Skip to Content

Dr Lisa Wise

Senior Lecturer, Psychology

Lisa majored in psychology at Monash University in 1980, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree. Her PhD and post-doctoral research investigated auditory spatial coding and multisensory integration in cats, bats and owls.

As a post-doc, Lisa spent a year at the University of Queensland, a year at the City University of New York and three years at Queens University, Kingston before returning to an academic position at Monash University in 1989.

For the next eight years, Lisa was the convenor of second year psychology at Clayton campus, and pioneered the use of web-based learning within this program. With NH&MRC support, she continued her program of auditory neuroscience research and spent 6 months with her young family as a Visiting Scholar at New York University.

At the end of 1997, Lisa left her academic position to spend more time with her young children, and undertook a Masters of Technology at RMIT to formalise her growing knowledge of web and internet technologies.

In 2001, she returned to Monash University in a technical role with the web resources and development team, and project-managed the implementation of a campus-wide Learning Management System (WebCT).

In 2003, she moved into an academic role as the head of an Online Learning Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences aimed at developing online courses for postgraduate professional development. During this time, she was appointed as the Director of a Melbourne Monash Collaboration in Educational Technologies project investigating learning management system governance in universities.

Since 2006, Lisa has been a contract researcher at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation investigating cognitive factors and use of synthetic training environments in pilot training. She also worked on an ARC-funded project at Monash University looking at use of digital technologies in Year 10 students.

Lisa's children are now old enough to fend for themselves, so Lisa is happy to be returning to academia where she can engage in two of her favourite activities - teaching and research.

Qualifications:

BSc(Hons)(Monash), PhD(Monash), M.Tech(Internet and Web Computing)(RMIT)

Professional Associations:

  • Member of the Australian Psychological Society
  • Member of the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG)
  • Member of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
  • Registered by the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria

Research Areas of Interest & Activities:

  • Cognitive factors in skilled performance and expertise (including spatial awareness and temporal compression)
  • The use of simulation and virtual reality environments in training and education (particularly in aviation and medical settings)
  • The impact of digital technologies, social networking and portable personal communication tools on concepts of identity, risk and trust
  • Physical, cognitive and self-efficacy effects of martial arts training
back

Publications:

Commissioned Reports:

  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2009) AIR 5438 Cognitive demand and training requirements for future ACG aircrew. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Client Report DSTO-CR-2009-0575.
  • Snyder, I. , Wise, L., North, S. & Bulfin, S. (2008) Being Digital in School, Home and Community, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2009) AIR 5438 Comparative evaluation report. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Client Report DSTO-CR-2009-0576.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2007) AIR 5438 Future lead-in fighter synthetic training environment application study. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Client Report DSTO-CR-2008-0447.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2007) AIR 5428 BASE Study Final Report. Synthetic Training Environments and the New Pilot Training System: Findings, Models and Criteria. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Client Report DSTO-CR-2008-0297.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2006) Learning Management System Governance Report . Report for the Melbourne- Monash Collaboration in Educational Technologies.

Published Research Papers:

  • Tse, J. and Wise, L.Z. (2005) Peer learning, Lectures and Online learning - Putting it all together. Australian Family Physician, 34(12): 27-34.
  • Rajan, R., Irvine , D.R.F., Wise, L.Z. and Heil, P. (1993) The effects of restricted unilateral cochlear lesions on the representation of both cochleae in the primary auditory cortex contralateral to the lesion. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 338: 17-49.
  • Rajan, R., Irvine , D.R.F., Calford, M.B. and Wise, L.Z. (1992) Effects of frequency-specific losses in cochlear neural sensitivity on the processing and representation of frequency in primary auditory cortex. In: A.L. Dancer, D. Henderson, R.J. Salvi, and R.P. Hamernik (Eds.) Noise-induced hearing loss . Chicago : B.C. Moseby-Year Book.
  • Frost, B.J., Wise, L.Z., Morgan, B. and Bird, D. (1990) Retinotopic representation of the bifoveate eye of the kestrel (Falco Sparverius) on the optic tectum. Visual Neuroscience, 5: 231-239.
  • Wise, L.Z., Pettigrew, J.D. and Calford, M.B. (1986) Somatosensory cortical representation in the Australian ghost bat, Macroderma gigas. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 248: 257-262.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Irvine , D.R.F. (1985) Topographic organisation of interaural intensity difference sensitivity in the deep layers of cat superior colliculus: implications for auditory spatial representation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 54: 185-211.
  • Aitkin, L.M., Pettigrew, J.D., Calford, M.B., Phillips, S.C. and Wise, L.Z. (1985) Representation of stimulus azimuth by low- frequency neurons in the inferior colliculus of the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology, 53: 43-59.
  • Calford, M.B, Wise, L.Z. and Pettigrew, J.D. (1985) Audiogram of the grey-headed flying fox (Megachiropteran Pteropidae). Australian Mammalogy, 8 : 309-312.
  • Calford, M.B, Wise, L.Z. and Pettigrew, J.D. (1985) Coding of sound location and frequency in the auditory midbrain of diurnal birds of prey, families Accipitridae and Falconidae. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 157 : 149-160.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Irvine, D.R.F. (1984) Interaural intensity difference sensitivity based on facilitatory binaural interactions in cat superior colliculus. Hearing Research, 16 : 181-187.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Irvine , D.R.F. (1983) Auditory response properties of neurons in deep layers of cat superior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 49 : 674-685.

