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Georgina is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Social Psychologist in the School of Medicine and Psychology at the Australian National University (ANU). Georgina holds a Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Science (Hons I) and Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)(2025) from the ANU. She is currently Chief Investigator on a Cth-funded postdoctoral grant alongside research advisor Professor Tegan Cruwys.
Georgina’s early-career research examines procedural justice, prejudice, social influence, social cohesion, individual and community wellbeing, mental health, and leadership from a social identity perspective. In 2025, she was awarded the Research Impact Award (Diagnostics, Therapeutics & Clinical Care) from the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists’ Outstanding Postgraduate Research Award.
Georgina has many years of experience teaching and convening Psychology courses for undergraduate students. Georgina is currently co-convening a research-intensive PSYC3030 Special Topics course for third-year Psychology students. She also has extensive experience conducting human research (e.g., via surveys, in-person laboratory experiments, longitudinal, among other approaches) under approved HREC protocols, including sampling vulnerable populations such as youth (e.g., 13-25-year-olds) and people with diagnosed illnesses.
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Science (Psychology)(Hons I)
Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), PhD
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Therapists who foster social identification build stronger therapeutic working alliance and have better client outcomes
Cruwys, T., Lee, G. C., Robertson, A. M., Haslam, C., Sterling, N., Platow, M. J., Williams, E., Haslam, S. A. & Walter, Z. C., Jul 2023, In: Comprehensive Psychiatry. 124, 152394.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access21 Citations (Scopus) -
Facilitating Goals, Tasks, and Bonds via Identity Leadership:Understanding the Therapeutic Working Alliance as the Outcome of Social Identity Processes
Lee, G. C., Platow, M. J., Haslam, S. A., Reicher, S. D., Grace, D. M. & Cruwys, T., 2021, In: Group Dynamics. 25, 4, p. 271-287 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of student and customer social identification on university students’ learning approaches and psychological well-being
Platow, M. J., Lee, G. C., Wang, C., Grace, D. M., Knezovic, M., Smyth, L. & Mavor, K. I., Dec 2025, In: Social Psychology of Education. 28, 1, 30 p., 100.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Listening quality leads to greater working alliance and well-being: Testing a social identity model of working alliance
Lee, G. C., Platow, M. J. & Cruwys, T., Nov 2024, In: British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 63, 4, p. 573-588 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Group-based processes as a framework for understanding the working alliance in therapy
Lee, G. C., Platow, M. J. & Cruwys, T., 18 Jan 2023, In: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 23, 1, p. 222-234 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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2024 SASP Outstanding Postgraduate Research Award - Finalist
Lee, G. (Recipient), 2024
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