Rate My Professor Elle Coleman

Dr. Elle Coleman serves as a researcher and HDR representative in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. She earned her PhD in psychology from the University of Wollongong, building on her undergraduate studies in psychology completed between February 2013 and December 2016. Her academic path began with enrollment in a bridging program at UOW College aimed at studying journalism, but she pivoted to psychology driven by a commitment to understanding behavior motivators and supporting victim-survivors of child sexual abuse and harassment, informed by her personal background as a survivor. Now recognized as Dr. Elle Coleman in university documents, she contributes to both research and student welfare initiatives.

Coleman's research focuses on schizotypy, psychosis spectrum disorders, psychophysiology, personality, and individual differences. Her expertise includes EEG analysis, EEG signal processing, MATLAB, electroencephalography, and related psychophysiological methods. She has published notable works such as 'The profile of unusual beliefs associated with metacognitive thinking and attributional styles' in 2022, 'Intrinsic EEG and task-related changes in EEG affect Go/NoGo task performance' in 2018, 'Task-Related Changes in EEG Affect Go/NoGo Performance' in 2017, and the conference paper 'Clarifying the Relationship Between Intrinsic Brain Activity and Neurotic Personality' in 2016. These publications have accumulated 55 citations and 549 reads. In addition to her scholarly output, Coleman played a pivotal role in pioneering the School of Psychology Behaviour Statement, developed in response to the 2021 National Student Safety Survey. Collaborating with School of Psychology colleagues, including Deputy Head Jane Herbert, and UOW Safe and Respectful Communities (SARC), she facilitated focus groups to incorporate student feedback, defined acceptable and unacceptable behaviors with specific examples, clarified reporting pathways, and established actionable implementation goals. As SARC-AG HDR Representative and UOW Ally (contact: ellec@uow.edu.au), she supports higher degree by research students facing challenges, co-supervises honours empirical theses—such as projects on loneliness among older adults—and presents on trauma-aware teaching to university committees, promoting broader adoption of the Behaviour Statement across UOW faculties to prevent sexual assault and harassment and cultivate respectful communities.