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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Western Australia

Ee Pin is a Suicide Prevention Australia post-doctoral fellow at the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP), at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She completed her PhD in psychology at UWA in 2019, exploring memory updating in depressive rumination. She worked in the area of suicide prediction, with the School of Psychological Science at UWA before joining CBPATSISP.

Ee Pin is passionate about justice and equity. Her current research focuses on addressing the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system, funded by Suicide Prevention Australia and Western Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research Criminal Justice Grant.

Prior to that, she worked in the finance industry in Singapore and Hong Kong for over 10 years after obtaining a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree at the National University of Singapore. She moved to Perth in 2010 to fulfil her childhood dream of studying psychology.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Western Australia

Education

  • 2019 
    The University of Western Australia, PhD (Psychology)
  • 1991 
    National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Accountancy

Publications

  • 2022
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing during the Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic: An Issues Paper, Report
  • 2022
    Social and Emotional Gathering Report: 30-31st March 2021, Report
  • 2020
    The effectiveness of short-format refutational fact-checks, British Journal of Psychology
  • 2019
    Not wallowing in misery–retractions of negative misinformation are effective in depressive rumination, Cognition and Emotion
  • 2019
    Memory updating in depressive rumination- the role of valence, Doctoral Thesis
  • 2017
    Impaired memory updating associated with impaired recall of negative words in dysphoric rumination—Evidence for a removal deficit, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • 2014
    The Effects of Subtle Misinformation in News Headlines, Journal of Experimental Psychology - Applied

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    WACSAR Criminal Justice Research Grant Fund
    Role:
    Research Fellow
    Funding Source:
    Western Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research (WA Department of Justice)
  • 2021
    Suicide Prevention Australia
    Role:
    Post-doctoral research fellow
    Funding Source:
    Suicide Prevention Australia