Blackthorn Heuristics is led by highly experienced academic psychologists with decades of university teaching, research, and consultancy experience.
Associate Professor Cyril Latimer is a world-class academic with a distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years at the University of Sydney.
He graduated BA (Hons I) in 1970 and was awarded a PhD in 1979, receiving the H Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for his doctoral research. His academic appointments progressed from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and ultimately Associate Professor in 2001.
His teaching covered undergraduate and postgraduate Psychology across areas including:
Cognition and Perception
Biological Bases of Behaviour
Research Methods and Philosophy of Psychology
Environmental Psychology
Computer Methods in Psychology
His research interests include pattern recognition, visual attention, eye-movement analysis, symmetry detection, cognitive modelling, and the philosophy of psychology.
Beyond academia, Associate Professor Latimer has applied psychological research to real-world problems, including:
Banknote design
Print quality judgment
Colour and memory
Road and rail safety
Expert witness testimony
He has consulted for numerous government bodies, legal firms, media organisations, and corporations, including the Reserve Bank of Australia, NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, QANTAS, ABC, SBS, and Channel 9.
Although retired from full-time teaching in 2002, he continues to hold honorary academic positions and remains deeply committed to supporting Psychology students.
Dr Wendy Joung is a psychologist and Human Factors practitioner with over 25 years experience in research and industry.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Honours in Psychology, followed by a PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney in 2000, for which she was awarded the H Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion.
Wendy is a registered Psychologist and a Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. She is a member of the College of Organisational Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society, and the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia.
During her years at the University of Sydney, she worked as a tutor, research assistant and Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Psychology. She taught in cognitive psychology, perception, social psychology and supervised Honours students. She has also delivered lectures and coordinated assessors in marking student assessment at Macquarie University for the Masters in Organisational Psychology program. She is an experienced trainer with over 10 years experience, designing training and assessment programs in large organisations.
Wendy is experienced in a range of quantitative and qualitative psychological research methodologies including large scale population surveys, focus groups, evaluations, interviews and laboratory-based experiments. She has an extensive publication list consisting of international & national journal articles, book chapters, conference papers in applied & academic psychology, organisational & government reports, and reports for client organisations.
Wendy truly believes her early studies in psychology formed the basis of her career in applied psychology and is passionate about helping students succeed in their psychology studies.
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