JOHN SUTTON's
SUPERVISION PAGE

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This page lists the graduate and Honours students supervised by John Sutton at Macquarie University.

A PhD scholarship
is currently available in the project
'Mindful Bodies in Action'.

Current Supervision:

    1. Postgraduate
           Current primary supervision (5 current PhDs)
           
2010-14 Richard Heersmink, Ph.D in MACCS, on philosophy of technology and the extended mind, & on brain-computer interfaces, associate supervisor Richard Menary
            2011-14 Marina Trakas, PhD in MACCS and in a co-tutelle with the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, cosupervised by Jérôme Dokic, on constructive memory and metacognition
            2011-15 Chris McCarroll,
PhD in MACCS on perspective, memory, and self, associate supervisor Richard Menary
            2012-15 Mirko Farina (or here), PhD in MACCS, on extended cognition and sensory substitution, associate supervisors Greg Downey and Richard Menary
            2012-16
Kellie Williamson, PhD in MACCS on procedural memory and embodied skill

            Current associate supervision (8)
            2010- Misia Temler, Ph.D in
MACCS on memory, with primary supervisor Amanda Barnier
            2010- Amanda Selwood,
Ph.D in MACCS on memory, with primary supervisor Amanda Barnier
            2010-
Kay Leiper, Ph.D in Ancient History, with primary supervisor Ian Plant
            2010- Li Mei Chew, Ph.D in Psychology on memory and realism, with primary supervisor Simon Boag

           
2011- Will Newsome, Ph.D in Philosophy on the cognitive ethnography of work, with primary supervisor Jean-Philippe Deranty
            2011- Aline Cordonnier, Ph.D in
MACCS on memory, with  primary supervisor Amanda Barnier
            2011-
Michael Kirchhoff, Ph.D in Philosophy, with primary supervisor Richard Menary
            2011- John Bispham, Ph.D in Psychology, with primary supervisor Bill Thompson
            I'm also helping out with the PhD of Adam Hreschuk (Ancient History, primary supervisor Malcolm Choat)

           Past primary supervision (10 completed PhDs, 6 completed research Masters)
            2008-2013 Wes Rajkowski, Ph.D  'Conceptualising Experience: what human expressions suggest about cognition', at Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) (I'm external supervisor,
                        wholly responsible for the theory component of the project, along with internal supervisor Donna Marcus who is working with Wes on his art projects).           
            2008-2012 Stef Savanah, Ph.D in
MACCS, 'The Threshold of Self-Consciousness' (associate supervisors Glenn Carruthers, Mitch Parsell, & Peter Menzies)
            2008-2012 Melanie Rosen, Ph.D in MACCS, 'Dream Pluralism: a philosophy of the dreaming mind' (associate Peter Menzies, Philosophy)
            2010-2012 Jordan Taylor, MPhil (submitted!) in MACCS, on the philosophy, history, and cognitive science of the imagination and the passions, associate supervisor Nicolas Bullot
            2010-2012 Kellie Williamson, MPhil 'Naturalising the Group Mind: the cognitive life of small groups and teams'  in MACCS, associate supervisor Rochelle Cox
            2009-2011 Lars Marstaller, Ph.D in MACCS, on working memory, attention & gestures, and neuroimaging of gesture production (Blake Johnson has now taken over as Lars's supervisor)
            2008-2009 Glenn Carruthers, Ph.D in MACCS, 'A Cognitive Model of Self-Consciousness' (associate supervisor Max Coltheart)
            2007-2009 Celia Harris, Ph.D in MACCS, 'Social Influences on Autobiographical Memory', with Amanda Barnier  (I was Acting Supervisor through 2009 to award Dec '09)
            2007-2008 Kevin Sinclair, MA (Hons) in Philosophy, 'Perception and Action' (with Tim Bayne & Jean-Philippe Deranty)
            2004-2008 Anne Monchamp, Ph.D in Philosophy and Anthropology, 'Ilewerr: a philosophical and ethnographic study of autobiographical remembering in the central
                                 desert of Australia'
(with Doris McIlwain in Psychology & Kalpana Ram, Anthropology)
            2003-2008 Russell Downham, Ph.D in Philosophy, 'The Significance of Experiential Memory' 

            2000-2008 Carl Windhorst, Ph.D (part-time) in Philosophy, 'Believing the Past: the psychological mechanisms responsible for the construction of autobiographical memories'
            1999-2008 John Buckmaster, Ph.D (part-time) in Philosophy, 'Cinematic Memories: cinema as a metaphor of memory'
            2002-2006 Meta Regis, Ph.D in Philosophy, 'Mood-Enhancing Fictions: a model of daydreaming and fantasy immersion' (with Doris McIlwain, Psychology)
            2003-2006 Andres Vaccari, Ph.D in Philosophy, 'Machine Metaphysics: Descartes, the mechanization of life, and the dawn of the posthuman'
            2003-2005 Monte Pemberton, MA (Hons) in Philosophy, 'Collective Memory'
            2002-2004 Peter Farleigh, MA (Hons) (part-time) in Philosophy, 'The Ideal of Mechanism: its strengths and limitations'
           
[From 1995 to 1998 I was off scooting round on postdocs and not supervising anyone, hard as that is to remember now]
            1993-1994
David Jess, MA (Hons) in Philosophy, 'What happens when language games come into conflict?'

           Past active associate supervision
            2008-12 Andrew Geeves, PhD in Psychology on memory and emotion in music performance, with primary supervisor Doris McIlwain, Psychology
            2008-12  Lincoln Colling, Ph.D in MACCS, 'Joint Action in Music', with primary supervisor Bill Thompson, Psychology
            2011 Andrew Attard, Masters of Organizational Psychology, joint supervision with Amanda Barnier on social remembering
            2008-11 Susan Green, Ph.D in English on narrative and consciousness, with primary supervisor Antonina Harbus
            2007-11 Paul Mason, Ph.D in Anthropology, 'Music and Movement: a comparison of capoeira and pencak silat', with primary supervisor Greg Downey, Anthropology
            2007-11  Charlie Stone, Ph.D in MACCS, 'From Autobiographical Memory to Collective Memory', with Amanda Barnier
            2008-11  Lucas Manual Bietti, Ph.D in Linguistics, 'Memory, Discourse, and Interaction: remembering in context and history',
                                on individual and collective memory of violence in Argentina, with Annabelle Lukin, Linguistics & Teun van Dijk, UPF Barcelona
            2007-11 Wilson Cooper, Ph.D in Philosophy, 'Mental Causation', with Peter Menzies, Philosophy
            2007- Marie Mete, Masters of Organizational Psychology, on transactive memory, with Amanda Barnier
            2002-06 Maria Trochatos, Ph.D on psychological essentialism, with Peter Menzies
            1993-94 associate supervisor for Kim Atkins, Ph.D on autonomy, with Catriona Mackenzie

          2. Honours thesis supervision
            2012 Daniel Kilov (Philosophy), on memory, expertise, philosophy
            2009 Andrew Attard (Psychology), on transactive memory
            2009 Kellie Williamson (Philosophy), on mechanism and reductionism
            2002 Sindhu Summers (Philosophy), 'Philosophy of Psychiatry, Depersonalization, and the Unity of Self'.

            2001 Oliver Granger (Philosophy), constitution and identity in philosophy of mind.
            2001 Adam Holland (Philosophy), resurrection theology and dynamical cognition.
            1994 Ben Hall (Philosophy), supervenience.
            1992 Kim Atkins (Philosophy), Aristotle's rhetoric


John Sutton
MACCS, the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science        Tel. (61) 2 9850 4132
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