Nerisa D. Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I coordinated the daily activities and managed the long-term vision of the Ethics and Well-being Hub, a centre for social and personality psychology based in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. I liaised with student and staff Hub affiliates to ensure that their supervision, administration, and research needs were adequately met. In this role I was responsible for finance and budget administration, technical and equipment management, grant applications and management, improvement of Hub documentation, delivery of training, and coordinating outreach activities to communicate the research of the Hub to a range of stakeholders. In addition, I was the primary platform manager of SEMA3 - a suite of software for intensive longitudinal survey research using iOS and Android smartphones. I oversaw the long-term development and day-to-day function of the application from its initial redevelopment with the Melbourne eResearch Group through to its full function in over 60 countries worldwide. I engaged with platform stakeholders and the founder to define and priorities feature roadmaps, worked in collaboration with developers to allocate resources and funding for feature development, performed QA testing to ensure features meet standards and project requirements and managed the platform users, sign up requests, and financial donations.

Survey and Business Manager for The WERQ Place. An initiative by the Griffith Business School to support empirical research, including surveys and interview programs, data analysis and project design and management. Projects I worked on include: Integrity@WERQ. The second, main phase of research supported by 5 universities, 23 partner organisations, and part of the ARC Linkage Project: Protecting While They Prosper: Organisational responses to whistle-blowing. http://whistlingwhiletheywork.edu.au/ National Integrity Systems Assessment. A major project assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Australia’s integrity institutions and accountability systems in collaboration with Transparency International Australia and with funding from the Australian Research Council and major state integrity agency institutional partners. http://transparency.org.au/national-integrity-systems-assessment/Insolvency Profession and Technology Research. A research project investigating the risks and opportunities of technology-drive innovation within the insolvency profession. Research conducted in collaboration with the Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics at Griffith University. Griffith University Statistics Advisory GroupFacilitating improvements in quantitative research across Griffith University. Presenter at Stats weeks on research methodology, survey design and implementation.

Research Assistant to Dr. Katharine Greenaway, Dr. Stacey Parker, Dr. Nik Steffens, Dr. Andrew Neal, and Rudy Crous. Project managed and assisted with a range of research investigations across the domains of social and organisational psychology and physiology.Projects in organisational psychology focused on conceptual design, data aggregation, and implementation of research surrounding safety culture in the maritime industry. In this project, I worked closely with the Australia Maritime Safety Authority and seafarers docked at the Port of Brisbane. Projects in social psychology utilised my skills in heart rate variability, psychophysiology, and hormones, to understand body awareness and emotional control, energy management strategies for full time employees, and the study of cortisol after stressful tasks in a mock HR company.

I provided detailed feedback on 40 Australian Research Council Discovery Project applications. This involved 110 researchers from 13 different countries and 12 different institutions within Australia. Total grant money requested was over $22,000,000 from all applications. I assisted applicants in improving their application and making sure they met all appropriate guidelines for submission. This is a temporary position during the major grants period.

The University Of Queensland

Developmental Psychology (2010) Current Issues in Psychology II (2012) The Neuroscience of Social Behaviour (2011, 2012, 2013) Psychology Student Support Tutor (2014)Extensive coaching, teaching, support, and mentoring of all year levels of undergraduate Psychology students. I have provided students with a basic introduction to neuroscience methods, covered a series of topics in social psychology, assisted with assignments, created exam study sheets, and helped convert traditional courses in to more open classroom frameworks.

Executive Assistant to the (former) Head of Information Technology and Services at the Queensland University of Technology. Maintenance of day-to-day activities including phone, email, calendar, and events.

I worked in multiple libraries assisting with the organization of materials across topics such as dentistry, biological and social sciences, engineering, and the arts. I assisted with returning books to the organization of library materials and provided customer service to all library clients.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)

Graduate Certificate In Project Management

Bachelor Of Psychological Science (Honours)