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 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
Biography
I am experimental psychologist by training, and my work incorporates basic and applied research with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations. My work in health communication with national and international research partners focuses on understanding how the growing CALD population in Australia and elsewhere can be best supported when communicating with health practitioners and healthcare providers by understanding, and striving towards overcoming, the linguistic and cultural barriers to accessing services and to receiving equitable care/treatment. The outcomes of this work are highly relevant and applicable to other organisational settings. I uses experimental (laboratory-based and quantitative) as well as qualitative approaches and mixed-method designs to understand how multilingual/cultural individuals and communities function, and engage and interact with each other with the aim to support optimal outcomes for these communities, also by informing best communication practice for professionals. I am actively engaged in promoting a shift in focus in research that is inclusive of CALD individuals and, more importantly, recognises that to fully understand how language works it is vital to consider bilingual and multilingual individuals as critical to that endeavour, rather than exceptions.
Research interests
- Bilingual and multilingual language processing
- Health communication
- Vigilance and attentional control
- Psycholinguistics
- Experimental psychology
Teaching
Awards
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award of Excellence 2008
- Australian Teaching and Learning Council Citation 2009
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Publications
- Vaid J, Meuter R, (2017) Languages without borders: Reframing the study of the bilingual mental lexicon, Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon (Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6) p7-26
- Ferndale D, Meuter R, Watson B, Gallois C, (2017) 'You don't know what's going on in there': a discursive analysis of midwifery hospital consultations, Health, Risk and Society p411-431
- Segalowitz N, Doucerain M, Meuter R, Zhao Y, Hocking J, Ryder A, (2016) Comprehending adverbs of doubt and certainty in health communication: A multidimensional scaling approach, Frontiers in Psychology p1-13
- Meuter R, Lacherez P, (2016) When and why threats go undetected: Impacts of event rate and shift length on threat detection accuracy during airport baggage screening, Human Factors p218-228
- 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, (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, (2005) Language Selection in Bilinguals: Mechanisms and Processes., Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches p349-370
- Meuter R, Humphreys G, Rumiati R, (2002) Bilingual Language Switching and The Frontal Lobes: Modulatory Control in Language Selection, International Journal of Bilingualism p109-124
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
- 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 - MY DIGITAL 'FRIEND': DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS WHEN DEPLOYING CHATBOTS IN TRUSTED COMPANIONSHIP ROLES
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Daniel Angus
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)