STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Merv Jackson
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399257367
Email:
merv.jackson@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora West
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Merv Jackson supervises in the following research areas:
- Developing and evaluating instruments to assess community responses to (future) development
- Assessing predictors of gambling behaviour, (and other psychological problem behaviours)
- All areas of sport psychology
- Relating information about tourist crime to real crime and travel decisions
- Evaluating traveller satisfaction and health and safety issues in tourists in Australia
Current projects
- Application of attribution theory cross culturally
- Crime and tourism
- Recreational activities of people with intellectual disabilities
- Tourist personality type and travel decision making
- Eole of supervisor in organisational citizenship behaviour in different industrial settings
- Using long term follow-up to evaluate the effectiveness of brief behaviour therapy
- Predictors of neighbourhood crime
- BSc(Hons) Monash
- MBehSc LaTrobe,
- Senior Lecturer in Psychology
- Roberts, L.,Little, D.,Jackson, M.,Spittal, M. (2023). Test cricketers score quickly during the 'nervous nineties': Evidence from a regression discontinuity design In: PLoS ONE, 18, 1 - 13
- Ballas, M.,Buultjens, M.,Murphy, G.,Jackson, M. (2022). Elite-level athletes with physical impairments: Barriers and facilitators to sport participation In: DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 37, 1018 - 1037
- Al Zaabi, O.,Heffernan, M.,Holroyd, E.,Jackson, M. (2022). Parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health including HIV and STIs in Oman In: Sex Education, 22, 611 - 627
- Roberts, L.,Jackson, M.,Grundy, I. (2022). Usual and Pressure-Affected Thinking in Skilled Golfers: A Survey of Preparation and Execution Thought Processes In: Sport Psychologist, 36, 183 - 194
- Roberts, L.,Jackson, M.,Grundy, I. (2021). The effects of cognitive interference during the preparation and execution of the golf swing In: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 19, 413 - 428
- Peters, A.,Reece, J.,Meaklim, H.,Jackson, M., et al, . (2021). Mindfulness and Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia: An Assessment of Treatment Effect in a Sleep Disorders Clinic Population with Insomnia In: Behaviour Change, 38, 25 - 39
- Roberts, L.,Jackson, M.,Grundy, I. (2019). Choking under pressure: Illuminating the role of distraction and self-focus In: International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 12, 49 - 69
- Trethewey, E.,Jackson, M. (2019). Values and cognitive mechanisms: Comparing the predictive factors of Australian meat intake In: Appetite, 142, 1 - 7
- Yates, A.,Jones, L.,Jackson, M. (2019). Women's experiences of perceived traumatic vaginal birth in Australian maternity settings In: International Journal of Healthcare, 5, 1 - 11
- Gavidia-Payne, S.,Jackson, M. (2019). Research priorities and protections In: Handbook of Intellectual Disabilities, Springer Nature, Switzerland
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Current Supervisions15 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
- Skill Set for Introduction to Interpreting and Translating. Funded by: Department of Premier and Cabinet Research Project from (2015 to 2016)
- The impact of e-motion21 dance program on physical activity, social connection and well-being of children, adolescents and adults with Down syndrome, and their families -- Beat-Fit program evaluation. Funded by: e.motion21 Grant pre-2014 from (2014 to 2014)
- The impact of e-motion21 dance program on physical activity, social connection and well-being of children, adolescents and adults with Down syndrome, and their families. Funded by: e.motion21 Grant pre-2014 from (2013 to 2013)