Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Qualifications
BA, BSc(Psychology)(Hons), PhD, SFHEA
Research Interests
I am an applied social psychologist and take an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach to delineating the experience of social self-perception and its impact on behaviour and wellbeing. Fundamentally, I am intersted in social processes in the wild. I lead a program of mixed methods, applied, social psychological research anchored in data on real-world phenomena and real-world social experiences.
My research has two inter-related foci: social self-concept, and socially shaping the behaviour of participants in complex systems (including education and healthcare systems). My research develops our understanding of identity and belonging in social contexts, and also models of ways this understanding can be applied to shape behaviour and improve wellbeing.
I am available as a research supervisor for honours (psychology, health science), MChD Research Projects, MPhil and PhD projects. I am currently at capacity for PhD supervision and will not be taking on new students as primary supervisor until 2026.
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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A mixed-methods investigation of weight bias reduction in medical students
Rathbone, J. A., Smyth, L. & Cruwys, T., Sept 2024, In: Fat Studies. 13, 3, p. 319-337 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation
Rivera, K., Smyth, L., Pike-Rowney, G. & West, S., 31 Jul 2024, In: Psychology of Music.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are we teaching the health impacts of climate change in a clinically relevant way? A systematic narrative review of biomechanism-focused climate change learning outcomes in medical curricula
Sharma, A., Smyth, L., Jian, H., Vargas, N., Bowles, D. & Hunter, A., 3 Mar 2024, In: Medical Teacher. 46, 3, p. 414-422 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘Why can't people see or understand or make that effort to see who I am?’: documenting the experiences of low socioeconomic students at an elite tertiary institution through a social identity lens
Walker, S., Campbell, S., Smyth, L., Platow, M. J., Venville, G. & Willis, T., 4 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Australian Educational Researcher. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How conceptualizing obesity as a disease affects beliefs about weight, and associated weight stigma and clinical decision-making in health care
Rathbone, J. A., Cruwys, T., Jetten, J., Banas, K., Smyth, L. & Murray, K., May 2023, In: British Journal of Health Psychology. 28, 2, p. 291-305 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access9 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
- 3 Active
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Not just how but why: a closer look at the purpose and value of the medical school admissions interview
Smyth, L., Valter-Kocsi, K. & Webb, A.
21/11/24 → 1/07/26
Project: Research
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Developing Transdisciplinary Health Humanities Education at the ANU
29/09/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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CHIME Australia: Social Singing for Perinatal Mental Health
McConnell, B., Chen, J., Gulliver, A., Leach, L., Mani, C., Pike-Rowney, G., Roettger, M., Sanfilippo, K. R. M., Smyth, L., Stewart, L. & Ngum Chi Watts, M.
1/01/23 → 30/04/25
Project: Research