ProfessorCraig Olsson

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, SEED

Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, SEED
    Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute
  • +61 3 522 78428 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Professor Olsson has been appointed in a Research Intensive role within the School of Psychology and focuses on supervision of research students including PhD, Doctoral, Masters, and fourth year students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Memory and Theory of Mind: Associations with Attachment in Childhood
    Clemency Press - School of Psychology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and wellbeing of parents
    Tanja Capic - School of Psychology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Antecedents and Consequences of Intimate Partner Relationship Quality: A Life Course Perspective
    Khya Marabel-Whitburn - School of Psychology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Development of a Culturally Secure Australian Aboriginal Wellbeing Index for Children and Young People
    SHANNON LOUISE MCNEAIR - School of Psychology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Aging well in Australia: What are the determinants of subjective wellbeing in late adulthood?
    Rebecca Davey - School of Psychology
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Temporal Patterns and Psychosocial Consequences of Adolescent Help-seeking Behaviour
    Jess Heerde - School of Psychology - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Life History Links Between Family-of-Origin, Puberty and Reproductive Strategy
    Jernej Hribernik - School of Psychology - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Cannabis use from adolescence to adulthood: a population-based cohort study
    Carolyn Mary Maclean Coffey - School of Psychology - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Maternal Gaze: Patterns Associated With Secure and Disorganized Infant Attachment
    Rebecca Knapp - School of Psychology - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Formal Caregiving Relationships with Younger Residents in Victorian Aged Care Facilities: A Situational Analysis
    Eve Bottrill - School of Psychology - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems: Inter-relationships and consequences
    Diana Frances Smart - School of Psychology - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Parental mental health from preconception to postpartum and infant emotional reactivity
    Liz Spry - School of Psychology - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Variation in Depression Outcomes among Young People from Dissolved Families
    Laura Di Manno - School of Psychology - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Effects of Preconception Disordered Eating on Next Generation Birth Outcomes
    Rhian Coram - School of Psychology - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Influence of Preconception Depression and Postpartum Depression upon Parent-Infant Bonding
    Cherie Mae Jones - School of Psychology - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Preconception and Perinatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Ambivalent Offspring Attachment
    Mariel Mclure - School of Psychology - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Predicting Parental Sensitivity: Contextual Stress Exposure Across Preconception to Parenthood
    Anna Booth - School of Psychology - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Attachment stability and change in early childhood and associated moderators
    Jessica Opie - School of Psychology - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Intergenerational Influences of Couple Relationship Histories on Offspring Attachment Security
    Evelyn Si Yun Tan - School of Psychology - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Maternal Bonding and Negative Affect: Association with Infant Social-Emotional Development
    Genevieve Le Bas - School of Psychology - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Intergeneratonal determinants of Oxytocin Receptor gene DNA methylaton in infant offspring
    Catherine Maud - School of Psychology - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Application of Current Statistical Methods in Substance Use Research
    Christopher Greenwood - School of Psychology - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fatherhood Desire: Associations with Paternal Mental Health and Father-Child Bonding
    Imogene Smith - School of Psychology - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Monitoring Social and Emotional Development Across the Early Life Course
    Joyce Cleary - School of Psychology - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Mental Health and Wellbeing Impacts of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers: Vulnerable Groups and Determinants
    Brian Lee - School of Psychology - 2025