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Dr Susan Colmar

BA(Auck), MA(Hons)(Auck), DipEdPsych(Auck), PhD(Macquarie)

Program Director, School Counselling and School Psychology

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 6265

Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

Building.Room: A35.805

Research interests

Learning sciences; psychology of education

  • Learning, cognition and motivation

Research on teaching and learning

  • English and literacy

Keywords

language and literacy assessments and interventions


Professional biography

Susan is a practising, qualified educational psychologist who has more than 30 years' experience working with children, parents and teachers.

She is the director of training in school counselling with the faculty, where she lectures in educational and developmental psychology, psychological and educational assessment, behaviour management and counselling children and adolescents.

Susan is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and a registered psychologist in NSW, as well as a memeber of the APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.

She has particular interests in young children and children with special needs.

Susan is a regular invited speaker and contibutor to academic literature about the subjects of language assessments and interventions, assessment issues, early reading and reading interventions and behaviour problems.


Awards

  • Faculty of Education and Social Work Teaching Excellence Award 2007


Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
TBA EdD Elizabeth Maher
"The resilience doughnut". A valid model, measure and therapeutic tool for raising resilience throughout the lifespan. PhD Lyn Worsley

Selected publications

Journal articles

  • Colmar, S. (2008). Who parents and “counsels"?. Directions in Education, 17(2), 15th Feb–15th Feb.
  • Cerni, T, Curtis, G, Colmar, S. (2008). Information Processing and Leadership Styles: Constructive Thinking and Transformational Leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies, 2(1), 60–73.
  • Wilson, J, Colmar, S. (2008). Re-evaluating the significance of phonemic awareness and phonics in literacy teaching: The shared role of school counsellors and teachers. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 18(2), 89–105.
  • Colmar, S, Maxwell, A, Miller, L. (2006). Assessing intellectual disability in children: Are IQ measures sufficient, or even necessary?. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 16(2), 177–188.

Conference papers

  • Parker, P, Martin, A, Colmar, S, Debus, R. (2007). The Forgotten Helpers: A Psychosocial Model of Clergy Burnout. In Miner, M and Dowson, M Proceedings Annual Conference 2007 UWS Psychology and Spirituality Society. Spirituality in Australia: Psychological, Social and Religious Perspectives (pp. 153–163). University of Western Sydney, 20 July 2007.
  • Rider, N, Colmar, S. (2006). Reading achievement and reading self-concept in Year 3 students. In Jeffery, PL AARE Education Research. Creative Dissent: Constructive Solutions (pp. 1–Paper No). Parramatta, 27Nov-1 Dec 2005.
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