Rate My Professor Stuart Marlin

Dr Stuart Marlin serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science (Psychology) at the University of Newcastle, Australia, within the College of Engineering, Science and Environment. His academic qualifications include a PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and both a Master of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology from Dalhousie University, Canada. Prior to his current position, Marlin held the role of Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen's University Psychology in Canada from 1993 to 1997, teaching and coordinating courses in psychology from first to fourth year levels, supervising Honours students, and managing a first-year introductory psychology course with approximately 2000 students annually across on-campus, satellite, and distance education formats.

Marlin's research background encompasses the psychology of learning, perception, and neuroscience, with current laboratory investigations focusing on the perception of motion and temporal frequency, human and animal visual perception, and motion processing. He conducts applied research into effective mechanisms for student learning, engagement, and assessment. Key publications include 'Visual perception and processing in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: associations with social cognition measures of face identity and emotion recognition' (Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2016), 'Predictors of psychological distress and well-being in a sample of Australian undergraduate students' (Higher Education Research & Development, 2016), 'Position-specific adaptation in complex cell receptive fields of the cat striate cortex' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 1993), 'Direction-selective adaptation in simple and complex cells in cat striate cortex' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 1988), and 'Practice tests improve performance, increase engagement and protect from psychological distress' (6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, 2020). He has received grants including $48,000 from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council in 2013 for an interactive digital workbook to improve students' writing in psychological science and $5,521 from the Keats Endowment Research Fund in 2018 for academic risk and resilience research among ethnic minorities. Marlin teaches courses such as Psychology Introduction 1 (PSYC1010), Psychology Introduction 2 (PSYC1020), Foundations of Psychology and Sociology for Health Professionals (PSYC2505), and Advanced Perception and Learning in Psychology (PSYC3301).