Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Renata Meuter
- Position(s)
- Head of School
Faculty of Health,
School - Psychology and Counselling - Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School - Psychology and Counselling - IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Psych and Counc - HDHS - Discipline *
- Psychology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 4641
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 0486
- r.meuter@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Oxford)
- Professional memberships
and associations Deputy Chair – Heads of Departments and Schools of Psychology Association (HODSPA)
- Keywords
-
Bilingual and multilingual language processing, Health communication, Vigilance and attentional control, Psycholinguistics, Experimental psychology
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
Research interests
- Bilingual and multilingual language processing
- Health communication
- Vigilance and attentional control
- Psycholinguistics
- Experimental psychology
Awards
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award of Excellence 2008
- Australian Teaching and Learning Council Citation 2009
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Renata Meuter.
Teaching
Awards
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award of Excellence 2008
- Australian Teaching and Learning Council Citation 2009
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Renata Meuter.
Publications
- Meuter R, Gallois C, Segalowitz N, Ryder A, Hocking J, (2015) Overcoming language barriers in healthcare: A protocol for investigating safe and effective communication when patients or clinicians use a second language, BMC Health Services Research p1-5
- Meuter R, Ehrich J, (2012) The acquisition of an artificial logographic script and bilingual working memory: Evidence for L1-specific orthographic processing skills transfer in Chinese-English bilinguals, Writing Systems Research p8-29
- Meuter R, (2010) Using priming methods in second language research (review), The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue canadienne des langues vivantes p759-761
- Meuter R, (2009) Language selection and performance optimisation in multilinguals, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching p27-51
- Meuter R, (2009) Neurolinguistic contributions to understanding the bilingual mental lexicon, The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches p1-25
- Ehrich J, Meuter R, (2009) Acquiring an artificial logographic orthography: The beneficial effects of a logographic L1 background and bilinguality, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology p711-745
- Meuter R, Buckley L, (2008) The adolescent emotional maelstrom. Do adolescents process and control emotion-laden words differently to adults?, The Mental Lexicon p9-28
- Meuter R, (2005) Language Selection in Bilinguals: Mechanisms and Processes., Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches p349-370
- Meuter R, Humphreys GW, Rumiati RI, (2002) Bilingual Language Switching and The Frontal Lobes: Modulatory Control in Language Selection, International Journal of Bilingualism p109-124
- Shallice T, Marzocchi GM, Coser S, Del Savio M, Meuter R, Rumiati RI, (2002) Executive function profile of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Developmental Neuropsychology p43-71
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Overcoming language barriers in healthcare: towards safe and effective communication when patients or clinicians use a second language
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP130104164
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- Health communication; Cross-cultural psychology; Health psychology
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Exploring Language-Discordant and Concordant Practitioner-Patient Communication in the Australian Health Context
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Julia Hocking - Psychometric Development and Testing of the Healthcare Communication Distress Scale (HCDS)
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Erin O'Connor, Associate Professor Philippe Lacherez - Comprehension of epistemic modal verbs and adverbs by Russian-English bilinguals in health
communication
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Norman Segalowitz, Dr Xuefei Gao - Mechanisms of lexical selection in Japanese-English bilinguals
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Greig de Zubicaray - Police Officers' Memories of Induced Critical Incidents in a Training Program
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Colette Roos - Long Duration Dialogue with an Intelligent Virtual Agent
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Daniel Angus - Investigating the Cognitive Basis of Songs that Get Stuck in the Head
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Philippe Lacherez
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- The Psychopath Next Door: How Similar Are They to Those Behind Bars? Criminality, Executive Functioning, and Emotion Processing in 'Noncriminal' Psychopathy (2017)
- The Role of Prosodic Skills in Reading Comprehension (2017)
- The Physical Work Environment and Employee Perceived Health and Wellbeing (2016)
- Navigating emotion research during a paradigm shift in psychology (2015)
- An examination of monotony and hypovigilance, independent of fatigue: Relevance to road safety (2011)
- The effects of L1 Orthography on Processing an Artificial Logographic Script (2008)