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Dr Trish Cain

Trish is a Lecturer in Psychology within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • PSY3456 - Mental Health and Interventions
  • PSY1204 - Social Determinants of Behaviour

Background

Trish completed her PhD on the topic of Weight Stigma at Murdoch University, Australia in 2019. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including the development of psychometric measures and the analysis of big Qualitative data sets.

Her previous projects include the development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT), and current projects include secondary analysis of evidence from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and a multifaceted cross-generational investigation of attitudes towards ageing and older people.

Trish completed a post-Doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Research in Aged Care at ECU in 2023 and now has full-time teaching and research role in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Research areas and interests

  • Attitude formation and measurement
  • Lived experiences of people from marginalised groups
  • Analysis of big qualitative data sets
  • Psychometric measurement
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