Conference Papers:

  • Wise, L.Z. and Quealy, J.P. (2006) At the limits of social constructivism: moving beyond LMS to re-integrate scholarship. Proceedings of the 23rd annual ascilite conference: Who's learning? Whose technology? pp 899-907.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Pearce, C. (2005) Challenges for a Faculty-based Online Learning Unit in Supporting the Development of Online Projects in Medical Education. In: HIC 2005: Thirteenth National Health Informatics Conference; HINZ 2005: Fourth Health Informatics Conference ; Brunswick East, Vic.: Health Informatics Society of Australia, pp101-106
  • Wise, L.Z. (2005) Blogs versus discussion forums in postgraduate online continuing medical education. Blogtalk Downunder Conference, http://incsub.org/blogtalk/images/lwise_blogtalk2005.pdf
  • Wise, L.Z. and Pearce, C. (2004) Information and communication literacy for general practitioners. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education, 2004, Melbourne, Australia : Common Ground Publishing.
  • Wise, L.Z. (2004a) Is osmosis a viable pedagogy for teaching web and internet skills to non-IT professionals? Proceedings of the 10th Australian World Wide Web (AusWeb) Conference. Seaworld, Nara, Queensland. pp. 499-500.
  • Wise, L.Z. (2004b) The evolution and devolution of the university webmaster role. Proceedings of the 10th Australian World Wide Web (AusWeb) Conference. Seaworld, Nara, Queensland. pp. 496-498.
  • Wise, L.Z. (Mar, 2002) Scalability issues for an institution - wide implementation of WebCT. Poster presentation at WebCT Asia Pacific conference.
  • Wise, L.Z. and Hughes, C.I.L. (1996) Integrating WWW and computer-aided learning into an on-campus undergraduate program in psychology. In: R.Debreceny and A.Ellis. AusWeb96 - Landscaping the Web, Southern Cross University Press, pp 363-368.
  • Wise, L.Z., Hughes, C.I.L, Degoldi, B. and Redman, J.R. (1995) An expert system statistical tutor for undergraduate psychology students. CAUT National Teaching Workshop

Book Chapters:

  • Irvine, D.R.F. and Wise, L.Z. (1983) The neural representation of auditory space. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 14 : 84- 96.
  • Irvine, D.R.F. and Wise, L.Z. (1983) Topographic organisation of interaural-intensity-difference sensitivity and the representation of auditory azimuthal location in the deep layers of cat superior colliculus. In: W.R. Webster and L.M. Aitkin (Eds) Mechanisms of Hearing, Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Press, pp 101-106.

Teaching Interests:

  • Sensory, perceptual and cognitive processes
  • Digital technologies and online tools for teaching and learning
  • Models of decision-making and expert skilled performance
  • Use of simulation and serious gaming in education

Units Convened:

  • LSY101
  • LSY200
  • PSS110 (OUA teaching period 3)
back
No photo


Office LAM302
LA Building
Lilydale Campus

TEL: 6 13 9215 7014
FAX: 6 13 9215 7070

Internal Mail No. L24

lwise@swin.edu.au