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DR DEAN LUSHER



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Email:
Work: 8344 4757
Fax: 9347 6618
Room: 621
Level: 06
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Dr Dean Lusher is a Research Fellow in the School of Behavioural Science. His research interests are focused on social norms, social hierarchy and organizational culture as explored using statistical models for social networks. His applied work includes such contexts as schools, the AFL, corporate organizations, asylum seekers and their advocates, and community climate change adaptation attitudes and behaviours.

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Postgraduate Diploma in Adolescent and Child Psychology University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 15-Dec-2006

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Member 01-May-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Dr Lusher has received grants from the AFL Research and Development Board in 2005, and an Early Career Researcher grant from the University of Melbourne for 2008.

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Masculinities in local lcontexts: Structural, individual and cultural interdepndencies
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: VDM Verlag(Saarbrucken)
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Journal Articles

  • Robotic movement elicits visuomotor priming in children with autism
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 448-454
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Australia's response to asylum seekers
    Year: 2007
    Book: Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia
    Publisher: Federation Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 173-191
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  • Motor contagion from gaze: the case of autism
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 130
    Page numbers: 2401-2411
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Virtual reality applications for the remapping of space in neglect patients
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 431-441
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Imaging the neurocognitive components of pitch naming: Insights from quasi-absolute pitch
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 825-833
    Publisher: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music(Liege)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Improving left hemispatial neglect using virtual reality
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 1958-1962
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Shadows in the brain
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 862-872
    Publisher: MIT Press(Massachusetts)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

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