Lisa Fraser
BA(Hons) Newcastle(NSW), MPsych S.Qld.
Position: Lecturer in Sport Psychology
Office: T4.08
Tel: +61 7 5459 4638
Fax: +61 7 5459 4600
Email: lfraser@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Sport Psychology (Course Coordinator)
- Motor Control and Learning (Course Coordinator)
- Sports Nutrition
- Principles of Individual and Group Management (Course Coordinator)
Research areas
- Career decision-making in elite athletes
- Correction of performance errors
- Enhancing athletic performance
- Cognitive strategies
- Psychological impact of unemployment
Profile
Ms Lisa Fraser is a registered psychologist with the Psychologists Board of Queensland and a full member of the Australian Psychological Society and APS College of Sport Psychologists. Originally from Newcastle, Ms Fraser has completed a Masters of Sport and Exercise Psychology and is currently a Lecturer in Sport Psychology at USC. Ms Fraser is a member of the Centre for Healthy Activities, Sport and Exercise (CHASE), and is a practicing psychologist/sport psychologist.
Ms Fraser has experience providing both clinical and sport-related psychological assessment and counselling, and has a particular interest in working with the unemployed population, an area that she has been actively involved in for the past three years. Ms Fraser is currently investigating the negative health consequences of long-term unemployment, and how to overcome such factors to increase the reemployment opportunities of these individuals.
Ms Fraser is currently completing her PhD focusing on elite athlete career decision making and their adjustment to retirement. Ms Fraser's masters thesis was based on the use of this approach in a sport setting to assist in changing the spiking technique of female volleyball players. This project incorporated the use of a technique, known as the Old Way New Way technique, which provides a new approach to modifying maladaptive behaviours. Ms Fraser is an experienced facilitator of this technique, using it to correct performance issues of athletes.
Research grants
- Improving reemployment opportunities among mature age men: A pilot health intervention. Pelly F, Fraser L, Askew C. University of the Sunshine Coast Internal Seed Grant. 2005. A$5,000.
- Improving reemployment opportunities among mature age men: A pilot health intervention. Fraser L, Pelly F, Askew C. National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre. 2006. A$4,900.
- Improving reemployment opportunities among mature age men: A pilot health intervention. Fraser L, Pelly F, Askew C. WorkDirections Australia. 2006. A$5,000.
- Mature Age Health Program: Promoting Reemployment through Rediscovering Health. Fraser L, Pelly F, Askew C. University of the Sunshine Coast Internal Seed Grant. Queensland Community Partnerships Grants Program, 2007. A$48,700.
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