Merv Jackson

Associate Professor Merv Jackson

Associate Professor
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Details

  • College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Campus: Bundoora West Australia
  • merv.jackson@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

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

Supervisor projects

  • Pilot Study of Psychosocial Support to Prepare Saudi Emergency Nurses for Crisis
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • The Evolving Landscape of Gender Roles and Women's Career Opportunities in Vietnam: A Cross-Generational Analysis
  • 17 Jul 2024
  • Patient Participation in Chronic Disease Management Before and After Diagnosis
  • 1 Jul 2024
  • Research in cultural clinical psychology
  • 9 Feb 2024
  • Research in cultural clinical psychology
  • 1 Dec 2023
  • Typological Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Perpetrators
  • 9 Dec 2022
  • An integrative approach to guide learning and teaching practices to support university students
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • An integrative approach to guide learning and teaching practices to support university student
  • 4 Jan 2021
  • Cumulative Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Borderline Personality Disorders
  • 3 Dec 2020
  • International student wellbeing experiences and services: a comparative case study at universities in Australia and the UK using a culturally sensitive lens in the time of COVID-19
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Resilience Classification Framework: an exploration of child resilience status in relation to school adjustment, parenting practices and family factors
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • Attitudes and Beliefs of Parents, School Teachers and School Nurses towards School-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Programs in Oman
  • 24 Nov 2016
  • Ethical considerations in collaborative care in severe and enduring anorexia: an application of an ethical decision-making model
  • 24 Mar 2016
  • Choking under pressure in self-paced sport: Revisiting the effects of attentional interference in preparation and execution
  • 22 Jan 2016
  • Maternal Evaluation of Early Child Development: A Cognitive Task Analysis
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • An Examination of Variation in Social Cognitions in Bullying for Different Participant Roles: A Retrospective of Adults
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Nurses’ Perceptions on the Role of “End-of-shift” Verbal Handover: Mixed Method Research
  • 20 Aug 2012

Teaching interests

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

Research interests

Psychology, Tourism, Nursing, Policy and Administration, Cognitive Science, Other Environmental Sciences
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