measuring poor reading, particularly for boys; rates of reading progress; whether there are specific skills boys struggle with most (for example, vocabulary, phonological decoding, sight words/memory); and whether gender ratios of reading disability vary with age. Lisa is supervised by Dr Alison Madelaine and Professor Kevin Wheldall.

Vicki Biddle is undertaking a PhD research project on literacy and severely socially disadvantaged adolescents. She will be testing the standard MULTILIT program with low progress adolescent readers in an Out of Home Care setting.

Vicki is an Educational Psychologist who has been working in Australia with young people in Out of Home Care for the past 6 years. She completed her postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology in New Zealand, where she worked with children and their families in the Specialist Education Service, on the Behaviour Team, the Disability Team and the Early Intervention Team.