Rate My Professor Laura Wall

Dr Laura Wall serves as a Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia, part of the College of Engineering, Science and Environment. She joined the university in 2015 as a casual academic and research assistant in Psychology, continuing in that capacity until 2019. From 2019 to 2021, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship in Health Economics. In 2022, she was a research associate in Psychology. Since 2023, she has worked in two part-time roles: Lecturer in Business Psychology and research associate investigating perceptual inference and decision-making in schizophrenia. Wall earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle, focusing on modeling cognitive performance in schizophrenia using the linear ballistic accumulator model and joint task modeling. She also holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours Class 1, 2013) from the same university.

Wall's research integrates cognitive, computational, and mathematical psychology with health economics, particularly discrete choice experiments, to enhance measurement of cognition, decision-making, and patient preferences. Her interests encompass cognition, computational psychology, decision-making, schizophrenia, and applications in oncology, surgery, mental health, and telehealth. Key publications include "Risk of Cancer Recurrence Exerts the Strongest Influence on Choice Between Active Surveillance and Thyroid Surgery as Initial Treatment for Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment" (World Journal of Surgery, 2025, with Hampton et al.); "Virtual Service Delivery in Mental Health and Substance Use Care: A Systematic Review of Preference Elicitation Studies" (Community Mental Health Journal, 2025); "Identifying relationships between cognitive processes across tasks, contexts, and time" (Behavior Research Methods, 2021); "Cancer patient preferences for the provision of information regarding emotional concerns in relation to medical procedures: a discrete choice experiment" (Patient Education and Counseling, 2020); and "Oncology patient preferences for depression care: a discrete choice experiment" (Psycho-Oncology, 2019). She participated as an investigator in a $103,351 Telehealth Research Initiative grant (2021-2022).